EarthCube Building Blocks: Collaborative Proposal: The Power of Many: Ensemble Toolkit for Earth Sciences

EarthCube 构建模块：协作提案：多人的力量：地球科学集成工具包

• 批准号: 1639694
• 负责人: Shantenu Jha
• 金额: $ 50.96万
• 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: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1639694&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EarthCube; Building; Blocks; Collaborative; Proposal

The study of hazards and renewable energy are paramount for the development and sustainability of society. Similarly, the emergence of new climatic patterns pose new challenges for future societal planning. Geospatial data are being generated at unprecedented rate exceeding our analysis capabilities and leading towards a data-rich but knowledge-poor environment. The use of advanced computing tools and techniques are playing an increasingly important role in contributing to solutions to problems of societal importance. This project will create specialized computational tools that will enhance the ability of scientists to effectively and efficiently study natural hazards and renewable energy. The use of these tools will support novel methods and the use of powerful computing resources in ways that are not currently possible.Many scientific applications in the geosciences are increasingly reliant on "ensemble-based" methods to make scientific progress. This is true for applications that are both net producers of data, as well as aggregate consumers of data. In response to the growing importance and pervasiveness of ensemble-based applications and analysis, and to address the challenges of scale, simplicity and flexibility, the research team will develop the Ensemble Toolkit for Earth Sciences. The Ensemble Toolkit will provide an important addition to the set of capabilities and tools that will enable the geosciences community to use high-performance computing resources more efficiently, effectively and in an extensible fashion. This project represents the co-design of Ensemble Toolkit for Earth Sciences and is a collective effort of an interdisciplinary team of cyberinfrastructure and domain scientists. It will also support the integration of the Ensemble Toolkit with a range of science applications, as well as its use in solving scientific problems of significant societal impact that are currently unable to utilize the collective capacity of supercomputers, campus clusters and clouds

对危害和可再生能源的研究对于社会的发展和可持续发展至关重要。同样，新气候模式的出现给未来的社会规划带来了新的挑战。 地理空间数据正在以前所未有的速度生成，超出了我们的分析能力，并导致数据丰富但知识匮乏的环境。 先进计算工具和技术的使用在解决具有社会重要性的问题方面发挥着越来越重要的作用。该项目将创建专门的计算工具，以增强科学家有效和高效地研究自然灾害和可再生能源的能力。这些工具的使用将支持新颖的方法以及以目前不可能的方式使用强大的计算资源。地球科学中的许多科学应用越来越依赖“基于集合”的方法来取得科学进步。 对于既是数据净生产者又是数据聚合消费者的应用程序来说，情况确实如此。 为了应对基于集合的应用和分析日益增长的重要性和普遍性，并解决规模、简单性和灵活性的挑战，研究团队将开发地球科学集合工具包。 Ensemble Toolkit 将为一系列功能和工具提供重要补充，使地球科学界能够更高效、更有效且以可扩展的方式使用高性能计算资源。该项目代表了地球科学集成工具包的共同设计，是网络基础设施和领域科学家跨学科团队的集体努力。它还将支持 Ensemble Toolkit 与一系列科学应用程序的集成，以及用于解决具有重大社会影响的科学问题，这些问题目前无法利用超级计算机、校园集群和云的集体能力