SI2-SSE: RADICAL Cybertools: Scalable, Interoperable and Sustainable Tools for Science

SI2-SSE：RADICAL Cyber​​tools：可扩展、可互操作且可持续的科学工具

• 批准号: 1440677
• 负责人: Shantenu Jha
• 金额: $ 49.99万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1440677&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SI2; SSE; RADICAL; Cybertools; Scalable

To support science and engineering applications that are the basis of many societal and intellectual challenges in the 21st century, there is a need for comprehensive, balanced, and flexible distributed cyberinfrastructure (DCI). The process of designing and deploying such large-scale DCI, however, presents a critical and challenging research agenda. One specific challenge is to produce tools that provide a step change in the sophistication of problems that can be investigated using DCI, while being extensible, easy to deploy and use, as well as being compatible with a variety of other established tools. RADICAL Cybertools will meet these requirements by providing an abstractions-based suite of well-defined capabilities that are architected to support scalable, interoperable and sustainable science on a range of high-performance and distributed computing infrastructure. RADICAL Cybertools builds upon important theoretical advances, production-software-development best practices, and carefully-analyzed usage and programming models. RADICAL Cybertools is posed to play a role in grand-challenge problems, ranging from personalized medicine and health to understanding long-term global and regional climate. All software developed through the project will be open source and will be licensed under the MIT License (MIT). Version control on the SVN repository will be accessible via http://radical.rutgers.edu.Existing and current utilization of RADICAL Cybertools is built upon preliminary research prototypes of RADICAL Cybertools. There is a significant difference, however, in the quality and capability required to support scalable end-usage science, compared to that of a research prototype. It is the aim of this project to bridge this gap between the ability to serve as a research prototype versus the challenges of supporting scalable end-usage science. This will be achieved by addressing existing limitations of usability, functionality, and scalability. We will do so by utilizing conceptual and theoretical advances in the understanding of distributed systems and middleware, resulting in a scalable architecture and robust design. We will employ advances in performance engineering, data-intensive methods, and cyberinfrastructure to deliver the next generation of RADICAL Cybertools. This project will take the existing research prototypes of RADICAL Cybertools to the next level towards becoming a hardened, extensible, and sustainable tool that will support a greater number of users, application types, and resource types.

为了支持作为21世纪世纪许多社会和智力挑战的基础的科学和工程应用，需要全面、平衡和灵活的分布式网络基础设施（DCI）。 然而，设计和部署这种大规模DCI的过程提出了一个关键和具有挑战性的研究议程。 一个具体的挑战是生产工具，提供一个步骤的变化，可以使用DCI调查的问题的复杂性，同时是可扩展的，易于部署和使用，以及与各种其他已建立的工具兼容。 RADCAL Cybertools将通过提供一套基于抽象的定义明确的功能来满足这些要求，这些功能的架构旨在支持一系列高性能和分布式计算基础设施上的可扩展，可互操作和可持续科学。 RADCAL Cybertools建立在重要的理论进步，生产软件开发最佳实践以及仔细分析的使用和编程模型之上。 RADCAL Cybertools将在重大挑战问题中发挥作用，从个性化医疗和健康到了解长期的全球和区域气候。 通过该项目开发的所有软件都将是开源的，并将根据MIT许可证（MIT）进行许可。 SVN存储库上的版本控制可通过http://radical.rutgers.edu.Existing访问，目前使用的RADICAL Cybertools是建立在RADICAL Cybertools的初步研究原型基础上的。 然而，与研究原型相比，在支持可扩展的最终用途科学所需的质量和能力方面存在显着差异。 该项目的目的是弥合作为研究原型的能力与支持可扩展的最终用途科学的挑战之间的差距。 这将通过解决可用性、功能和可扩展性的现有限制来实现。 我们将通过利用分布式系统和中间件的概念和理论进步来实现这一目标，从而实现可扩展的体系结构和健壮的设计。 我们将采用性能工程、数据密集型方法和网络基础设施方面的先进技术，以提供下一代RADCAL Cybertools。 该项目将把现有的研究原型的RADICAL Cybertools到一个新的水平，成为一个硬化，可扩展和可持续的工具，将支持更多的用户，应用程序类型和资源类型。