CC*IIE Engineer: Exploration of Roles and Tools to Fulfill Diverse Researcher Needs in Collaborative Environments

CC*IIE 工程师：探索在协作环境中满足不同研究人员需求的角色和工具

• 批准号: 1440582
• 负责人: Prasad Calyam
• 金额: $ 39.98万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1440582&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; IIE; Engineer; Exploration; Roles

There is a need to transform supercomputer and other cyberinfrastructure (CI) resource provisioning procedures and practices on campuses with federated, hybrid cloud services handled by specialized expertise of a CI Engineer. The CI Engineer complements campus system/network engineering personnel, and leads the seamless orchestration of provisioning local and remote resources (e.g., cyber-enabled scientific instruments, public clouds) to meet data-intensive research and education needs of faculty and students.This project investigates roles, tools and policies that enable the viability and sustainability of the CI Engineer position. More than just exploration, the project involves several pilot experiments with domain-application workflows. The experiments consider connectivity and communication procedures necessary for transitioning interdisciplinary collaborations from experimental environments to production systems. To automate the provisioning of application-specific resources, custom templates are being developed for diverse data-intensive (web-based) applications. The custom templates abstract the high-level policy and performance throughput requirements of data-intensive applications, and personalize them to lower-level control specifications implementable in an on-demand manner by virtualization technologies such as OpenStack and OpenFlow. Lastly, case studies, best practices and open-source software applications are to be generated to foster hybrid cloud service models in research and education, while avoiding many layers of co-ordination. Significant attention is being paid to broadening participation of underrepresented groups, and to the CI Engineer interaction with peer communities that are addressing challenges of next-generation campus cyberinfrastructures.

需要通过由CI工程师的专业知识处理的联合混合云服务来改变校园中的超级计算机和其他网络基础设施(CI)资源调配程序和实践。CI工程师补充园区系统/网络工程人员，并领导提供本地和远程资源(例如，启用网络的科学仪器、公共云)的无缝协调，以满足教职员工和学生的数据密集型研究和教育需求。该项目调查使CI工程师职位的可行性和可持续性得以实现的角色、工具和政策。除了探索之外，该项目还包括对域应用程序工作流的几个试点实验。这些实验考虑了将跨学科协作从实验环境过渡到生产系统所需的连接和通信程序。为了自动配置特定于应用程序的资源，正在为各种数据密集型(基于Web的)应用程序开发自定义模板。自定义模板抽象数据密集型应用的高级策略和性能吞吐量要求，并将其个性化为可通过OpenStack和OpenFlow等虚拟化技术按需实现的低级控制规范。最后，将产生案例研究、最佳实践和开源软件应用，以在研究和教育中促进混合云服务模式，同时避免多层协调。目前正在大力关注扩大代表性不足群体的参与，以及传播与信息工程师与同行社区的互动，以应对下一代校园网络基础设施的挑战。