[CAnet - news] Cyberinfrastructure Around the World

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[Some excerpts from HPCwire article-- BSA]

Cyberinfrastructure Around the World
 
  Cyberinfrastructure is now essential for advancing scientific 
  discovery and the state-of-the-art in engineering. It doesn't matter 
  whether it's the inner workings of the universe or the inner workings 
  of the economy, the design of a new chemical process or the design of 
  a new material, new insights into how cells function or the delivery 
  of personalized medicine, the spawning of a tornado or planning urban 
  development. The basic fact remains the same -- cyberinfrastructure is 
  now a driver of science and engineering. Without it, science and 
  engineering will not reach their full potential.
  
  But, science and engineering is a global activity. There is not an 
  American chemistry and a French chemistry, nor is there a Japanese 
  electrical engineering and a Brazilian electrical engineering. 
  Scientists and engineers around the globe are focused on unraveling 
  the secrets of nature and applying this hard gained knowledge to the 
  betterment of humanity. Cyberinfrastructure must support this global 
  activity. In fact, it is our belief that cyberinfrastructure, properly 
  designed and constructed, will advance science and engineering as a 
  global activity by facilitating access to resources and expertise 
  wherever they are located.
  
  There are three intertwined strands of a global infrastructure:
  
  Cyberenvironments:  to provide researchers with the ability to access, 
  integrate, automate, and manage complex, collaborative projects across 
  disciplinary as well as geographical boundaries.
  
  Cyber-resources:  to ensure that the most demanding scientific and 
  engineering problems can be solved and that the solutions are obtained 
  in a timely manner.
  
  Cybereducation:  to ensure that the benefits of the national 
  cyberinfrastructure are made available to educators and students 
  throughout the country and the world.
  
  NSF's latest version of "Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century 
  Discovery" was released on January 20, 2006. One of the guiding 
  principles in this vision is "national and international partnerships, 
  public and private, that integrate CI users and providers and benefit 
  NSF's research and education communities are ... essential for 
  enabling next-generation science and engineering."
  
  During his keynote address2 at NCSA's 20th Anniversary Celebration in 
  January 2006 entitled, "Un-common sense: A recipe for a cyber planet," 
  Dr. Arden Bement, Director of the National Science Foundation, 
  remarked that "cyberinfrastructure will take research and education to 
  a new plane of discovery. It is critical for advancing knowledge in 
  the face of a dynamic and changing global technological environment." 
  In discussing issues related to global competition and sustaining the 
  long history of technological leadership that the US has enjoyed, Dr. 
  Bement provided some uncommon-sense advice: "We should pursue more 
  global involvement, not less. The rapid spread of computers and 
  information tools compels us to join hands across borders and 
  disciplines if we want to stay in the race." 
  
    
  The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) leads the 
  Australian National Grid Program. This program encompasses the national 
  facilities at APAC and the distributed partner sites, supporting 
  distributed research on national and international levels. As you will 
  read, the advanced communication infrastructure that is in place in 
  Australia offers many opportunities for international collaborations.
  
  Brazilian efforts are described by Marco Raupp et. al in 
  "Cyberinfrastructure supporting multidisciplinary science in Brazil." 
    
  India's emerging nation-wide computational grid "GARUDA," which aims 
  to aggregate distributed resources of research and academic 
  institutions, is described by Mohan Ram and S. Ramakrishnan. The authors
also point to a couple of sample applications of 
  national importance in India -- sensor networks and bioinformatics -- 
  that will be tackled using this infrastructure.
  
  Japan's Cyber Science Infrastructure (CSI) -- the next generation 
  academic information environment, coordinated by the National 
  Institute of Informatics in collaboration with Japanese universities 
  and academic institutions -- is described by Masao Sakauchi et al. 
  They describe Japan's academic networking and National Research Grid 
  Initiative (NAREGI) as well as the provision of academic digital 
  content for CSI.
  
  Korea's effort in the construction and utilization of 
  cyberinfrastructure and its current status is described by Hyeongwoo 
  Park et al. The phenomenal strides in broadband deployment and 
  adoption in Korea and the advantages it provides for establishing a 
  grid infrastructure, supporting middleware development, and for 
  undertaking cutting-edge research in grids are described. The authors 
  also discuss some sample e-Science projects.
  
  South Africa's article, "HPC in South Africa: Computing is support of 
  African Development" by Rob Adam et al., describes the objectives and 
  structure of the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) as an 
  arm of the Meraka Institute that facilitates needs-based research and 
  innovation. They discuss current progress in the establishment of 
  CHPC, and its implications for linking research and innovation in 
  addressing the needs of the South African society and economy with 
  further reach into the continent of Africa and the world.
  
  "The Taiwan Cyberinfrastructure for Knowledge Innovation" article by 
  Whey-Fone Tsai et al. addresses how Taiwan's twin projects, Knowledge 
  Innovation National Grid (KING) and Advanced Research and Education 
  Network (TWAREN), form the kernel of Taiwan's cyberinfrastructure and 
  enable science and engineering innovation. The authors describe their 
  development and deployment efforts in the various components of the 
  cyberinfrastructure and in enabling grid applications in sensor 
  networks and in ecological and environmental domains as well as 
  community health.
  
    
  Enabling innovation and breakthrough science seem to be unifying 
  themes across all institutions. Applications with a broader societal 
  impact -- health and human life, drug design and discovery, 
  bioinformatics, weather forecasting, climate change, environmental 
  modeling, disaster management and mitigation, natural language 
  processing, collecting, analyzing, mining and visualizing large 
  volumes of data, and so on -- are where most of the demands and 
  interest in the development and establishment of cyberinfrastructure 
  rest.
  
  This article was provided courtesy of CTWatch. To read the complete 
  issue of CTWatch Quarterly describing international 
  cyberinfrastructure, visit http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/ 
  <http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/>.



  
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