Network for Computational Nanotechnology

计算纳米技术网络

• 批准号: 0634750
• 负责人: Gerhard Klimeck
• 金额: $ 1824.17万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0634750&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Network; Computational; Nanotechnology

AbstractThe Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) was established in 2002 and has grown to be a national resource serving the research community in the emerging field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The NCN is producing new knowledge, simulation approaches, numerical algorithms, and open-source software to help realize the promise of nanoscience. NCN researchers are carrying out simulation and modeling research in three key fundamental research themes: nanoelectronics, nanoelectromechanical systems/nanofluidics, and nanobiology and medicine. The modeling and simulation tools are available to a broader research community through a web-based cyberinfrastructure, the nanoHUB, located at www.nanoHUB.org. The capabilities of the nanoHUB have been enhanced by the NSF National Middleware Initiative (NMI). The total number of annual users of the educational and resources services on the nanoHUB have grown from under 2000 in 2002 to more than 15,000 in 2006. NanoHUB also offers courses, seminars and tutorials that are being used as educational tools in support of nanoscience and engineering curricula by 692 U.S. colleges and universities. Over the next five years, NCN plans to continue to introduce new formats for instructional delivery, which will allow access to nanoHUB services anytime, anywhere. In addition, it is expected that there will be a strong demand in industry and academe for students well versed in the simulations offered through the NCN research platforms, as well as computer science and engineering students who are engaged in the development and deployment of nanoHUB. The Network for Computational Nanotechnology is a partnership between Purdue University, Norfolk State University (NSU), Northwestern University (NWU), Stanford University (SU), the University of Florida (UF) at Gainesville, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Through NSF support NCN brings together a community of theorists, computational scientists, and device engineers in nanoscale science and engineering research to address the modeling and simulation challenges in understanding nanoscale phenomena and realizing integrated nanosystems. In addition, NCN has formed strategic partnerships with two Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSEC) at the University of California Berkeley (UCB) and Columbia University, the on-line MultimediaEducational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT), and the Northwestern University National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering. With the approval of the renewal request, faculty from the UC, Berkeley NSEC will join the core NCN team.The vision of NCN is to provide a future in which a diverse community, united by a common culture and enabled by a shared cyberinfrastructure, uses theory, modeling, and simulation to accelerate the transformation of nanoscience to nanotechnology. The NCN team engages in research to explore nanoscale phenomena and devices through the integration of computational research, simulation, and experimentation. Based on this work, the NCN develops, modifies, and installs software tools ? tools to perform simulations on nanoscale systems -- and makes these tools available to a user community through the nanoHUB website, which is enabled by Purdue?s computing infrastructure. The mission of the NCN is to create, deploy and operate a national resource for theory, modeling, and simulation in nanotechnology using the cyberinfrastructure to build and serve diverse communities spanning research, design, manufacturing, education and outreach. This mission is embodied in the nanoHUB and supported by research, education and outreach. The NCN?s goals and objectives are to: (a) carry out research that addresses key challenges through theory, modeling, and simulation; (b) provide professional leadership that brings communities together to identify challenges and move the field ahead; (c) develop new software tools needed for this new field; (d) lower barriers that limit the use of simulation by experimentalists and educators and equip them to be critical, effective users; (e) develop and deploy cyberinfrastructure that efficiently and robustly delivers services for simulation, education, and collaboration; (f) educate and develop a workforce to increase the number and diversity of students and faculty engaged in nanotechnology; (g) disseminate the results of its work and (h) engage the broader community through universally available web technology. NCN is making an important impact on the integration of theoretical and experimental nanoscale research through the delivery of computationally intensive modeling and simulation tools that are being used by almost 3500 simulation users as of February 2006. In addition, NCN is producing educational materials that impact a broad range of users both in research and education. In addition to simulation tools for research and education, nanoHub offers a number of courses, seminars and tutorials that are being used as educational tools in support of nanoscale science and technology curricula on at least 692 U.S. institutions of higher education.

摘要计算纳米技术网络 (NCN) 成立于 2002 年，现已发展成为服务于纳米科学和纳米技术新兴领域研究界的国家资源。 NCN 正在创造新知识、模拟方法、数值算法和开源软件，以帮助实现纳米科学的前景。 NCN 研究人员正在三个关键基础研究主题开展模拟和建模研究：纳米电子学、纳米机电系统/纳米流体学以及纳米生物学和医学。 通过基于网络的网络基础设施 nanoHUB（位于 www.nanoHUB.org），更广泛的研究社区可以使用建模和仿真工具。 NSF 国家中间件计划 (NMI) 增强了 nanoHUB 的功能。 nanoHUB 上的教育和资源服务的年度用户总数已从 2002 年的不到 2000 人增长到 2006 年的 15,000 多人。NanoHUB 还提供课程、研讨会和教程，这些课程、研讨会和教程被 692 所美国学院和大学用作支持纳米科学和工程课程的教育工具。未来五年，NCN 计划继续推出新的教学形式，以便随时随地访问 nanoHUB 服务。 此外，预计工业界和学术界对精通NCN研究平台提供的模拟的学生，以及从事nanoHUB开发和部署的计算机科学和工程专业的学生会有强烈的需求。 计算纳米技术网络是普渡大学、诺福克州立大学 (NSU)、西北大学 (NWU)、斯坦福大学 (SU)、佛罗里达大学 (UF) 盖恩斯维尔分校、伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校 (UIUC) 和德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校 (UTEP) 之间的合作伙伴关系。 通过 NSF 的支持，NCN 汇集了纳米科学和工程研究领域的理论家、计算科学家和设备工程师社区，以解决理解纳米现象和实现集成纳米系统的建模和模拟挑战。此外，NCN还与加州大学伯克利分校（UCB）和哥伦比亚大学的两个纳米科学与工程中心（NSEC）、在线多媒体教育学习和在线教学资源（MERLOT）以及西北大学纳米科学与工程国家学习与教学中心建立了战略合作伙伴关系。 随着更新请求的批准，来自加州大学伯克利分校 NSEC 的教师将加入 NCN 核心团队。 NCN 的愿景是提供一个未来，一个由共同文化团结起来并由共享网络基础设施支持的多元化社区，利用理论、建模和模拟来加速纳米科学向纳米技术的转变。 NCN 团队通过计算研究、模拟和实验相结合，致力于探索纳米级现象和设备。 基于这项工作，NCN 开发、修改和安装软件工具 ?在纳米级系统上执行模拟的工具，并通过普渡大学计算基础设施支持的 nanoHUB 网站向用户社区提供这些工具。 NCN 的使命是利用网络基础设施创建、部署和运营纳米技术理论、建模和模拟的国家资源，以建立和服务涵盖研究、设计、制造、教育和推广的多元化社区。 这一使命体现在 nanoHUB 中，并得到研究、教育和推广的支持。 NCN 的目的和目标是： (a) 开展研究，通过理论、建模和模拟解决关键挑战； (b) 提供专业领导，将社区聚集在一起，共同识别挑战并推动该领域向前发展； (c) 开发这个新领域所需的新软件工具； (d) 减少限制实验者和教育者使用模拟的障碍，并使他们成为批判性的、有效的用户； (e) 开发和部署网络基础设施，高效、稳健地提供模拟、教育和协作服务； (f) 教育和培养一支劳动力队伍，以增加从事纳米技术的学生和教师的数量和多样性； (g) 传播其工作成果；(h) 通过普遍可用的网络技术吸引更广泛的社区参与。 截至 2006 年 2 月，NCN 正在通过提供计算密集型建模和模拟工具，为近 3500 名模拟用户所使用，对理论和实验纳米级研究的整合产生重要影响。此外，NCN 正在制作对研究和教育领域的广泛用户产生影响的教育材料。除了用于研究和教育的模拟工具外，nanoHub 还提供许多课程、研讨会和教程，这些课程、研讨会和教程被用作教育工具，支持至少 692 所美国高等教育机构的纳米科学和技术课程。