Preliminary Design Planning for the Leadership-Class Computing Facility

领先级计算设施的初步设计规划

• 批准号: 2033468
• 负责人: Daniel Stanzione
• 金额: $ 350万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2033468&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preliminary; Design; Planning; Leadership; Class

Over the past decades, the role of computational and data science in advancing discovery has increased tremendously. NSF has played a central role in this transformation of scientific research as a funder of pioneering research activities and as a leader in enabling the use of High-Performance Computing (HPC), with Computation-based methods now becoming central to research in diverse areas of Science and Engineering (S&E). The NSF leadership-class computing facility (LCCF) program is intended to provide unique services and resources to enable discoveries in the largest and most computationally intensive S&E research frontiers that could not advance otherwise. This award supports the design and planning activities associated with the Preliminary Design (PD) of LCCF after successful completion of Conceptual Design (CD). The LCCF project proposes an advanced computing facility to enable discoveries in all fields of S&E requiring leadership computing capabilities, delivering a facility that will not only deal with the very largest challenges in S&E simulation, but also in Artificial Intelligence (AI), as well as the analysis of data from experimental and observational facilities. To deliver this goal, the LCCF project will provide a large-scale computing platform, called Horizon, with a ten-fold increase in the time-to-solution capability of the NSF's current largest system (Frontera), as well as a complete environment for managing data throughout the research lifecycle. The LCCF will also provide a software environment, supporting services, and training to ensure that researchers can effectively use the facility for maximum impact to enhance the scientific discovery process. Extensive plans for Education and Public Outreach are also planned which includes developing existing high impact formal learning programs for students, teachers, and parents, as well as construction for an informal learning environment that will be part of LCCF called the Computarium. The PD process will continue many of the activities from CD, but with a focus on improving the project plans and estimates sufficiently to make important decisions moving forward. Important PD goals are to make the final site selection for the facility, refine the science use cases into specific application targets with defined Figure of Merit performance increases, and choose the general direction of the Horizon system architecture.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.

在过去的几十年里，计算和数据科学在推动发现方面的作用大大增加了。美国国家科学基金会作为开创性研究活动的资助者和高性能计算(HPC)使用的领导者，在科学研究的这一变革中发挥了核心作用，基于计算的方法现在成为科学和工程不同领域研究的核心(S和E)。美国国家科学基金会领导级计算设施(LCCF)计划旨在提供独特的服务和资源，以实现在规模最大、计算最密集的S研究前沿的发现，否则这些前沿将无法取得进展。该奖项支持成功完成概念设计(CD)后与LCCF初步设计(PD)相关的设计和规划活动。LCCF项目提出了一种先进的计算设施，以支持需要领先计算能力的S&E的所有领域的发现，提供的设施不仅将应对S&A；E模拟方面的最大挑战，而且还将处理人工智能(AI)以及来自实验和观测设施的数据分析。为了实现这一目标，LCCF项目将提供一个名为Horizon的大型计算平台，将NSF当前最大的系统(Frontera)的解决方案能力提高十倍，并提供一个在整个研究生命周期内管理数据的完整环境。LCCF还将提供软件环境、支持服务和培训，以确保研究人员能够有效地利用该设施，发挥最大影响，加强科学发现过程。还计划了广泛的教育和公共推广计划，其中包括为学生、教师和家长制定现有的高影响力正式学习方案，以及建设一个非正式学习环境，该环境将成为LCCF的一部分，称为计算机。发展计划进程将继续开展裁谈会的许多活动，但重点是充分改进项目计划和估计，以便作出重要决定。重要的PD目标是为设施做出最终的选址，将科学使用案例细化为特定的应用目标，并定义性能提升系数，并选择Horizon系统架构的总体方向。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。