National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure

先进计算基础设施国家合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 9619020
• 负责人: Francine Berman
• 金额: $ 8648.63万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-10-01 至 2005-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9619020&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: National; Partnership; Advanced; Computational; Infrastructure

This action executes a cooperative agreement between NSF and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) at the University of California - San Diego (UCSD), under the direction of Dr. Sid Karin via NSF award ASC 9619020. The cooperative agreement will be operational for a period of five years and is the result of a proposal submitted to NSF solicitation, "Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure" (PACI), NSF 96-31. The PACI program builds on and replaces the NSF Supercomputer Centers Program established in 1985 The program focuses on newly emerging opportunities in high performance computing and communications, providing flexibility, both to adapt to rapidly evolving circumstances and to meet the need for high-end computation, in order to enable continued U.S. world leadership in computational science and engineering. NSF, through this program, will provide access for researchers to high performance computing systems, with associated highly trained staff and researchers necessary to develop and optimize their use. The emergence of scalable parallel systems, high performance networking and high bandwidth and large capacity mass storage systems creates the opportunity for a national infrastructure consisting of a number of geographically distributed sites strongly coupled to high end computational resources and to each other via high speed communications networks. NPACI will lead the deployment and evolution of a national-scale metacomputing environment that will benefit the national user community in all fields of computational science and engineering. This infrastructure will integrate compute and data servers, and employ the talents of computer and computational scientists to guide its evolution. It will leverage the activities of many projects. The metacomputing environment will be extended to enable not only numerically intensive but also data-intensive computing. To that end, infrastructure will be developed and deployed to enable analysis of extremely large data collections from application output, remote-sensing and instrumentation-derived data, and data in widely scattered, discipline-specific databases. Three technology areas which are central to creating a metacomputing environment will initially be the basis for NPACI: Adaptable, Scalable Tools/Environments; Data-intensive Computing; and Interaction Environments. Several scientific applications have also been chosen that will motivate, guide, and validate development and integration of the NPACI infrastructure. Molecular Science, Neuroscience, Earth Systems Science, and Engineering will initially be focused on as areas ripe for scientific discovery and technology development. NPACI will integrate computational science and engineering education activities into the infrastructure, building on successful education and outreach efforts within the partnership. Particular emphasis will be placed on outreach to underrepresented minorities, women, and new communities. The Partnership will concentrate on providing advanced hardware, enabling technology, leading edge work in application technology, education, training and outreach. Included in this award is the first incremental payment to UCSD and its partners for FY98 which covers general operating expenses including equipment.

该行动在NSF和加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）的NSF与国家高级计算基础设施（NPACI）之间达成合作协议基础设施”（PACI），NSF 96-31。 PACI计划建立在1985年建立的NSF超级计算机中心计划并取代了该计划的重点是高性能计算和沟通中新兴的机会，提供了灵活性，以适应迅速发展的环境，并满足对高端计算的需求，以使美国世界在计算科学和工程中的持续领导能力。 NSF通过该计划将为研究人员提供高性能计算系统的访问权限，相关训练有素的员工和研究人员需要开发和优化其使用。 可扩展的并行系统，高性能网络和高带宽和大容量质量存储系统的出现为国家基础设施提供了机会，这些基础设施由许多地理分布的站点组成，这些地理位置分布着许多与高端计算资源，并通过高速通信网络相互耦合。 NPACI将领导国家规模的元计算环境的部署和演变，这将使计算科学和工程各个领域的国家用户社区受益。该基础架构将集成计算和数据服务器，并采用计算机和计算科学家的才能来指导其演变。它将利用许多项目的活动。元计算环境将不仅可以启用数值密集型，而且可以启用数据密集型计算。为此，将开发和部署基础架构，以启用从应用程序输出，遥感和仪器衍生的数据以及广泛分散的纪律特定数据库中的数据收集分析。创建元计算环境的三个技术领域最初将成为NPACI的基础：适应性，可扩展的工具/环境；数据密集型计算；和交互环境。还选择了几种科学应用，可以激励，指导和验证NPACI基础设施的发展和整合。分子科学，神经科学，地球系统科学和工程最初将集中在科学发现和技术开发的成熟领域。 NPACI将将计算科学和工程教育活动整合到基础设施中，在合作伙伴关系中取得成功的教育和外展工作。特别强调将与代表性不足的少数群体，妇女和新社区进行宣传。 该合作伙伴关系将集中精力提供高级硬件，启用技术，领先的技术技术，教育，培训和外展工作。该奖项中包括向UCSD及其合作伙伴支付的第98财年付款，该费用涵盖了包括设备在内的一般运营费用。