Project GreenLight Workshop for MSI-CIEC: Greening and Growing Campus Cyberinfrastructure for Minority-Serving Institutions

MSI-CIEC 项目 GreenLight 研讨会：为少数族裔服务机构绿化和发展校园网络基础设施

• 批准号: 1036931
• 负责人: Thomas DeFanti
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 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: 2010-06-01 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1036931&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Project; GreenLight; Workshop; MSI; CIEC

Like all colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions (MSIs) are developing strategies to support science and engineering research with advanced cyberinfrastructure. Two enabling technologies are of particular interest to these institutions: visualization and energy-conscious networked cluster computing. The NSF-supported UCSD OptIPuter/OptiPortal and GreenLight projects are now ready for broader deployment across the US. Researchers from a dozen MSI institutions have asked for hands-on experience at UCSD. This project provides participants with technical background and best practices on the GreenLight Instrument for computing and installing, maintaining, and using OptIPortals for advanced telepresence and visualization. Project GreenLight officially partners with the NSF Minority-Serving Institutions CyberInfrastructure Coalition (MSI-CIEC), which has held three workshops (to date) at UC San Diego. The organizations that comprise the Alliance for Equity in Higher Education, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), established the MSI-CIEC to promote, encourage and facilitate the meaningful engagement of minority-serving institutions in cyberinfrastructure. The GreenLight Instrument enables application scientists to understand how to make greener choices, while still exploiting the exponential growth of computing, storage, and networking required for them to continue to compete globally on frontier scientific research. The GreenLight Instrument helps campuses and users understand how to take advantage of novel renewable and off-grid energy/cooling sources as well as employ middleware that automates optimal choice of cluster compute/storage/power strategies. The overall result is both cost and energy savings to campuses, valuable results for all institutions but essential for minority-serving institutions which often operate with far lower operating budgets than their majority-serving 4-year college counterparts.

与所有学院和大学一样，少数民族服务机构（msi）正在制定战略，以先进的网络基础设施支持科学和工程研究。这些机构对两种使能技术特别感兴趣：可视化和节能网络集群计算。由美国国家科学基金会支持的加州大学圣地亚哥分校OptIPuter/OptiPortal和GreenLight项目现已准备好在美国范围内进行更广泛的部署。来自十几个MSI机构的研究人员要求在加州大学圣地亚哥分校获得实践经验。该项目为参与者提供了GreenLight仪器的技术背景和最佳实践，用于计算、安装、维护和使用OptIPortals进行高级远程呈现和可视化。GreenLight项目与美国国家科学基金会少数族裔服务机构网络基础设施联盟（MSI-CIEC）正式合作，该联盟迄今已在加州大学圣地亚哥分校举办了三次研讨会。由高等教育公平联盟、美国印第安人高等教育联盟（AIHEC）、西班牙裔大学协会（HACU）和全国高等教育机会平等协会（NAFEO）组成的组织建立了MSI-CIEC，以促进、鼓励和促进少数族裔服务机构在网络基础设施中的有意义参与。GreenLight仪器使应用科学家能够了解如何做出更环保的选择，同时仍然利用指数增长的计算、存储和网络，以继续在全球前沿科学研究中竞争。GreenLight仪器帮助校园和用户了解如何利用新型可再生能源和离网能源/冷却源，以及使用中间件来自动化集群计算/存储/电源策略的最佳选择。总体结果是为校园节省了成本和能源，这对所有机构来说都是有价值的结果，但对于服务于少数族裔的机构来说是必不可少的，因为这些机构的运营预算往往远低于服务于多数人的四年制大学。