SURAIT Strategy Meeting

Atlanta, GAJuly 28, 2005

Jerry P. DraayerSURA President and CEO

SURA Organization

Board of Trustees. Institutional representative appointed by the president/chancellor of each of the 62 SURA member universities

Executive Committee. 13 member body acting for the full Board when Board is not in session

Standing Committees. Program committees open to membership of other interested parties – in addition to trustees

Steering Groups. Subset of standing committee acting on behalf of the larger full committee, i.e., IT Steering Group representing the full IT Committee of over 100 members

Staff. Professional staff support the work of the Board and its committees in achieving SURA’s mission

Mission

Foster excellence in scientific research

Strengthen the scientific and technical capabilities of the nation and the Southeast

Provide outstanding training opportunities for the next generation of scientists and engineers

Programs

SCOOP – DOD Office of Naval Research / NOAA – to provide IT “glue” to integrate coastal research components

Jefferson Lab – DOE Office of Science – to probe nucleus of atom and study quark structure of matter

Info Tech – to build IT foundation (connectivity, high performance computing, grids) to support SURA’s scientific and research programs

Relations – to formulate and sustain internal and external relations strategy and support for SURA’s scientific and research programs

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Jefferson Lab Designed and constructed, and now managed and operated, by

SURA since early 1980’s when SURA won the Department of Energy’s competition

$600M world-class research facility employs ~600 scientists, engineers, technicians, and administrators, with $100M annual budget, including $1M annual contribution from Virginia

International user community of over 2,000 researchers have access to JLab to conduct research of the atom’s nucleus at the quark level

JLab research produces about a quarter of all the U.S. Ph.D’s in nuclear physics – over 170 PhD’s to date with ~170 more in progress (including many females and minorities)

Jefferson Lab

Planned upgrade to double the energy of the accelerator from 6 to 12 GeV (CD-0 approved April 2004 – CD-1 anticipated by end of Summer) will enable new discoveries in fundamental physics

Lab’s tech transfer program – free electron laser facility with the world’s highest power FEL using the Lab’s core competency in superconducting RF technology

Performance rated “Outstanding” by DOE in ten years under current performance-based contract – DOE changing assessment process, but no negative effect on Lab performance anticipated

SURA Programs for Jefferson Lab

Governor’s Distinguished CEBAF Professorships / Scientists at Virginia universities

SURA/JLab Graduate Fellowship Program (17 years: ~300 applicants / 115 awards)

SURA/JLab Faculty Sabbatical Support Program (8 years: 12 awards - 1 MSI)

Nathan Isgur Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2003 Inaugural Year)

SURA/JLab Thesis Award (5 years: 6 awards - 1 MSI & 1 International)

SURA /JLab Poster Award (2005 first year awards made to 4 graduate students - 2 females)

In addition to SURA’s primary responsibility to manage and operate JLab, SURA programs for the benefit of JLab include:

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Structure of Mesons(2-quark “particles”)

mediate n-n interaction

Structure of Nucleons(3-quark “particles”)

building blocks of extended nuclei

E = imic2 is for energy … right?

Where did “E” go?Strong Interaction!

SCOOPSURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction Program

Vision. To provide community-wide information services and technologies that advance the sciences of environmental prediction and hazard planning for our nation’s coastal populations

Purpose. To promote the rapid fusion of observed data with numerical models, and facilitate the rapid dissemination of information to operational, scientific, and public and private users

Sponsors. DOD Office of Naval Research / NOAA

More information about SCOOP at: http://twiki.sura.org

Accomplishment: www.OpenIOOS.org Partners with SURA: NOAA Coastal Services Center, SEACOOS, GoMOOS,

and others Contributors: NOAA, Navy, NASA, USGS, plus over a dozen regional

programs and various universities

What’s remarkable about http://www.openioos.org ?• Fully distributed with real-time data flows• Standards enabling innovation (interfaces &

modularity)• Interoperability independent of technology

(encourages private-sector)• Open Geospatial Consortium (GIS nurtures

practical use)• WWW = HTTP + HTML Web Services

(modern and forward thinking)• Feds and Researchers interoperating with IT• A virtual community sharing data with Open

Standards• Advancing the science of environmental

prediction & hazard planning• Enabling transition from research to operations

Information Technology• Beginnings

– SURAnet - first successful SURA transfer of technology to private sector (sold in 1995)– Building a SURA IT Community - restructuring of the IT Committee to be more inclusive– Investing in Regional GigaPoPs (SoX, MAX)– Regional Infrastructure Initiative

• Building Momentum– Cooperation with SGA, NLR and RONs– AT&T GridFiber Agreement– National NMI Middleware Integration Testbed– Digital Video/Voice over IP (ViDe)

• Future

– SURAgrid - Regional Grid Infrastructure

• Supporting applications: SCOOP, BioMed, …

• Supporting grid research & development

– Biomedical Initiative - identifying grid-based biomed apps

– Cyberinfrastructure awareness & education

• Workshops, cookbooks, training

– Increased external and collaborative funding

– International Connections

• AtlanticWave

• Africa Initiative (with IEEAF)

Information Technology

“Population Boom - Super Cities”

USA Today - July 11, 2005 (Section 6A)

SURA – Looking Ahead Jefferson Lab

New entity (SURA part of LLC) - new mode of operation

Curtailed budgets - effect on science program

NSAC reprioritization - JLab’s future

SCOOP Sustained funding for program development and

implementation

Continued focus on open-access, distributed model

Data standards - Data grid - Model grid

Info Tech and RelationsContinued support to science and research programs to achieve SURA’s mission

and increase the research capacity of the Southeast and the Nation