Collaborative Research: EAGER: A High Throughput Science Gateway for the Event Horizon Telescope

合作研究：EAGER：事件视界望远镜的高通量科学网关

• 批准号: 2324672
• 负责人: Robert Quick
• 金额: $ 20.1万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 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: 2023-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2324672&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; EAGER; Throughput; Science

The Event Horizon Telescope Science Gateway project is a collaborative effort to develop an accessible web-based portal for analyzing black hole images. Bringing together astrophysics researchers and students from the University of Arizona with technology designers, cyberinfrastructure experts, and user experience specialists from the Cyberinfrastructure Integration Research Center at the Indiana University’s Pervasive Technology Institute, the project aims to create an intuitive gateway that harnesses the computational power provided by the Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing and the Open Science Grid. The gateway is built on the Apache Airavata Science Gateway framework. The user-centric design of the portal allows both experienced and novice scientists to access essential analysis tools and benefit from millions of freely available computing cycles. Beyond providing a valuable compute environment and access to untapped resources for the astrophysics community, the project serves as a case study for using science gateways to facilitate access to high-throughput computing resources, demonstrating the effectiveness of integrating human-computer interaction design with science gateway technologies to simplify access to advanced computational resources.Science gateways are effective tools for expanding access to scientific cyberinfrastructure by creating user environments customized for specific scientific communities. An emerging area of research in this field involves integrating science gateway technologies with human-computer interaction and user experience design methodologies. The Event Horizon Telescope community's utilization of the Open Science Grid exemplifies this approach. This project focuses on combining human-centered design principles with science gateway technologies to address key challenges in resource provisioning, meta-scheduling, data management, and complex computing workflows in high-throughput settings. The objective is to enhance the Event Horizon Telescope community's capacity to analyze extensive astronomical datasets by providing a more user-friendly and efficient gateway. This innovative approach introduces a new perspective to astrophysics and high-throughput computing, with the potential to drive transformative advancements in both fields.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.

事件视界望远镜科学门户项目是一项合作努力，旨在开发一个可访问的基于网络的门户网站，用于分析黑洞图像。该项目将亚利桑那大学的天体物理学研究人员和学生与印第安纳大学普及技术研究所网络基础设施集成研究中心的技术设计师、网络基础设施专家和用户体验专家聚集在一起，旨在创建一个直观的网关，利用合作伙伴关系提供的计算能力来推进吞吐量计算和开放科学网格。该网关建立在Apache Airavata科学网关框架上。门户网站以用户为中心的设计使有经验的和新手科学家都可以访问基本的分析工具，并从数百万个免费提供的计算周期中受益。除了为天体物理学社区提供有价值的计算环境和访问未开发资源之外，该项目还作为使用科学网关促进访问高通量计算资源的案例研究，展示了将人机交互设计与科学网关技术集成以简化访问高级计算资源的有效性。科学网关是通过创建针对特定科学社区定制的用户环境来扩展对科学网络基础设施的访问的有效工具。该领域的一个新兴研究领域涉及将科学网关技术与人机交互和用户体验设计方法相结合。事件视界望远镜社区对开放科学网格的利用就是这种方法的例证。该项目侧重于将以人为本的设计原则与科学网关技术相结合，以解决高吞吐量环境下资源供应、元调度、数据管理和复杂计算工作流方面的关键挑战。其目标是通过提供一个更加用户友好和高效的门户，增强事件视界望远镜社区分析广泛天文数据集的能力。这种创新的方法为天体物理学和高通量计算引入了新的视角，并有可能推动这两个领域的变革性进步。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。