CC* Compute: Accelerating Compute Driven Science Through a Sharable High Performance Computing Cluster in Kent State Multi-Campus System

该项目将增加一个灵活的本地和全球共享的HPCC(高性能计算集群)，托管在Science DMZ飞地上，与包括开放科学网格(OSG)在内的国家科学计算设施集成，创造性地利用联合科学网络和向地区教师开放的分布式系统虚拟化方面的最新进展。该系统由18个节点组成，配备双Intel Xeon Gold 6242R级CPU(20核)、192 GB RAM和NVIDIA A30级GPU。使用CEP跨节点分布存储除了支持HPC和HTC工作流外，该项目还支持几个有趣的新出现的协作HPCC工作流-科学设备即服务(SAS)和科学数据湖(SDL)，以及高强度实时计算(IRTC)。该项目中NSF资助的资源对俄亥俄州东北部大学的所有教职研究人员及其合作者开放，包括肯特所有八个校区的教职员工，他们处于网络的延迟附近，从事数据密集型协作工作流。为了支持高吞吐量和协作计算，Science DMZ采用了不受阻碍的以主机为中心的烧灼和联合安全的新模式，而不是传统的以外围为重点的安全方法。它前面已经有一个100-Gbps的数据传输节点(DTN)，能够‘无摩擦’地长途传输海量数据集。该项目直接促进了NSF的目标，即促进新的校园级网络和网络基础设施的创新、集成和工程，这些网络和网络基础设施可以坚定地支持广泛协作的、多校园分布式的海量数据驱动的研究，并利用基本未开发的潜力，在整个学术结构中共享未使用的计算周期和资源，同时利用来自各种学科的一组引人注目的科学项目。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 project will add an agile locally and globally sharable HPCC (High-Performance Computing Cluster) hosted in a ScienceDMZ enclave, integrated with national science computing facilities, including the Open Science Grid (OSG), by creatively using recent advances in federated science networking and distributed systems’ virtualization open to regional faculty. The system is composed of 18 nodes with dual Intel Xeon Gold 6242R class CPUs (20 core), 192GB RAM, and an NVIDIA A30 class GPUs. Storage is spread across the nodes using CEPHThe project supports several interesting newly emerging collaborative HPCC workflows- scienceware as-a-service (SAS) and science-data-lakes (SDL), and intense real-time-computing (iRTC) besides supporting the HPC and HTC workflows. NSF-funded resources in this project are open to all faculty researchers in northeast Ohio colleges and their collaborators, including the faculty of all eight campuses of Kent who are in the network’s latency proximity and engaged in data-intensive collaborative workflows. In order to support high throughput and collaborative computing, the ScienceDMZ exercises a new model of unimpeded host-centric cauterized and federated security, as opposed to the traditional perimeter focused security approach. It is already fronted by a 100-Gbps Data Transfer Node (DTN) capable of ‘friction-free’ long-haul transferring massive datasets. The project directly contributes to NSF’s goals to foster innovation, integration, and engineering of new campus-level networking and cyberinfrastructure that can assertively support widely collaborative, multi-campus distributed massive-data driven research and harness largely untapped potential to share unused compute cycles and resources across the entire academic fabric, while leveraging a compelling set of science projects from a wide variety of disciplines.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.