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NSF Update Kevin Thompson NSF CISE/ANIR October 14, 2003 Outline A few (more) words on Cyberinfrastructure A few words on CISE/ANIR Overview of ANIR Programs New awards across 4 ANIR programs and ACIR’s ETF CISE reorganization Evolution of the Computational Infrastructure Cyberinfrastructure Promise Ubiquitous, digital knowledge environments that are both interactive and functionally complete………… (Atkins report) revolutionize the processes of discovery, learning and innovation across the science and engineering frontier.  Cyberinfrastructure Characteristics Community-Focused virtual organizations distributed, collaborative Scale and Scope Multidisciplinary International Supporting data- and compute-intensive applications High-end to desktop Heterogenuous Common Technology Policy Platform(s) Interoperability Supports characteristics above Cyberinfrastructure Early Adopters Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF) Extensible Terascale Facility A Heterogenuous Grid Environment Integrated CI System meeting the needs of a community of communities  Shared Cybertools (Middleware Tools and Services)  Basic Services Security, Scheduling, Data Services, Database Services, User Services, Application Management Services, Autonomy and Monitoring Services, Information Services, Composition Service, Messaging Service Application Level Services People Collaboration, Resource Collaboration, Decision-Making Services, Knowledge Discovery Services, Workflow Services, Universal Access Challenging Context Institutional Infrastructural Ecology Technological change more rapid than institutional change Broadening Participation Community-Building Seamless Integration of New and Old Balancing upgrades of existing and creation of new resources Legacy data/models Providing sustainable support Plan of Act