The Evolution of TeraGrid: A Community Driven Participatory Planning Process

摘要：OCI-0724300/ZimmermanA社区规划活动将在大约一年的时间内进行，旨在收集在当前TeraGrid项目奖励于2010年初到期后为科学和工程研究和教育界提供高端网络基础设施服务所需的基础设施类型的投入。它将由一个中立的促进者协调，该促进者将参与利益相关者社区，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。其目的是将利益相关者社区的大量成员聚集在一起，通过面对面和在线的方式，为研究人员和教育工作者提供访问先进网络基础设施资源和服务的最合适的工具制定计划，从而使他们能够最大限度地提高生产力并实现突破性发现。该项目将克服传统技术设计和规划过程的一些限制，包括采用现代社会网络方法来补充收集投入和促进讨论的更传统技术。将采用的规划过程以用户为中心，包括四个阶段：提出用户需要和优先次序；需求比较；制定提供服务和资源的备选办法；提出建议，指导今后提供服务和资源。这一进程将由ppi和从利益攸关方社区广泛信任的成员中选出的指导委员会指导。重点将放在确保代表人数不足的群体的成员积极参与规划进程。规划过程的结果将有助于指导研究和教育界为TeraGrid的后继者提出想法。

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.