Co-Designing Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Computing Continuum: Overview of the Activities at the NSF-AI Institute ICICLE

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every sector of society. However, there is a massive and ever-growing gap between available AI techniques and their availability to end users across a range of application domains. This talk will start with an overview of the ICICLE (Intelligent CyberInfrastructure (CI) with Computational Learning in the Environment), an NSF-AI Institute, to address these challenges. We will demonstrate how ICICLE seeks to be the first and foremost edge-to-center AI-as-a-service enterprise for the emerging computing continuum, advancing foundational AI research by fostering next-gen CI for AI to support the wholesome democratization of AI through responsible plug-and-play, and extending the usability and usefulness of AI to the wider population. An overview of the co-designing activities at the institute spanning multiple directions, CI (high performance computing, networking), AI (statistical machine learning, computer vision, knowledge graphs, model commons and conversational AI), data privacy and trust, and three leading use-inspired sciences (Animal Ecology, Digital Agriculture, and Smart Foodsheds) will be highlighted. Overall, the talk will demonstrate the feasibility of co-designing intelligent CI for AI which can be easily adapted to various parts of the computing continuum and serve multiple use-inspired domains.