EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: EarthCube Integration & Test Environment

EarthCube IA：协作提案：EarthCube 集成

• 批准号: 1540998
• 负责人: Chaowei Yang
• 金额: $ 14.44万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1540998&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EarthCube; IA; Collaborative; Proposal; Integration

EarthCube is supporting the creation of interoperable tools and services for Earth science research, but no environment currently exists for integration and testing of these components. The EarthCube Integration and Test Environment (ECITE), an outgrowth of activities of the EarthCube Testbed Working Group. The ECITE approach focuses on integrating existing effective technologies and resources as well as capabilities being built by the EarthCube community to provide a federated and interoperable test environment. ECITE?s nationwide cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences will also advance the understanding of regional cyberinfrastructure and collaborative geosciences across geographic locations and disciplines by contributing relevant scheduling tools and a working integration and testing environment. A hallmark of the ECITE effort will be engagement of scientists and technologists from multiple disciplines and geographic regions across the geosciences community to develop requirements, prototype, design, build, and test an integration test-bed that will support cross-disciplinary research. The multi-disciplinary ECITE team is led by Sara Graves of the University of Huntsville in Alabama (UAH) and includes participants from all areas of the United States. ECITE activities will enable EarthCube to further support other members and contribute leadership to the broader scientific community. The ECITE federated Integration and Test (I&T) environment has the potential to scale and extend to an NSF wide integration and test capability that can serve as a model and example for other agencies. The proposed ECITE functionality is vital to ensure that the broader goals of the EarthCube are achieved.The ECITE team will actively engage EarthCube and the wider geosciences community in definition of requirements, design, and testing of the system. ECITE will consist of a seamless federated system of scalable and location independent distributed computational resources (nodes) across the US. The hybrid federated system will provide a robust set of distributed resources to include both public and private cloud capabilities. The nodes will provide compute and storage resources requiring minimal system administration.ECITE is an important step in ensuring that EarthCube components will be able to work together to provide a successful framework that can continue to evolve to meet the needs of the geosciences community. This research addresses timely issues of integration, test and evaluation methodologies and best practices with a strong interoperability theme to advance disciplinary research through the integration of diverse and heterogeneous data, algorithms, systems and sciences. The results and findings will provide guidance for EarthCube evolution and future integration efforts. The ECITE team aims to make the Integration and Test (I&T) environment easy to use and readily available to the EarthCube community. Access to the resulting platform will enable and encourage the EarthCube community to develop prototypes, try out new technologies, and to share ideas, concepts and experiments

EarthCube 正在支持为地球科学研究创建可互操作的工具和服务，但目前不存在用于集成和测试这些组件的环境。 EarthCube 集成和测试环境 (ECITE)，是 EarthCube 测试台工作组活动的产物。 ECITE 方法侧重于集成现有的有效技术和资源以及 EarthCube 社区正在构建的功能，以提供联合且可互操作的测试环境。 ECITE 的全国性地球科学网络基础设施还将通过提供相关的调度工具以及工作集成和测试环境，促进对跨地理位置和跨学科的区域网络基础设施和协作地球科学的理解。 ECITE 工作的一个标志是来自地球科学界多个学科和地理区域的科学家和技术人员的参与，以开发需求、原型、设计、构建和测试支持跨学科研究的集成测试平台。 多学科 ECITE 团队由阿拉巴马州亨茨维尔大学 (UAH) 的 Sara Graves 领导，成员包括来自美国各个地区的参与者。 ECITE 活动将使 EarthCube 能够进一步支持其他成员，并为更广泛的科学界发挥领导作用。 ECITE 联合集成和测试 (I&T) 环境具有扩展和扩展至 NSF 广泛集成和测试能力的潜力，可以作为其他机构的模型和示例。拟议的 ECITE 功能对于确保实现 EarthCube 更广泛的目标至关重要。ECITE 团队将积极让 EarthCube 和更广泛的地球科学界参与系统的需求定义、设计和测试。 ECITE 将由遍布美国的可扩展且位置独立的分布式计算资源（节点）组成的无缝联合系统组成。 混合联合系统将提供一组强大的分布式资源，包括公共云和私有云功能。 这些节点将提供需要最少系统管理的计算和存储资源。ECITE 是确保 EarthCube 组件能够协同工作以提供一个成功框架的重要一步，该框架可以继续发展以满足地球科学界的需求。 该研究解决了集成、测试和评估方法以及最佳实践的及时问题，具有很强的互操作性主题，通过集成多样化和异构数据、算法、系统和科学来推进学科研究。结果和发现将为 EarthCube 的发展和未来的整合工作提供指导。 ECITE 团队的目标是使集成和测试 (I&T) 环境易于使用并可供 EarthCube 社区轻松使用。访问最终的平台将支持并鼓励 EarthCube 社区开发原型、尝试新技术并分享想法、概念和实验