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

科学主要依赖于获取科学和工程软件、数据存储库、存储资源、分析工具和广泛的先进计算资源，所有这些都必须集成到一个有凝聚力的科学研究环境中。赛博穿梭机项目正在创建一个无缝的、安全的、高度可用的科学研究环境，它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在科学家的笔记本电脑、计算云或大学的超级计算机上。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，支持可复制性和重用性。赛博穿梭机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，以前沿研究问题为基础，追求项目目标，如了解病毒中的刺突蛋白如何工作，睡眠时大脑如何运作，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，该项目建立在十多年来开发和运营开源Apache Airavata软件框架的经验基础上，用于创建以科学为中心的分布式系统。赛博穿梭提供了一个系统，可以作为一个培训基地，向学生传授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，他们可以轻松地在学术和非学术职业之间转换。Cybershuttle正在创建一种面向用户的新型网络基础设施，它将使所有研究人员能够无缝访问连续的CI资源，从而提高他们的生产力。Cybershuttle框架的核心是一个基于开源Apache Airavata软件的混合分布式系统。该系统将本地部署的代理程序与中央托管的中间件集成在一起，以实现对资源的计算科学和工程研究的端到端集成，这些资源跨越用户的本地资源、集中式大学计算和数据资源、计算云和nsf资助的国家规模计算中心。科学家和工程师使用从一开始就以最佳的以用户为中心的设计实践设计的科学用户环境访问该系统。Cybershuttle采用螺旋式方法来开发、部署和提高使用率和可用性，从团队科学家开始，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赛博穿梭的创建和发展中来。赛博穿梭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。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.