Planning for XSEDE: the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment

科学家和工程师正处于新机遇的边缘，通过利用前所未有的规模和多样性的高端数字资源和服务，实现和加速科学发现。为了更好地利用这些资源进行变革性的科学和工程发现，pi建议设计一个世界级的先进数字服务综合网络基础设施（CI）：极限科学和工程发现环境（XSEDE）。XSEDE将使研究人员能够直接使用XSEDE资源和服务，从他们的个人和校园资源，从其他高端中心和网络基础设施资源，以及通过科学网关和发现环境。XSEDE合作伙伴关系将由NCSA、TACC、NICS和PSC领导，包括在CI架构、系统工程和项目管理方面具有专长的合作伙伴。在一套全面的社区科学需求的驱动下，该团队将为实现端到端研究的各种数字服务的完整XSEDE架构设计一个计划。它还将规划一个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、教育和推广计划，提供一系列技术专家的服务，以协助所有级别的用户，并招募和准备未来的用户。XSEDE将被设计成与其他CI项目和资源的接口，并不断发展以满足新出现的需求和技术机会。由此产生的计划将使XSEDE的部署和操作能够将计算科学的行为从使用单个资源进行离散任务转变为在一个完整、全面、集成的非凡能力环境中实现端到端科学，从而在未来五年内实现变革性的科学突破。XSEDE计划将通过研讨会和直接交流与科学技术研究人员和教育工作者分享。这将通过交流和课程内容增加他们对当前技术和最佳实践的认识，从而使研究和教育能够与领先的应用团队和工具开发人员集成，同时刺激解决科学界需求所需的能力和技术的发展。XSEDE计划将通过与当前高端从业者社区中代表性不足的教师和学生合作，以及招募和吸引更多代表性不足的个人，探索增加和扩大参与的方法。

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.