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TRANSFORMING COMBUSTION RESEARCH THROUGH CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

Committee on Building Cyberinfrastructure for Combustion Research

Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications

Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Computer Science and Telecommunications Board

Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology

Division on Earth and Life Studies

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COMMITTEE ON BUILDING CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR COMBUSTION RESEARCH

MITCHELL D. SMOOKE,

Yale University,

Chair

JOHN B. BELL,

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

JACQUELINE H. CHEN,

Sandia National Laboratories

MEREDITH B. COLKET III,

United Technologies Research Center

THOMAS H. DUNNING,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

DENNIS GANNON,

Microsoft Corporation

WILLIAM H. GREEN,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CHUNG K. LAW,

NAE,1 Princeton University

MIRON LIVNY,

University of Wisconsin-Madison

MARK LUNDSTROM,

NAE, Purdue University

C. BRADLEY MOORE,

NAS,2 University of California, Berkeley

CAROLE L. PALMER,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ARNAUD TROUVÉ,

University of Maryland

CHARLES WESTBROOK,

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Staff

SCOTT WEIDMAN, Director,

Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications

NEAL GLASSMAN, Study Director

BARBARA WRIGHT, Administrative Assistant

1

NAE, National Academy of Engineering.

2

NAS, National Academy of Sciences.

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BOARD ON MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

C. DAVID LEVERMORE,

University of Maryland,

Chair

TANYA STYBLO BEDER,

SBCC Group, Inc.

PHILIP A. BERNSTEIN,

Microsoft Corporation

PATRICIA FLATLEY BRENNAN,

University of Wisconsin-Madison

EMERY N. BROWN,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GERALD G. BROWN,

U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

RICARDO CABALLERO,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

L. ANTHONY COX, JR.,

Cox Associates

BRENDA L. DIETRICH,

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

SUSAN J. FRIEDLANDER,

University of Southern California

PETER WILCOX JONES,

NAS, Yale University

KENNETH L. JUDD,

The Hoover Institution

CHARLES M. LUCAS,

Osprey Point Consulting

JAMES C. McWILLIAMS,

NAS, University of California, Los Angeles

VIJAYAN N. NAIR,

University of Michigan

CLAUDIA NEUHAUSER,

University of Minnesota

J. TINSLEY ODEN,

NAE, University of Texas at Austin

DONALD G. SAARI,

NAS, University of California, Irvine

J.B. SILVERS,

Case Western Reserve University

GEORGE SUGIHARA,

University of California, San Diego

KAREN VOGTMANN,

Cornell University

BIN YU,

University of California, Berkeley

Staff

SCOTT WEIDMAN, Director

NEAL GLASSMAN, Senior Program Officer

BETH DOLAN, Financial Associate

BARBARA WRIGHT, Administrative Assistant

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COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS BOARD

ROBERT F. SPROULL,

NAE, Sun Microsystems, Inc.,

Chair

PRITHVIRAJ BANERJEE,

Hewlett-Packard Company

STEVEN M. BELLOVIN,

NAE, Columbia University

SEYMOUR GOODMAN,

Georgia Institute of Technology

JOHN E. KELLY III,

IBM Research

JON KLEINBERG,

NAE, Cornell University

ROBERT KRAUT,

Carnegie Mellon University

SUSAN LANDAU,

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

DAVID LIDDLE,

US Venture Partners

WILLIAM H. PRESS,

NAS, University of Texas at Austin

PRABHAKAR RAGHAVAN,

NAE, Yahoo! Labs

DAVID E. SHAW,

D.E. Shaw Research

ALFRED Z. SPECTOR,

NAE, Google, Inc.

JOHN SWAINSON,

Silver Lake Partnership

PETER SZOLOVITS,

IOM,3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PETER J. WEINBERGER,

Google, Inc.

ERNEST J. WILSON,

University of Southern California

Staff

JON EISENBERG, Director

RENEE HAWKINS, Financial and Administrative Manager

HERBERT S. LIN, Chief Scientist

LYNETTE I. MILLETT, Senior Program Officer

EMILY ANN MEYER, Program Officer

ENITA A. WILLIAMS, Associate Program Officer

VIRGINIA BACON TALATI, Associate Program Officer

SHENAE BRADLEY, Senior Program Assistant

ERIC WHITAKER, Senior Program Assistant

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IOM, Institute of Medicine.

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BOARD ON CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY

RYAN R. DIRKX,

Arkema, Inc.,

Co-Chair

C. DALE POULTER,

NAS, University of Utah,

Co-Chair

ZHENAN BAO,

Stanford University

ROBERT G. BERGMAN,

University of California, Berkeley

HENRY E. BRYNDZA,

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company

EMILY A. CARTER,

NAS, Princeton University

PABLO G. DEBENEDETTI,

Princeton University

CAROL J. HENRY,

George Washington University

CHARLES E. KOLB,

Aerodyne Research, Inc.

JOSEF MICHL,

University of Colorado

MARK A. RATNER,

Northwestern University

ROBERT E. ROBERTS,

Science and Technology Policy Institute, Institute for Defense Analyses

DARLENE SOLOMON,

Agilent Technologies

ERIK J. SORENSEN,

Princeton University

WILLIAM C. TROGLER,

University of California, San Diego

Staff

DOROTHY ZOLANDZ, Director

KATHRYN HUGHES, Program Officer

TINA MASCIANGIOLI, Senior Program Officer

ERICKA McGOWAN, Program Officer

AMANDA CLINE, Administrative Assistant

SHEENA SIDDIQUI, Research Associate

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Preface

In January 2009, the Multi-Agency Coordinating Committee on Combustion Research (MACCCR) requested that the National Research Council (NRC) conduct a study of the structure and use of a cyberinfrastructure (CI) for combustion research. MACCCR is an informal group of program managers within the federal government that coordinates joint initiatives in basic research involving combustion and keeps group members informed of one another’s activities. It consists of representatives from the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program of the Department of Defense (DOD), the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program of the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Energy Technology Laboratory of DOE, the DOE Office of Science, the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The combustion research community had already developed a strong foundation for the proposed study through a series of three workshops that shared perspectives and some best practices already developed within portions of the community. Those workshops were held in February and April 2006 and March 2007. They played an important role in exploring selected issues related to CI and in building community interest in the topic.

In response to MACCCR’s 2009 request, the NRC assembled the Committee on Building Cyberinfrastructure for Combustion Research under

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the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications, the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, and the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology to carry out this study. This committee was given the following charge:

  1. Identify opportunities to improve combustion research through computational infrastructure (CI)1 and the potential benefits to applications;

  2. Identify the necessary CI elements (hardware, data management, algorithms, software, experimental facilities, people, support, etc.) through examination of existing CI in combustion research and education and CI experience in other, analogous fields. Evaluate the accessibility, sustainability, and economic models for various approaches, and identify positive and cautionary experiences;

  3. Identify CI that is needed for education in combustion science and engineering and how education in those fields should change to prepare students for CI-enabled endeavors;

  4. Identify human, cultural, institutional, and policy challenges and discuss how other fields are addressing them;

  5. Estimate the resources (funding, manpower, facilities) needed to provide stable, long-term CI for research in combustion;

  6. Recommend a plan for enhanced exploitation of CI for combustion research, taking into account possible leveraging of CI being developed for computational science and engineering more generally.

In order to conduct this study, the Committee on Building Cyberinfrastructure for Combustion Research met four times between March 9, 2009, and January 20, 2010, in Washington, D.C., and in Irvine, California. It was briefed by representatives of cyberinfrastructures for several scientific communities other than the combustion community and reviewed information provided by these speakers and others.

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For the purposes of this charge, “CI” is used to abbreviate “computational infrastructure.” In the remainder of this report, “CI” stands for “cyberinfrastructure.”

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Acknowledgments

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

M. Gurhan Andac, University of Southern California,

Christine Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles,

Sayeed Chaudhury, Johns Hopkins University,

Robert Dibble, University of California, Berkeley,

Rudolph Eigenmann, Purdue University, and

Ruth Pordes, Fermilab.

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Phillip Colella, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Appointed by the National Research Council, he was responsible for making certain that

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an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.

The committee also acknowledges the valuable contribution of the following individuals, who provided input at the meetings on which this report is based:

Michael Frenklach, University of California, Berkeley,

Jeffrey Grethe, University of California, San Diego,

Thuc Hoang, Department of Energy,

Walter Polansky, Department of Energy,

Edward Seidel, National Science Foundation,

Douglas Talley, Air Force Research Laboratory,

Phillip Westmoreland, National Science Foundation, and

Frank Wüerthwein, University of California, San Diego.

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Combustion has provided society with most of its energy needs for millenia, from igniting the fires of cave dwellers to propelling the rockets that traveled to the Moon. Even in the face of climate change and the increasing availability of alternative energy sources, fossil fuels will continue to be used for many decades. However, they will likely become more expensive, and pressure to minimize undesired combustion by-products (pollutants) will likely increase.

The trends in the continued use of fossil fuels and likely use of alternative combustion fuels call for more rapid development of improved combustion systems. In January 2009, the Multi-Agency Coordinating Committee on Combustion Research (MACCCR) requested that the National Research Council (NRC) conduct a study of the structure and use of a cyberinfrastructure (CI) for combustion research. The charge to the authoring committee of Transforming Combustion Research through Cyberinfrastructure was to: identify opportunities to improve combustion research through computational infrastructure (CI) and the potential benefits to applications; identify necessary CI elements and evaluate the accessibility, sustainability, and economic models for various approaches; identify CI that is needed for education in combustion science and engineering; identify human, cultural, institutional, and policy challenges and how other fields are addressing them. Transforming Combustion Research through Cyberinfrastructure also estimates the resources needed to provide stable, long-term CI for research in combustion and recommends a plan for enhanced exploitation of CI for combustion research.

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