Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Cybershuttle: An end-to-end Cyberinfrastructure Continuum to accelerate Discovery in Science and Engineering

科学在很大程度上依赖于获取科学和工程软件、数据仓库、存储资源、分析工具和广泛的先进计算资源，所有这些都必须整合到一个有凝聚力的科学研究环境中。CyberSpace项目正在创建一个无缝、安全和高度可用的科学研究环境，其中集成了科学家的所有研究工具和数据，这些工具和数据可能位于科学家的笔记本电脑、计算云或大学超级计算机上。这些研究环境可以进一步支持科学研究，使科学家能够与合作者和更广泛的科学界分享他们的研究，支持可复制和重复使用。CyberSpace团队将生物物理学家、神经科学家、工程师和计算机科学家整合到一个团队中，追求项目目标，并以尖端研究问题为基础，例如了解病毒中的尖峰蛋白如何工作，大脑在睡眠中如何运作，以及如何将人工智能技术应用于工程材料建模。为了实现其雄心勃勃的目标，该项目正在开发和运营开源的阿帕奇Airavata软件框架方面积累了十多年的经验，以创建以科学为中心的分布式系统。CyberSpace正在提供一种可用作培训场所的系统，以教育学生了解开源软件开发和应用分布式系统的概念，培养一支具有全球竞争力的劳动力队伍，他们可以在学术和非学术职业之间轻松流动。CyberSpace正在创建一种新型的面向用户的网络基础设施，这将使所有研究人员能够无缝访问可用的CI资源，从而提高他们的生产率。CyberSpace框架的核心是一个混合分布式系统，基于开源的ApacheAiravata软件。该系统将本地部署的代理程序与集中托管的中间件集成在一起，以实现计算科学和工程研究的端到端集成，这些资源涵盖用户的本地资源、集中化的大学计算和数据资源、计算云以及NSF资助的国家级计算中心。科学家和工程师使用科学的用户环境访问该系统，该环境从一开始就采用了以用户为中心的最佳设计实践。CyberSpace使用螺旋式方法来开发、部署和增加使用和可用性，从团队中的科学家开始，扩展到更大的科学社区。该项目通过一个利益相关者咨询委员会，让更多的科学家、网络基础设施专家和其他利益相关者参与到网络穿梭的创建和发展中。CyberSpace的团队包括来自印第安纳大学、伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校、加州大学圣地亚哥分校、圣地亚哥超级计算机中心和艾伦研究所的研究人员。这一奖项反映了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。

Science depends critically on accessing scientific and engineering software, data repositories, storage resources, analytical tools, and a wide range of advanced computing resources, all of which must be integrated into a cohesive scientific research environment. The Cybershuttle project is creating a seamless, secure, and highly usable scientific research environment that integrates all of a scientist’s research tools and data, which may be on the scientist’s laptop, a computing cloud, or a university supercomputer. These research environments can further support scientific research by enabling scientists to share their research with collaborators and the broader scientific community, supporting replicability and reuse. The Cybershuttle team integrates biophysicists, neuroscientists, engineers, and computer scientists into a single team pursuing the project goals with a grounding in cutting-edge research problems such as understanding how spike proteins in viruses work, how the brain functions during sleep, and how artificial intelligence techniques can be applied to modeling engineering materials. To meet its ambitious goals, the project is building on over a decade of experience in developing and operating the open-source Apache Airavata software framework for creating science-centric distributed systems. Cybershuttle is providing a system that can be used as a training ground to educate students in concepts of open-source software development and applied distributed systems, fostering a globally competitive workforce who can move easily between academic and non-academic careers. Cybershuttle is creating a new type of user-facing cyberinfrastructure that will enable seamless access to a continuum of CI resources usable for all researchers, increasing their productivity. The core of the Cybershuttle framework is a hybrid distributed system, based on open-source Apache Airavata software. This system integrates locally deployed agent programs with centrally hosted middleware to enable an end-to-end integration of computational science and engineering research on resources that span users’ local resources, centralized university computing and data resources, computational clouds, and NSF-funded, national-scale computing centers. Scientists and engineers access this system using scientific user environments designed from the beginning with the best user-centered design practices. Cybershuttle uses a spiral approach for developing, deploying, and increasing usage and usability, beginning with on-team scientists and expanding to larger scientific communities. The project engages the larger community of scientists, cyberinfrastructure experts, and other stakeholders in the creation and advancement of Cybershuttle through a stakeholder advisory board. Cybershuttle's team includes researchers from Indiana University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California San Diego, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the Allen Institute.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.