MRI: Acquisition of Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Science and Engineering Research Innovations

该合同规定了对岛屿科学和工程研究云(ISERC)的收购。ISERC将支持德克萨斯农工大学科珀斯克里斯蒂分校(TAMUCC)和南得克萨斯州其他机构的重大创新研究。ISERC是一个理想的基地，通过提供高容量的计算资源来支持科学和工程研究，从而解决许多具有区域、国家和全球意义的研究问题。ISERC支持的项目包括地理空间分析、海岸复原力、生态学、基因组学、生物信息学、环境监测、健康、地质学、水资源管理、遥感、无人系统、农业和气候预测。这项研究将对全球沿海社区的环境可持续性、健康和经济福祉产生影响。该仪器将由大约100名研究人员使用，其中包括教职员工、研究生和本科生。据估计，每年有超过300名学生注册STEM相关课程。ISERC支持低延迟、高带宽、高计算能力和大数据集存储的异构计算环境。它为用户提供了动态可扩展、强大、异构化和虚拟化的架构。通过允许保密和安全地执行来宾虚拟机，它确保了数据的隐私和安全。新的云工具可以同时处理各种服务，包括针对实时、计算限制以及数据密集型应用的服务。即将启动的一些重大项目包括：用于沿海恢复能力的超空间3D数据流、用于农业的高通量表型分析、用于安全的社交媒体数据分析、云数据迁移、海草遗传学、仿生催化、气候对水资源的影响、基因组测序以及预测呼吸道疾病的环境因素。ISERC将推动学术界的知识生成，并提供研究机会，使许多进一步的后续项目成为可能，包括多机构和跨学科合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides for the acquisition of the Island Science and Engineering Research Cloud (ISERC). ISERC will support major innovative research at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) and other institutions in South Texas. ISERC is an ideal base to tackle a multitude of research problems of regional, national and global significance by providing high capacity computing resources to empower science and engineering research. ISERC enabled projects include geospatial analytics, coastal resiliency, ecology, genomics, bio-informatics, environmental monitoring, health, geology, water resource management, remote sensing, unmanned systems, agriculture, and climate prediction. This research will have impact on the environmental sustainability, health and economic well-being of coastal communities across the globe. The instrument will be used by approximately 100 researchers comprising faculty, graduate and undergraduate students. It is estimated that, each year, more than 300 students enrolled in STEM related courses would also benefit from it.ISERC supports heterogeneous computing environments with low-latency, high-bandwidth, high computational power, and storage for large data sets. It provides users with a dynamically scalable, robust, heterogeneous, and virtualized architecture. By allowing confidential and secure execution of guest virtual machines, it ensures the privacy and security of data. The new cloud instrument can handle a wide variety of services simultaneously, including ones for real-time, compute-bound, as well as data intensive applications. Some of the major projects that are poised to commence include: hyper-spatial 3D data streams for coastal resiliency, high throughput phenotyping for agriculture, social media data analytics for security, cloud data migration, seagrass genetics, biomimetic catalysis, climate impact on water resources, genome sequencing, and predicting environmental factors for respiratory diseases. ISERC will propel the academic community's knowledge generation and provide research opportunities that will enable many further follow-up projects, including multi-institutional and cross-disciplinary collaborations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.