Gateway Round Table Update

Nancy Wilkins-Diehr

TeraGrid Round Table, February 11, 2010

As presented at Sept TG quarterlyWhat else is exciting?

•SGW funding a Cyberinfrastructure in GIS workshop in conjunction with the UCGIS meeting in DC in February–Co-led by Shaowen Wang at NCSA and Nancy–Approved by UCGIS board after a lengthy voting process–Winter UCGIS meeting will focus on CI and includes a White

House briefing•Workshop attendees welcome to attend the briefing•Briefing will include very short recap of the workshop

–Expected outcome of the workshop•Increased visibility•New partnerships for TeraGrid, UCGIS, and other pertinent organizations

•Workshop report•Interesting collaborative proposal ideas•Potential future publications

TeraGrid Quarterly, September 24-25, 2009

Results?•50 attendees from throughout the US, Sweden and Australia– Had to turn away nearly as many

•Attendees submitted thought-provoking position papers•Agenda combined

– Keynote talks (Ed Seidel, NSF; Mike Goodchild, UCSB – father of “GI Science”)

– Invited talks (Bill Appelbe, CEO of Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing; Steve Kopp, ESRI)

– Panels•Science Drivers for CyberGIS•Cyberinfrastructure and GIScience, where to converge?

•Building effective CyberGIS•Strategies, and Pitfalls for Fostering Collaboration and Virtual Organization

•Federal Agency panel

– Break out sessions•Computational intensity of spatial analysis and modeling

•Disaster response•Geospatial ontology and semantic web

•Spatial decision support systems•Cyber-enabled geographic information science

•Geospatial middleware, clouds, and grids

•Data-intensive geographic information science

•High performance computing and CyberGIS

TeraGrid Round Table, February 11, 2010

Next steps?

•All white papers and slides posted at http://www.cigi.uiuc.edu/cybergis/ (in progress)•“Top 5 things you learned from the workshop”•Workshop report/paper•Possible special issue of Journal of Spatial Information Science to expand position papers•Identification of grand challenge problems in GIS, exemplars•Smaller more problem-specific workshops since GIS is very broad

TeraGrid Round Table, February 11, 2010

Workshop highlighted the next day at the UCGIS Winter Session Meeting

Members Room, Library of Congress

TeraGrid Round Table, February 11, 2010Photos courtesy Diansheng Guo

Administration Attendees•Karen Siderelis

– GIO Department of Interior, Acting Chair Federal Geographic Data Committee

•Raphael Bostic– Assistant Secretary for Policy

Development and Research, HUD

•Derek Douglas– Special Assistant to the President

for Urban Affairs

•Jerry Johnston– CIO, EPA

•Stephen Lowe– GIO, Dept of Agriculture

•Joseph Klimavicz– CIO, NOAA, Director of High

Performance Computing and Communications

TeraGrid Round Table, February 11, 2010Photos courtesy Diansheng Guo