Network for Computational Nanotechnology Cyber Platform

计算纳米技术网络平台

• 批准号: 1227110
• 负责人: Gerhard Klimeck
• 金额: $ 1450万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-01 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1227110&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Network; Computational; Nanotechnology; Cyber; Platform

Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) was founded in 2002 to advance nanoscience toward nanotechnology via online simulations on nanoHUB.org. Not only has nanoHUB become the first broadly successful, scientific end-to-end cloud computing environment, but it also has evolved well beyond online simulation. Annually, nanoHUB provides a library of 3,000 learning resources to 195,000 users worldwide. Its 232 simulation tools, free from the limitations of running software locally, are used in the cloud by over 10,800 annually. Its impact is demonstrated by 720+ citations to nanoHUB in the scientific literature with over 4,807 secondary citations, yielding an h-index of 31, and by a median time from publication of a research simulation program to classroom use of less than 6 months. Cumulatively, over 14,000 students in over 760 formal classes in over 100 institutions have used nanoHUB simulations. Despite a decade of transformational success for a broad nanotechnology research and education community, significant gaps remain as work is still performed by isolated individuals and small groups. This fragmentation by specialty hinders tool and data sharing across knowledge domains. Nano areas such as bio, photonics, and materials are only beginning to use nanoHUB while manufacturing, informatics, environmental-health-and-safety are to date not even represented on nanoHUB. The NCN Cyber Platform proposes to address these gaps through efforts in three strategic goals to: 1) accelerate research by transforming nanoscience to nanotechnology through the integration of simulation with experimentation; 2) inspire and educate the next-generation nanoscience and nanotechnology workforce; and 3) grow the nanoHUB society that uses and shares nanoHUB content. Five cross-cutting thrust areas focus on the cyberinfrastructure (CI) and social dynamics of the nanoHUB virtual society: CI innovation; content stewardship and node engagement; education research and precollege/college and lifelong learning; outreach, diversity, and marketing; and CI operations. The 10-year NCN nanoHUB Cyber Platform vision is that nanoHUB will be the online nano society that researchers, practitioners, educators and students depend on day-to-day while simultaneously immersed in professional practice and computational resources for a multidisciplinary culture of innovation grounded in cloud services-enabled workflows.Intellectual Merit: The NCN nanoHUB strategic plan will answer two fundamental challenges to the next-generation nanoHUB experience: 1) development of technologies that enable simple management and publication of scientific data (experimental and simulation) without additional complex steps: and 2) the establishment of a value system that fosters publication of data, tools, and lectures similar to today's rewards for journal publications. CI innovation, developed through the leading HUBzero platform as well as in cooperation with other CI efforts, will enable new connection points for research, education, and commercialization, expanded platform tool features to help users exchange and publish data; combined data and tools for verification, validation, and engineering activities; and increase immersive and pervasive features. Through partnerships with professional societies and commercial publishers, nanoHUB will change how researchers publish their simulation results through novel interactive journals that reflect a user's workflow, link directly back to their data, and make the work reproducible. This value system will drive new content toward nanoHUB, obviating the need for content generation to be monetarily supported by NCN. Through partnerships with the three new NCN content nodes and other NSF-funded nano efforts, NCN will continue to foster content creation to demonstrate value to the authors and will prototype, test, and host the proposed new technologies for broad usage.Broader Impacts: NCN has developed processes that enabled researchers to rapidly deploy their research codes and innovative tutorials and classes on nanoHUB. To date, these processes harvested research and educational results from 890 contributors world-wide. Expansion into new areas of nano research and education, including pre-college education, represent a huge growth potential for nanoHUB that goes beyond simulation to embracing data management, search, and exploration. Focus on diversity will continue to be an integral part of NCN's outreach program, in particular through focused workshops and new initiatives such as EPICS High. The NCN-pioneered HUBzero already powers 40 HUBs at 12 institutions, serving a broad range of science and engineering disciplines and commercialization. Through impact assessment and continual contributions to HUBzero software stack releases, nanoHUB will continue to drive impact beyond its nano society into other disciplines and institutions.

计算纳米技术网络（NCN）于2002年成立，旨在通过nanohub.org上的在线模拟向纳米技术推进纳米科学。 NanoHub不仅成为第一个广泛的，科学的端到端云计算环境，而且还远远超出了在线模拟。 NanoHub每年为全球195,000名用户提供3,000个学习资源的库。它的232个模拟工具，没有本地运行软件的局限性，每年使用超过10,800。在科学文献中，有720多个引用了720多种二次引用，这表明了它的影响，其含量超过4,807次，产生了31个h-Index，并且从出版研究模拟计划发布到课堂使用不到6个月的中位时间。累积地，在100多个机构中，有14,000多名760多个正式班级的学生使用了纳米ub模拟。尽管在广泛的纳米技术研究和教育社区中取得了十年的变革成功，但由于孤立的个人和小组仍在执行工作，因此仍然存在很大的差距。专业障碍工具和跨知识领域的数据共享的分裂。纳米区域，例如生物，光子学和材料等何时才开始使用纳米木，迄今为止，纳米ub上甚至还没有代表纳米ub。 NCN网络平台提议通过三个战略目标的努力来解决这些差距：1）通过将纳米科学与仿真与实验相结合，通过将纳米科学转化为纳米技术来加速研究； 2）激发和教育下一代纳米科学和纳米技术人员； 3）种植了使用和共享纳米ub含量的纳米布社会。五个横切推力区域集中于纳米族虚拟社会的网络基础设施（CI）和社会动态：CI创新；内容管理和节点参与；教育研究和预科/大学和终身学习；外展，多样性和营销；和CI操作。 10年的NCN NANOHUB网络平台的愿景是，纳米布将成为在线纳米社会，研究人员，从业人员，教育者和学生依靠日常工作，同时又沉浸在专业实践和计算资源中，以促进云服务的多学科文化，以云服务为基础。纳米ub经验：1）开发技术，可以简单管理和发表科学数据（实验和仿真），而没有其他复杂的步骤：和2）建立一个价值体系，促进了与当今日记出版物相似的数据，工具和讲座的发布。通过领先的Hubzero平台以及与其他CI的合作开发的CI创新将为研究，教育和商业化提供新的连接点，扩展了平台工具功能，以帮助用户交换和发布数据；合并的数据和工具，用于验证，验证和工程活动；并增加身临其境和普遍的特征。通过与专业社会和商业出版商的合作伙伴关系，Nanohub将通过反映用户工作流程的新型互动期刊来改变研究人员如何发布模拟结果，直接链接到他们的数据，并使工作可重复。该价值系统将向纳米ub驱动新内容，从而消除了NCN货币支持的内容的需求。通过与三个新的NCN内容节点和其他NSF资助的NANO努力的伙伴关系，NCN将继续培养内容创建，以向作者展示价值，并将原型，测试和托管拟议的新技术，以实现广泛的影响：NCN的影响：NCN为快速的研究人员而开发了研究人员，并将其用于研究代码和研究人员和创新。迄今为止，这些过程从全球890个贡献者那里收集了研究和教育结果。扩展到包括大学前教育在内的纳米研究和教育的新领域，代表了纳米ub的巨大增长潜力，它不仅仅是模拟，还可以接受数据管理，搜索和探索。专注于多样性将继续成为NCN外展计划不可或缺的一部分，尤其是通过重点的研讨会和诸如Epics High之类的新计划。 NCN-Pioneedeed Hubzero已经在12个机构中为40个枢纽提供了支持，为科学和工程学科和商业化提供了广泛的服务。通过影响评估和对Hubzero软件堆栈版本的持续贡献，NanoHub将继续推动其纳米社会以外的影响到其他学科和机构。