POSE: Phase I: Tapis Advancing Collaborative Open Source (TACOS)

先进的计算基础设施领域已经发生了巨大的变化，有许多复杂的功能可以处理世界上最具挑战性的计算问题。但伴随这种复杂而来的是复杂性。Tapis框架提供了一个托管的、统一的基于web的API，用于安全管理跨机构的计算工作负载，这样专家就可以专注于他们的研究，而不是完成研究所需的技术。Tapis推进协作开放源代码（TACOS）计划旨在探索将Tapis转变为一个自我维持的组织。TACOS将寻找转换为开源生态系统（OSE）所需的工具、服务和基础设施支持，并使Tapis能够扩展到协作和异步开发环境。Tapis平台可以更容易地实现、共享和重用复杂的计算应用程序、工作流和基础设施，并使以前对研究人员来说过于具有挑战性的分析成为可能。Tapis最大限度地提高了应用程序的可移植性，允许灵活地调度地理分布的计算工作负载，提供基于http的RESTful API科学即服务，以实现多设施、分散部署，并为传感器和流数据提供生产级支持。通过将Tapis转变为开源生态系统，Tapis领导层将为更大的社区生态系统建立组织和治理结构，以及贡献途径和流程，包括可重用的Tapis工件，如容器化功能、应用程序和Jupyter笔记本，以及核心代码库。加快社区发展的工具，如按键式沙盒环境、SDK、CLI和用户界面的模板和脚手架库，也将被确定和采用。该项目的主要目标将是增加和加强开发人员社区的参与，以提供长期的支持。这些合作将着眼于机会，使社区不仅成为Tapis的用户，而且成为Tapis的贡献者。项目团队深信开放、包容、社区驱动的软件开发方法的力量和重要性，而POSE项目将使我们能够为开发者社区的直接参与开辟道路。通过使Tapis成为一个开源软件，超越源代码，Tapis将发展成为一个组件生态系统，社区可以在任何级别的专业知识中做出贡献。为此，该项目将超越现有的用户基础，通过学生指导和黑客马拉松，在教学密集型机构和EPSCOR社区中寻找社区成员，扩大范围，创造机会，为Tapis生态系统做出贡献。关于Tapis项目的更多细节可以在https://tapis-project.org/上找到，包括https://tapis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/上的入门指南。更广泛的Tapis社区可以使用Slack加入：http://bit.ly/join-tapisThis该奖项反映了NSF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。

The advanced computing infrastructure landscape has evolved tremendously with many sophisticated capabilities for tackling the world's most challenging computing problems. But with that sophistication comes complexity. The Tapis Framework provides a hosted, unified web-based API for securely managing computational workloads across institutions so that experts can focus on their research instead of the technology needed to accomplish it. The Tapis Advancing Collaborative Open Source (TACOS) initiative seeks to explore transforming Tapis into a self-sustaining organization. TACOS will look for the tools, services, and infrastructure support needed to transform into an Open Source Ecosystem (OSE) and enable Tapis to expand to a collaborative and asynchronous development environment. The Tapis platform allows easier implementation, sharing and re-use of complex computational applications, workflows, and infrastructure and enables analysis previously too challenging for researchers. Tapis maximizes application portability, allowing flexible scheduling of geographically distributed computational workloads, offering a HTTP-based RESTful API science-as-a-service to enable multi-facility, decentralized deployments, and provide production-grade support for sensors and streaming data. By transforming Tapis to an Open Source Ecosystem, Tapis leadership will establish organization and governance structures along with contribution pathways and processes for the greater community ecosystem, including reusable Tapis artifacts such as containerized functions, applications and Jupyter notebooks, in addition to the core code base. Tools to accelerate community development, such as push-button sandbox environments, template and scaffold libraries for SDK, CLI and user interfaces, will also be identified and adopted. The project’s primary objectives will be to grow and strengthen the engagement of developer communities to provide long-term sustainment. These engagements will look at opportunities to shift the community from not only being users of Tapis but also contributors to Tapis. The project team believes deeply in the power and importance of an open, inclusive, community driven approach to software development, and the POSE program will enable us to create inroads to direct engagement by the developer community. By making Tapis an OSE, going beyond source code, Tapis will evolve to an ecosystem of components that the community can contribute to at any level of expertise. To this end the project will engage beyond existing user base and pursue community members amongst teaching intensive institutes and EPSCOR communities via student mentoring and hackathons to broaden outreach and create opportunities to contribute to the Tapis ecosystem.Further details about the Tapis project can be found on https://tapis-project.org/ including a getting started guide at https://tapis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. The wider Tapis community is available to join using Slack at: http://bit.ly/join-tapisThis 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.