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

NLANR分布式应用程序支持团队的重点是支持研究人员和研究社区使用嵌入在高性能网络和基于中间件的网格环境中的资源，这些网络依赖于这些网络。该提案为这个前沿团队的下一阶段制定了计划，建立在以前的努力基础上，并帮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。这包括开发和扩展面向最终用户和网络工程师的工具，用于高带宽光网络和低带宽无线网络，这将是未来几十年高级应用的关键网络组件。支持功能将从专注于特定项目发展成为一个社区支持组织，促进网络工程师和网络支持人员的全球社区的发展、支持和增长，以促进网络建设，支持全球科学。将扩大外联工作，以提高新的和新兴社区（如与NSF重大MRE资助有关的社区）对这些项目与网络技术相关的依赖性的认识。

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.