Planning for XSEDE: the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment

科学家和工程师即将迎来新的机遇，通过利用获取前所未有的规模和多样性的高端数字资源和服务来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科学和工程发现，私营部门建议设计一个世界级的、全面的先进数字服务网络基础设施：极端科学和工程发现环境(XSEDE)。XSEDE将使研究人员能够直接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使用XSEDE资源和服务。XSEDE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的专业知识互补优势的合作伙伴。在一套全面的社区科学要求的推动下，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。它还将计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、教育和外联计划，提供一系列来自技术专家的服务，以帮助所有级别的用户，并招募和准备未来的用户。XSEDE将设计为与其他CI项目和资源对接，并进行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的部署和运行能够将计算科学的开展从使用单独的资源进行离散任务转变为在具有非凡能力的完整、全面、综合的环境中实现端到端的科学，从而在未来五年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技研究人员和教育工作者分享。这将使研究和教育与领先的应用程序团队和工具开发人员结合起来，通过传播和课程内容提高他们对当前技术和最佳做法的认识，同时促进满足科学界需求所需的能力和技术的发展。XSEDE计划将探索增加和扩大参与度的方法，方法是与目前高端从业者社区中代表性不足的教职员工和学生合作，以及招募和聘用更多代表性不足的个人。

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.