Acquisition of TeraPort: A Grid Enabled Analysis Platform with Optical Connectivity

收购 TeraPort：具有光连接功能的网格分析平台

• 批准号: 0321253
• 负责人: Robert Gardner
• 金额: $ 118.64万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0321253&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; TeraPort; Grid; Enabled; Analysis

This project, building and deploying "TeraPort," a university-based, multi-disciplinary, and internationally integrated data-intensive, Grid enabled analysis platform with superior connectivity to both domestic and international networks, aims at acquiring the necessary computing and network infrastructure. While serving as an excellent testbed for computer science research (workload management, policy specification and enforcement, middleware testing and support), the facility will provide application production services and be operated as a shared resource not only among the University of Chicago researchers, but faculty, scientists, and students participating in U of C affiliated virtual organizations, with specific focus on integration and interoperability with the TeraGrid, iVDGL (international Virtual Data Grid Laboratory), and the LCG (Computing Grid Project) grid fabrics. The project exploits the State of Illinois optical networking project, I-WIRE, to provide high performance connectivity between the TeraPort facility on the U of Chicago campus and off site Grid resources. (This is made possible by the I-WIRE's connection to optical Starlight facility in downtown Chicago which provides a peering point of access to the TeraGrid backbone, U.S. universities and national laboratories connected to the Abilene and ESnet networks, European networks, such as SURFnet and NORDUnet, and the multi-Gigabit DataTAG network to CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.) Many scientific disciplines requiring data-intensive computations at scales orders of magnitude larger than previously attempted, such as high energy physics, computational biology, genome science, and emerging problems in computational psychology and the social sciences, will benefit from this infrastructure. Persistent, distributed infrastructures, known as "data grids," that allow sharing of data, knowledge and compute resources in a secure manner across organizational and institutional boundaries, address these problems involving large, geographically distributed communities of researchers that require controlled access to Petascale data collections and computational resources. Advances in development of high performance optical networks connecting distributed resources at speeds up to 40 gigabits per second are central to these new infrastructures. Computational biology, particle physics, and astrophysics constitute examples of many "e-Science" disciplines that have been recognized as prime candidates for application and development of these new Grid technologies and networks. The facility supports the following projects: TeraPort as an Enabler of Grid Research, TeraPort, TeraGrid, Tier2 Centers and High Energy Physics Data Grids, Computational Systems Biology and Using TeraPort to Prototype the Proteomics Data Grid, Enabling Computational Genomics with TeraPort, TeraPort and Multimodal Communication in Humans and Machines, Computational Social Science, Constraint-Based Social Simulation. The TeraPort facility presents a unique resource for researchers accelerating progress by providing on-ramp services to a very large scale national and international platforms. Furthermore, the facility allows exploration of hybrid combinations of local, shared resources in concert with very large scale Grid resource.

该项目是建立和部署“ Teraport”，这是一个基于大学的，多学科和国际集成的数据密集型，启用网格的分析平台，旨在获得与国内和国际网络的卓越连接，旨在获取必要的计算和网络基础架构。在作为计算机科学研究（工作量管理，政策规范和执法，中间件测试和支持）的出色测试的同时，该设施将提供应用程序生产服务，并不仅在芝加哥大学研究人员中作为共享资源，而且还可以作为CORPILIADER组织的教师，科学家和学生在C隶属的Virtual组织中，侧重于集成和Internalitial International Intul（IV）（IV（IV），INV（IV）INV（IV（IV））和LCG（计算网格项目）网格织物。该项目利用了伊利诺伊州光网络项目I-Wire，以提供芝加哥U校园U和现场网格资源的Teraport设施之间的高性能连通性。 （I-wire与芝加哥市中心的光学星光设施的联系使得这是可能的，该设施提供了与Abilene和Esnet网络相关的Teragrid Backbone，美国大学和国家实验室的访问点在计算心理学和社会科学方面的高能量物理学，计算生物学，基因组科学以及新兴问题等量表中需要数据密集型计算的学科将从该基础设施中受益。持续的，分布式的基础架构，称为“数据网格”，允许在组织和机构边界上以安全的方式共享数据，知识和计算资源，以解决这些问题，这些问题涉及涉及大型，地理分布的研究人员，这些问题需要控制对Petascale数据收集和计算资源的控制访问。高性能光网络开发的进步，以每秒高达40千兆位的速度连接分布式资源是这些新基础架构的核心。计算生物学，粒子物理学和天体物理学构成了许多“电子科学”学科的例子，这些学科被认为是用于应用和开发这些新网格技术和网络的主要候选者。 The facility supports the following projects: TeraPort as an Enabler of Grid Research, TeraPort, TeraGrid, Tier2 Centers and High Energy Physics Data Grids, Computational Systems Biology and Using TeraPort to Prototype the Proteomics Data Grid, Enabling Computational Genomics with TeraPort, TeraPort and Multimodal Communication in Humans and Machines, Computational Social Science, Constraint-Based Social Simulation. Teraport设施通过为大规模的国家和国际平台提供坡道服务，为研究人员提供了一个独特的资源。此外，该设施允许探索与非常大规模的网格资源共享的本地，共享资源的混合组合。