The NLANR Distributed Applications Support Team: Enabling Distributed Research in Middleware-Based Grid Environments

NLANR分布式应用支持团队专注于支持研究人员和研究社区使用嵌入在高性能网络和依赖于这些网络的基于中间件的网格环境中的资源。该提案为这一领先团队提出了下一阶段的计划，以以往的努力为基础，并协助用户社区在使用由先进网络连接的分布式资源方面走向成熟。这包括为高带宽光网络和低带宽无线网络开发和扩展面向终端用户和网络工程师的工具，这将是未来几十年先进应用的关键网络组件。支持功能将从专注于特定项目演变为一个社区支持组织，促进全球网络工程师和网络支持人员社区的发展、支持和成长，以推进网络支持全球科学。将扩大外联工作，以提高新兴社区的认识，例如那些与NSF MREfunding主要相关的社区，这些项目对网络技术的依赖性。

The NLANR Distributed Applications Support Team is focused on supportingresearchers and research communities in the use of resources embedded withinhigh-performance networks and the middleware-based Grid environments thatdepend on those networks. This proposal sets forth a plan for the next stagefor this leading edge team, building on previous efforts and assisting inthe maturing of user communities in the use of distributed resourcesconnected by advanced networks. This includes the development and extensionof end-user and network engineer oriented tools for both high-bandwidthoptical networks and low-bandwidth wireless networks, which will be thecritical network components for advanced applications in the next severaldecades. Support functions will evolve from a focus on specificprojects to being a community support organization fostering thedevelopment, support, and growth of a global community of network engineersand network support staff working to advance networking in support of globalscience. Outreach efforts will be expanded in raising awarenessin new and emerging communities, such as those associated with major NSF MREfunding, of the dependencies these projects have with respect to networkingtechnologies.