I-Corps: nanoHUB platform for STEM research, education, and collaboration

I-Corps：用于 STEM 研究、教育和协作的 nanoHUB 平台

• 批准号: 1818656
• 负责人: Gerhard Klimeck
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1818656&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; nanoHUB; platform; STEM; research

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is twofold: it lowers cost and knowledge barriers for smaller companies and startups which need to run scientific simulations, and it reduces time to market for product design firms by allowing faster, more integrated access to simulation tools and data. This project provides an end-to-end, user-oriented, cloud computing infrastructure that embraces the needs of all three critically involved stakeholders: users, model/tool providers, and computational resource providers. The cloud model has proved to be a cost effective, reliable solution to many information service challenges, and a cloud-based platform for scientific simulation and computation has the potential to impact the high-tech community by inducing a fundamental shift in the way scientific simulation and data are used. Small companies, especially emerging startups, need not invest in simulation software, but instead can utilize an extensive simulation ecosystem for product design. Companies with access to this platform will become less restricted by local computational resources, and more productive with a larger suite of simulation tools to solve design problems.This I-Corps project is based on a comprehensive infrastructure to host and execute scientific simulations and store and access the output data with ease. With multiple simulation codes available in one place, workflows can be created which use the output of one tool to provide input to the next. This modular approach enables users to combine different tools and customize the workflow to their own needs. Simulation outputs are all stored and the resulting scientific data can be mined for knowledge. User actions are also recorded and analyzed to enhance the user experience. Through customer discovery activities within I-Corps and continued requirements gathering from existing and potential communities, this cloud-based simulation platform will potentially change how researchers, students, educators, and industry practitioners engage with simulation and data on a day-to-day basis.

该I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是双重的：对于需要运行科学模拟的较小公司和初创公司的成本和知识障碍，它可以减少对产品设计公司的市场推销时间，从而使更快，更集成的模拟工具和数据访问。该项目提供了一个端到端，面向用户的云计算基础架构，该基础结构涵盖了所有三个关键涉及的利益相关者的需求：用户，模型/工具提供商和计算资源提供商。事实证明，云模型是针对许多信息服务挑战的一种具有成本效益，可靠的解决方案，基于云的科学模拟和计算平台有可能通过诱导使用科学模拟和数据的方式来影响高科技社区。小公司，尤其是新兴初创公司，不必投资于仿真软件，而是可以利用广泛的模拟生态系统进行产品设计。访问该平台的公司将受到本地计算资源的限制，并且使用更大的模拟工具来解决设计问题的效率更高。本I-Corps项目基于一个全面的基础架构，可轻松托管和执行科学仿真并访问和访问输出数据。在一个地方可用多个模拟代码的情况下，可以创建工作流，该工作流程使用一个工具的输出来为下一个工具提供输入。这种模块化方法使用户可以将不同的工具结合起来，并根据自己的需求自定义工作流程。仿真输出全部存储，可以挖掘出所得的科学数据以获取知识。还记录和分析了用户操作以增强用户体验。通过I-Corps中的客户发现活动以及从现有和潜在社区收集的持续需求，这个基于云的仿真平台将有可能改变研究人员，学生，教育工作者和行业从业人员的日常模拟和数据。