EXCITED Workshop

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EXCITED Workshop
Suvrajeet Sen, DMII, ENG CI Coordinator
Workshop Feb. 28
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Cyberinfrastructure

• Atkins report
• A computational infrastructure integrating data,
  models, hardware, and software for research and
  education
• Opening doors to new types of scientific/engineeri
  ng research and education.
• Promoting greater collaboration via shared
  resources (data, models, software, physical
  assets)

http//www.cise.nsf.gov/sci/reports/atkins.pdf
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Other Reports

• National Science Board Report NSB 02-190
  (February 6, 2003)
• John A. White, Jr. Chair
• Recommends that NSF emphasize the development and
  deployment of an advanced CI for new research in
  science and engineering
• Office of Management and Budget director Josh
  Bolten and White House Science and Technology
  Policy Office director John Marburger asked
  officials to focus their 2006 budget requests on
  supercomputing and cyberinfrastructure
  (Government Computer News, August 18, 2004)

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What will ENG Strategy Be?

• Will adopt a Systems View
• Without a Systems View . . .
• we will build special-purpose CIs for every
  domain
• there will be few common threads, and costs of
  developing and maintaining each CI will exceed
  our budgetary requests
• Must integrate lessons learned from CIs in other
  fields
• GEON (Geoscience)
• NEON (Ecology)
• NEES (Earthquake Engineering)
• NNIN (Nanotechnology)
• CLEANER (Environmental Engineering)

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Current CI Trends

• Communities are being provided access to data
  sets
• Most data sets are outputs of simulations
• Scientific communities have few experts who
  develop fine grained simulations
• These simulations may be run on HEC platforms
• Output of simulations are very large data sets
  that are communicated through networking
• Globus, Condor and similar tools for grid
  computing
• Tools available for large scale numerical
  simulation
• Tools for Teleoperations through NEES

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Challenges for ENG

• Applications Layer Interfaces for Sharing
• Model outputs for visualization
• Models, Algorithms (Need Languages)
• Data from Sensors, Access to Actuators
• Layer for Models and Algorithms
• Simulation, Optimization, Statistical and
  Visualization Software
• General purpose Hooks into FEM Packages, Matlab
  and access to open source algorithms
• CI CyberInfrastructure (CyberPlatforms)
• Security
• Tele-operation (Hooks to Sensors and Actuators)
• Access to HEC on demand

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ENG Community

• CI - an opportunity for big-picture thinking
• CI - an opportunity for ENG community to coalesce
• EXCITED about CI-ENG!