Advanced Cyberinfrastructre - Research and Educational Facilitation: Campus-Based Computational Research Support

先进的网络基础设施-研究和教育促进：基于校园的计算研究支持项目制定和实施战略，通过校园计算能力的转变和与国家网络基础设施环境的增强耦合，促进我国的研究和学术成果。该项目的合作机构包括夏威夷大学、南加州大学、犹他大学、威斯康星大学、克莱姆森大学和哈佛大学。该项目将致力于通过国家先进网络基础设施（ACI）研究和教育促进者（ACI- refs）网络推进科学发现愿景的教育和研究机构聚集在一起。通过协调一致的努力，该项目致力于采用模型和策略，以利用其成员的专业知识和经验，最大限度地提高研究计算投资的影响。ACI-REFs位于校园内，完全融入当地环境，其使命是扩大校园和国家研究计算基础设施对学生和教师进行的科学研究的影响。通过为先进的计算基础设施和支持构建一个类似云的环境，该项目旨在创建一个社区，促进网络基础设施和领域研究人员的无缝集成，并扩大研究人员在整个校园使用先进网络基础设施的范围。该项目还寻求在合作校园之间发展专业知识基础，以支持信息共享，并促进形成扩展的地方和国家合作。该项目探索了建立全国教育工作者联盟的潜力，使当地校园研究人员能够更有效地使用先进的网络基础设施。特别是，该项目寻求与ACI用户的“长尾”合作，这些学者和教职员工传统上没有从大规模集群计算的能力中受益，但他们认识到他们的研究需要访问比台式计算机提供的更多的计算能力。

The Advanced CyberInfrastructure - Research and Educational Facilitation: Campus-based Computational Research Support project develops and implements strategies that serve to advance our nation's research and scholarly achievements through the transformation of campus computational capabilities and enhanced coupling to the national cyberinfrastructure environment. Among the project's collaborating institutions are the University of Hawaii, the University of Southern California, the University of Utah, the University of Wisconsin, and Clemson and Harvard Universities. The project brings together education and research institutions that are committed to the vision of advancing scientific discovery through a national network of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) Research and Education Facilitators (ACI-REFs). Working together in a coordinated effort, the project is dedicated to the adoption of models and strategies to leverage the expertise and experiences of its members to maximize the impact of investment in research computing. Located on the campuses and fully embedded in their local environment, the mission of the ACI-REFs is to extend the reach and impact of campus and national research computing infrastructure on the science conducted by students and faculty. By building a cloud-like environment for advanced computing infrastructure and support, the project seeks to create a community that fosters seamless integration of cyberinfrastructure and domain researchers and expand the reach of researchers involved in the use of advanced cyberinfrastructure across campuses. The project also seeks to develop the expertise base across partner campuses to support information sharing and to facilitate the formation of extended local and national collaborations. The project explores the potential for the creation of a nationwide alliance of educators to empower local campus researchers to be more effective users of advanced cyberinfrastructure. In particular, the project seeks to work with the "long tail" of ACI users - those scholars and faculty members who traditionally have not benefitted from the power of massively scaled cluster computing but who recognize that their research requires access to more compute power than can be provided by their desktop machines.