Please see the message from Nancy Wilkins-Diehr below. OGF also encourages you to respond to the call for feedback to this National Academy of Science report within the deadline. Those of you within the U.S. can respond from that point of view, and those who work and are based in other countries may respond with considerations that are important for collaborating with your U.S. colleagues, or other appropriate information and input that represents your point of view. Thanks very much. Alan Sill VP of Standards Open Grid Forum Begin forwarded message: From: XSEDE User News <news@xsede.org<mailto:news@xsede.org>> Date: January 24, 2015 at 8:57:55 AM CST To: Undisclosed recipients:; Subject: Update: Feedback requested: National Academy of Science report on the Future of NSF Advanced Computing Reply-To: No Reply <news@xsede.org<mailto:news@xsede.org>> This is an update of a previously posted message from XSEDE User News. Categories: Training, Education & Outreach, Networking, Press, Maverick (TACC), Science Gateways, General User News, Stampede (TACC), Blacklight (PSC), Data Replication Service (XSEDE Wide), Gordon (SDSC), HPSS (NICS), MSS (NCSA), Nautilus (NICS), Lonestar (TACC), Open Science Grid, Ranger (TACC), Queen Bee (LONI), Ranch (TACC), Conferences, Darter (NICS), Trestles (SDSC), Spur (TACC), SuperMIC (LSU), Keeneland (GaTech), Data Supercell (PSC), Mason (IU) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Updates (most recent first) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Update #1 Posted on 24 Jan, 2015 14:51 UTC by Nancy Wilkins-Diehr The comment period closes in one week. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Original Post ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted on 12 Dec, 2014 21:18 UTC by Nancy Wilkins-Diehr At NSF’s request, the National Research Council published an interim report on the Future of NSF Advanced Computing for Science and Engineering. The interim report is available online and public comment is requested by Jan 31, 2015. Both the report and the public feedback form are available at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/CSTB/CSTB_152352. XSEDE encourages its user community to contribute to this important discussion. According to the website, these are potential issues that you might address in your comments: # How to create advanced computing infrastructure that enables integrated discovery involving experiments, observations, analysis, theory, and simulation. # Technical challenges to building future, more capable advanced computing systems and how NSF might best respond to them. # The computing needs of individual research areas. # How to balance resources and demand for the full spectrum of systems, for both compute- and data-intensive applications, and the impacts on the research community if NSF can no longer provide state-of-the-art computing for its research community. # The role of private industry and other federal agencies in providing advanced computing infrastructure. # The challenges facing researchers in obtaining allocations of advanced computing resources and suggestions for improving the allocation and review processes. # Whether wider and more frequent collection of requirements for advanced computing could be used to inform strategic planning and resource allocation; how these requirements might be used; and how they might best be collected and analyzed. # The tension between the benefits of competition and the need for continuity as well as alternative models that might more clearly delineate the distinction between performance review and accountability and organizational continuity and service capabilities. # How NSF might best set overall strategy for advanced computing-related activities and investments as well as the relative merits of both formal, top-down coordination and enhanced, bottom-up process. ---------------------------------------- This message was generated by XSEDE User News v3.0. You can view this message in the XSEDE User Portal at https://portal.xsede.org/web/xup/user-news/-/news/item/7016. You can manage your XSEDE User News subscriptions at https://portal.xsede.org/group/xup/user-news/-/news/manage-subscription.