EAGER: Exploring Federations of Campus and National Cyberinfrastructure as Scalable Platforms for Science: A Case Study using Open Science Grid

先进的计算和数据网络基础设施（ACI）在计算和数据驱动的科学与工程（CDS&amp；E）的所有领域发挥着越来越重要的作用，并已成为科学见解和创新的关键推动者。因此，研究人员和学生获得足够的校园ACI（例如，计算和数据资源）至关重要。然而，同样重要的是，这样的校园ACI与国家倡议保持一致并集成，连接和共享先进的计算/数据资源和专业知识，实现协作和端到端科学，并建立和利用现有的高端基础设施联邦投资。这个EAGER项目主要集中在三个方面：(1)在罗格斯大学发展专门知识和经验，为CDS&amp；E研究建立一个校园ACI，并通过将这个校园ACI作为国家资源的一部分，即开放科学网格（OSG），使其与国家ACI保持一致；(2)在OSG联合ACI的基础上发展必要的研究伙伴关系，以端到端方式解决重要的研究问题，并产生重要的见解；(3)在此过程中记录过程、经验和教训，与更广泛的社区分享这些发现，提供一本“烹饪书”。建立校园ACI生态系统是大学为了支持他们的研究和教育使命而遵循的一种常见做法。然而，这些校园ACI生态系统通常是孤立运行的，限制了对资源的获取，因此限制了它们对校园以外社区的潜在影响。这项研究的结果将为利用国家投资创建整体大于部分之和的资源池的可行性提供重要见解。因此，它可以对教师、校园it和管理人员的心态以及校园it组支持研究人员高级计算需求的整体能力产生重大影响。由此产生的合作模式将通过共享ACI播种，以激励资源和专业知识共享，使教师和学生能够利用更大、更强大的资源集。它还将有助于促进建立必要的支持团队，以支持科学和学术。

Advanced computing and data cyberinfrastructure (ACI) is playing an increasingly important role in all areas of computational and data-enabled science and engineering (CDS&E), and has become a key enabler of scientific insights and innovation. As a result, it is critical that researchers and students have access to adequate campus ACI (e.g., computing and data resources). However, it is also critical that such a campus ACI aligns and is integrated with national initiatives, to connect with and share advanced computing/data resources and expertise, enable collaborative and end-to-end science, and build upon and leverage existing federal investments in high end infrastructure. This EAGER focus on three main thrusts: (1) develop the expertise and experience at Rutgers for establishing a campus ACI for CDS&E research, and to align it with the national ACI by integrating this campus ACI as part of a national resource, i.e., Open Science Grid (OSG); (2) develop the necessary research partnerships based on the OSG federated ACI to address important research problems in an end-to-end manner and lead to significant insights; and (3) document processes, experiences, and lesson learnt during this process to share these findings with the broader community, providing a "cook- book".Establishing campus ACI ecosystems is a common practice that Universities follow in order to support their research and education missions. However, these campus ACI ecosystems typically operate in isolation, restricting the access to resources and therefore the potential impact that they can offer to the community beyond their own campuses. The outcomes of this research will provide important insights into the feasibility of leveraging national investments to create resource pools where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. As a result, it can have significant impact on the mindset of faculty, campus IT, and administrators, and on the overall ability of campus IT groups to support the advanced computing needs of researchers. The resulting models for collaboration will be seeded through shared ACI to incentivize resource and expertise sharing that can enable faculty and students to leverage a much larger and more robust set of resources. It will also help foster the creation of necessary support teams to support science and scholarship.