Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: Open Gateway Computing Environments Science Gateways Platform as a Service (OGCE SciGaP)

科学网关是一种虚拟环境，通过使科学界能够利用分布式计算和数据资源（即网络基础设施），大大加速了科学发现。成功的科学网关提供对复杂和强大资源的访问，同时保护用户免受资源的复杂性。鉴于科学网关对许多科学领域的进步产生了明显的影响，必须消除建立新网关的障碍，使其更容易维持。科学网关平台（SciGaP）项目将创建一套托管的基础设施服务，网关提供商可以轻松采用这些服务，以基于强大可靠的开源工具构建新的网关。该计划将通过显著降低需要访问网络基础设施的社区的开发开销来改变科学网关的构建方式，并支持共享资源的有效利用。SciGaP将通过减少新网关的开发时间和加速需要访问大规模资源的社区的科学研究来改变对大规模计算和数据资源的访问。SciGaP坚持Apache软件基金会的开放社区和开放治理原则，这将确保开源软件的访问和服务的开放操作。这将使所有项目利益相关者在软件中拥有发言权，并将清除围绕网络基础设施服务的专有迷雾。SciGaP服务的好处不仅限于科学领域，还可以用于加速任何受计算资源访问限制奋进的进展。SciGaP服务将可供任何规模的社区使用，无论是个人、实验室小组、部门、机构还是国际社区。SciGaP将帮助培训新一代网络基础设施开发人员进行开源开发，为这些早期职业开发人员提供对网关软件做出公开记录贡献的能力，并弥合学术和非学术开发之间的差距。

Science Gateways are virtual environments that dramatically accelerate scientific discovery by enabling scientific communities to utilize distributed computational and data resources (that is, cyberinfrastructure). Successful Science Gateways provide access to sophisticated and powerful resources, while shielding their users from the resources' complexities. Given Science Gateways' demonstrated impact on progress in many scientific fields, it is important to remove barriers to the creation of new gateways and make it easier to sustain them. The Science Gateway Platform (SciGaP) project will create a set of hosted infrastructure services that can be easily adopted by gateway providers to build new gateways based on robust and reliable open source tools. The proposed work will transform the way Science Gateways are constructed by significantly lowering the development overhead for communities requiring access to cyberinfrastructure, and support the efficient utilization of shared resources.SciGaP will transform access to large scale computing and data resources by reducing development time of new gateways and by accelerating scientific research for communities in need of access to large-scale resources. SciGaP's adherence to open community and open governance principles of the Apache Software Foundation will assure open source software access and open operation of its services. This will give all project stakeholders a voice in the software and will clear the proprietary fog that surrounds cyberinfrastructure services. The benefits of SciGaP services are not restricted to scientific fields, but can be used to accelerate progress in any field of endeavor that is limited by access to computational resources. SciGaP services will be usable by a community of any size, whether it is an individual, a lab group, a department, an institution, or an international community. SciGaP will help train a new generation of cyberinfrastructure developers in open source development, providing these early career developers with the ability to make publicly documented contributions to gateway software and to bridge the gap between academic and non-academic development.