CI CoE: SGX3 - A Center of Excellence to Extend Access, Expand the Community, and Exemplify Good Practices for CI Through Science Gateways

CI CoE：SGX3 - 通过科学网关扩展访问、扩大社区并示范 CI 良好实践的卓越中心

基本信息

批准号：
2231406
负责人：
Michael Zentner
金额：
$ 750万
依托单位：
University of California-San Diego
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-09-01 至 2027-08-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2231406&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CI CoE SGX3 Center Excellence

项目摘要

The SGX3 project enhances the creation, use, and ongoing sustainability of science gateways and the science gateway community. A science gateway is a web-based platform that allows large audiences of researchers, educators, students, and the public to access complex, expensive resources such as supercomputers, scientific instruments, and large data sets, as well as to collaborate together as a community. Often these resources are difficult to access natively and require a high degree of computer programming skill. While researchers and educators may have significant knowledge in their scientific areas, they mostly lack such programming skills. Science gateways enable researchers to focus on their science questions by making computational methods and complex research infrastructure easier to use. With science gateways, the number of people who can participate in making scientific advances and educating the future science and technology workforce is vastly increased and diversified. Consequently, science gateways are a key element in increasing the nation’s competitiveness in science and technology.Science gateways are challenged to sustain their operations for many reasons, including inadequate software engineering practices, reinvention of existing technologies, inability to transition from a research project to a production service, lack of partnering with other gateways and community members who may add high-profile content to the gateway, staff turnover, and poor usability. Further, science gateways must also pivot to fulfill new scientific needs that continually arise through, for example, newly funded large computing infrastructures, advances in artificial intelligence, needs for resources to be findable and accessible by the community, the physical separation of data from compute resources, regulated data requirements, and the availability of novel or specialized computing resources. SGX3 achieves its goals of increasing science gateway use and sustainability by offering a suite of services to help the scientific community with these issues. SGX3 is composed of expert practitioners, each of whom has been working in the field of science gateways for many years. The services include i) technology design and selection to help researchers building science gateways to do so without reinventing existing technologies; ii) user experience design to ensure that science gateways offer the lowest possible barrier to their users; iii) educational services to train science gateway professionals on sustainability and good practices for software engineering; iv) workforce development to train faculty about science gateways and thus students to become science gateway developers; v) outreach activities and a conference series to catalyze the science gateway community; and vi) forward looking activities to develop roadmaps that address the next generation of upcoming science gateway technology advances necessary to support new areas of 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.

SGX3项目增强了科学网关和科学网关社区的创建，使用和持续的可持续性。科学网关是一个基于网络的平台，可让大量的研究人员，教育者，学生和公众访问复杂，昂贵的资源，例如超级计算机，科学仪器和大型数据集，以及作为社区合作。通常，这些资源很难本地访问，需要高度的计算机编程技能。尽管研究人员和教育工作者可能在其科学领域具有重要的知识，但他们大多缺乏这样的编程技能。科学网关使研究人员能够通过使计算方法和复杂的研究基础架构更容易使用来关注他们的科学问题。借助科学网关，可以参与取得科学进步并教育未来科学和技术劳动力的人数大大增加和多样化。 Consequently, science gateways are a key element in increasing the nation’s competitiveness in science and technology.Science gateways are challenged to sustain their operations for many reasons, including inadequate software engineering practices, reinvention of existing technologies, inability to transition from a research project to a production service, lack of partnering with other gateways and community members who may add high-profile content to the gateway, staff turnover, and poor usability.此外，科学网关还必须枢纽以满足新的科学需求，这些需求不断通过，例如新资助的大型计算基础设施，人工智能的进步，社区可以找到和可访问的资源，从计算资源中可以找到和可访问的资源，并可以从计算资源中分离数据，以及新颖或专业计算资源的可用性。 SGX3通过提供一套服务来帮助科学界解决这些问题，从而实现了增加科学门户使用和可持续性的目标。 SGX3由专家实践者组成，每个人都在科学网关领域工作了很多年。服务包括i）技术设计和选择，以帮助研究人员建立科学网关，而无需重塑现有技术； ii）用户体验设计，以确保科学网关为用户提供最低的障碍； iii）教育服务，以培训科学网关专业人员的可持续性和软件工程良好实践； iv）劳动力开发，以培训有关科学门户的教师，从而成为科学网关开发人员； v）外展活动和会议系列，以催化科学网关社区；和vi）前瞻性活动，以开发路线图，以解决下一代即将到来的科学网关技术，以支持科学和工程的新领域所需的必要条件。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过基金会的知识分子的智力优点和更广泛的影响标准通过评估来诚实地支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（7）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

The HackHPC Model: Fostering Workforce Development in High-Performance Computing Through Hackathons

HackHPC 模型：通过黑客马拉松促进高性能计算领域的劳动力发展

DOI：
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
Gateways 2022 Proceedings
影响因子：
0
作者：
Jeaime Powell;Linda Bailey Hayden;Amy Cannon;John Holly;Charlie Dey;Alexander Nolte
通讯作者：
Alexander Nolte

The Science Gateways Center of Excellence: A Professional Partner for Impactful Cyberinfrastructure

Science Gateways 卓越中心：有影响力的网络基础设施的专业合作伙伴

DOI：
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
NORDP 2023
影响因子：
0
作者：
Michael Zentner
通讯作者：
Michael Zentner

Starting with a Firm Foundation: Building a Sustainability Program for the Australian Research Data Commons

从坚实的基础开始：为澳大利亚研究数据共享建立可持续发展计划

DOI：
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
IWSG 2023
影响因子：
0
作者：
Claire Stirm;Kerry Levett;Nancy Maron;Sandra Gesing;Andrew Treloar;Siobhann McCafferty;Juliana Casavan
通讯作者：
Juliana Casavan

The Impact of AI Computing Paradigms on Science Gateways and National Compute Resources

人工智能计算范式对科学网关和国家计算资源的影响