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界认识到在高度分散的中型实验研究基础设施 (MERI) 上大规模开展可验证、可重复的实验研究的重要性。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 NSF 未来云项目，包括 CloudLab 和 ChameleonCloud。随着跨多个基础设施提供补充服务的实验的设想，MERI 项目支持变革性研究的潜力不断增长。这些实验对每个基础设施提出了新的要求，以协调开发并实施通用协议和接口，以支持实验人员的互操作性和易用性。该项目旨在创建一个名为 MERI 论坛 (MERIF) 的社区主导的研究协调实体，以帮助实现这些目标。 MERIF将召集CISE研究基础设施开发社区、实验者和其他主要利益相关者就MERI开发进行沟通、合作和协作。该项目一开始就有 6 项主要职责：1．推进 MERIF 项目的联合和协调，以实现并简化其使用；2．支持教育和外展活动，将 MERIF 项目资源的多样性整合到学术课程中，包括服务不足人群的使用；3.举办研讨会，重点关注未来国家计算结构的中型基础设施解决方案，以便对未来网络和计算架构进行研究实验；4．定期召开研究社区会议，以确定 MERI 研究用户的需求；5．接触领域科学界，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；和6。让大学领导层参与进来，提高认识并帮助维持 MERIF 项目。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。