Planning for the Leadership-Class Computing Facility

规划领先级计算设施

• 批准号: 1925096
• 负责人: Daniel Stanzione
• 金额: $ 200万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1925096&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Leadership; Class; Computing; Facility

NSF has played a central role in the transformation of scientific research and as a leader in enabling the use of High-Performance Computing (HPC) to advance discovery for almost four decades. The leadership-class computing program is intended to provision advanced computational capabilities to enable transformative research for all of Science and Engineering (S&E) that would not otherwise be possible. NSF's current leadership-class computing investment is the support of the Frontera project at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. Frontera is the Phase 1 system of a two-phase approach to eventual deployment of a much more capable Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF) in approximately 2024. This award will support the conceptual design of a Phase 2 system and facility.The project design approach will extend best practices in the design/operate/evaluate cycle that TACC has used to successfully deploy some of the largest computing systems in the world for open scientific research. This process will have four keystones: science user requirements, future technology assessment, alternative design evaluation, as well as risk management for cost, scope and schedule. Testbeds feature prominently in the design process and will provide users with early access to future computational hardware and will offer system designers quantitative insights into the effectiveness of these technologies. Testbed partners will include major cloud and technology vendors as well as early exascale computing technology adopters. In addition, the design process will be guided by science inputs and technology drivers identified by science and technology engagement teams. These teams will be composed of distinguished scientists representing a broad range of expertise and experience to guide the Phase 2 system design. The team members will also serve as community leaders to bring together colleagues in workshops, meetings, and other engagement venues to inform the process further. Moreover, the project will engage with the scientific software community, including library and community code providers, to ensure the project optimizes the selection of Phase 2 computing technologies to enable transformative S&E discoveries for the future.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.

近四十年来，NSF 在科学研究转型方面发挥了核心作用，并且在利用高性能计算 (HPC) 推动发现方面处于领先地位。 该领先级计算计划旨在提供先进的计算能力，以实现所有科学与工程 (S&E) 领域的变革性研究，而这在其他情况下是不可能实现的。 NSF 目前领先的计算投资是德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校德克萨斯高级计算中心 (TACC) 的 Frontera 项目的支持。 Frontera 是分两阶段方法的第一阶段系统，最终将在 2024 年左右部署能力更强的领先级计算设施 (LCCF)。该奖项将支持第二阶段系统和设施的概念设计。项目设计该方法将扩展设计/操作/评估周期中的最佳实践，TACC 已使用该最佳实践成功部署了世界上一些最大的计算系统以进行开放科学研究。该过程将有四个基石：科学用户需求、未来技术评估、替代设计评估以及成本、范围和进度的风险管理。测试床在设计过程中占据显着地位，将为用户提供对未来计算硬件的早期访问，并为系统设计人员提供对这些技术有效性的定量见解。测试平台合作伙伴将包括主要的云和技术供应商以及早期的百亿亿次计算技术采用者。 此外，设计过程将以科技参与团队确定的科学投入和技术驱动因素为指导。这些团队将由杰出的科学家组成，他们代表着广泛的专业知识和经验，以指导第二阶段的系统设计。 团队成员还将担任社区领导，将同事聚集到研讨会、会议和其他参与场所，进一步为流程提供信息。 此外，该项目将与科学软件社区（包括图书馆和社区代码提供商）合作，以确保该项目优化第二阶段计算技术的选择，以实现未来变革性的科学与工程发现。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为值得通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。