The CI Gap: How big is it and how can weclose it"

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• The CI Gap How big is it and how can we close
  it?"
• Idaho
• Cyberinfrastructure
• Assessment and Needs
• Peter Goodwin
• Dan Ames
• John Oldow

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The Problem

• Can Idaho to be competitive in the emerging NSF
  Community Science Paradigm?
• Idaho has no high-bandwidth computing network
  linking the Idaho National Laboratory with the
  three major universities
• INL does not have adequate bandwidth to meet
  anticipated needs (10- 40Gb)
• Strong academic research programs are being
  challenged and face personnel retention issues
• Example niche strengths Alternative Electric
  Power (inc. nuclear), Bio-fuels, Ecological
  Health
• GEON, Bioinformatics IBEST, NIATT,
• Idaho Experimental Watershed Network

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The Concept of Cyberinfrastructure

• Infrastructure that enables distributed,
  real-time collaboration requiring large-scale,
  dynamic information
• Examples of components to be integrated
• Unique experimental facilities
• Networks of real-time and offline data collection
  devices
• Major computational processing capabilities
• High-speed networks
• Tele-participation and tele-operation tools
• Data/metadata storage and curation
• Computational models and model components
• Data analysis and information extraction tools
• Digital assets management
• Dr. Miriam Heller, OCI, NSF
• TN, 2006

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Example 1 The GEONgrid
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INTERFACE
National Facility for Digital Geosciences
University of Idaho University of Texas,
Dallas Arizona State University University of
Kansas UNAVCO, Inc.

• NSF Facility to provide
• equipment and methods needed to acquire digital
  field observations
• software and workflows to process and analyze
  large datasets
• data accessibly and storage
• community training and field assistance

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Example 2 Water, Climate Change and Ecosystem
Health

• Second largest diverter of water for agriculture
  in the US, second only to California.
• More water is diverted for aquaculture than the
  rest of the US combined.
• More than 93,000 miles of streams in Idaho. This
  is long enough to flow around the world almost
  four times.
• Over 3000 miles of world class white water more
  than the rest of the contiguous US combined
  (source American Rivers)
• Each year more than 420,000 anglers fish Idaho
  streams. (Idahos population is 1 m)
• Streams are home to 19 fish species that are
  endangered or threatened
• Some regions of the State have just experienced
  the three driest years on record, the Boise River
  has flooded this year .

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Idaho EPSCoR Field Study Locations
Mixed Forest Fluxes
Ecosystem Disturbance Agent Research Thrust
Even-Age Forest Logging Fluxes
Mixed Forest Logging Mapping Vegetation
Structure/Biomass
Steppe Urbanization Hydrologic Pathways
Steppe/Forest Ag/Urbanization Water Quality/ Fish
Physiology
Steppe/Forest Grazing, Fire Fluxes
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IEWN Cyberinfrastructure Development
Basins
Map Windows Dan Ames
HydroSeek (Search)
DASH (GIS)
OpenMI
HEC-RAS
WebServices
MIKE Suite WoW Mica Ck
OLAP
ODM Database
FERGI
In progress
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The Idaho Stream Laboratory
A magnet facilitySize, remote operation and
participation, instrumentationNEES Analogy
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The Concept of Cyberinfrastructure

• Infrastructure that enables distributed,
  real-time collaboration requiring large-scale,
  dynamic information
• Examples of components to be integrated
• Unique experimental facilities
• Networks of real-time and offline data collection
  devices
• Major computational processing capabilities
• High-speed networks
• Tele-participation and tele-operation tools
• Data/metadata storage and curation
• Computational models and model components
• Data analysis and information extraction tools
• Digital assets management
• Dr. Miriam Heller, OCI, NSF

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Opportunities

• Northern Tier
• Idaho Regional Optical Network IRON
• Idaho Transportation Department
• Develop infrastructure that can contribute to
  National Effort e.g. Environmental
  Observatories
• Business, Research, Education
• k-12 STEM, course delivery, outreach
• Multiple planning initiatives supported by
• Idahos Technology Platforms Building on the
  States Core Competencies (Battelle, 2006). Idaho
  Commerce and Labor
• Governors Science and Technology Advisory
  Council, 2004.
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• Contacts for Further Information
• State EPSCoR Director Jeanne Shreeve
  jshreeve_at_uidaho.edu
• Infrastructure Harvey Hughett, Exec Dir/CIO
  ITS. hughett_at_uidaho.edu
• Antony Opheim, CTO, Enterprise Infrastructure
  Services tony_at_uidaho.edu
• Example Research Applications
• Bioinformatics, IBEST James Foster
  foster_at_uidaho.edu
• GEON John Oldow oldow_at_uidaho.edu
• Idaho Experimental Watershed Network
• Dan Ames amesdani_at_isu.edu
• Peter Goodwin pgoodwin_at_uidaho.edu