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《美国恢复和再投资法》（公法111-5）提供的资金颁发，并满足白宫备忘录第2节中确定的要求的要求，以确保对2009年3月20日的恢复恢复基金的负责支出，以日期为2009年。这些项目将支持跨越的界面范围，以启用商业范围的范围，以启用商业范围的范围，并启用云层的范围。活动。这项工作的智力优点源自两个链接的部分：（1）适用于许多教育场景的技术的开发，包括在教室中提供并行计算资源的访问（K-12上大学）。学生和老师将能够与领先的研究人员开发的数值模型并互动，而没有支持在学校中分配给台式机的软件的开销或保持集群资源的后勤头痛。商业计算农场将被利用，其中将技术“毫无用处”外包给这些专业提供者。 （2）在“虚拟流体实验室”中展示该技术，该技术将用于MIT和MIT和协作大学提供的本科和研究生课程。它可以将计算簇的功能释放给具有低成本笔记本电脑或“上网本”计算机的任何人。