Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) and Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observatories: Prototypes (CEO:P)

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Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure
(SDCI) andCyberinfrastructure for Environmental
Observatories Prototypes (CEOP)

• Kevin Thompson
• Office of Cyberinfrastructure

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Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure
(SDCI)

• Follow-on to NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)
  2001-2005
• Purpose - To design, develop, deploy and support
  a set of reusable and expandable middleware
  functions that benefit many science and
  engineering applications in a networked
  environment
• Program encouraged open source development
• Program funded development, integration,
  deployment and support
• Notable NMI Outcomes
• Condor mature distributed computing system
  installed on, as of 10/26/06, gt1500 CPU pools
  and gt100,000 CPUs worldwide (registered hosts
  only, not including industry adoption)
• Shibboleth privacy-preserving attribute
  exchange framework providing federated
  Single-SignOn across or within organizational
  boundaries and simplifying identity management
  and access permissions
• Globus - an open source software toolkit used for
  building Grid systems and applications
• NMI Build and Test - community resource and
  framework for multi-platform build and test of
  grid software

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SDCI NSF Solicitation 07-503

• 14M across 3 Areas of software and tools
• High Performance Computing (HPC) environments
• Digital data acquisition, discovery, access,
  analysis, and preservation
• Middleware capabilities and services to support
  distributed resource sharing and virtual
  organizations
• Full Proposal Deadline January 22, 2007
• Award characteristics
• 50,000 - 1,000,000 a year
• 2-3 years
• Estimated number 10 to 20
• Special Award conditions
• Working prototypes required mid-course
• Use of NMI Build and Test in development process
• Open Source
• Solicitation covers both new development and
  enhancement of existing software systems

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Environmental Observatories and CI

• Environmental Observatories and related projects
  at NSF
• Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)
• National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON)
• Collaborative, Large-Scale, Engineering Analysis
  Network for Environmental Research (CLEANER), now
  WATERS
• Others SEEK, SCEC-CME, GEON, ROADNet, LEAD, etc.
• Challenges
• How to enable the research community to use cyber
  research environments
• How to promote interoperability between major
  observatory communities
• How to keep cycles of development connected and
  on target
• How to ensure the workforce for CI development
  and maintenance

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• Now is the Time The nexus is the major advances
  in other fields that are transforming
  environmental sciences.
• Telecommunications
• Computer Sciences
• Genomics
• Robotics
• Information Technologies
• Sensor Networks

Science and technology evolving together allow
for advances that neither one could accomplish in
isolation.
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• Coastal observatories
• Regional cabled observatory
• Global observatories

ORION is committed to THREE OOI observatory
components
with INTEGRATION of the three components through
Cyberinfrastructure
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Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental
Observatories Prototypes (CEOP)

• NSF Solicitation 06-505
• Goal development of practical environmental
  cyberinfrastructure prototypes along with a
  demonstration of their capability to answer
  significant environmental research questions
• CEOP Program Characteristics
• The project team includes both environmental
  researchers and information scientists, with
  environmental researchers from at least two of
  the following environmental disciplines - ocean
  science, ecology, atmospheric science, or
  environmental engineering
• End-to-end approach to an information
  infrastructure prototype
• Leverage existing data sources, working with real
  environmental data
• Development that fills gaps in needed
  capabilities across environmental observatories
• Well-defined use cases
• project milestones leading to a working prototype
  and initial deployment
• Cross-Directorate Participation with 8.5M in
  combined funding
• BIO Elizabeth Blood and Peter McCartney, PDs of
  NEON
• ENG Pat Brezonik, PD of WATERS
• OCE (GEO) Alexandra Isern, PD of OOI
• OCI Steve Meacham and Kevin Thompson
• Panel Review May 2006, 34 proposed projects
• 5 Awards were made

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CEOP Awards

• A Prototype System for Multi-Disciplinary Shared
  Cyberinfrastructure Chesapeake Bay Environmental
  Observatory (CBEO), PIThomas Gross (Chesapeake
  Research Consortium)
• Domain Ecology, Oceanography, Engineering
• Geographic Area Chesapeake Bay
• Question Seasonal hypoxia in coastal waters
• CI Data integration, Sensors
• A Data-Intensive Cyberinfrastructure Component
  for Coastal Forecasting and Change Analysis, PI
  Gagan Agrawal (Ohio State)
• Domain Oceanography, Atmospheric
• Geographic Area Great Lakes
• Question Forecasting coastal conditions and
  erosion
• CI Data integration, Image analysis, data
  mining, workflow
• C4E4 Cyberinfrastructure for end-to-end
  environmental explorations, PIBernard Engel
  (Purdue)
• Domain Atmospheric, Hydrology, Engineering
• Geographic Area St. Joseph Watershed, IN
• Questions Impacts of local real-time
  information on predicting environmental quality
• CI Grid computing, Information portals
• Management and Analysis of Environmental
  Observatory Data using the Kepler Scientific
  Workflow System, PIMatthew Jones (UCSB)
• Domain Ecology, Oceanography
• Geographic Area Western grasslands, Oceans
• Question Pathogen vectors in exotic plant
  invasion, Quality assurance in sea surface temp
  data.