MERIF: A Forum for CISE-supported Midscale Experimental Research Infrastructure projects Projects

MERIF：CISE 支持的中型实验研究基础设施项目论坛

• 批准号: 1834880
• 负责人: Lawrence Landweber
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 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: 2018-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834880&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MERIF; Forum; CISE; supported; Midscale

The computer and networking systems research communities recognize the importance of conducting verifiable, repeatable experimental research at scale on highly decentralized Midscale Experimental Research Infrastructures (MERI). In the past decade the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) has supported multiple research infrastructure projects, including the Global Environment for Network Investigations (GENI), and NSF Future Cloud projects including CloudLab and ChameleonCloud. The potential of MERI projects to support transformative research grows as experiments are envisioned that span multiple infrastructures providing complementary services. These experiments place new demands on each infrastructure to coordinate development and implement common protocols and interfaces to support interoperability and ease-of-use by experimenters.This project seeks to create a community-led research coordination entity known as the MERI Forum (MERIF) to help achieve these objectives. MERIF will convene the CISE research infrastructure development community, experimenters, and other key stakeholders to communicate, cooperate and collaborate on MERI development. The project embarks with 6 primary responsibilities:1. Advancing the Federation and Harmonization of MERIF projects to enable and simplify their use;2. supporting Education and Outreach to integrate the use of the diversity of MERIF project resources in academic courses, including use by underserved populations;3. hosting workshops to focus on midscale infrastructure solutions for a future national computation fabric that enables research experimentation into future networking and computing architectures;4. convening regular research community meetings to identify the needs of MERI research users;5. reaching out to domain science communities to identity and initiate mutually beneficial collaborations between MERI projects and large-scale science and engineering projects; and6. engaging university Leadership to increase awareness and help sustain MERIF projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

计算机和网络系统研究社区认识到对高度分散的中尺度实验研究基础设施（MERI）进行可验证的，可重复的实验研究的重要性。在过去的十年中，计算机与信息科学与工程局（CISE）支持了多个研究基础架构项目，包括全球网络调查环境（GENI）和NSF未来的云项目，包括CloudLab和ChameleonCloud。梅里项目支持变革性研究的潜力随着实验的增长，即跨越提供补充服务的多个基础架构。这些实验对每个基础架构提出了新的要求，以协调开发并实施共同的协议和界面，以支持实验者的互操作性和易用性。该项目旨在建立一个社区主导的研究协调实体，称为Meri Forum（Meri Forum），以帮助实现这些目标。 Merif将召集Cise研究基础设施发展社区，实验者和其他主要利益相关者，以沟通，合作和合作在Meri开发方面。该项目以6个主要责任发动：1。推进联邦和统一项目以启用和简化其使用； 2。支持教育和推广，以整合Merif项目资源多样性在学术课程中的使用，包括服务不足的人群的使用； 3。举办研讨会，专注于中期基础架构解决方案，以实现未来的国家计算结构，该解决方案可以研究未来的网络和计算体系结构的研究实验； 4。召集定期的研究社区会议，以确定Meri研究用户的需求； 5。与域科学社区接触身份，并在Meri项目与大规模科学和工程项目之间进行互惠互利的合作；和6。吸引大学领导力提高认识并帮助维持Merif项目。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估的。