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NSF Visit Gordon Bell /~gbell Microsoft Research 4 October 2002 Topics How much things have changed since CISE was formed in 1986, but remain the same? 10 year base case @CRA’s Grand Challenges? /search?sourceid=navclientq=cra+grand+challenges GB MyLifeBits: storing one’s entire life for recall, home media, etc. Clusters, Grids, and Centers…challenge is apps Supercomputing directions Messages… The Grand Challenge for CISE is to work on applications in science, engineering, and bio/medicine/health care (e.g. NIH). Databases versus greping. Revolution needed.Performance from software = Moore’s Law Big challenge moving forward will come from trying to manage and exploit all the storage. Supercomputing: Cray. Greshams Law Build on industry standards and efforts. Grid and “web services” must co-operate. Whatever happened to the first, Grand Challenges? Minimize grant overhead… site visits. IBM Sets Up Biotech Research Center U.S.-based IBM recently set up a biotechnology research and development center in Taiwan -- IBM Life Sciences Center of Excellence -- the companys first in the Asia Pacific region… the center will provide computation solutions and services from an integrated bio-information database linked to resources around the world. Local research institutes working in cooperation with the center include Academia Sinica, the Institute for Information Industry and National Yang Ming University.  From HPCWire 30 September 2002 Retrospective: CISE formed in 1986 CISE spent about $100 million on research in 1987  Q: What areas of software research do you think will be the most vital in the next decade? A: Methods to design and build large programs and data bases in a distributed environment are central. Q: What software research areas are funded? A: We fund what the community considers to be important … object-oriented languages, data bases, human interfaces; semantics; formal methods of design and construction; connectionism; and data and knowledge