STCI: OptIPlanet Cyber-Mashup: Persistent Visualization and Collaboration Services for Global Cyber Infrastructure

STCI：OptIPlanet Cyber​​-Mashup：全球网络基础设施的持久可视化和协作服务

• 批准号: 0943559
• 负责人: Jason Leigh
• 金额: $ 193.33万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 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=0943559&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STCI; OptIPlanet; Cyber; Mashup; Persistent

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. As globally distributed research teams work more closely to solve complex problems utilizing high-performance cyberinfrastructure, from petascale computers to specialized instrumentation generating massive amounts of data, the need for high-resolution visualization is becoming more critical for analysis, and is propelling the worldwide adoption of "OptIPortals". An OptIPortal is an ultra-resolution visualization display instrument interconnected by optical networks that enables the creation of "cyber-mashups," or juxtapositions, of data visualizations, enabling greater insight. SAGE, the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment, is cross-platform middleware that enables users worldwide to have a common operating environment, or framework, for accessing, streaming and juxtaposing high-resolution visualizations on one or more OptIPortals. This project will transition SAGE from a transformative research prototype to a hardened technology that provides production-quality, community-driven open services for visualization and collaboration utilizing shared national and international cyberinfrastructure, for the advancement of scientific research and education.Intellectual MeritCoping with complexity and scale in data is a problem that spans all of e-science. Using OptIPortals and SAGE, scientists can create visualization pipelines from multiple sources - whether supercomputers, data storage systems and/or instruments (such as high-definition cameras), as well as laptop screens and the Web - to access and share a variety of information, in a variety of resolutions and formats, and create giant Cyber-Mashups.Broader ImpactOur Nation already invests in network-connected, middleware-enabled cyberinfrastructure to generate and disseminate petabytes (ultimately exabytes) of data among researchers worldwide. What is missing, however, is a globally integrated collaborative work environment to facilitate data analysis and high productivity. Funding to provide a production-quality SAGE will make cyberinfrastructure more accessible to broader communities of scientists and students, and help maintain US leadership in high-performance computing.

该提案将使用2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）提供的资金，并符合2009年3月20日白宫备忘录第2节的要求，题为“确保负责任的复苏法案资金支出”。随着全球分布的研究团队更紧密地合作，利用高性能网络基础设施解决复杂问题，从千兆级计算机到生成大量数据的专业仪器，对高分辨率可视化的需求对分析变得越来越重要，并推动了“OptIPortals”在全球范围内的采用。OptIPortal是一种通过光学网络连接的超分辨率可视化显示仪器，可以创建“网络混聚”或数据可视化并置，从而实现更大的洞察力。SAGE，可扩展自适应图形环境，是一个跨平台的中间件，使全球用户能够拥有一个通用的操作环境或框架，用于访问、流式传输和并置一个或多个OptIPortals上的高分辨率可视化。该项目将SAGE从一种变革性研究原型转变为一种强化技术，利用共享的国家和国际网络基础设施，为可视化和协作提供生产质量、社区驱动的开放服务，以促进科学研究和教育。应对数据的复杂性和规模是一个跨越所有电子科学的问题。使用OptIPortals和SAGE，科学家们可以从多个来源创建可视化管道——无论是超级计算机、数据存储系统和/或仪器（如高清摄像机），以及笔记本电脑屏幕和网络——以各种分辨率和格式访问和共享各种信息，并创建巨大的网络mashup。更广泛的影响国家已经投资于网络连接，中间件支持的网络基础设施，以在全球研究人员之间生成和传播pb级（最终是eb级）的数据。然而，缺少的是一个全球集成的协作工作环境，以促进数据分析和高生产力。提供生产质量SAGE的资金将使更广泛的科学家和学生社区更容易获得网络基础设施，并有助于保持美国在高性能计算领域的领导地位。