Award Number ACI-1547611

Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, SDSCMichael Zentner, PurdueMarlon Pierce, Indiana U

Maytal Dahan, TACCKatherine Lawrence, U of Michigan

Linda Hayden, ECSU

Science Gateways Community Institute

What is a science gateway?

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science gateway /sī′ əns gāt′ wā′/ n.

1. an online community space for science and engineering research and education.

2. a Web-based resource for accessing data, software, computing services, and equipment specific to the needs of a science or engineering discipline.

10+ year road to the birth of an institute

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Despite the technological progress of grid technology and deployment, only a minority of the scientific, engineering, and education community use today’s national computing infrastructure. Our WIDE strategy addresses this situation by working directly with specific community leaders who are building discipline-specific cyberinfrastructure capabilities and resources for their communities.

TeraGrid proposal, 2003

• “discipline-specific CI capabilities” = science gateways• First example of community groups using

supercomputers without individual identification

April 2006

In the beginning, we had no servicesWe paid science teams to help us develop them

Science Gateway Prototype Discipline Science Partner(s) TeraGrid Liaison

Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD)

Atmospheric Droegemeier (OU) Gannon (IU), Pennington (NCSA)

National Virtual Observatory (NVO)

Astronomy Szalay (Johns Hopkins) Williams (Caltech)

Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) and “nanoHUB”

Nanotechnology Lundstrum (PU) Goasguen (PU)

Open Life Sciences Gateway Biomedicine and Biology Schneewind (UC), Osterman (Burnham/UCSD), DeLong (MIT), Dusko (INRA)

Stevens (UC/Argonne)

Biology and Biomedical Science Gateway

Biomedicine and Biology Cunningham (Duke), Magnuson (UNC)

Reed (UNC), Blatecky (UNC)

Neutron Science Instrument Gateway

Physics Cobb (ORNL) Cobb (ORNL)

Grid Analysis Environment High-Energy Physics Newman (Caltech) Bunn (Caltech)

Transportation System Decision Support

Homeland Security Stephen Eubanks (LANL) Beckman (Argonne)

Groundwater/Flood Modeling Environmental Wells (UT-Austin), Engel (ORNL) Boisseau (TACC)

Science Grid [GrPhyN/ivDGL/Grid3]

Multiple Pordes (FNAL), Huth (Harvard), Avery (Uflorida)

Foster (UC/Argonne), Kesselman (USC-ISI), Livny (UW)

Eventually we had a program

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XSEDE users

All users

Gateways

• And customers• 2013, gateway users surpass command line users in XSEDE• 2016, gateways now 77% of active XSEDE users

• Developers typically

• work in isolation• must bridge to

variety of resources• need building

blocks in order to focus on higher-level functionality

• struggle to secure sustainable funding

Despite many successes, we observed challengesGateways often funded as 3-year research projects

Early adopters

Publicity

Wider adoption

Funding ends

Scientists disillusioned

New project

prototype

We studied the problemAnd studied it some more

2009-2012EAGER

2012-2015Concept.

phase

2016Software Institute!

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• More focus groups• Survey with 5000

responses

Focus groups

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5-year S2I2 Implementation phase award begins Aug, 2016

Science Gateways Community InstituteDesigned to help the community build gateways more effectively

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Diverse expertise on demand

Longer-term, hands-on support

Student opportunities &

educator resources

Sharing experiences & knowledge as a community

Software & visibility for gateways

Incubator: Consulting expertise and in depth training• Building a gateway can take may types of expertise

• But projects cannot afford to hire this in• Consulting services provide cost effective solution

• Get expertise you need when you need it, release it when you’re finished

• In depth cohorts for training, group interactions, mentoring• Customized structure, content and goals

• ACTION: Request services at http://sciencegateways.org/services/gateway-services-request-form/

Extended Developer Support

• Help building new gateways• Or portions of new gateways

• Dedicated support for months to a year• Similar in structure to XSEDE ECSS program• Different in that gateways can be built from the

ground up• And can use any type of resource

• ACTION: Request services at http://sciencegateways.org/services/gateway-services-request-form/

Scientific Software Collaborative• Find software used to build gateways

• List your software• Work with us to support gateways as an affiliate

• Find existing gateways• Just use them• Learn what they’re built with• Converse with developers• Find gateways used in curricula

• ACTION: Still in development, sign up for mailing list to keep apprised of status

• http://sciencegateways.org/connect-with-us/

Community Engagement and Exchange• Goal is to be THE place for gateway-related information• Building the community of gateway developers

• Blogs, jobs, case studies, gateways in the news, webinars• ACTION: help@sciencegateways.org to present on the webinar,

contribute a blog entry, etc• Annual Gateways conference

• Interact with other developers• Tutorials, presentations, posters, reception, open space discussions• Student opportunities, travel support• ACTION: Help organize, attend, participate

• Gateways 2017• Oct 24-25, Ann Arbor

• Building gateway expertise on campuses• ACTION: Follow us via mailing list or Twitter

(@sciencegateways)• http://sciencegateways.org/connect-with-us/

Special component of CEE:Gateway expertise on campuses• Is your campus seeing an increasing number of

research projects that include web-based applications?

• Does each group hire developers independently?

• This can be time consuming and inefficient

• You are not alone.

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SGCI is building campus success storiesTo advise campuses on how to develop pools of expertise

• We have examples of successful programs• That have led to significant increases in research

funding• Center for Research Computing started with 7 FTEs in 2006• 45 FTEs today, 70% funded by research projects

• 15-20 research projects per year with 35 faculty members• Took the risk and hired first

• But immediately focused on generating successes• Word spread quickly

• Well-executed projects can increase research funding• Well-executed online projects can increase a

university’s visibility• What university developed nanoHUB and HUBzero?

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But success comes in many shapes and sizes

• Now is the time to move forward• We can work with you to develop materials to

make the case • We can also provide supplemental expertise

where you have gaps• And ongoing advice

• Contact us for a free consultation, webinar or on-campus visit• http://sciencegateways.org/campusgroups

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• Students• Fellowships and internships• Travel support• Training• Summer coding opportunities

• Young Professionals Network• Year 1 work with

• NOBBCHe (National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers)

• ADMI (Association of Computer/Information Sciences and Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions)

• Faculty• Gateways in the curricula

• Career tracks for gateway developers• ACTION: Watch for opportunities for

faculty and students via the mailing list• http://sciencegateways.org/connect-with-

us/

Workforce Development

Opportunities to Engage

• Research projects may equest a Letter of Collaboration to leverage existing SGCI offerings

• Software developers an Affiliate to provide expertise to SGCI clients and attract users to your software

• Write SGCI experts into proposals for dedicated, continuing expertise

Email help@sciencegateways.org to discuss

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SGCI Partner ProgramJust launched this month• Leverage the expertise of complementary organizations

to support and advise the gateway community• Exchange existing services to provide the best array of

services to gateway clients• Cross-promote resources and services offered by SGCI

and our partners• Provide a streamlined process to access resources and

services provided by a partner• As appropriate, provide student exchange or internship

opportunities• Express interest at

http://sciencegateways.org/about/partner/

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Thank you!

• SGCI follow-up• Mailing list for news and updates:

http://sciencegateways.org/connect-with-us/

• Ready to request our services? http://sciencegateways.org/services/gateway-services-request-form/

• Have a question? help@sciencegateways.org

• @sciencegateways on Twitter

• http://sciencegateways.org/linkedin

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