CiC (RDDC): Commoditizing Data-Intensive Biocomputing in the Cloud

CiC (RDDC)：云中数据密集型生物计算的商品化

• 批准号: 1048253
• 负责人: Wuchun Feng
• 金额: $ 37万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-15 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1048253&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CiC; RDDC; Commoditizing; Data; Intensive

In the life sciences, today?s DNA sequencers can generate a terabyte (or 1 trillion bytes) of data in a minute. As a consequence, the size of DNA sequence databases is growing faster than they can be computed upon with a personal computer. Thus, scientists and engineers must increasingly rely on the parallelism of high-performance computing (HPC) to keep pace. Unfortunately, not only are such HPC resources costly to own and maintain, but they are also difficult to access and use. The MetaRx software environment addresses the above issues by transforming and commoditizing cloud computing infrastructures, such as Microsoft Azure, to massively accelerate the discovery process for scientists and engineers. This transformation and commoditization of cloud computing provides scientists with the capability of provisioning large amounts of computational and storage resources via an easy-to-use interface to the cloud, including the capability of ?teleporting? data via a ?WonkaVision for scientific data? metaphor. With computing widely recognized as the third pillar of science, complementing the traditional pillars of theory and experimentation, and with data-intensive scientific discovery emerging as a fourth pillar (or fourth paradigm) of science, MetaRx empowers the domain scientist to focus on his/her science rather than the minutia of high-performance computing.

在生命科学中，今天的DNA测序仪可以在一分钟内生成数据（或1万亿个字节）的数据。 结果，DNA序列数据库的大小比使用个人计算机可以计算的速度快。 因此，科学家和工程师必须越来越多地依靠高性能计算（HPC）的并行性来保持步伐。不幸的是，这样的HPC资源不仅为拥有和维护的昂贵，而且很难访问和使用。 metarx软件环境通过改变和商品化云计算基础架构（例如Microsoft Azure）来解决上述问题，以大大加速科学家和工程师的发现过程。 云计算的这种转换和商品化为科学家提供了通过易于使用的界面来提供大量计算和存储资源的能力，包括？传送的能力？通过科学数据的wonkavision进行数据？隐喻。 随着计算被广泛认为是科学的第三个支柱，补充了理论和实验的传统支柱，并且出现了数据密集型科学发现，这是科学的第四支柱（或第四个范式），Metarx赋予了域科学家的专注于他/她/她的科学，而不是高度成绩计算。