SDCI NMI New: From Desktops to Clouds -- A Middleware for Next Generation Network Science

SDCI NMI 新功能：从桌面到云——下一代网络科学的中间件

• 批准号: 1032677
• 负责人: Madhav Marathe
• 金额: $ 135万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1032677&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SDCI; NMI; New; Desktops; Clouds

The research will develop a cyberinfrastructure middleware (CINET) to support Network Science. The National Research Council defines Network Science as ``the study of network representations of physical, biological, and social phenomena leading to predictive models of these phenomena.'' CINET will provide researchers, analysts and educators interested in Network Science with an easy-to-use cyber-environment that is accessible from their desktop and integrates into their daily work. CINET will expand the size of networks that are routinely studied from hundreds or thousands of nodes to hundreds of millions of nodes. It will foster multi-disciplinary and multi-university research and teaching collaborations, including disciplines such as social sciences that traditionally have not used high performance computing resources.CINET will be pervasive, flexible and extensible. Users can contribute new networks, data, methods, hardware, and research results in an integrative way. Advanced users can expand CINET by adding new tools, user interfaces, recommendation engines, digital library features, or other desired functionality. End users will be insulated from the complexities of resource allocation, scheduling,cross-platform interactions, and other detailed computing considerations. CINET will enable new ways by which researchers study and teach complex networks. It will enable educators to harness high performance computing technologies to teach Network Science to students spanning various academic levels, disciplines and institutions. The educational plan includes high school students to Ph.D. candidates, students from minority and under-represented groups, and students at smaller institutions that often do not have easy access to HPC resources. Education material will be disseminated widely through the Ensemble pathways project in NSF's educational digital library, NSDL.

该研究将开发一个网络基础设施中间件（CINET）来支持网络科学。美国国家研究委员会将网络科学定义为“研究物理、生物和社会现象的网络表征，从而得出这些现象的预测模型”。“CINET将为对网络科学感兴趣的研究人员、分析人员和教育工作者提供一个易于使用的网络环境，可以从他们的桌面访问并集成到他们的日常工作中。CINET将把常规研究的网络规模从数百或数千个节点扩展到数亿个节点。它将促进多学科和多大学的研究和教学合作，包括传统上没有使用高性能计算资源的社会科学等学科。CINET将是普遍的、灵活的和可扩展的。用户可以以综合的方式贡献新的网络、数据、方法、硬件和研究成果。高级用户可以通过添加新工具、用户界面、推荐引擎、数字图书馆功能或其他所需功能来扩展CINET。最终用户将与资源分配、调度、跨平台交互和其他详细计算考虑的复杂性隔离。CINET将为研究人员研究和教授复杂网络提供新的方法。它将使教育工作者能够利用高性能计算技术向不同学术水平、学科和机构的学生教授网络科学。该教育计划包括高中生到博士候选人，少数民族和代表性不足的群体的学生，以及通常不容易获得高性能计算资源的小型机构的学生。教育材料将通过美国国家科学基金会教育数字图书馆（NSDL）的Ensemble pathways项目广泛传播。