CC* Regional Computing: Building Cyberinfrastructure to Forge a Regional Research Computing Alliance in Southern California

CC* 区域计算：建设网络基础设施以在南加州建立区域研究计算联盟

• 批准号: 2232917
• 负责人: Carl Kesselman
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2232917&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; Regional; Computing; Building; Cyberinfrastructure

Educational institutions in Southern California, particularly those focused on undergraduate studies, face challenges in accessing essential high-performance computing (HPC) resources and cyber-infrastructure. This lack of accessibility leads to decreased knowledge and experience with HPC among students and faculty and inhibits advancements in data-intensive research activities. The University of Southern California’s (USC) Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) houses one of the largest HPC facilities in the region and is deploying new cyberinfrastructure to expand their services and expertise to under-resourced universities in the area. The implementation of this new HPC system with corresponding user support services further solidifies the existing collaboration between USC and the Los Nettos consortium, comprised of 6 member universities and 30 associate networks.The new system offers a similar computing environment to national HPC centers with advanced computing capacity, high-speed network, and abundant research applications and tools in its software stack. Additionally, the system leverages existing cyberinfrastructure at USC such as central file systems, HPC cluster interconnection, and federated authentication. This project significantly increases the accessibility of advanced cyberinfrastructure to students and researchers of regional institutions while catalyzing multi-institutional research collaborations, thereby forming a computational research and education hub in the region—the Southern California Research Computing Alliance.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.

南加州的教育机构，尤其是专注于本科研究的教育机构，在获得基本的高性能计算（HPC）资源和网络基础设施方面面临挑战。缺乏可访问性会导致学生和教职员工的HPC知识和经验的提高，并抑制了数据密集型研究活动的进步。南加州大学（USC）高级研究计算中心（CARC）拥有该地区最大的HPC设施之一，并正在部署新的网络基础设施，以将其服务和专业知识扩展到该地区资产不足的大学。使用相应的用户支持服务实施了这种新的HPC系统，进一步巩固了USC和Los Nettos联盟之间的现有协作，该联盟由6个成员大学和30个相关网络组成。新系统为国家HPC中心提供了与先进的计算能力，高速网络以及大量的研究应用程序和软件堆栈工具相似的计算环境。此外，该系统还利用USC的现有网络基础结构，例如中央文件系统，HPC群集互连和联合身份验证。该项目大大提高了对区域机构的学生和研究人员的高级网络基础设施的可访问性，同时催化了多机构研究的合作，从而形成了该地区南加州研究计算联盟的计算研究和教育枢纽，这是NSF的法定任务，并通过评估范围来表现出众多的支持。