Planning for XSEDE: the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment

规划 XSEDE：极限科学与工程发现环境

• 批准号: 0941686
• 负责人: John Towns
• 金额: $ 161.7万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 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 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0941686&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; XSEDE; eXtreme; Science; Engineering

Scientists and engineers stand on the brink of new opportunities to enable and accelerate scientific discoveries by exploiting access to an unprecedented scale and diversity of high-end digital resources and services. To better facilitate the use of such resources for transformational science and engineering discoveries, the PIs have proposed the design for a world-class, comprehensive cyberinfrastructure (CI) of advanced digital services: the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). XSEDE will enable researchers to use XSEDE resources and services directly, from their personal and campus resources, from other high-end centers and cyberinfrastructure resources, and via science gateways and discovery environments. The XSEDE Partnership will be led by NCSA, TACC, NICS and PSC, and includes partners who complement their strengths with expertise in CI architecture, systems engineering, and program management. Driven by a comprehensive set of community science requirements, the team will design a plan for the full XSEDE architecture of diverse digital services for enabling end-to-end research. It will also plan a highly coordinated user support program, including advanced user support and a multi-pronged training, education and outreach program, offering an array of services from technology experts to assist all levels of users and to recruit and prepare future users. XSEDE will be designed to interface with other CI projects and resources, and to evolve to meet emerging requirements and technology opportunities. The resulting plan will enable the deployment and operation of XSEDE to transform the conduct of computational science from use of individual resources for discrete tasks to enabling end-to-end science in a complete, comprehensive, integrated environment of extraordinary capability that enables transformative scientific breakthroughs in the next five years. The XSEDE plan will be shared with science and technology researchers and educators via workshops and direct communications. This will enable integration of research and education with leading applications teams and tool developers by increasing their awareness of current technologies and best practices through communication and curriculum content, while stimulating development of needed capabilities and technologies for addressing science community needs. The XSEDE plan will explore ways to increase and broaden participation by working with under-represented faculty and students among the current community of high-end practitioners as well as recruiting and engaging even larger numbers of under-represented individuals.

科学家和工程师站在新的机会的边缘，通过利用访问前所未有的规模和高端数字资源和服务的多样性来实现和加速科学发现。为了更好地促进这种资源用于变革型科学和工程发现，PI为高级数字服务的世界一流，全面的网络基础设施（CI）提出了设计：极端的科学与工程发现环境（XSEDE）。 XSEDE将使研究人员能够从其个人和校园资源，其他高端中心和网络基础设施资源以及科学网关和发现环境直接使用XSEDE资源和服务。 XSEDE合作伙伴关系将由NCSA，TACC，NICS和PSC领导，其中包括与CI架构，系统工程和计划管理方面的专业知识相辅相成的合作伙伴。在一系列全面的社区科学要求的驱动下，该团队将为各种数字服务的完整XSEDE架构设计一个计划，以实现端到端研究。它还将计划一项高度协调的用户支持计划，包括高级用户支持和多管齐下的培训，教育和外展计划，从而提供技术专家的一系列服务，以协助所有级别的用户，并招募和准备未来的用户。 XSede将旨在与其他CI项目和资源进行交互，并发展以满足新兴的要求和技术机会。最终的计划将使XSEDE的部署和运行能够通过使用单个资源来转变计算科学的行为，从而在完整，全面，全面的，具有非凡能力的环境中实现端到端科学，从而在未来五年内实现了变革性的科学突破。 XSEDE计划将通过研讨会和直接沟通与科学，技术研究人员和教育者共享。这将通过通过沟通和课程内容提高他们对当前技术和最佳实践的认识，同时刺激开发所需能力和技术以满足科学社区需求的技术，从而使研究和教育与领先的应用团队和工具开发人员整合到当前技术和最佳实践。 XSEDE计划将通过与当前高端从业者社区中的代表性不足的教师和学生合作，招募和吸引更多人数不足的人，从而探索增加和扩大参与的方法。