SI2-SSE: Connecting Cyberinfrastructure with the Cooperative Computing Tools

该项目支持协作计算工具的维护和开发。该软件包旨在使非特权用户能够同时利用来自多个集群、云和网格的数百到数千个核心。该软件包的主要组件包括Parrot和Makeflow，前者是一个虚拟文件系统，可与多个分布式存储系统接口，后者是一个工作流引擎，可与多个计算系统接口。该项目将在各种操作系统和国家规模的网络基础设施上开发、维护和支持该软件，以支持生物信息学、生物识别、数据挖掘、高能物理和分子动力学等领域的高影响力科学应用。现在，像集群、云和网格这样的大规模计算系统使得最终用户只需按一下按钮就可以轻松地购买大量的计算能力。然而，这些计算系统很难驾驭，因为它们各自呈现不同的用户界面、操作原理和编程模型。这个项目通过支持协作计算工具的开发来解决这个问题，协作计算工具是一个软件包，它可以使普通的计算机应用程序在不同的服务提供商之间无缝地移动。该软件主要对需要大量计算的科学领域的研究人员感兴趣。它目前被生物信息学、生物识别学、数据挖掘、高能物理和分子动力学等领域的研究人员使用。

This project supports the maintenance and development of the Cooperative Computing Tools. This software package is designed to enable non-privileged users toharness hundreds to thousands of cores from multiple clusters, clouds, and grids simultaneously. The main components of the software package include Parrot, a virtual file system that interfaces with multiple distributed storage systems, and Makeflow, a workflow engine that interfaces with multiple computing systems. This project will develop, maintain, and support the software across a wide variety of operating systems and national scale cyberinfrastructure in support of high impact scientific applications in fields such as bioinformatics, biometrics, data mining, high energy physics, and molecular dynamics.Large scale computing systems such as cluster, clouds, and grids now make it easy for end users to purchase large amounts of computing power at the touch of a button. However, these computing systems are difficult to harness because they each present a different user interface, principle of operation, and programming model. This project addresses this problem by supporting the development of the Cooperative Computing Tools, a software package that makes it possible for ordinary computer applications to move seamlessly between different service providers. The software is primarily of interest to researchers in scientific domains that require large amounts of computation. It is currently used by researchers in the fields of bioinformatics, biometrics, data mining, high energy physics, and molecular dynamics.