SCI: Keeping Condor Flight Worthy

该提案概述了威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（UW）的Condor项目为维持Condor高吞吐量计算软件（Condor）所做的努力。 拟议的活动分为四个工作领域：支持、发布、加强和使用。“支持”活动通过票证跟踪电子邮件帮助用户进行安装、配置和使用。支持还包括在科学计算界开展外联工作。这项推广工作包括举办年度国际Condor研讨会，参加致力于Condor和分布式计算的在线论坛，撰写关于使用Condor的文章和书籍章节，并在研讨会和会议上提供受邀教程。“支持”功能主要用于提供新版本的Condor软件。支持还包括维护-持续的错误修复，对新操作系统版本和依赖软件包的新版本的支持，以及对文档的更新。“增强”活动将对Condor软件进行基本改进，例如增强可伸缩性和可靠性，增加Win32的新功能，以及纳入分布式计算技术的最新进展。“使用”活动利用了威斯康星州网格实验室（GLOW）项目。GLOW是一个跨威斯康星州大学校园的多学科研究团队，负责开发、实施、测试和部署网格功能。智力价值和更广泛的影响--建议的努力的智力价值在于Condor实现的分布式机制的新奇，以及Condor团队在开发、维护和支持400多个，000行Condor代码。作为开源分布式计算能力的领先提供商，Condor在许多研究以及国家和国际网格计划中扮演着重要的角色，包括网格物理网络，国际虚拟数据网格实验室，粒子物理数据网格和NSF中间件计划。Condor是网络、操作系统和网格计算领域众多MS和PhD项目的基础。Condor软件的规模、复杂性、多样性和质量保证要求也给软件工程领域带来了挑战。拟议活动的更广泛影响是跨学科的，跨越学术界和工业界。使用Condor的科学家已经能够大大提高他们的计算吞吐量，因此增加了他们研究的问题的规模和复杂性。Condor广泛应用于许多需要HTC的学科，包括化学，医学，高能和核物理，生物技术等。Condor已被大学和政府机构采用，如NASA，桑迪亚国家实验室和NCSA。

This proposal outlines an effort to sustain the Condor High Throughput Computing Software (Condor) by the Condor Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). The activities proposed are categorized into four areas of work: Support, Release, Enhance, and Use. "Support" activities aid users with installation, configuration, and usage through ticket-tracked email. Support also includes outreach work in the scientific computing community. This outreach work includes hosting an annual international Condor workshop, participating in online forums dedicated to Condor and distributed computing, writing articles and book chapters on using Condor, and delivering invited tutorials at workshops and conferences. "Support" functions serve mainly to deliver new versions of the Condor software. Support also includes maintenance - ongoing bug fixing, support for new operating system releases and new versions of dependent software packages, and updates to documentation. "Enhance" activities will generate basic improvements to the Condor software, such as enhancements in scalability and reliability, new capabilities on Win32, and the incorporation of recent advances in distributed computing technology. "Use" activities leverages the Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin (GLOW) project. GLOW is a multi disciplinary team of researchers across the University of Wisconsin campus that develops, implements, tests and deploys grid-enabled capabilities.Intellectual Merit and Broader Impact - The intellectual merit of the proposed effort lies within the novelty of the distributed mechanisms implemented by Condor and the software engineering challenges the Condor team faces in developing, maintaining and supporting the over 400,000 lines of Condor code in an academic setting. As a leading provider of open-source distributed computing capabilities, Condor plays an important role as a primary "building block" in many research and national and international grid initiatives, including the Grid Physics Network, the International Virtual Data GridLaboratory, the Particle Physics Data Grid, and the NSF Middleware Initiative. Condor serves as the foundation for numerous MS and PhD projects in networking, operating systems, and grid computing. The size, complexity, diversity and quality assurance requirements of the Condor software also lead to challenges in the area of software engineering. The broader impacts of the proposed activity are interdisciplinary and span across both academia and industry. Scientists who use Condor have been able to greatly increase their computing throughput, and therefore increase the size and complexity of the problems they study. Condor is widely used in many disciplines requiring HTC, including Chemistry, Medical, High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Biotechnology, and many others. Condor has been adopted by both universities and government facilities, such as NASA, Sandia National Labs, and NCSA.