2. NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
People, organizations,
and communities
Data
Infrastructure
Gateways, Hubs,
and Services
Cloud
Resources
& Services
CI-Enabled
Instrumentation
Computing
Resources
R&E Networks,
Security Layers
Coordination
& User support
Software and
Workflow Systems
Pilots,
Testbeds
Foster a cyberinfrastructure ecosystem to transform science and engineering
research… through Research CI and CI research
Rapid (disruptive ) changes in S&E, users and
CI landscapes à Cyberinfrastructure
ecosystem must evolve!
http://go.usa.gov/xm8bU
3. Transforming Science & Engineering via
Cyberinfrastructure
Large-scale simulations
on Frontera to better
understand the icy
plumes associated with
supercell thunderstorms.
Leigh Orf, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison,
Science Vol. 373, No.
6560, 09/10/21.
Exploring how natural
ecosystems parallel U.S.
supply chains, and how
American cities can use
the information to
strengthen supply chains.
Benjamin Ruddell, N. AZ
Univ., Nature. Vol 595,
07/08/21.
Event Horizon Telescope: Blackhole Image
(Sagittarius A*)
May 2022
Modeling of the delta virus inside respiratory
aerosols, Rommie Amaro, UCSD
ACM Gordan Bell Finalist, 2021
NSF/OAC-funded Zeek (formerly
Bro), a leading (open-source)
network security monitoring
platform, deployed on more than
1B global endpoints.
Vern Paxson, 10/12/22.
4. Shared Campus
Resources
Leadership-class
Frontera (Austin)
Cloud Resources
CloudBank (San Diego)
CloudLab (Salt Lake City)
Chameleon Lab (Chicago)
NCAR
Cheyenne (Cheyenne)
HTC Services
PATh/OSG (Madison)
Innovative systems
Bridges-2, Neocortex (Pitt)
Stampede 2, Wrangler (Austin)
Jetstream, JetStream-2 (Bloomington)
Ookami (Stonybrook)
Expanse, Voyager, National Research Platform (San Diego)
Anvil (W. Lafayette)
Delta (Urbana-Champaign)
ACES (College Station)
ACCESS PIs
NSF-funded Advanced CI Ecosystem
(Highly Accessible Computing)
FABRIC Network (Nationwide)
PAWR Testbeds
5. Shared Campus
Resources
Leadership-class
Frontera (Austin)
Cloud Resources
CloudBank (San Diego)
CloudLab (Salt Lake City)
Chameleon Lab (Chicago)
NCAR
Cheyenne (Cheyenne)
HTC Services
PATh/OSG (Madison)
Innovative systems
Bridges-2, Neocortex (Pitt)
Stampede 2, Wrangler (Austin)
Jetstream, JetStream-2 (Bloomington)
Ookami (Stonybrook)
Expanse, Voyager, National Research Platform (San Diego)
Anvil (W. Lafayette)
Delta (Urbana-Champaign)
ACES (College Station)
ACCESS PIs
NSF-funded Advanced CI Ecosystem
(Highly Accessible Computing)
FABRIC Network (Nationwide)
PAWR Testbeds
How to democratize access to the NSF-funded Advanced
CI ecosystem?
6. Democratizing Science through Cyber-infrastructure
Broad, fair, and equitable access to advanced is
essential to democratizing science in the 21st
century
• Significant barriers
• Knowledge: Awareness, discovery, expertise, support
• Technical: Allocation, access, on-ramps
• Social: Awareness of the importance of access to CI, rewards
structures
• Complex tradeoffs / optimizations
• Capacity v/s capability
• Stability v/s innovation
• Performance v/s ease of use
• Expert v/s novice
• .....
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M. Parashar, "Democratizing Science Through
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure" in Computer, vol.
55, no. 09, pp. 79-84, 2022. doi:
10.1109/MC.2022.3174928
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2022/
09/09869577/1GeVwbmLj6U
7. Realizing an Advanced CI Ecosystem for All
• Integrated and user-friendly portals and gateways for discovering and
accessing resources;
• Access to local CI resources as part of a shared fabric of national CI
resources reachable through high-speed frictionless data networking;
• Diverse and flexible allocation and access modes that support a
diversity of users and applications;
• Agile, easily accessible, and scalable networks of experts providing
embedded expertise and support that is responsive to local needs;
and
• Broadly accessible training targeting the spectrum of CI users and
skills.
The Missing Millions: Democratizing
Computation and Data to Bridge Digital
Divides and Increase Access to Science for
Underrepresented Communities (A.
Blatecky, EAGER)
https://www.rti.org/publication/missing-
millions/fulltext.pdf
8. Realizing an Advanced CI Ecosystem for All
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• Implement a scalable federated ecosystem of diverse capabilities and
capacity
• Leverage institutional, commercial investments; incentivize
partnerships
How to meet the the
rapidly growing need for
increased (and diverse) CI
capabilities and capacity?
• Move form open/equal access to democratized/equitable access
• Address knowledge, technical/process and social barriers
• Develop a scalable network for local experts, responding to local
needs
How to ensure
democratized access to CI
resources, services and
expertise?
• Embrace transparency, reproducibility, security/privacy as core
design principle for software and systems
• Support open access to research results along with software and
data
How to ensure the science
enabled by CI robust and
reproducible?
9. 9
2022 OSTP memo on Open
Science and Public Access
§ Calls for free, immediate, and equitable
public access
§ Default zero-embargo of peer-reviewed
articles and underlying data
§ New Public Access/Open Science plans by
Feb 2023 (policies by 2024, released by 2025)
Towards an Equitable National Research Ecosystem
NATIONAL DISCOVERY
CLOUD / NATIONAL
SECURE DATA SERVICE
SUBCOMMITTEE
ON OPEN SCIENCE
NATIONAL AI
RESEARCH RESOURCE
FUTURE ADVANCED
COMPUTING ECOSYSTEM
Realizing the National Advanced Computing
Ecosystem
10. Realizing an Advanced CI Ecosystem for All: Some
Next Steps
• Access. How do we collectively ensure, and advance accessibility of data
and shared CI needed across science?
• Data. How do we collectively enable and accelerate compute- and data-
intensive science across NSF, including scaling up for facilities and mid-scale
RI needs?
• People. How do we collectively develop and sustain a capable workforce of
CI Professionals who are key to science?
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11. CUI//PRVCY
“Make no little plans; They have no magic to stir men's blood …”
Daniel H. Burnham, Architect and City Planner Extraordinaire, 1907.
“If you want to travel fast, travel alone;
if you want to travel far, travel together”
African Proverb.
Manish Parashar
Office Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Email: mparasha@nsf.gov
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