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Grand Challenges Workshopfor Computer Systems Software

Brett D. FleischProgram Director

National Science Foundation CISE

Computer and Network System Division

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OutlineGoals of NSF Workshop

NSF Workshop Outputs

Broader Planning Efforts

Results of Planning Grants

Impact

GENI Introduction

MREFC Information

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Goals of NSF Workshop

• Discuss a compelling research agenda

that has a major contribution from our

community

• Specify requirements for an experimental

infrastructure of the future

• Identify what infrastructure this

community can contribute

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NSF Workshop Outputs• Report to the National Science Foundation • Get communities to work together

– Network architects and security experts

– Network architects and distributed systems researchers

– Theoreticians and Practitioners

• Report that communicates excitement, rationale to broader

research community

• Help NSF & other agencies to fund and promote agenda

– Bring focus of existing research programs to new

initiatives

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Broader Planning Efforts• Planning Grants FY04

– Disruptive network innovations via network virtualization

– Optical integration and implications on optical networking

• Planning Grants Awarded FY05:

– Clean-slate network security (Darleen Fisher)

– End to end network architecture (Guru Parulkar)

– Wireless mobile and sensor networks (Joe Evans)

– Distributed systems & Operating Systems(Brett D. Fleisch)

– Real time networked systems and CIP (D. Helen Gill)

GENI InitiativeGENI Initiative

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GENI Initiative• New Initiative called Global Environment for

Networking Investigations or GENI – Explore new networking capabilities that will advance

science and stimulate innovation and economic growth.

– Advance significantly the capabilities provided by networking and distributed system architectures.

– Intended to catalyze a broad community effort that will engage other agencies, other countries, and corporate entities.

– GENI comprises two components:• 1) the GENI Research Program and • 2) the experimental GENI Facility

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GENI Initiative• The GENI Initiative envisions the creation of new

networking and distributed system architectures that, for example:– Build in security and robustness;– Enable the vision of pervasive computing and

bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds by including mobile, wireless and sensor networks;

– Enable control and management of other critical infrastructures;

– Include ease of operation and usability; and– Enable new classes of societal-level services and

applications.

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Networking

GENI Research Scope

Distributed Systems

Creating new core functionalityDeveloping enhanced capabilities

Deploying and validating new architectures

Building higher-level service abstractions

Building new services and applications

TheoryDeveloping new network

architecture theories

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GENI FundingComponents:

1) the GENI Research Program and2) the experimental GENI Facility

• GENI Research Programs will be funded by a refocus of existing programs such as:

– NeTS– CyberTrust– Computing Research Infrastructure and – Distributed Systems and Operating Systems

• MREFC is one of the options for funding the GENI Facilities

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MREFC ($202 M FY 04 Request)

• NSF-wide; see NSB 02-190:– www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2

003/start.htm

• Projects > 10% of Directorate budget (about $100 M for MPS $60M for CISE)

• Extensive reviews• NSB approval required

• MPS MREFC Projects– National High Magnetic

Field Laboratory (NHMFL)– Green Bank Telescope

(GBT)– Gemini Telescopes– Laser Interferometer

Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)

– Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)

– IceCube

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Impact

• Research agenda and Report by this community will affect the FY07 CSR solicitation

• Review Panels will be structured to have cognizant participants from this community

• Experimental facility requirements would feed into GENI Facility planning (MREFC project descriptions)– Program Directors will work with the this community to make this

happen

• Compelling experimental infrastructures to be built or contributed by this community will also feed into the GENI facility planning– NSF would reserve funds for building these distributed

infrastructures

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Contact Information

Dr. Brett D. Fleisch

Program Director, Computer Systems Cluster

Computer and Network Systems Division

CISE Directorate

Phone: 703-292-8950

bfleisch@nsf.gov

visit NSF at www.nsf.gov

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MREFC

• Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC)

• Supports the implementation of major research facilities and equipment

• Provides unique capabilities at frontiers of Science and Engineering

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MREFC Funding Criteria

• Exceptional Opportunity to enable research and education

• Project should be transformative in Nature

• Potential to shift the paradigm in – Scientific Understanding and/or– Infrastructure technology