Poster - NSF Research Infrastructure Outreach

CI Compass Fellowship Program for Undergraduates

The CI Compass Student Fellowship program was created to broaden student participation in cyberinfrastructure (CI) research and development. Fellows learn about CI development and Major Facilities, develop CI-related skill sets important to the work of MFs, engage with CI Compass and MF personnel, and participate in an optional/invited summer program to apply their skills. This poster details the Spring and Summer Programs, outcomes from the program’s first three years, and ways to get involved.

The NHERI RAPID Facility

This poster presents the RAPID Facility’s mission: to enable transformative research by providing natural hazard and disaster researchers with the resources and support needed to collect, process, and analyze perishable data from extreme events. These unique open datasets serve various purposes, including developing and calibrating scientific natural hazard simulation models.

Assessing quantum resiliency readiness for HPC and scientific applications

The problem of adopting quantum-resistant cryptographic network protocols (PQC) is critically important to democratizing quantum computing. The problem is urgent because practical quantum computers, will break classical encryption in the next few decades. Past encrypted data has already been collected and can be cracked in the near future. The main challenges of adopting post-quantum cryptography lie in both algorithmic complexity and hardware/software/network implementation. The grand question is how existing cyberinfrastructure will support post-quantum cryptography remains unanswered. This paper shows the first preliminary measurement of PQC adoption in a national-scale supercomputing center, across the transportation and application layer of networks (TLS 1.3, SSH, DNSSEC, and QUIC) with regard to adopting NIST’s being discussed algorithms, such as CRYSTALS-Kyber for encryption, FALCON and SPINCS+ for digital signature, and KEMTALS for key exchange.

Verified Authentication for NSF Large Facilities

This project will enable trusted computing for flagship cyberinfrastructures (e.g., Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), Open Science Grid) and their vibrant scientific communities that use SciTokens. The expected advances Verified Authentication SciTokens project will be: a) continuous automated reasoning (verification) algorithm that uncovers critical bugs in SciTokens code, b) certification proof that a token-based authentication is correct. We are exploring the use of functional/array based languages for concise and mathematically correct descriptions of complex authorization scopes.

Developments at the CHARA Array

The CHARA Array combines the light of six 1-meter telescopes at optical/infrared wavelengths to achieve milliarcsecond resolution. The Array is used to measure stellar diameters, image stellar surfaces, detect close binary companions, and resolve the inner structure of circumstellar disks. We are adding a new seventh mobile telescope to the Array that will be connected using fiber optics beam transport and can be placed at different stations to expand the maximum baseline.

Cybersecurity Risks to Large Science Projects

One of the challenges of cybersecurity is raising awareness about risks that affect assets beyond a data center. The goal of our poster is to raise awareness about cybersecurity risks across a science project. The poster will use a fictitious project with a broad array of devices with unique risks to prompt discussion of cybersecurity risks and how they might affect the viewer’s own science project. Our Operational Technology Procurement Matrix document will be highlighted in the poster.

Imageomics: ML for Biological Knowledge Discovery

A broad goal of the Imageomics Institute is to inspire ML innovation while increasing biological knowledge extraction from images. In furtherance of this goal, we create large and diverse datasets, processing and data exploration tools, and models big and small to aid in biological discovery. In this poster we outline some of these datasets, open-source tools, and models to engage with the broader research community.

NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory

The NOAA Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory in Hawaii is revitalizing site infrastructure to modern codes while focusing on sustainability. After the 2022 volcanic eruption disrupted site operations, NOAA also focused efforts on moving the site to 100% solar power. This initiative will power atmospheric research without fossil fuels, improve the site’s operational resiliency, and make the observatory the first Department of Commerce facility to be NET-ZERO for electricity and water.

Colorado Atmospheric Observatory (CAO) Tall-Tower

The Colorado Atmospheric Observatory (CAO) Tall-Tower is located near Byers, Colorado and stands at 608 meters above ground level. The Global Monitoring Laboratory’s (GML) Atmospheric Measurement Network collects air samples at three heights on the tower (30m, 100m and top-of-tower) to monitor greenhouse gases such as CO2, CH4, CO, and H2O. In addition to these samples, we are in the process of installing additional measurements to support boundary layer analysis.

Lessons in Applied Marine Vessel Electrification

Crowley’s naval architecture and marine engineering teams worked together with experts in electric propulsion and battery technology to design a vessel that could seamlessly integrate into existing maritime operations while proving the feasibility of electrification in a traditionally diesel-dominated sector.