The Evolution of TeraGrid: A Community Driven Participatory Planning Process

TeraGrid 的演变：社区驱动的参与式规划流程

• 批准号: 0724300
• 负责人: Ann Zimmerman
• 金额: $ 44.97万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-05-01 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0724300&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Evolution; TeraGrid; Community; Driven; Participatory

Abstract: OCI-0724300/ZimmermanA community-based planning activity, intended to gather input on the type of infrastructure required to provide high-end cyberinfrastructure services to the science and engineering research and education community after the current TeraGrid project awards expire in early 2010, will be conducted over a period of approximately one year. It will be coordinated by a neutral facilitator who will engage the stakeholder communities, including the science and engineering research and education community, developers of information technology intended to improve the accessibility and utility of high-end digital technologies for science and engineering, current service providers within the TeraGrid, institutions who would like to be service providers in the follow-on infrastructure, and NSF. The intention is to bring together a large number of members of the stakeholder communities, in person and online, to develop plans for the most appropriate vehicles for delivering access to advanced cyberinfrastructure resources and services to researchers and educators in a way that allows them to maximize their productivity and enables breakthrough discoveries. The project will overcome some of the limitations of traditional technology design and planning processes by including modern social networking approaches to supplement more traditional techniques of gathering input and facilitating discussion. The planning process to be used is user-centric and involves four phases: elicitation of user needs and priorities; comparison of requirements; development of options for delivery of services and resources; development of recommendations to guide the future delivery of services and resources.The process will be guided by the PIs and a Steering Committee drawn from widely trusted members of the stakeholder communities. Emphasis will be placed on ensuring that members of under-represented groups are actively involved in the planning process. Results from the planning process will help guide the research and education community as they develop ideas for the successor to TeraGrid.

摘要：OCI-0724300/Zimmerman 一项基于社区的规划活动旨在收集有关在 2010 年初当前 TeraGrid 项目奖项到期后向科学工程研究和教育社区提供高端网络基础设施服务所需的基础设施类型的意见，该活动将在大约一年的时间内进行。 它将由一个中立的协调员进行协调，该协调员将吸引利益相关者社区的参与，包括科学和工程研究和教育界、旨在提高科学和工程高端数字技术的可及性和实用性的信息技术开发商、TeraGrid 内的当前服务提供商、希望成为后续基础设施服务提供商的机构以及 NSF。 其目的是通过面对面和在线方式将利益相关者社区的大量成员聚集在一起，制定最合适的工具计划，为研究人员和教育工作者提供先进的网络基础设施资源和服务，使他们能够最大限度地提高生产力并实现突破性发现。 该项目将通过采用现代社交网络方法来补充收集意见和促进讨论的传统技术，从而克服传统技术设计和规划流程的一些限制。 所使用的规划过程以用户为中心，包括四个阶段： 获取用户需求和优先事项；要求比较；制定提供服务和资源的选项；制定建议以指导未来的服务和资源交付。该过程将由 PI 和由利益相关者社区中广泛信任的成员组成的指导委员会指导。 将重点确保代表性不足群体的成员积极参与规划过程。 规划过程的结果将有助于指导研究和教育界为 TeraGrid 的继任者制定想法。