Collaborative Research: Data Infrastructure for Open Science in Support of LIGO and IceCube

合作研究：支持 LIGO 和 IceCube 的开放科学数据基础设施

• 批准号: 1841487
• 负责人: Robert Gardner
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 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 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1841487&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Data; Infrastructure; Open

In 2015, the NSF-funded LIGO Observatory made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves, from the collision of two black holes, a discovery that was recognized by the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 2017, LIGO and its sister observatory Virgo in Italy made the first detection of gravitational waves from another extreme event in the Universe - the collision of two neutron stars. Gamma rays from the same neutron star collision were also simultaneously detected by NASA's Fermi space telescope. Meanwhile, the NSF-funded IceCube facility, located at the U.S. South Pole Station, has made the first detection of high-energy neutrinos from beyond our galaxy, giving us unobstructed views of other extreme objects in Universe such as supermassive black holes and supernova remnants. The revolutionary ability to observe gravitational waves, neutrinos, and optical and radio waves from the same celestial events has launched the era of "Multi-Messenger Astrophysics," an exciting new field supported by one of NSF's ten Big Ideas, "Windows on the Universe".The success of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics depends on building new data infrastructure to seamlessly share, integrate, and analyze data from many large observing instruments. The investigators propose a cohesive, federated, national-scale research data infrastructure for large instruments, focused initially on LIGO and IceCube, to address the need to access, share, and combine science data, and make the entire data processing life cycle more robust. The novel working model of the project is a multi-institutional collaboration comprising the LIGO and IceCube observatories, Internet2, and platform integration experts. The investigators will conduct a fast-track two-year effort that draws heavily on prior and concurrent NSF investments in software, computing and data infrastructure, and international software developments including at CERN. Internet2 will establish data caches inside the national network backbone to optimize the LIGO data analysis. The goal is to achieve a data infrastructure platform that addresses the production needs of LIGO and IceCube while serving as an exemplar for the entire scope of Multi-messenger Astrophysics and beyond. In the process, the investigators are prototyping a redefinition of the role the academic internet plays in supporting science.This project is supported by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.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.

2015年，NSF资助的Ligo天文台从两个黑洞的碰撞中首次发现了引力波，这一发现是2017年诺贝尔物理学奖所认识到的。 2017年，Ligo及其姐妹天文台在意大利的处女座首次从宇宙中的另一个极端事件中检测到引力波 - 两个中子星的碰撞。 NASA的Fermi太空望远镜也同时检测到来自同一中子星碰撞的伽马射线。同时，位于美国南极车站的NSF资助的ICECUBE设施首次从我们的银河系中发现了高能中微子，从而使我们对宇宙中其他极端物体（如超大型黑洞和超级诺沃克人的宇宙中的其他极端物体都毫不掩饰。观察引力波，中微子以及来自同一天体事件的光学和无线电波的革命性能力发起了“多理智的天体物理学”的时代，这是一个令人兴奋的新领域，由NSF的十个大型想法之一，“宇宙上的Windows”之一，“宇宙上的Windows”之一。乐器。研究人员提出了针对大型工具的凝聚力，联合，国家规模的研究数据基础设施，最初集中在Ligo和Icecube上，以满足访问，共享和结合科学数据的需求，并使整个数据处理生命周期更加稳健。该项目的新型工作模型是一项多机构的合作，包括Ligo和Icecube观测值，Internet2和平台集成专家。调查人员将进行两年的快速努力，在软件，计算和数据基础架构以及包括CERN在内的国际软件开发方面进行了大量的NSF投资。 Internet2将在国家网络骨干网中建立数据缓存，以优化LIGO数据分析。目的是实现一个数据基础架构平台，该平台可以解决Ligo和IceCube的生产需求，同时作为整个多门机天体物理学及其他范围的典范。 In the process, the investigators are prototyping a redefinition of the role the academic internet plays in supporting science.This project is supported by the Office of Advanced Cyber​​infrastructure in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.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.