Return on Investment for Three Cyberinfrastructure Facilities: A Local Campus Supercomputer, the NSF-Funded Jetstream Cloud System, and XSEDE (the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment)
Return on Investment for Three Cyberinfrastructure Facilities: A Local Campus Supercomputer, the NSF-Funded Jetstream Cloud System, and XSEDE (the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment)
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三个网络基础设施的投资回报：本地校园超级计算机、NSF 资助的 Jetstream 云系统和 XSEDE（极限科学与工程发现环境）
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2018
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通讯作者：
Winona Snapp
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C. Stewart;David Y. Hancock;Julie A. Wernert;Matthew R. Link;Nancy Wilkins;Therese Miller;K. Gaither;Winona Snapp
高性能计算的经济学正在迅速变化。商业云产品、私有研究云以及高等教育机构和联邦资助的研究组织的预算压力都是促成因素。因此，有必要仔细分析和考虑所有费用和投资。在本文中，我们将分析三种不同类型的网络基础设施资源的投资回报（ROI）：极限科学与工程发现环境（XSEDE）； NSF 资助的 Jetstream 云系统；印第安纳大学 (IU) Big Red II 超级计算机，由 IU 独家资助，供 IU 社区和合作者使用。我们通过与商业可用服务进行比较或通过调查这些资源对其用户的价值来为服务分配财务价值，从而确定这三种资源的投资回报率。在所有这三种情况下，这些不同类型的网络基础设施资源的投资回报率都远大于 1，这意味着投资者每投资 1 美元，就能获得超过 1 美元的回报。虽然有很多方法可以衡量网络基础设施资源投资的价值和影响，但我们能够量化短期投资回报率，并表明这分别对校园和联邦政府产生净积极影响。
The economics of high performance computing are rapidly changing. Commercial cloud offerings, private research clouds, and pressure on the budgets of institutions of higher education and federally-funded research organizations are all contributing factors. As such, it has become a necessity that all expenses and investments be analyzed and considered carefully. In this paper we will analyze the return on investment (ROI) for three different kinds of cyberinfrastructure resources: the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE); the NSF-funded Jetstream cloud system; and the Indiana University (IU) Big Red II supercomputer, funded exclusively by IU for use of the IU community and collaborators. We determined the ROI for these three resources by assigning financial values to services by either comparison with commercially available services, or by surveys of value of these resources to their users. In all three cases, the ROI for these very different types of cyberinfrastructure resources was well greater than 1 - meaning that investors are getting more than $1 in returned value for every $1 invested. While there are many ways to measure the value and impact of investment in cyberinfrastructure resources, we are able to quantify the short-term ROI and show that it is a net positive for campuses and the federal government respectively.
XSEDE 和 NCAR 出版物数据的同行比较
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10.1109/cluster.2015.98
发表时间：
2015
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ser CLUSTER '15
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作者：
von Laszewski, Gregor;Wang, Fugang;Fox, Geoffrey C.;Hart, David L.;Furlani, Thomas R.;DeLeon, Robert L.;Gallo, Steven M.
通讯作者：
Gallo, Steven M.