MERIF: A Forum for CISE-supported Midscale Experimental Research Infrastructure projects Projects

MERIF：CISE 支持的中型实验研究基础设施项目论坛

• 批准号: 1834880
• 负责人: Lawrence Landweber
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834880&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MERIF; Forum; CISE; supported; Midscale

The computer and networking systems research communities recognize the importance of conducting verifiable, repeatable experimental research at scale on highly decentralized Midscale Experimental Research Infrastructures (MERI). In the past decade the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) has supported multiple research infrastructure projects, including the Global Environment for Network Investigations (GENI), and NSF Future Cloud projects including CloudLab and ChameleonCloud. The potential of MERI projects to support transformative research grows as experiments are envisioned that span multiple infrastructures providing complementary services. These experiments place new demands on each infrastructure to coordinate development and implement common protocols and interfaces to support interoperability and ease-of-use by experimenters.This project seeks to create a community-led research coordination entity known as the MERI Forum (MERIF) to help achieve these objectives. MERIF will convene the CISE research infrastructure development community, experimenters, and other key stakeholders to communicate, cooperate and collaborate on MERI development. The project embarks with 6 primary responsibilities:1. Advancing the Federation and Harmonization of MERIF projects to enable and simplify their use;2. supporting Education and Outreach to integrate the use of the diversity of MERIF project resources in academic courses, including use by underserved populations;3. hosting workshops to focus on midscale infrastructure solutions for a future national computation fabric that enables research experimentation into future networking and computing architectures;4. convening regular research community meetings to identify the needs of MERI research users;5. reaching out to domain science communities to identity and initiate mutually beneficial collaborations between MERI projects and large-scale science and engineering projects; and6. engaging university Leadership to increase awareness and help sustain MERIF projects.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.

计算机和网络系统研究社区认识到在高度分散的中型实验研究基础设施（MERI）上进行可验证、可重复的大规模实验研究的重要性。在过去的十年中，计算机与信息科学与工程理事会（CISE）支持了多个研究基础设施项目，包括全球网络调查环境（GENI），以及包括CloudLab和ChameleonCloud在内的NSF未来云项目。MERI项目支持变革性研究的潜力日益增长，因为设想的实验跨越多个基础设施，提供互补的服务。这些实验对每个基础设施提出了新的要求，以协调开发和实现公共协议和接口，以支持实验人员的互操作性和易用性。该项目寻求建立一个由社区领导的研究协调实体，即MERI论坛，以帮助实现这些目标。MERIF将召集CISE研究基础设施开发社区、实验人员和其他关键利益相关者就MERI开发进行沟通、合作和协作。本项目主要承担6个主要职责：1。1 .推进MERIF项目的联邦化和协调化，使其能够简化使用；2 .支持教育和外展活动，将MERIF项目资源的多样性纳入学术课程，包括服务不足人群的使用；3 .举办研讨会，重点讨论面向未来国家计算结构的中等规模基础设施解决方案，使未来网络和计算架构的研究实验成为可能；4 .定期召开研究社区会议，确定MERI研究用户的需求；与领域科学界接触，确定并启动MERI项目与大型科学和工程项目之间的互利合作；and6。与大学领导接触，提高认识，帮助维持MERIF项目。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。