CLEANER: Developing Information Technology and Coordination Architectures for Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research

0416066 Pancake此规划赠款将为两种类型的基础设施制定计划，这两种基础设施将把CLEANER从赠款计划转变为协作性项目：IT基础设施和协调基础设施。该方法基于以下目标：(1)利用其他相关工作的“经验教训”来减少升级时间和工作量。在过去的十年中，出现了许多特定于学科的合作伙伴。该项目将利用他们的经验，使清洁工能够从当前的“最佳做法”中受益，并制定风险管理战略，以避免已知的陷阱。(2)最大限度地提高清洁工底层基础设施的灵活性，以便随着经验的积累而增长和演变。清洁设施的开发方式必须具有兼容性、互操作性、可扩充性和未来的可维护性。这种方法不仅在可伸缩和可扩展的IT架构方面特别解决了这些问题，而且还建立了协调程序，这些程序将随着清洁设施的发展和用户对它们的体验而调整以适应不断变化的需求。(3)确保合作实验室的所有组件实际上都可供目标受众使用。除非用户充分发挥其潜力，否则建设设施无论多么先进或令人满意，都是没有意义的。基于多年的可用性工程经验，该项目将在CLEAN的不同用户群中确定和记录用户需求和优先事项，并确定如何将可用性程序纳入设施开发。

0416066 Pancake This planning grant will develop plans for the two types of infrastructure that will transform CLEANER from a grant program to a collaboratory: an IT infrastructure and a coordination infrastructure. The approach is founded on the following objectives:(1) Leverage the "lessons learned" by other, related efforts to reduce ramp-up time and effort.Over the last decade, a number of discipline-specific collaboratories have emerged. The project will exploit their experiences so that CLEANER can benefit from current "best practices" and develop risk management strategies to avoid known pitfalls.(2) Maximize the flexibility of CLEANER's underlying infrastructures to allow for growth and evolution as experience is gained. CLEANER facilities must be developed in a way that will lead to compatibility, interoperability, expansion, and future maintainability. This approach specifically addresses these issues, not just in terms of a scalable and extensible IT architecture, but also the establishing of coordination procedures that will adjust to changing needs as CLEANER facilities grow and users gain experience with them.(3) Ensure that all components of the Collaboratory are actually usable by the target audiences.Construction of facilities, however advanced or desirable, is pointless unless their potential will be exercised fully by users. Based on many years of experience in usability engineering, the project will identify and document user requirements and priorities among CLEANER's diverse constituencies and define how usability procedures should be incorporated into facility development.