Data-enabled Pathways to Equity in Cyberinfrastructure Utilization for Scientific Discovery

利用数据实现科学发现的网络基础设施公平之路

• 批准号: 2346631
• 负责人: Yu-Che Chen
• 金额: $ 28.32万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska at Omaha
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2346631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Data; enabled; Pathways; Equity; Cyberinfrastructure

This research addresses the salient challenge of equity in the utilization of publicly-supported advanced computing resources for research and innovation. Advanced computing resources have increasingly become a critical production factor for the advancement of science and national competitiveness. However, the utilization of such advanced computing resources tends to give advantages to well-resourced institutions and widen the equity gap between these institutions and minority or other under-resourced institutions. This project aims to provide data-enabled pathways to advance equity in the utilization of advanced computing resources. To achieve the goal, the research team implements three interconnected tasks: (a) understanding and defining equity from the stakeholders' perspectives, (b) studying and designing pathways to equity in utilization, and (c) developing and implementing a knowledge portal featuring an interactive data platform to support these pathways to more equitable utilization. These pathways unlock the talents and insights of the researchers in underserved institutions and fields of science for advancing scientific discovery and elevating national competitiveness. This research studies and provides data-enabled pathways to equity in publicly-supported cyberinfrastructure utilization for scientific discovery. Cyberinfrastructure integrates hardware, software, people, and systems to provide geographically dispersed but operationally integrated advanced computing services to researchers. Equity is a core public value but a concern for utilizing cyberinfrastructure that favors high-capacity research institutions and principal investigators. The NSF’s cyberinfrastructure programs serve as an empirical focal point for understanding equity due to their scale, distributional effects, and impacts on scientific discovery. This project team assembles a database of NSF cyberinfrastructure utilization for 25,798 projects, encompassing 10,277 principal investigators, 1,044 organizations, and 215 science fields from 2003 to 2022. This research adopts a mixed-methods exploratory sequential design by gathering, analyzing, and integrating data from (a) combining the interactive data platform with a stakeholder-focused qualitative interpretive process and (b) analyzing a socio-technical networked system by considering levels and dynamics of cyberinfrastructure activities. This research advances knowledge and practice about equity in publicly-supported advanced computing cyberinfrastructure, the pathways to achieve a more equitable utilization, and the role of an interactive data and knowledge platform to enable these pathways. This project is jointly funded by the Science of Science program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.

这项研究解决了利用公共支持的先进计算资源进行研究和创新的公平性的突出挑战。先进的计算资源日益成为推动科学进步和提高国家竞争力的关键生产要素。然而，利用这种先进的计算资源往往会使资源充足的机构获得优势，并扩大这些机构与少数或其他资源不足机构之间的公平差距。该项目旨在提供数据化途径，以促进公平利用先进计算资源。为实现这一目标，研究小组执行了三项相互关联的任务：（a）从利益攸关方的角度理解和界定公平;（B）研究和设计实现公平利用的途径;（c）开发和实施一个知识门户网站，其中包括一个互动数据平台，以支持实现更公平利用的途径。这些途径释放了服务不足的机构和科学领域的研究人员的才能和见解，以促进科学发现和提高国家竞争力。这项研究研究并提供了数据支持的途径，以公平地利用公共支持的网络基础设施进行科学发现。网络基础设施集成了硬件、软件、人员和系统，为研究人员提供地理上分散但操作上集成的先进计算服务。公平是一个核心的公共价值，但对利用有利于高能力研究机构和主要研究人员的网络基础设施的关注。NSF的网络基础设施计划作为一个经验的焦点，了解公平，由于其规模，分布效应，并对科学发现的影响。该项目团队为25，798个项目收集了NSF网络基础设施利用率的数据库，其中包括10，277名主要研究人员，1，044个组织和215个科学领域。本研究采用混合方法探索性顺序设计，通过收集，分析和整合数据（a）将交互式数据平台与以用户为中心的定性解释过程相结合，（B）通过考虑网络基础设施活动的水平和动态来分析社会技术网络系统。这项研究推进了关于公共支持的先进计算网络基础设施公平性的知识和实践，实现更公平利用的途径，以及交互式数据和知识平台在实现这些途径方面的作用。该项目由科学学项目和刺激竞争性研究既定项目（EPSCoR）联合资助。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力进行评估而被认为值得支持。审查标准。