EAGER: Exploring Federations of Campus and National Cyberinfrastructure as Scalable Platforms for Science: A Case Study using Open Science Grid

EAGER：探索校园联盟和国家网络基础设施作为可扩展的科学平台：使用开放科学网格的案例研究

• 批准号: 1441376
• 负责人: Manish Parashar
• 金额: $ 28.58万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1441376&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Exploring; Federations; Campus; National

Advanced computing and data cyberinfrastructure (ACI) is playing an increasingly important role in all areas of computational and data-enabled science and engineering (CDS&E), and has become a key enabler of scientific insights and innovation. As a result, it is critical that researchers and students have access to adequate campus ACI (e.g., computing and data resources). However, it is also critical that such a campus ACI aligns and is integrated with national initiatives, to connect with and share advanced computing/data resources and expertise, enable collaborative and end-to-end science, and build upon and leverage existing federal investments in high end infrastructure. This EAGER focus on three main thrusts: (1) develop the expertise and experience at Rutgers for establishing a campus ACI for CDS&E research, and to align it with the national ACI by integrating this campus ACI as part of a national resource, i.e., Open Science Grid (OSG); (2) develop the necessary research partnerships based on the OSG federated ACI to address important research problems in an end-to-end manner and lead to significant insights; and (3) document processes, experiences, and lesson learnt during this process to share these findings with the broader community, providing a "cook- book".Establishing campus ACI ecosystems is a common practice that Universities follow in order to support their research and education missions. However, these campus ACI ecosystems typically operate in isolation, restricting the access to resources and therefore the potential impact that they can offer to the community beyond their own campuses. The outcomes of this research will provide important insights into the feasibility of leveraging national investments to create resource pools where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. As a result, it can have significant impact on the mindset of faculty, campus IT, and administrators, and on the overall ability of campus IT groups to support the advanced computing needs of researchers. The resulting models for collaboration will be seeded through shared ACI to incentivize resource and expertise sharing that can enable faculty and students to leverage a much larger and more robust set of resources. It will also help foster the creation of necessary support teams to support science and scholarship.

先进计算和数据网络基础设施 (ACI) 在计算和数据支持的科学与工程 (CDS&E) 的所有领域中发挥着越来越重要的作用，并已成为科学见解和创新的关键推动者。因此，研究人员和学生能够获得足够的校园 ACI（例如计算和数据资源）至关重要。然而，同样重要的是，这样的校园 ACI 必须与国家举措保持一致并整合，以连接和共享先进的计算/数据资源和专业知识，实现协作和端到端科学，并建立和利用现有的联邦投资在高端基础设施领域。该 EAGER 重点关注三个主要目标：(1) 发展罗格斯大学的专业知识和经验，为 CDS&E 研究建立校园 ACI，并通过将该校园 ACI 整合为国家资源（即开放）的一部分，使其与国家 ACI 保持一致。科学网格（OSG）； (2) 基于 OSG 联合 ACI 发展必要的研究伙伴关系，以端到端的方式解决重要的研究问题并产生重要的见解； (3) 记录在此过程中的过程、经验和教训，与更广泛的社区分享这些发现，提供一本“食谱”。建立校园 ACI 生态系统是大学为支持其研究和发展而遵循的常见做法。教育使命。然而，这些校园 ACI 生态系统通常是孤立运行的，限制了对资源的访问，从而限制了它们可以为校园以外的社区提供的潜在影响。这项研究的结果将为利用国家投资创建整体大于部分总和的资源库的可行性提供重要见解。因此，它可以对教师、校园 IT 和管理员的思维方式以及校园 IT 团队支持研究人员高级计算需求的整体能力产生重大影响。由此产生的协作模型将通过共享 ACI 进行播种，以激励资源和专业知识共享，从而使教师和学生能够利用更多、更强大的资源。它还将有助于促进建立必要的支持团队来支持科学和学术。