SI2-SSI: SAGEnext: Next Generation Integrated Persistent Visualization and Collaboration Services for Global Cyberinfrastructure

网络基础设施涵盖所有领域--从计算、网络、数据存储、仪器、天文台和传感器，到软件和应用程序代码--并有望以前所未有的规模、复杂性、分辨率和精确度进行研究。然而，研究社区必须理解所有正在积累的数据，因此SAGEnext(可伸缩自适应图形环境)框架是一个创新的以用户为中心的平台，通过瓷砖显示墙在本地和远程将人们与他们的数据和同事连接起来，创建一个门户或大口径“数字镜头”，用来查看他们的数据和彼此之间的数据。它支持网络混搭，即以不同的分辨率并列和集成来自多个来源的信息的能力，就像今天网络访问较低分辨率的图像一样容易。SAGEnext扩展了国内和国际大学、超级计算机中心、政府实验室和工业界之间充满活力的合作伙伴关系；世界各地的100家机构使用当前版本的SAGE。对于生物、地球科学、基因组学或物理学等不同领域的计算科学家来说，SAGEnext将改变他们管理数据规模和复杂性的方式。对于计算机科学家来说，SAGEnext是一个在人机交互、云计算和高级网络方面进行研究的平台。SAGEnext功能集成了可视化应用程序代码、云文档、立体声3D和新的用户交互模式，这是前所未有的，也是迄今为止不可用的，将对数据探索和协作产生革命性影响，使最终用户更容易在实验室和课堂上访问网络基础设施。SAGEnext与先进的网络基础设施工具相结合，将改变当今科学家和未来科学家管理其数据的规模和复杂性的方式，使他们能够更快地解决造福全人类的国家优先问题--如全球气候变化或国土安全。这些工具可以更好地向公共政策和政府官员传达科学概念，并通过博物馆展览向公众传达科学概念。

Cyberinfrastructure runs the gamut - from computing, networks, data stores, instruments, observatories, and sensors, to software and application codes - and promises to enable research at unprecedented scales, complexity, resolution, and accuracy. However, it is the research community that must make sense of all the data being amassed, so the SAGEnext (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment) framework is an innovative user-centered platform that connects people to their data and colleagues, locally and remotely, via tiled display walls, creating a portal, or wide-aperture "digital lens," with which to view their data and one another. It enables Cyber-Mashups, or the ability to juxtapose and integrate information from multiple sources in a variety of resolutions, as easily as the Web makes access to lower-resolution images today. SAGEnext expands on a vibrant partnership among national and international universities, supercomputer centers, government laboratories and industry; 100 institutions worldwide use the current version of SAGE. For computational scientists, from such diverse fields as biology, earth science, genomics, or physics, SAGEnext will transform the way they manage the scale and complexity of their data. For computer scientists, SAGEnext is a platform for conducting research in human-computer interaction, cloud computing, and advanced networking. SAGEnext capabilities, integrating visualization application codes, cloud documents, stereo 3D, and new user-interaction paradigms, is unprecedented and heretofore not available, and will have a transformative effect on data exploration and collaboration, making cyberinfrastructure more accessible to end users, in both the laboratory and in the classroom. SAGEnext, integrated with advanced cyberinfrastructure tools, will transform the way today's scientists and future scientists manage the scale and complexity of their data, enabling them to more rapidly address problems of national priority - such as global climate change or homeland security - which benefits all mankind. These same tools can better communicate scientific concepts to public policy and government officials, and via museum exhibitions, to the general public.