SMD Science Coordination Meeting

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NASA High-end Computing Environment
NASA Data Management
Presentation to Interagency Working Group on
Digital Data Joe Bredekamp Martha
Maiden NASA Science Mission Directorate September
21, 2006
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Mission To pioneer the future in
space exploration, scientific discovery, and
aeronautics research

• The Presidents Vision for Space Exploration
  established compelling goal to advance U.S.
  scientific, security, and economic interests
  through a robust space exploration program.
• NASAs Mission Directorates and Centers
  collaborate on an affordable, evolvable strategy
  to achieve Vision
• Science Mission Directorate conducts scientific
  exploration of our planet, our solar system, and
  the Universe beyond
• Space Operations Mission Directorate operates the
  Space Shuttle and manages completion and use of
  the International Space Station
• Exploration Systems Mission Directorate develops
  future transportation systems to return humans to
  the moon and maintain a human presence in space
• Aeronautics Mission Directorate extends core
  competencies in subsonic, supersonic, and
  hypersonic flight
• Strategic management of information assets
  imperative for achieving Vision
• Effectively managing, preserving, protecting,
  and disseminating information required to achieve
  ,and resulting from exploration is vital to
  success

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Science Mission Directorate

• Science Pursuits
• Earth Science Study planet Earth from space to
  advance scientific understanding and meet
  societal needs
• Planetary Science Advance scientific knowledge
  of the origin and history of the solar system and
  the potential for life elsewhere
• Heliophysics Understand the Sun and its
  effects on the Earth and the solar system
• Astrophysicis Understand the origin,
  structure, evolution, and destiny of the
  universe, and search for Earth-like planets

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Science Data Management

• Goal Provide comprehensive and robust
  infrastructure of data, computing, and modeling
  resources to maximize scientific productivity and
  knowledge enhancement
• Principal Characteristics
• Multitude and diversity of missions
• Volume, richness, complexity, and breath of
  types of data
• Increasingly interdisciplinary nature of
  research
• Science cultural diversity
• Issues associated with requisite robust
  infrastructure
• Standards, interoperability, commonality, etc.
• New technology infusion
• Balancing competing constraints for open access
  vs. protection (e.g., IT Security)

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Key Guiding Tenets

•  Continue to assume a strong stewardship
  responsibility for the integrity and long-term
  preservation of science data, and to assure the
  broadest possible utilization of these assets as
  a national resource.
• Foster and extend virtual observatory
  capabilities for exploration and discovery within
  widely distributed resources as a whole
•   Evolve the infrastructure in response to
  science needs with infusion of advanced
  capabilities and enhanced services through open
  solicitations and peer review
• Coordinate the evolution of environment with
  other federal agencies and international partners
  to ensure interoperability and sharing of
  technology, best practices and experiences.
• Implementation
• Each science discipline responsible for
  sponsoring data management program
• Data management issues addressed early in
  mission planning process and documented in
  Project Data Management Plans
• Timely delivery of science data to archives, as
  well as performance of data centers and related
  services, are evaluated as part of Senior
  Comparative Review process for continuation of
  operating missions

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Current Snapshot

• Earth Observing System Data and Information
  System (EOSDIS) is a petabyte-scale archive of
  environmental data that supports global climate
  change research
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  (http//eosdis.gsfc.nasa.gov )
• Planetary Data System (PDS) includes seven
  distributed planetary science discipline nodes at
  university/research centers (http//pds.jpl.nasa.g
  ov )
• Astrophysics Science Archive Centers
• High Energy Astrophysics SARC
  (http//heasarch.gsfc.nasa.gov )
• InfraRed SARC (http//irsa.ipac.ca
  ltech.edu )
• Optical/UV SARC (http//archive.sts
  ci.edu )
• Legacy Archive for Microwave
  Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA)
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  (http//lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov )
• Chandra X-Ray Science Center (CXC)
  (http//chandra.harvard.edu )
• Spitzer Science Center
  (http//ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu )
• Heliophysics data and modeling centers
• Solar Data Analysis Center
  (http//umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/ )
• Space Physics Data Facility
  (http//spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov )
• Heliophysics Data Environment
  (http//lwsde.gsfc.nasa.gov )
• Community Coordinated Modeling
  Center (http//ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov )

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Current Science Driven Interagency Collaborations

• Earth Science
• US Group on Earth Observations
• Architecture and Data
  Management Working Group
• US Climate Change Science Program
• Observations Working Group,
  Data and Information Systems
• Interagency Working Group on
  Ocean Observations
• Data Management and
  Communications
• Astrophysics
• US National Virtual Observatory
  (http//www.us-vo.org )
• Heliophysics
• National Space Weather Committee
• Community Coordinated Modeling
  Center
• Heliophysics VxOs