CCIRN Meeting

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CCIRN Meeting

• Douglas Gatchell
• dgatchell_at_nsf.gov
• US NSF/CISE/SCI
• July 3, 2004

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Evolution of the Computational Infrastructure
Cyberinfrastructure
TCS, DTF, ETF
Terascale
NPACI and Alliance
PACI
NSF Networking
Prior Computing Investments
SDSC, NCSA, PSC, CTC
Supercomputer Centers





1985 1990 1995 2000
2005 2010
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Integrated CI System meeting the
needs of a community of communities

• Applications
• Environmental Science
• High Energy Physics
• Proteomics/Genomics

DevelopmentTools Libraries
Education and Training
Discovery Innovation
Grid Services Middleware
Hardware
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Cyberinfrastructure Characteristics

• Community-Focused
• virtual organizations
• distributed
• collaborative
• Scale and Scope
• Multidisciplinary
• International
• Supporting data- and compute-intensive
  applications
• High-end to desktop
• Heterogeneous
• Common Technology Policy Platform(s)
• Interoperability
• Supports characteristics above

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International Networking

• New solicitation
• Priorities
• Enable and Enhance communications, collaboration
  and cooperation by connecting aggregation points
• Enhance connectivity to new regions
• Support connections between shared
  cyberinfrastructure
• Cooperate to support domain specific CI

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Award Administration

• Grants
• Cooperative Agreements
• Contracts

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NSF Supported International Links

• TrasPAC (1,700K/yr)
• Tokyo-LA, Tokyo-Chicago
• Euro-Link (1,700K/yr)
• Chicago Amsterdam/CERN
• NaukaNet (800K/yr)
• Chicago Moscow China
• AMPATH (400K/yr)
• Miami Rio others

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