XSEDE: eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment

XSEDE：极限科学与工程发现环境

• 批准号: 1053575
• 负责人: John Towns
• 金额: $ 12113.4万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1053575&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: XSEDE; eXtreme; Science; Engineering; Discovery

1053575Towns XSEDE: Enabling New Digital ScienceThe eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) partnership will develop an unprecedented, comprehensive advanced digital services cyberinfrastructure (CI) to enable transformative open science and engineering research and innovative training and educational programs. The goal of XSEDE is to offer users tremendous capabilities with maximum productivity, enabling them to advance and share knowledge across domains. The XSEDE architecture, engineering, operations, support, and education activities are co-designed by an unparalleled team to achieve this goal, far surpassing TeraGrid in usability, reliability, capability, performance, and security?and ultimately, in user productivity and science impact. XSEDE will enable scientists, engineers, and educators to exploit powerful digital services and social networking environments to support knowledge exchange and advance understanding across domains. Just a few examples of the advances to science and society include: accurately predicting earthquake damage to urban structures; modeling of protein and nucleic acid folding and structure prediction to understand how drugs interact with target macromolecules to improve health care; developing novel designs for nanoscale microprocessors; advancing scientific understanding of plants to provide a safe and sustainable food supply, as well as benefits in renewable energy; and simulating pandemic spread to create a virtual laboratory where policy decisions such as school closure, vaccine deployment, and quarantine can be explored. The XSEDE partnership will fulfill this vision by creating the most advanced, capable, and robust advanced digital cyberinfrastructure in the world?and supporting it with the most expert and experienced team of CI professionals. XSEDE will accelerate open scientific discovery and enable researchers, educators, and students across disciplines and across campuses to conduct transformational research efforts and innovative education programs. XSEDE will create strong ties with campus personnel spanning technology, workforce development, and policy issues to enhance CI for research and education. Researchers will use XSEDE directly, from campus and personal systems, from other high-end centers and cyberinfrastructure resources, and via science gateways and discovery environments. XSEDE users will be backed by an integrated national user support program offering an array of services from experts in the application of technology to advance science and engineering, including extensive training and advanced user support and collaboration. XSEDE?s governance model will include participation by these users as stakeholders, while providing centralized management to ensure robustness and to facilitate rapid responses to new issues and opportunities. XSEDE will carry out a multifaceted Training, Education, and Outreach Services (TEOS) program to raise the competency of the present and future scientific community. XSEDE will work proactively with the nation?s educational institutions to create a significantly larger and more diverse STEM workforce. TEOS will broaden participation by working with under-represented faculty and students to engage larger numbers of under-represented individuals from among minority-serving and EPSCoR institutions, women, and people with disabilities. TEOS will disseminate best practices, lessons learned, and quality materials and will leverage external partnerships to scale-up successful practices. XSEDE will leverage the XD Technology Insertion Service (TIS) activities?already awarded to the XSEDE team?into continuously advancing CI and will work closely with the Technology Audit Service (TAS) team to ensure that XSEDE can be effectively evaluated and improved. These activities will ensure that XSEDE is robust, easy to use, performing as designed, and evolving constantly to meet the growing demands of scientific research and researchers. Advancing science with the most powerful, diverse, and integrated set of advanced digital services ever?and linking that to other CI projects and to campuses and local research infrastructure?is unprecedented. No engineering and technology plan can anticipate all contingencies and future opportunities. The successful realization of NSF?s vision for XD will require deep expertise and vast experience, as well as focused and passionate effort. The XSEDE team is uniquely experienced and qualified for this incredible opportunity.

1053575Towns Xsede：启用新的数字科学和工程发现环境（XSEDE）合作伙伴关系将开发前所未有的全面的高级数字服务Cyber​​infrstructure（CI），以启用变革性开放科学和工程研究和创新培训和创新培训和教育计划。 XSEDE的目标是为用户提供具有最大生产力的巨大功能，从而使他们能够促进并共享跨领域的知识。 XSEDE架构，工程，运营，支持和教育活动是由无与伦比的团队共同设计的，以实现这一目标，超过了可用性，可靠性，能力，绩效和安全性？以及最终在用户生产力和科学影响方面。 XSede将使科学家，工程师和教育工作者能够利用强大的数字服务和社交网络环境来支持知识交流并提高跨领域的理解。科学和社会进步的几个例子包括：准确预测对城市结构的地震损害；蛋白质和核酸折叠和结构预测的建模，以了解药物如何与靶标大分子相互作用以改善医疗保健；为纳米级微处理器开发新型设计；促进对植物的科学理解，以提供安全可持续的粮食供应以及可再生能源的好处；并模拟大流行以创建一个虚拟实验室，可以探索诸如学校关闭，疫苗部署和隔离等政策决策。 Xsede合作伙伴关系将通过创建世界上最先进，有能力和强大的高级数字网络架构来实现这一愿景？ Xsede将加速开放的科学发现，并使研究人员，教育工作者和学生跨学科以及整个校园进行转型研究工作和创新的教育计划。 Xsede将与跨越技术，劳动力发展和政策问题的校园人员建立牢固的联系，以增强研究和教育的CI。研究人员将直接从校园和个人系统，其他高端中心和网络基础设施资源以及科学网关和发现环境中直接使用Xsede。 XSEDE用户将获得一项综合的国家用户支持计划的支持，该计划提供技术专家的一系列服务，以推进科学和工程，包括广泛的培训以及高级用户支持和协作。 Xsede的治理模型将包括这些用户作为利益相关者的参与，同时提供集中管理以确保稳健性并促进对新问题和机遇的快速回应。 XSede将执行多方面的培训，教育和外展服务（TEOS）计划，以提高当前和未来科学界的能力。 Xsede将与国家的教育机构积极合作，以创造更大，更多样化的STEM劳动力。 TEO将通过与代表性不足的教职员工和学生合作，与少数派服务机构和EPSCOR机构，妇女和残疾人一起参与更多代表性不足的个人来扩大参与。 TEO将传播最佳实践，经验教训和优质材料，并将利用外部合作伙伴关系来扩大成功实践。 XSede将利用XD技术插入服务（TIS）活动？已经授予XSEDE团队的活动？这些活动将确保Xsede稳健，易于使用，按设计表演，并不断发展，以满足科学研究和研究人员不断增长的需求。 使用有史以来最强大，最多样化，最多样化，最多样化和集成的高级数字服务集的科学？并将其与其他CI项目，校园和本地研究基础设施联系起来？是前所未有的。没有任何工程和技术计划可以预见所有意外情况和未来的机会。 NSF对XD的愿景的成功实现将需要深厚的专业知识和丰富的经验，以及集中精力和热情的努力。 Xsede团队具有独特的经验，并且有资格获得这个难以置信的机会。