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Solicitation 07-558: Engineering Virtual Organization (EVO) Seed Grants

Solicitation 07-558: Engineering Virtual Organization (EVO) Seed Grants. Semahat Demir Program Director NSF 11-6-2007 IMAG. Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery NSF, Cyberinfrastructure Council, March 2007. Vision for cyberinfrastructure in four overlapping an

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Solicitation 07-558: Engineering Virtual Organization (EVO) Seed Grants

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  1. Solicitation 07-558:Engineering Virtual Organization (EVO) Seed Grants Semahat Demir Program Director NSF 11-6-2007 IMAG

  2. Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century DiscoveryNSF, Cyberinfrastructure Council, March 2007 Vision for cyberinfrastructure in four overlapping an complementary areas: • High Performance Computing, • Data, Data Analysis, and Visualization, • Cyber Services and Virtual Organizations, and • Learning and Workforce Development.

  3. Solicitation 07-558:Engineering Virtual Organization (EVO) Seed Grants Key requirements: Organize an EVO; Implement a pilot version; Prepare for full-scale implementation. Grant sizes: $100K to $200K for two-year seed grants. Letter of Intent required - deadline May 31, 2007 Deadline for full proposal: July 3, 2007. Expected funding date: By October 1, 2007.

  4. Virtual Organizations (VOs) can transform research. • Created by a group whose members and resources may be dispersed globally, yet who function as a coherent unit through the use of cyberinfrastructure. • Extend beyond small collaborations and individual departments to encompass wide-ranging activities and groups. • Provide shared access to centralized or distributed resources, such as community-specific sets of tools, applications, data, and sensors, and experimental operations, often in real time.

  5. How can we best use EVOs? • Portals to powerful computing: • NSF’s TeraGrid • Grid computing - parallel use of supercomputers • Different ways of collecting data. • Remote sensor networks. • Remote experiments. • More effective collaboration and information transfer. • Interactive data archives. • Threaded discussion.

  6. See examples that show mixtures of data, computing, education, and collaboration tools. • Water and Environmental Research Systems and CyberCollaboratory, cleaner.ncsa.uiuc.edu • Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, www.nees.org • National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, www.nnin.org • Network for Computational Nanotechnology, www.nanoHUB.org • Process Informatics Model, www.primekinetics.org

  7. Two-year seed grants, up to $200,000. • Must establish an engineering virtual organization, enabled by CI, potentially including international participants. • Must deploy its prototype EVO implementation. • Must create a conceptual design of its full implementation, drawing upon: • Articulated research and education goals of a research community to advance new frontiers (identify the “compelling research idea”). • Advances made by other scientific and engineering fields in establishing and operating VOs and their associated CI. • Available CI tools and services, commercially available or emerging from current federal investments.

  8. Restrictions: • Lead PI must be from an engineering department in a college, university, or nonprofit nonacademic organization. • An individual may not be named as a participant on more than one proposal submitted to this solicitation. • Project can’t have NSF funding for a VO already. • Must not overlap substantially with an existing EVO or CI project or fall within the scope of an existing NSF funding opportunity. • Proposed project is not for new research. • Must not use a substantial fraction of the requested funds for the collection of new data, the development of new numerical models, or the augmentation of existing numerical models.

  9. Fund sources and timing: • $2 million commitment to the solicitation. • Grants started before October 1, 2007. • For full details, see http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07558/nsf07558.htm

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