Science Gateways Community Institute presentation at 12/20/16 XSEDE ECSS Symposium, http://www.xsede.org/ecss-symposium. Recording also available.

1. Science Gateways
Community Institute
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
San Diego Supercomputer Center
wilkinsn@sdsc.edu

2. What is a science gateway?
science gateway /sī′ əns gāt′ wā′/ n.
1. an online community space for science and engineering research and
education.
2. a Web-based resource for accessing data, software, computing services,
and equipment specific to the needs of a science or engineering discipline.

3. • Increased complexity of
– toda ’s esea h uestio s
– hardware and software
– skills required
• Greater need for openness
and reproducibility
– Science increasingly driving
policy questions
• Opportunity to integrate
research with teaching
– Better workforce
preparation
Why are gateways important?
We need interfaces
that provide
broad access to
advanced resources
and
allow all to tackle
today’s challenging
science questions.

4. Gateways subject of recent NSF award
5 years + 5 more possible

5. Gateway use in XSEDE
• Starting in 2013, more people ran jobs on
XSEDE via gateways than from the command
line
• www.xsede.org/gateway-listing
• You may know people who want to use
existing gateways or develop their own
– We can help

6. Have an existing gateway that could benefit
from using XSEDE?
• XSEDE’s ECSS p og a a help adapt e isti g
gateways to use XSEDE
– Typically not doing front end development, but
helping to connect XSEDE resources into existing
gateways
• Extended Support for Science Gateways
• Request support and allocations via
www.xsede.org/allocations

7. What if you have a great idea and would like
to build a new gateway?
• Science Gateways Community Institute can help
– http://sciencegateways.org/services/
– Applying to be a level 2 XSEDE service provider so
services can also be requested via XSEDE
• SGCI-supported gateways do not have to use
XSEDE resources
– Can use campus resources, clouds
– Could be interfaces to data collections or sensor
streams
– Could incorporate aspects of citizen science

8. Science Gateways Community Institute
Est. Aug, 2016

9. Incubator: Consulting expertise and in depth
training
• Building a gateway can take may types of expertise
– But projects cannot afford to hire this in
• Consulting services provide cost effective solution
– Get expertise you need when you need it, release it when
ou’ e fi ished
• In depth cohorts for training, group interactions,
mentoring
– Customized structure, content and goals
• ACTION: Request services at
http://sciencegateways.org/services/gateway-services-
request-form/

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Usability
Consultant
Graphic
Designer
Community
Liaison/
Evangelist
Project
Manager
Professional
Software
Developer
Security
Expert
Quality
Assurance
and Testing
Expert
Wished we had this
Yes, we had this
Need for variety of expertise expressed in 5000-
person survey of those developing gateways
• Security: Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure
• Sustainability: Nancy Maron, creator of ITHAKA S+R course on Sustaining
Digital Resources
• Evaluation and Impact: Ann Zimmerman Consulting
• Internal Resource Development: Notre Dame Center for Research Computing

11. Extended Developer Support
• Help building new gateways
– Or portions of new gateways
• Dedicated support for months to a year
• Similar in structure to XSEDE ECSS program
• Different in that gateways can be built from the
ground up
– And can use any type of resource
• ACTION: Request services at
http://sciencegateways.org/services/gateway-
services-request-form/

12. Scientific Software Collaborative
• Find software used to build gateways
– List your software
– Work with us to support gateways as an affiliate
• Find existing gateways
– Just use them
– Lea what the ’ e uilt with
– Converse with developers
– Find gateways used in curricula
• ACTION: Still in development, sign up for mailing
list to keep apprised of status
• http://sciencegateways.org/connect-with-us/

13. Community Engagement and Exchange
• Goal is to be THE place for gateway-related information
• Building the community of gateway developers
– Blogs, jobs, case studies, gateways in the news, webinars
– ACTION: help@sciencegateways.org to present on the webinar,
contribute a blog entry, etc
• Annual Gateways conference
• Interact with other developers
• Tutorials, presentations, posters, reception, open space discussions
• Student opportunities, travel support
• ACTION: Help organize, attend, participate
– Gateways 2016
• Nov 2-3, SDSC, 120 attendees
– Gateways 2017
• Oct 24-25, Ann Arbor
• Building gateway expertise on campuses
– This area is developing, stay tuned
• ACTION: Follow us via mailing list or Twitter (@sciencegateways)
• http://sciencegateways.org/connect-with-us/

14. • US workshops
– Gateways 2016 at SDSC, Nov,
2016
– Gateway Computing
Environments workshops
since 2005
• European workshops
– International Workshop on
Science Gateways since 2009
• Australian workshops
– IWSG-A since 2015
• Joint special issue journals
combine submissions from
all of the above
International collaborations to promote
research and exchange information

15. • Students
– Fellowships and internships
– Travel support
– Training
– Summer coding opportunities
• Young Professionals Network
• Year 1 work with
– NOBBCHe (National Organization for
the Professional Advancement of Black
Chemists and Chemical Engineers)
– ADMI (Association of
Computer/Information Sciences and
Engineering Departments at Minority
Institutions)
• Faculty
– Gateways in the curricula
• Career tracks for gateway developers
• ACTION: Watch for opportunities for
faculty and students via the mailing
list
• http://sciencegateways.org/connect-
with-us/
Workforce Development

16. Early interest in building gateways
Name Institution Project
Michael Norman San Diego Supercomputer Center Renaissance Simulations Laboratory
Mark Perri Sonoma State University Chem Compute
Michael Cianfrocco UCSD COSMIC^2: Cryo-EM Open Source Multiplatform
Infrastructure for Cloud Computing
Greg Newman CitSci.org CitSci.org
Ann E. Stapleton UNC Wilmington CyVerse VALIDATE
Hamish Holewa Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual
Laboratory, Griffith University, Australia
Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory
Doug Jennewein University of South Dakota USD Science Gateway
Jack Smith Marshall University Aquavit
Bev Corwin OWASP Foundation OWASP Learning Gateway
M. Drew LaMar College of William and Mary QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education
and Synthesis)
Alain Domissy UCSD Yeo Lab Single Cell Transcriptomics
Sobhy Atalla Fayoum University,Egypt Establish a national center for computational science to
contribute considerably to the solution of scientific,
engineering and planning problems.
Lisa T. Eyler, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Brain Age Project

17. Thank you
• Questions, comments, discussion
• help@sciencegateways.org,
@sciencegateways