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.

该项目构建和部署“TeraPort”，这是一个基于大学的、多学科的、国际一体化的数据密集型、网格支持的分析平台，具有与国内和国际网络的卓越连接性，旨在获得必要的计算和网络基础设施。该设施在作为计算机科学研究（工作负载管理、政策规范和执行、中间件测试和支持）的优秀测试平台的同时，还将提供应用程序生产服务，并作为共享资源进行操作，不仅在芝加哥大学的研究人员之间，而且在教师之间参与加州大学附属虚拟组织的科学家和学生，特别关注与 TeraGrid、iVDGL（国际虚拟数据网格实验室）和 LCG（计算网格项目）网格结构的集成和互操作性。该项目利用伊利诺伊州光纤网络项目 I-WIRE，在芝加哥大学校园的 TeraPort 设施和场外网格资源之间提供高性能连接。 （这是通过 I-WIRE 连接到芝加哥市中心的光学星光设施而实现的，该设施提供了对等接入点，可连接到 TeraGrid 主干网、连接到 Abilene 和 ESnet 网络的美国大学和国家实验室、欧洲网络，例如 SURFnet 和NORDUnet 以及连接到 CERN（位于瑞士日内瓦的欧洲粒子物理实验室）的多千兆位 DataTAG 网络。）许多科学学科需要比以前大几个数量级的数据密集型计算高能物理学、计算生物学、基因组科学以及计算心理学和社会科学中的新问题等尝试，都将受益于这一基础设施。持久的分布式基础设施（称为“数据网格”）允许跨组织和机构边界以安全的方式共享数据、知识和计算资源，解决了涉及需要受控访问千万亿级数据的大型、地理分布的研究人员社区的问题集合和计算资源。以高达每秒 40 吉比特的速度连接分布式资源的高性能光网络的开发进展是这些新基础设施的核心。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，这些学科已被认为是这些新网格技术和网络的应用和开发的主要候选者。该设施支持以下项目：TeraPort 作为网格研究的推动者、TeraPort、TeraGrid、Tier2 中心和高能物理数据网格、计算系统生物学和使用 TeraPort 构建蛋白质组学数据网格原型、利用 TeraPort、TeraPort 和 Multimodal 实现计算基因组学人机沟通、计算社会科学、基于约束的社会模拟。 TeraPort 设施为研究人员提供了独特的资源，通过向超大规模的国内和国际平台提供入口服务来加速进展。此外，该设施允许探索本地共享资源与超大规模网格资源的混合组合。