Science Gateways Community InstituteNancy Wilkins-DiehrSan Diego Supercomputer Centerwilkinsn@sdsc.edu

What is a science gateway?

• We use gateways (or web portals, apps) throughout our daily lives

• Scientists use them too• If designed well, they can be really enabling

science gateway /sī′ əns gāt′ wā′/ n. 1. an online community space for science and engineering research and

education.2. a Web-based resource for accessing data, software, computing services,

and equipment specific to the needs of a science or engineering discipline.

• Increased complexity of– today’s research questions– hardware and software– skills required

• Greater need for openness and reproducibility– Science increasingly driving

policy questions

• Opportunity to integrate research with teaching– Better workforce

preparation

Why are gateways important?

We need interfaces that provide

broad access to advanced resources

and allow all to tackle

today’s challenging science questions.

Specialized Resources PercentData collections 75%Data analysis tools, including visualization and mining 72%Computational tools 72%Tools for rapidly publishing and/or finding articles and data specific to my domain 69%

Educational tools 67%

Platforms for fostering group or community collaboration 63%

Simplified interfaces that eliminate the need to learn coding 62%

Citizen science and other public engagement resources 47%Workflows that automate or capture tasks or processes 42%

Scientific instruments, such as telescopes, microscopes, or sensors 39%

2014 survey of 5000 indicates how these are being used by NSF PIs, CIOs, CTOs

n=4,004, or 88% of 4,538 researcher/educators. Percentage indicates these resources are “somewhat” or “very” important to their work.

Gateways as cost-effective infrastructureUsed to address today’s research challenges

Gateways increasingly used to access supercomputersSurpassed direct logins in in 2013

Gateways

Login

Source: David Hart, NCAR

Today, we see a proliferation of gatewaysThese are some that use XSEDE supercomputers

57% of survey respondents also create gateways

n of application types=7,805, by 2,756 creators (out of 2,819); mean=2.8 application types per application creator

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UsabilityConsultant

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CommunityLiaison/

Evangelist

ProjectManager

ProfessionalSoftware

Developer

SecurityExpert

QualityAssurance

and TestingExpert

Wished we had this

Yes, we had this

But “it takes a village” to be successful

n=2,756 respondents or 98% of application creators

Gateways subject of recent NSF award5 years + 5 more possible

• Diverse expertise on demand

• Longer term support engagements

• Software and visibility for gateways

• Information exchange in a community environment

• Student opportunities and more stable career paths

We’ve proposed the Science Gateways Community InstituteEst. Aug, 2016

• US workshops– Gateways 2016 at SDSC, Nov,

2016– Gateway Computing

Environments workshops since 2005

• European workshops– International Workshop on

Science Gateways since 2009• Australian workshops

– IWSG-A since 2015• Joint special issue journals

combine submissions from all of the above

International collaborations to promote research and exchange information

• Provide leadership on future directions for science gateways

• Facilitate awareness and international, regional and national developments in science gateways

• Identify and share best practice in the field

• Science Gateways Community Institute (USA)

• NeCTAR (Australia)• NESI (New Zealand)• Sci-GaIA (Africa)• Academia Sinica Grid Computing

Center (Taiwan)• Software Sustainability

Institute (UK)• VRE4E1C (Europe)• IWSG (Europe)• CANARIE (Canada)• Research Data Canada (Canada)• IEEE Technical Area on Science

Gateways (International)

International Coalition on Science GatewaysJust forming

http://www.icsciencegateways.org/

Early SGCI customersName Institution Project

Michael Norman San Diego Supercomputer Center Renaissance Simulations Laboratory

Mark Perri Sonoma State University Chem Compute

Michael Cianfrocco UCSD COSMIC^2: Cryo-EM Open Source Multiplatform Infrastructure for Cloud Computing

Greg Newman CitSci.org CitSci.org

Ann E. Stapleton UNC Wilmington CyVerse VALIDATE

Hamish Holewa Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory, Griffith University, Australia

Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory

Doug Jennewein University of South Dakota USD Science Gateway

Jack Smith Marshall University Aquavit

Bev Corwin OWASP Foundation OWASP Learning Gateway

M. Drew LaMar College of William and Mary QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis)

Alain Domissy UCSD Yeo Lab Single Cell Transcriptomics

Sobhy Atalla Fayoum University,Egypt Establish a national center for computational science to contribute considerably to the solution of scientific, engineering and planning problems.

Lisa T. Eyler, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Brain Age Project

Thank you• Questions? Opportunities to collaborate?

– I am happy to talk after the event

• Learn more– www.sciencegateways.org, @sciencegateways– Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, wilkinsn@sdsc.edu