Cloud-computing infrastructure and technology for education (C.I.T.E)

教育云计算基础设施和技术 (C.I.T.E)

• 批准号: 0926191
• 负责人: Christopher Hill
• 金额: $ 79.31万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0926191&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cloud; computing; infrastructure; technology; education

This proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), and meets the requirements established in Section 2 of the White House Memorandum entitled, Ensuring Responsible Spending of Recovery Act Funds, dated March 20, 2009.This project will support the development of middleware that will enable numerical models to be run on commercial compute farms via cloud computing and exploited in ongoing and future classroom educational activities.The intellectual merit of this work derives from two linked parts: (1) development of technology that would be suitable for many educational scenarios, including providing access to parallel computing resources in classrooms (K-12 on to university). Students and teachers would be able to run and interact with numerical models developed by leading researchers without the overhead of supporting software distributed to desktops in a school or the logistical headache of maintaining a cluster resource. Commercial compute farms would be exploited in which the technical `nitty-gritty' is outsourced to these specialized providers. (2) showcasing the technology in a `virtual fluid laboratory' that will be used in ongoing undergraduate and graduate courses being offered at MIT and collaborating universities.Broad impacts arise as the software technology that will be developed is very general and could be applied to make computer models part of almost any course available in, for example, MIT's Open Course Ware initiative. It can release the power of compute clusters to anyone with a low cost laptop or `netbook' computer.

该提案将使用2009年美国复苏和再投资法案提供的资金进行奖励（公法111-5），并符合3月20日名为“确保负责任地支出复苏法案资金”的白宫备忘录第2节规定的要求，该项目将支持中间件的开发，该中间件将使数值模型能够通过云计算在商业计算场上运行，并在正在进行的和未来的课堂教育中利用。这项工作的智力价值来自两个相互关联的部分：（1）开发适用于许多教育场景的技术，包括在教室（K-12到大学）提供并行计算资源。学生和教师将能够运行由领先的研究人员开发的数值模型并与之交互，而无需将支持软件分发到学校的桌面或维护集群资源的后勤问题。商业计算农场将被利用，其中技术“实质”外包给这些专业供应商。(2)在一个“虚拟流体实验室”中展示该技术，该实验室将用于麻省理工学院和合作大学正在开设的本科生和研究生课程。由于将开发的软件技术非常通用，可以应用于使计算机模型成为几乎任何课程的一部分，例如麻省理工学院的开放式课程计划，因此产生了广泛的影响。它可以将计算集群的能力释放给任何拥有低成本笔记本电脑或“上网本”电脑的人。