CLEANER: Developing Information Technology and Coordination Architectures for Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research

0416066 Pancake该规划补助金将为两种类型的基础设施制定计划，将CLEANER从补助计划转变为合作实验室：IT基础设施和协调基础设施。该方法基于以下目标：（1）利用其他相关工作的“经验教训”，减少启动时间和工作量。该项目将利用他们的经验，使CLEANER能够受益于目前的“最佳做法”，并制定风险管理战略，以避免已知的陷阱。(2)最大限度地提高CLEANER底层基础设施的灵活性，以便随着经验的积累而不断发展。必须以一种能够导致兼容性、互操作性、扩展性和未来可维护性的方式开发更清洁的设施。这一方法专门解决了这些问题，不仅是在可伸缩和可扩展的IT架构方面，而且还建立了协调程序，随着CLEANER设施的增长和用户获得经验，这些程序将适应不断变化的需求。(3)确保合作实验室的所有组成部分都能为目标对象所使用。除非用户能够充分发挥其潜力，否则建造设施，无论多么先进或理想，都是毫无意义的。根据多年的可用性工程经验，该项目将确定并记录CLEANER不同选区的用户要求和优先事项，并确定如何将可用性程序纳入设施开发。

0416066 Pancake This planning grant will develop plans for the two types of infrastructure that will transform CLEANER from a grant program to a collaboratory: an IT infrastructure and a coordination infrastructure. The approach is founded on the following objectives:(1) Leverage the "lessons learned" by other, related efforts to reduce ramp-up time and effort.Over the last decade, a number of discipline-specific collaboratories have emerged. The project will exploit their experiences so that CLEANER can benefit from current "best practices" and develop risk management strategies to avoid known pitfalls.(2) Maximize the flexibility of CLEANER's underlying infrastructures to allow for growth and evolution as experience is gained. CLEANER facilities must be developed in a way that will lead to compatibility, interoperability, expansion, and future maintainability. This approach specifically addresses these issues, not just in terms of a scalable and extensible IT architecture, but also the establishing of coordination procedures that will adjust to changing needs as CLEANER facilities grow and users gain experience with them.(3) Ensure that all components of the Collaboratory are actually usable by the target audiences.Construction of facilities, however advanced or desirable, is pointless unless their potential will be exercised fully by users. Based on many years of experience in usability engineering, the project will identify and document user requirements and priorities among CLEANER's diverse constituencies and define how usability procedures should be incorporated into facility development.