Research Advisory Board: Workspace
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Nanoscience and Genomics -- Scott Meyer
We in SD are developing research centers in nanoscience and genomics which both would require collaboration with other labs, groups and companies and the use of the grid.
Bioprocessing of Alternative Fuels -- Scott Meyer
Another area of development is research for us is bioprocessing of alternative fuels, which everyone seems interested in. And if we are awarded the DUSEL now in May-June timeframe, physics research as well as the physical and biological sciences will become major collaborative areas for SD. Thanks.
Sustainability -- Dennis Brewer
Sustainability - Rocky Mountain meeting coming up (ecenter.colorado.edu/rmss2007) Could involve sensor networks, simulation/modeling
Education -- Dennis Brewer
Offering specialized courses at multiple campuses over the access grid.
NSF Cyber Physical Systems -- Bruce McMillin
NSF has a Cyber Physical Systems RFP (the deadline just passed today) under the CSR—EHS program (http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07504). This definition will evolve based on a set of workshops. A pre-release version, from the Cyber Physical Systems Workshop: http://varma.ece.cmu.edu/cps/, follows and below that are my observations on how we could address this effort within the GPN.
Strawman Definition
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are those systems which have an intimate coupling between the cyber and physical worlds in scale from the nano-world to systems of systems.
Grand Challenges:
- Blackout-free systems
- Wait-free living
- A cyber aide for every elderly person
- Towards the end of terrorism
- Environmentally friendly cyber physical agriculture
- No deaths from car accidents
Uniqueness (confluence of underlying technologies creates new problems/possibilities)
- Large scale wired and wireless networking
- Cyber – physical coupling driven by new demands and applications
- Ubiquity drives unprecedented security and privacy needs
- Large numbers of non-technical savvy users in the control loop
- Systems of systems
- New spatial-temporal constraints
- Novel interactions between communications/computing/control
Technology Push (why now)
- Proliferation of low cost, increased capability sensors of increasingly smaller form factor
- Availability of low cost, low power, high capacity, small form factor computing devices
- Wireless revolution
- Abundant Internet bandwidth
- Energy harvesting improvements
- Ubiquity of cell phones and wireless access to Internet – technology to the masses
McMillin Comments
The next big opportunity, in my opinion, is wide-area collaboration. Could we use the low latency of the network to make distributed operational decisions on critical infrastructures such as electric power management (wind in Iowa with solar in Oklahoma with Nuclear in Missouri) – drawing in multiple disciplines and multiple universities do tele-medicine, tele-surgery, tele-agriculture demonstration projects to experiment with and validate Quality of Service and multi-disciplinary ideas that have a wide popular appeal others?
Bruce
Grid Computing -- David Swanson
Some progress in building a regional grid has been accomplished (GPNgrid). More information on this may be found elsewhere in this wiki [1].
Geospatial -- Gordon Springer
Satelite, air-born images, environmental aspect.
Water Resource Management -- Greg Monaco
There are a number of researchers interested in this across the region.
Networking Research -- Greg Monaco
NSF GENI and FIND programs.
