CI-Team Implementation Project: Embedded Immersive Engagement for Cyberinfrastructure

CI 团队实施项目：网络基础设施的嵌入式沉浸式参与

• 批准号: 0753335
• 负责人: John McGee
• 金额: $ 99.58万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0753335&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; Team; Implementation; Project; Embedded

This project seeks to prepare a science and engineering workforce for full citizenship in the evolving world of cyber-enabled research and education. This goal will be accomplished via an Embedded Immersive Engagement (EIE) effort in the context of the Open Science Grid (OSG). The work is guided by the observation that broad adoption of cyberinfrastructure concepts and technologies requires an embedded effort to develop the skills of students, faculty, and IT organizations of the campuses that host them. Both cyberinfrastructure providers and consumers must be immersed in building and delivering end-to-end processing and data management capabilities needed for scientific discovery. Moreover, scientific computing must be expanded out of the existing center of gravity to create a truly national shared cyberinfrastructure, whereby scientists and educators more broadly can experience the benefits of new computational resources as well as new levels of collaboration they afford. The project entails a three-year plan of work that extends the pedagogical methodologies of Embedded Immersive Engagement (EIE) for shared cyberinfrastructure (4CI). Through the project's model of EIE-4CI, cyberinfrastructure experts are embedded within research and education teams at different sites to accomplish the following: (1) Bring at least six new research and education teams to full production utilization of available distributed cyberinfrastructure resources; (2) Enable at least six university campuses to operate a production quality shared distributed infrastructure across multiple facilities using common middleware; (3) Establish the knowledge, experience, documentation, and training capabilities to significantly lower the bar for use of and/or contribution to a shared distributed facility; (4) Provide cyberinfrastructure consumers and providers with hands-on technical knowledge, tools and methodologies to continue as full contributors to cyberinfrastructure beyond this project; and, (5) Explore the issues and develop best practices to support a highly scalable model of remotely embedding cyberinfrastructure experts into research teams. The project's EIE-4CI methodology will result in a cyber-enabled research and education platform at the campuses and with the teams involved, leaving behind hands-on cyberinfrastructure knowledge and expertise at the local site as well as creating a viral mechanism for extending that knowledge and expertise to new sites beyond those directly engaged in the project. The results are thus inherently replicable and sustainable by virtue of the project design.

该项目旨在培养一支科学和工程劳动力队伍，使他们能够在不断发展的网络研究和教育世界中获得完全的公民身份。这一目标将在开放科学网格(OSG)的背景下通过嵌入式沉浸式参与(EIE)努力实现。这项工作的指导原则是，广泛采用网络基础设施概念和技术需要深入努力，以发展托管它们的园区的学生、教师和IT组织的技能。网络基础设施提供商和消费者都必须致力于构建和提供科学发现所需的端到端处理和数据管理能力。此外，科学计算必须从现有的重心扩展，以创建一个真正的国家共享网络基础设施，让科学家和教育工作者更广泛地体验新的计算资源的好处，以及他们负担得起的新的协作水平。该项目需要一个三年工作计划，扩展嵌入式沉浸式参与(EIE)共享网络基础设施(4CI)的教学方法。通过该项目的EIE-4CI模型，网络基础设施专家被嵌入到不同地点的研究和教育团队中，以实现以下目标：(1)使至少6个新的研究和教育团队充分利用现有的分布式网络基础设施资源；(2)使至少6个大学校园能够使用公共中间件在多个设施中运行生产质量的共享分布式基础设施；(3)建立知识、经验、文档和培训能力，以显著降低共享分布式设施的使用和/或贡献的门槛；(4)向网络基础设施消费者和供应商提供实际操作的技术知识、工具和方法，以便在该项目之外继续成为网络基础设施的全面贡献者；以及(5)探讨问题并制定最佳做法，以支持远程将网络基础设施专家嵌入研究团队的高度可扩展的模式。该项目的EIE-4CI方法将在校园和相关团队中产生一个基于网络的研究和教育平台，在当地站点留下实际操作的网络基础设施知识和专业技能，并创建一种病毒机制，将这些知识和专业技能扩展到直接参与该项目的新站点之外的其他站点。因此，由于项目设计，结果本身就是可复制和可持续的。