Network for Computational Nanotechnology Cyber Platform

计算纳米技术网络（NCN）成立于2002年，旨在通过nanoHUB.org上的在线模拟将纳米科学推向纳米技术。nanoHUB不仅成为第一个广泛成功的科学端到端云计算环境，而且还远远超出了在线模拟。nanoHUB每年向全球195，000名用户提供3，000种学习资源。其232个仿真工具不受本地运行软件的限制，每年有超过10，800人在云中使用。其影响力通过科学文献中对nanoHUB的720多次引用以及超过4，807次二次引用来证明，h指数为31，并且从研究模拟程序发布到课堂使用的中位时间不到6个月。累计，100多个机构的760多个正式班级的14，000多名学生使用了nanoHUB模拟。尽管广泛的纳米技术研究和教育界取得了十年的转型成功，但由于工作仍然由孤立的个人和小团体完成，因此仍然存在重大差距。专业的这种分散阻碍了跨知识领域的工具和数据共享。纳米领域，如生物，光子学和材料，才刚刚开始使用nanoHUB，而制造，信息学，环境健康和安全迄今为止甚至没有在nanoHUB上表示。NCN网络平台建议通过三个战略目标的努力来解决这些差距：1）通过将模拟与实验相结合，将纳米科学转化为纳米技术来加速研究; 2）激励和教育下一代纳米科学和纳米技术劳动力; 3）发展使用和共享nanoHUB内容的nanoHUB社会。五个交叉领域的重点是nanoHUB虚拟社会的网络基础设施（CI）和社会动态：CI创新;内容管理和节点参与;教育研究和学前/大学和终身学习;外展，多样性和营销;和CI运营。NCN nanoHUB网络平台的10年愿景是，nanoHUB将成为研究人员、从业人员、教育工作者和学生日常依赖的在线纳米社会，同时沉浸在专业实践和计算资源中，以实现基于云服务的工作流程的多学科创新文化。NCN nanoHUB战略计划将解决下一代nanoHUB体验的两个基本挑战：1）开发能够简化管理和公布科学数据的技术（实验和模拟），而无需额外的复杂步骤：2）建立一个价值体系，促进数据，工具和讲座的出版，类似于今天对期刊出版物的奖励。通过领先的HUBzero平台以及与其他CI工作合作开发的CI创新，将为研究，教育和商业化提供新的连接点，扩展平台工具功能以帮助用户交换和发布数据;将数据和工具结合起来进行验证，验证和工程活动;并增加沉浸式和普遍的功能。通过与专业协会和商业出版商的合作，nanoHUB将改变研究人员通过新颖的交互式期刊发布模拟结果的方式，这些期刊反映了用户的工作流程，直接链接回他们的数据，并使工作可重复。这种价值体系将推动新内容向nanoHUB发展，从而避免了NCN在资金上支持内容生成的需要。通过与三个新的NCN内容节点和其他NSF资助的纳米工作的合作伙伴关系，NCN将继续促进内容创作，以向作者展示价值，并将原型，测试和托管拟议的新技术，以广泛使用。更广泛的影响：NCN已经开发出的流程，使研究人员能够快速部署他们的研究代码和创新的教程和课程nanoHUB。迄今为止，这些进程从全世界890名贡献者那里获得了研究和教育成果。扩展到纳米研究和教育的新领域，包括大学预科教育，代表了nanoHUB的巨大增长潜力，超越了模拟，拥抱数据管理，搜索和探索。对多样性的关注将继续是NCN外展计划的一个组成部分，特别是通过重点研讨会和EPICS High等新举措。NCN首创的HUBzero已经为12个机构的40个HUB提供动力，为广泛的科学和工程学科和商业化提供服务。通过影响评估和对HUBzero软件栈版本的持续贡献，nanoHUB将继续推动其纳米社会以外的影响进入其他学科和机构。

Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) was founded in 2002 to advance nanoscience toward nanotechnology via online simulations on nanoHUB.org. Not only has nanoHUB become the first broadly successful, scientific end-to-end cloud computing environment, but it also has evolved well beyond online simulation. Annually, nanoHUB provides a library of 3,000 learning resources to 195,000 users worldwide. Its 232 simulation tools, free from the limitations of running software locally, are used in the cloud by over 10,800 annually. Its impact is demonstrated by 720+ citations to nanoHUB in the scientific literature with over 4,807 secondary citations, yielding an h-index of 31, and by a median time from publication of a research simulation program to classroom use of less than 6 months. Cumulatively, over 14,000 students in over 760 formal classes in over 100 institutions have used nanoHUB simulations. Despite a decade of transformational success for a broad nanotechnology research and education community, significant gaps remain as work is still performed by isolated individuals and small groups. This fragmentation by specialty hinders tool and data sharing across knowledge domains. Nano areas such as bio, photonics, and materials are only beginning to use nanoHUB while manufacturing, informatics, environmental-health-and-safety are to date not even represented on nanoHUB. The NCN Cyber Platform proposes to address these gaps through efforts in three strategic goals to: 1) accelerate research by transforming nanoscience to nanotechnology through the integration of simulation with experimentation; 2) inspire and educate the next-generation nanoscience and nanotechnology workforce; and 3) grow the nanoHUB society that uses and shares nanoHUB content. Five cross-cutting thrust areas focus on the cyberinfrastructure (CI) and social dynamics of the nanoHUB virtual society: CI innovation; content stewardship and node engagement; education research and precollege/college and lifelong learning; outreach, diversity, and marketing; and CI operations. The 10-year NCN nanoHUB Cyber Platform vision is that nanoHUB will be the online nano society that researchers, practitioners, educators and students depend on day-to-day while simultaneously immersed in professional practice and computational resources for a multidisciplinary culture of innovation grounded in cloud services-enabled workflows.Intellectual Merit: The NCN nanoHUB strategic plan will answer two fundamental challenges to the next-generation nanoHUB experience: 1) development of technologies that enable simple management and publication of scientific data (experimental and simulation) without additional complex steps: and 2) the establishment of a value system that fosters publication of data, tools, and lectures similar to today's rewards for journal publications. CI innovation, developed through the leading HUBzero platform as well as in cooperation with other CI efforts, will enable new connection points for research, education, and commercialization, expanded platform tool features to help users exchange and publish data; combined data and tools for verification, validation, and engineering activities; and increase immersive and pervasive features. Through partnerships with professional societies and commercial publishers, nanoHUB will change how researchers publish their simulation results through novel interactive journals that reflect a user's workflow, link directly back to their data, and make the work reproducible. This value system will drive new content toward nanoHUB, obviating the need for content generation to be monetarily supported by NCN. Through partnerships with the three new NCN content nodes and other NSF-funded nano efforts, NCN will continue to foster content creation to demonstrate value to the authors and will prototype, test, and host the proposed new technologies for broad usage.Broader Impacts: NCN has developed processes that enabled researchers to rapidly deploy their research codes and innovative tutorials and classes on nanoHUB. To date, these processes harvested research and educational results from 890 contributors world-wide. Expansion into new areas of nano research and education, including pre-college education, represent a huge growth potential for nanoHUB that goes beyond simulation to embracing data management, search, and exploration. Focus on diversity will continue to be an integral part of NCN's outreach program, in particular through focused workshops and new initiatives such as EPICS High. The NCN-pioneered HUBzero already powers 40 HUBs at 12 institutions, serving a broad range of science and engineering disciplines and commercialization. Through impact assessment and continual contributions to HUBzero software stack releases, nanoHUB will continue to drive impact beyond its nano society into other disciplines and institutions.