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.

在过去的几十年中，计算和数据科学在进行发现中的作用大大增加了。 NSF在科学研究的这种转变中发挥了核心作用，作为开创性研究活动的资助者，并作为能够使用高性能计算（HPC）的领导者，基于计算的方法现在成为科学和工程学多个领域（S＆E）研究的核心。 NSF领导力类计算设施（LCCF）计划旨在提供独特的服务和资源，以使其能够在最大，最计算的S＆E研究领域的发现中，否则无法推进。 该奖项支持成功完成概念设计（CD）后与LCCF初步设计（PD）相关的设计和计划活动。 LCCF项目提出了一个先进的计算设施，以在S＆E的所有领域都有领导能力的发现，并提供了一个设施，不仅可以处理S＆E模拟中最大的挑战，还可以处理人工智能（AI）中的最大挑战，以及实验和观察设施的数据分析。 为了实现这一目标，LCCF项目将提供一个称为Horizo​​n的大规模计算平台，并增加了NSF当前最大系统（Frontera）的时间到解决的能力，并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，以确保研究人员可以有效地利用该设施来最大程度地影响，以增强科学发现过程。 还计划制定广泛的教育和公共推广计划，其中包括为学生，教师和父母制定现有的高影响力的正式学习计划，以及将成为LCCF一部分的非正式学习环境的建设。 PD流程将继续从CD中进行许多活动，但重点是改进项目计划并充分估算以做出重要的决定。 重要的PD目标是为该设施的最终场地选择，将科学用例完善到具有定义的功绩绩效增加的特定应用程序目标中，并选择地平线系统体系结构的一般方向。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力和更广泛的影响来通过评估来支持的。