Research Infrastructure: FABRIC Operations - Accelerating Innovation and Research

研究基础设施：FABRIC 运营 - 加速创新和研究

• 批准号: 2330891
• 负责人: Paul Ruth
• 金额: $ 1635.79万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330891&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Infrastructure; FABRIC; Operations; Accelerating

The FABRIC project has deployed a state-of-the-art programmable world-wide network infrastructure during the commissioning phase funded through the NSF Midscale research infrastructure-1 program. This infrastructure connects research facilities globally, enabling groundbreaking distributed applications and services using while more than 30 interconnected FABRIC sites already deployed. FABRIC enhances research capabilities in wide-area networking protocols, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Big Data, machine learning, mobile technologies and high-performance computing, fostering scientific discoveries and cross-disciplinary collaborations.The FABRIC project, now in its operations phase, aims to further grow user communities, foster operational excellence, develop new features, and demonstrate success to its stakeholder communities. Expanding the user base amplifies the impact of FABRIC and other NSF testbeds on science. By providing reliable services, FABRIC ensures reproducibility of complex experiments. The development of new features attracts users from various communities, helping address their specific needs. Demonstrating success through measured outcomes informs the funders and reinforces FABRIC's impact on stakeholder communities. Its intellectual merits lie in infrastructure programmability and interconnectivity, enabling experimentation with distributed systems at unprecedented scales. It supports scientific reproducibility and is a crucial component of the scientific cyberinfrastructure ecosystem. Its impact spans diverse domains, such as high-energy physics, astrophysics, cybersecurity, and scientific instrument streaming services, empowering researchers to achieve breakthrough discoveries. FABRIC's broader impacts extend to researchers in computer science, engineering, and domain sciences such as genomics, astronomy and climate research. It actively engages the research community through KNIT workshops and the ambassador program designed to expand FABRIC’s reach to researchers from all disciplines and institutions, regardless of background. FABRIC provides educational resources to faculty, and develops collaborations with minority-serving institutions, simplifying access to advanced research tools and infrastructure for many communities. The project website, [https://www.fabric-testbed.net], serves as a central repository for project updates, data, code, and resources, fostering collaboration and accessibility worldwide.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.

FABRIC 项目在调试阶段部署了最先进的可编程全球网络基础设施，该基础设施由 NSF Midscale 研究基础设施-1 计划资助，该基础设施连接全球研究设施，支持突破性的分布式应用程序和服务。已部署 30 多个互连 FABRIC 站点，FABRIC 增强了广域网络协议、物联网 (IoT)、大数据、机器学习、移动技术和高性能计算方面的研究能力，促进科学发现。 FABRIC 项目目前处于运营阶段，旨在进一步扩大用户社区，促进卓越运营，开发新功能，并向利益相关者社区展示成功经验。扩大用户群可以扩大 FABRIC 和其他项目的影响力。 NSF 科学测试平台通过提供可靠的服务，确保复杂实验的可重复性，吸引来自各个社区的用户，通过衡量的结果帮助满足他们的特定需求，从而为资助者提供信息并加强支持。 FABRIC 对利益相关者社区的影响在于基础设施的可编程性和互连性，能够以前所未有的规模进行分布式系统的实验，并且是科学网络基础设施生态系统的重要组成部分。 FABRIC 的广泛影响延伸至计算机科学、工程和领域科学等领域的研究人员。它通过 KNIT 研讨会和大使计划积极参与研究界的活动，旨在将 FABRIC 的影响范围扩大到所有学科和机构的研究人员，无论其背景如何。服务机构，简化许多社区对先进研究工具和基础设施的访问。该项目网站 [https://www.fabric-testbed.net] 充当项目更新、数据、代码和资源的中央存储库，促进全球范围内的合作和可及性。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。