Acquisition of TeraPort: A Grid Enabled Analysis Platform with Optical Connectivity

收购 TeraPort：具有光连接功能的网格分析平台

• 批准号: 0321253
• 负责人: Robert Gardner
• 金额: $ 118.64万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0321253&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; TeraPort; Grid; Enabled; Analysis

This project, building and deploying "TeraPort," a university-based, multi-disciplinary, and internationally integrated data-intensive, Grid enabled analysis platform with superior connectivity to both domestic and international networks, aims at acquiring the necessary computing and network infrastructure. While serving as an excellent testbed for computer science research (workload management, policy specification and enforcement, middleware testing and support), the facility will provide application production services and be operated as a shared resource not only among the University of Chicago researchers, but faculty, scientists, and students participating in U of C affiliated virtual organizations, with specific focus on integration and interoperability with the TeraGrid, iVDGL (international Virtual Data Grid Laboratory), and the LCG (Computing Grid Project) grid fabrics. The project exploits the State of Illinois optical networking project, I-WIRE, to provide high performance connectivity between the TeraPort facility on the U of Chicago campus and off site Grid resources. (This is made possible by the I-WIRE's connection to optical Starlight facility in downtown Chicago which provides a peering point of access to the TeraGrid backbone, U.S. universities and national laboratories connected to the Abilene and ESnet networks, European networks, such as SURFnet and NORDUnet, and the multi-Gigabit DataTAG network to CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.) Many scientific disciplines requiring data-intensive computations at scales orders of magnitude larger than previously attempted, such as high energy physics, computational biology, genome science, and emerging problems in computational psychology and the social sciences, will benefit from this infrastructure. Persistent, distributed infrastructures, known as "data grids," that allow sharing of data, knowledge and compute resources in a secure manner across organizational and institutional boundaries, address these problems involving large, geographically distributed communities of researchers that require controlled access to Petascale data collections and computational resources. Advances in development of high performance optical networks connecting distributed resources at speeds up to 40 gigabits per second are central to these new infrastructures. Computational biology, particle physics, and astrophysics constitute examples of many "e-Science" disciplines that have been recognized as prime candidates for application and development of these new Grid technologies and networks. The facility supports the following projects: TeraPort as an Enabler of Grid Research, TeraPort, TeraGrid, Tier2 Centers and High Energy Physics Data Grids, Computational Systems Biology and Using TeraPort to Prototype the Proteomics Data Grid, Enabling Computational Genomics with TeraPort, TeraPort and Multimodal Communication in Humans and Machines, Computational Social Science, Constraint-Based Social Simulation. The TeraPort facility presents a unique resource for researchers accelerating progress by providing on-ramp services to a very large scale national and international platforms. Furthermore, the facility allows exploration of hybrid combinations of local, shared resources in concert with very large scale Grid resource.

该项目旨在建立和部署“TeraPort”，这是一个以大学为基础的、多学科的、国际一体化的数据密集型网格分析平台，具有与国内和国际网络的上级连接性，旨在获得必要的计算和网络基础设施。同时作为计算机科学研究的一个极好的试验平台（工作负载管理、策略规范和执行、中间件测试和支持），该设施将提供应用程序生产服务，并作为共享资源运行，不仅在芝加哥大学的研究人员之间，还在参与加州大学附属虚拟组织的教师、科学家和学生之间，特别关注与TeraGrid、iVDGL（国际虚拟数据网格实验室）和LCG（计算网格项目）网格结构的集成和互操作性。该项目利用伊利诺伊州的光网络项目，I-WIRE，提供高性能的连接之间的TeraPort设施的U的芝加哥校园和场外网格资源。(This I-WIRE与芝加哥市中心的星光光学设施的连接使其成为可能，星光光学设施提供了一个对等接入点，可以接入TeraGrid骨干网、连接到Abilene和ESnet网络的美国大学和国家实验室、连接到欧洲粒子物理研究所（CERN）的欧洲粒子物理实验室（位于瑞士日内瓦）的欧洲网络（如SURFnet和NORDUnet）以及多千兆位DataTAG网络。许多需要数据密集型计算的科学学科，如高能物理学、计算生物学、基因组科学以及计算心理学和社会科学中出现的问题，都将受益于这种基础设施。持久性、分布式基础设施（称为“数据网格”）允许以安全的方式跨组织和机构边界共享数据、知识和计算资源，解决了涉及大型、地理上分布的研究人员社区的问题，这些研究人员社区需要对Petascale数据集合和计算资源进行受控访问。以高达每秒40吉比特的速度连接分布式资源的高性能光网络的发展进展是这些新基础设施的核心。计算生物学、粒子物理学和天体物理学构成了许多“电子科学”学科的例子，这些学科已被公认为是这些新网格技术和网络的应用和发展的主要候选学科。该基金支持以下项目： TeraPort作为网格研究的推动者，TeraPort，TeraGrid，Tier 2中心和高能物理数据网格，计算系统生物学和使用TeraPort原型化蛋白质组学数据网格，通过TeraPort实现计算基因组学，TeraPort和人机多模式通信，计算社会科学，基于约束的社会模拟。TeraPort设施为研究人员提供了一个独特的资源，通过为非常大规模的国家和国际平台提供入口服务来加速进展。此外，该设施允许探索混合组合的本地，共享资源与非常大规模的网格资源。