Download US Climate Science and Cyberinfrastructure

Timothy L. Killeen
Assistant Director for the Geosciences Directorate
National Science Foundation
Clifford A. Jacobs
Division of Atmospheric Sciences
National Science Foundation
GEO
NCSA 2015 Strategic Planning Process April 21, 2010
New Outlook
• Administration
• Key players
• Climate Research Program
NSF’s Climate Research
•Special emphasis within NSF
•Description of program
SEES – Science, Engineering, and Education for
Sustainability
GEO Support for Cyberinfrastructure
• Infrastructure
• Planned
National investment in R&D to ≥ 3% of GDP
S&T in the stimulus/recovery package
FY2009 / FY2010/2011 budgets
• NSF, NIH, DOE-science, NIST, NOAA, NASA, DoD basic research
Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (STEM) Education
• science labs, teacher training, clean energy ($1.5B over 5 yr)
Clean energy / climate
• $150B over 10 yr for clean energy & efficiency; ARPA-E;
energy centers of excellence; climate science
Courtesy of Paul Filmer, National Science Foundation
John Holdren, White House
Science Advisor
Carol Browner, White House
Climate and Energy Czar
Steven Chu
Jane Lubchenco, NOAA
Administrator
Secretary of Energy
Nancy Sutley, Council on
Environmental Quality
Lisa Jackson, EPA
Administrator
Courtesy of April Burke, Lewis-Burke Associates
DOE OS
+3.9%
DOE
EERE
+6.4%
(ARRA $1.6
Billion)
EPA
+38%
(ARRA $16.8
Billion)
(ARRA $7.2 Billion)
NOAA
+2.5%
NASA
+5%
(ARRA 830
Million)
NSF
+8.5%
(ARRA $1
Billion)
(ARRA $3
Billion)
FY 2010 President’s Request compared to FY 2009 enacted
ARRA = American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Courtesy of April Burke, Lewis-Burke Associates
Source: NSF FY2010 Budget Request to Congress
Presidential Priorities
• Protecting our nation from the serious economic
and strategic risks associated with our reliance
on foreign oil and the destabilizing effects of a
changing climate
• Advancing energy and climate security via
promoting economic recovery efforts,
accelerating job creation, and driving clean energy
manufacturing
Expanded Commitment Global Change
Research FY 2011 Budget
• Improve understanding of climate change and
its impacts
• Mitigate US greenhouse gas emissions and
move toward clean energy economy
• Adapt to climate change impacts
Climate Change
Adaptation
(assessment &
response)
Climate Change
Science
(understanding
& forecasting)
From presented by Shere Abbott, Associate Director for Environment, 1 February 2010
Climate Change
Mitigation
(mitigation &
response)
Expect that CCSP scope, composition and responsibilities
will be revisited and reauthorized by Congress
All 21 of Synthesis and Assessment
publications completed
Unified Synthesis Product: Global Climate
Change Impacts in the United States
• Summarizes climate change science, current and future impacts, integrates
those results from those around the world.
Courtesy of Paul Filmer, National Science Foundation
Integrated scientific-societal issues
Interactions among the climate, human, and
environmental systems
U.S. climate observing system including
physical, biological, and social observations
Coupled Earth system models
Adaptation
Courtesy of Paul Filmer, National Science Foundation
NSF's FY 2010 Budget Request is
$7.045 billion, an increase of $555
million (8.5 percent).
Focus on Climate Change:
• New Climate Change Education Program
($10.0 million in FY 2009 and FY 2010);
• Increase for NSF contribution to the Climate
Change Science Program (36.6 percent
increase to $299.91 million); and
• New NSF-wide focus on Climate Research.
$197M in funding in FY10 across NSF
8 NSF Directorates involved in Climate Research
$10M for New Climate Change Education in FY09/FY10 (BIO,
GEO, OPP and E&HR partnership)
Increase NSF contribution
to USGCRP (to $299.91M)
Environmental
Observation
including changes
from human activities,
adaptation, and
mitigation
Modeling of
Basic Natural
and Human
Processes
& their interactions
Fundamental
Research,
Including
Experiments
Must be interdisciplinary
Approaches are creative and high risk
Research involves problems that cannot be undertaken in the
core programs
Research support is shared across multiple directorates
Water: Sustainability and Climate (WSC)
• LOI received: 311; Full proposal deadline: 4/15
Ocean Acidification (OA)
• LOI received: 127; Full proposal deadline: 4/26
Climate Change Education Partnership, Phase 1 (CCEP-1)
• LOI deadline: 4/23; Full proposal deadline: 5/24
Dimensions of Biodiversity (DB)
• LOI deadline: 5/7; Full proposal deadline: 6/8
Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction Using Earth System Models
(EaSM)
• LOI deadline: 5/24; Full proposal deadline: 6/25
• American Recovery Act
GEO investments: $601M
• FY2010: 10.2% increase
over FY2009
• Includes Agency-wide
climate initiative
• FY2011: President’s
budget request includes a
7.4% increase for GEO
Priority Guidance: NSF should continue to
increase emphasis on innovation in sustainable
energy technologies and education as a top
priority.
NSB offers the following specific guidance to NSF:
• “Strengthen systems approaches in research
programs.”
• “Develop and strengthen interdisciplinary systems
approaches for research programs in the natural
and social sciences that focus on environmental,
social, and economic issues fundamental to the
future energy economy.”
SEES will generate the discoveries in climate and
energy science needed to inform societal actions for
environmental and economic sustainability.
• Emergence of new areas of research that help close key gaps in the
knowledge base.
• Development of new models for research, specifically employing
integrative, systemic approaches.
• Generation of new integrated understanding of the interplay of
environment, energy, and the economy.
SEES portfolio totals $765.5 million in 2011.
Dear Colleague Letter signed by all
NSF Assistant Directors and Office
Heads issued in March 2010
SEES Web Site:
www.nsf.gov/sees
$28M over two years for new research program
emphasizing change and complexity in earth system
processes
Goals:
• foster an inter-disciplinary and multi-scale understanding of Earth’s
dynamic systems
• catalyze research in areas poised for a major advance in
understanding
• improve observing networks and modeling capabilities to more
realistically simulate complex earth systems and forecast disruptive
events
• improve understanding of the resilience and sustainability of earth
systems following disruptive events.
OOI Operations and Management – 2011 brings a
ramp-up in O&M support for the OOI
Regional Class Research Vessels – 2011 will see
continued planning for the construction of up to three
Regional Class Research Vessels starting in 2012.
NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer Center – 2011 sees
the continuation of support for the construction of a
new community supercomputer center.
NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center
Project (NWSC)
This project encompasses the design and construction of a
world class center for high performance scientific computing
in the atmospheric and related geosciences.
NSF FY 2011 request includes an $11m augmentation for
NCAR to cover increased support for climate change activities
as well as preparation for the transition of computing
operations to NWSC.
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Total NSF Funding
(dollars in billions)
10
8
6
9.5
3.0
ARRA
6.5
6.9
2009
2010
8.3
7.4
7.8
2011
2012
8.9
9.5
10.2
10.9
4
2
0
2013
2014
Fiscal Year (FY)
FISCAL YEAR (FY)
2015
2016
2017
Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES
+$35M to $230M)
Follow-on to 2010 Climate Research activity
Improve American Competitiveness through investments in science and technology
to foster economic growth; improve the quality of life; and strengthen our national
security.
Support researchers at the beginning of their careers through NSF's Graduate
Research Fellowship and Faculty Early Career Development programs.
Educate science and engineering technicians through the Advanced Technological
Education program, which focuses on two-year colleges
Encourage promising high-risk research that could fundamentally alter our
understanding of nature, revolutionize fields of science, and lead to radically new
technologies.
Make climate change research and education a priority. To predict future
environmental conditions and to develop strategies for responding to global
environmental change. Establish a climate change education program to help
develop the next generation of environmentally engaged scientists and engineers.
Modeling , scaling,
complexity
Geosciences
Fundamental research
Biological Sciences
Environmental observation
Office of Polar Programs
Adaptation
Education and human
Research
MISSION
BUDGET
Development of collaborative
computational science
CI Annual Expenditures within all of
NSF: $865M
• Research and development of comprehensive CI
• Application of CI to solve complex problems in
science and engineering
• CI Expenditures in Other Parts of NSF: $680M
• OCI FY09 Budget: $199M+80M (ARRA)
NSF CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE EXPENDITURES
Provide stewardship for
computational science at NSF, in
strong collaborations with other
offices, directorates, and agencies
Supports the preparation and training
of current and future generations of
researchers and educators to use
Cyberinfrastructure to further
research and education goals
OCI
OTHER NSF
Virtual Organizations for
Distributed Communities
High
Performance
Computing
Data &
Visualization/
Interaction
Learning & Work Force Needs
& Opportunities
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Modeling and
simulation
Computers
Data analysis &
visualization
Data services
User support
Text
Training
Visualization
services
People
Courtesy of University of Indiana
Common user
environments
2007-8 Track 2 – TACC
2008-9 Track 2 – UTK
2009-10 Track 2 – PSC
2010-11 Track 2 – TBD
2011 Track 1 – NCSA
Tools for
educators
Science
Gateways
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
NSF seeks to deploy/support a world-class HPC machine
of unprecedented capability to empower the U.S.
academic research community
Machine is called “Blue Waters” and will be located at the
NSCA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Award of $207M effective October 1, 2007 for 5 years
Blue Waters will be completed/operational 2011
Available for use on “Grand Challenge” projects with
users selected via a competitive process
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Blue Waters General Characteristics
• Based on IBM PERCS
• 1 petaflops sustained performance on real applications
Blue Waters System Characteristics
• > 200,000 cores using multicore POWER7 processors
• > 32 gigabytes of main memory per SMP
• > 10 petabytes of user disk storage
• > 100 Gbps external connectivity (initial)
• Fortran, Co-Array Fortran, C/C++, UPC, MPI/MPI2, OpenMP, Cactus, Charm++
Blue Waters Interim Systems at NCSA
• POWER 5+ and POWER6 software and application development testbeds
Blue Waters System Training and Support
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
NSF Solicitation to deploy/support HPC
machines to a wide range of researchers
nationwide
Two machines completed with two more
planned
Systems are used in various research
simulation & modeling projects
Machine operating costs/maintenance/user
support $7.5M/yr-$9M/yr
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Fall 2006
$59 million award
• $30 million system
• 4 years of operating costs
Ranger
• Peak performance of 579
teraflops
• Over 60,000 processing cores
• 125 TB memory
• 1.7 PB
Available since Feb, 2008
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
2007
• University of Tennessee at Knoxville
$65 million, 5-year project
• Partners at ORNL, TACC, NCAR
Kraken
•
•
•
•
•
Cray XT5
8256 compute nodes, 66,048 computational cores
More than 100 terabytes of memory
2,300 trillion bytes of disk space
Peak performance of more than 607 teraflops
Full production Feb 2009
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
TFLOPS
Blue
Waters
>2010
2100
>1500
684
850
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Image courtesy of g3D, Inc.
Courtesy of National Center for Atmospheric Sciences
Four primary goals:
• Provide reliable digital preservation, access, integration, and
analysis capabilities for science/engineering data over decadeslong timeline
• Achieve long-term preservation and access capability in an
environment of rapid technology advances
• Create systems and services that are economically and
technologically sustainable
• Empower science-driven information integration capability on
the foundation of a reliable data preservation network
Each project needed to develop a model for shared
governance and the standards and protocols to
enable interoperability
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Redefine the role of University Libraries to include
scientific data as special collections
Building on JHU Library success with Sloan Digital Sky
Survey and National Virtual Observatory
Initial focus on observational data about astronomy,
turbulence, biodiversity and environmental science
Especially suited to terabyte-scale data sets but with
strong focus on “the long tail of small science.”
Project led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Designed to enable long-term access to and use of
preserved earth observation data
• Projects will include: The spread of diseases, the impact of human
behavior on the oceans, relationships among human population
density and greenhouse gas production
Will build using an evolutionary development process
Data are diverse and complex – multi-scale, multidiscipline, multi-national
Project led by the University of New Mexico
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Develop the future simulation, optimization and analysis tools
that use emerging petascale computing
Will advance frontiers of research in science and engineering
with a high likelihood of enabling transformative research
Areas examined include:
• -Climate Change
• -Earthquake Dynamics
• -Storm Surge Models
• -Supernovae simulations
http://nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08592/nsf08592.pdf
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Goals:
• Provide network connections linking U.S.
research with peer networks in other parts of
the world
• Stimulate the deployment and operational
understanding of emerging network
technology and standards in an international
context
• Support science and engineering research and
education applications
Proposals due Aug. 21, 2009
• ~$40M over 5 years
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503382
Courtesy of Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
• Networking and Information Technology
R&D Program:
$1.17 billion
• U.S. Global Change Research Program:
$370 million
• National Nanotechnology Initiative: $401
million
ARRA allowed NSF to make 4,599 competitive awards and
will support the construction of the Alaska Region
Research Vessel (renamed: Sikuliaq “New Ice suitable for
walking on”)
Environment
Education
Energy
Economics