NSF Cyberinfrastructure Vision
The National Science Foundation's Cyberinfrastructure Council, based on extensive input from the research community, has developed a comprehensive vision to guide the NSF's future investments in cyberinfrastructure (CI). The final version of NSF's CI vision was recently released in an ambitious report entitled Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery.
NSF Cyberinfrastructure Vision
- Front Matter (PDF: 3MB)
- (Front Cover, About the Cover, Letter from the Director, Preface, Acknowledgements, Table of Contents, Executive Summary)
- Chapter 1: Call to Action (PDF: 1.5MB)
- With more and more researchers using technology to conduct research the need for a coherent cyberinfrastructure obvious.
- Chapter 2: High Performance Computing (2006-2010) (PDF: 1MB)
- The following goals are introduced:
- Specification, Acquisition, Deployment and Operation of Science-Driven HPC Systems Architectures.
- Development and Maintenance of Supporting Software: New Design Tools, Performance Modeling Tools, Systems Software, and Fundamental Algorithms.
- Development and Maintenance of Portable, Scalable Applications Software.
- Chapter 3: Data, Data Analysis, and Visualization (2006-2010) (PDF: 1MB)
- New scientific opportunities are emerging from increasingly effective data organization, access and usage. Together with the growing availability and capability of tools to mine, analyze and visualize data, the emerging data cyberinfrastructure is revealing new knowledge and fundamental insights.
- Chapter 4: Virtual Organizations for Distributed Communities (2006-2010) (PDF: 2MB)
- A Virtual Organization is created by a group of individuals whose members and resources may be dispersed geographically and/or temporally, yet who function as a coherent unit through the use of end-to-end cyberinfrastructure systems. These CI systems provide shared access to centralized or distributed resources and services, often in real-time.
- Chapter 5: Learning and Workforce Development (2006-2010) (PDF: 536KB)
- Cyberinfrastructure is enabling powerful opportunities to:
- collaborate
- model and visualize complex scientific and engineering concepts
- create and discover scientific and educational resources for use in a variety of settings, both formal and informal
- assess learning gains
- personalize learning environments
- Appendices and Back Cover (PDF: 170KB)
- Complete Document (PDF: 8MB)
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