The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Authors: Katie Antypas (U.S. National Science Foundation), Amy Walton (U.S. National Science Foundation), Sharon Broude Geva (U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF))
Abstract: The U.S. National Science Foundation's vision and investment plans for cyberinfrastructure (CI) are designed to address the evolving needs of the science and engineering research community. Senior leadership and program staff from NSF’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) will discuss OAC's vision, strategic and national priorities, as well as highlights from the latest funding opportunities across all aspects of the research cyberinfrastructure ecosystem. Substantial time will be devoted to audience Q&A between attendees and NSF staff and unstructured time to meet informally with NSF staff.
Long Description: National research cyberinfrastructure (CI) is essential to computational and data intensive discovery and innovation across all domains of science and engineering (S&E) research and education, and to ensuring US leadership in S&E, economic competitiveness, and national security. The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) has long supported the broad availability and innovative use of CI in alignment with NSF’s mission to “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the national defense; and for other purposes.”
This BoF will provide an overview of OAC’s strategy for cyberinfrastructure that addresses growing needs across S&E research domains, informed by recent community input and reports. Recent investments and funding opportunities will be presented across a wide spectrum of CI topics such as advanced computing, networking, cybersecurity, data and software CI, and learning and workforce development. Also relayed will be updates on community-scale services available to researchers via the programs such as ACCESS and PATh, and NSF and OAC engagements in national initiatives and priorities such as the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot) and Public Access and Open Science.
This panel continues a highly successful, well-attended annual BoF series at previous Supercomputing meetings. We have found that the audience is interested in updates, discussion, and takeaways, and the opportunity to meet and talk informally to NSF staff and others from the community who share interest in contributing to a CI ecosystem. Anticipated outcomes include a better-informed and connected research community, and submission of more innovative, potentially transformative proposals to NSF.
The session will be tailored for the SC audience and is intended for current and past PIs, future PIs, and anyone interested in learning about the NSF-funded CI ecosystem, including students and research CI staff at all career stages and all types of involvement with CI use, support, and creation.
Note that this proposed BoF is not duplicative of the Learning and Workforce Development (LWD) BoF session proposed separately by OAC. We have found that the audience interested in cyberinfrastructure learning and workforce development does not necessarily overlap with the audience for this proposed BoF; Many of the LWD programs are broader in their goals than the ones we will discuss in this proposed BoF. LWD programs are also geared specifically to the development of the human aspects of CI, with the focus on the PIs and on the community and potential community that will be developed. This difference tends to elicit different types of conversations than the programs covered by this proposed BoF.