SCI: Delivering Cyberinfrastructure: From Vision to Reality

网络基础设施是指访问和整合当今硬件、软件和人力信息技术资源的能力，以促进科学和工程目标的实现。 该提案描述了建设和提供网络基础设施的行动计划。 圣地亚哥超级计算机中心（SDSC）的工作重点是提供一个深度集成的环境，协调硬件、软件和人力资源，以吸引和支持用户，并开发关键基础设施，以推动研究和教育。 SDSC的活动将特别侧重于建立数据网络基础设施，这对管理、理解和从当今海量数据中获取知识至关重要。 该中心还将专注于建设网络基础设施社区：通过深度合作，专业级服务和软件，大规模数据管理和计算设施，以及社会科学家和计算机科学家的新社区的参与和支持，扩大研究人员和教育工作者的影响力，他们可以在网络基础设施中发挥重要作用。网络基础设施扩展了研究人员和教育工作者的范围，超越了他们家庭环境的能力、挑战和限制。 网络基础设施提供了一种手段，使用户能够获得更多的基础设施，大大有利于他们的研究和教育工作。 SDSC将成为网络基础设施的核心资源，通过高度重视，应用和多学科的专业知识和社区领导;大规模数据和计算资源;以及强大，专业，以用户为中心的软件。SDSC将提供：广泛的网络基础设施软件和服务，使用户能够在家庭环境中协调可用的技术工具与更大的网络基础设施资源，并影响他们的科学工作。o与加州电信和信息技术研究所（Cal-IT 2）[1]合作的综合中心，以利用跨项目和学科的基础设施。·领域科学家和计算机科学家之间的密集战略合作项目，将科学和技术目标联系起来。一个先进的网络基础设施实验室，将是一个灵活的环境，以支持研究，开发，实验和评估与网络基础设施技术和工具。o一个全面的综合数据网络基础设施，为广泛的现有和新兴数据导向用户提供服务。网络基础设施的客户和受益者是其用户，网络基础设施成功的最终衡量标准是关注科学挑战的能力，而不是推动新发现的工具的挑战。 SDSC将建立和提供关键服务、基础设施和创新，以促进网络基础设施的最终成功。 SDSC与包括国家超级计算应用中心（NCSA）、TeraGrid/ETF、以项目为中心的社区工作以及广泛的领域科学家、工程师和计算机科学家在内的合作者社区一起，将提供专业知识、硬件和软件的紧密结合，以促进网络基础设施愿景转化为现实。

Cyberinfrastructure refers to the ability to access and integrate today's hardware, software, and human information technology resources in order to facilitate science and engineering goals. This proposal describes a plan of action for building and delivering cyberinfrastructure. The efforts of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will focus on the provisioning of a deeply integrated environment, which coordinates hardware, software, and human resources to engage and support users, and the development of critical infrastructure to drive research and education. SDSC activities will have particular focus on building the data cyberinfrastructure so critical to managing, understanding, and gaining knowledge from today's deluge of data. The Center will also focus on building the community for cyberinfrastructure: extending the reach of researchers and educators through deep collaborations, professional-level services and software, large-scale data management and computational facilities, and the engagement and support of new communities of social scientists and computer scientists who can play an important role in cyberinfrastructure as process-builders. Cyberinfrastructure extends the reach of researchers and educators past the capabilities, challenges, and limitations of their home environment.. Cyberinfrastructure provides a vehicle for accessing additional infrastructure that benefits users significantly in their research and education efforts. SDSC will be a core resource for cyberinfrastructure through highly valued, applied, and multi-disciplinary expertise and community leadership; large-scale data and computational resources; and robust, professional, user-focused software. SDSC will provide: o A broad spectrum of cyberinfrastructure software and services that enable users to coordinate available technological tools in their home environment with the larger landscape of cyberinfrastructure resources and impact their science efforts. o A Synthesis Center in partnership with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-IT2) [1] for leveraging infrastructure across projects and disciplines. o Intensive strategic collaboration projects among domain scientists and computer scientists that bridge science and technology goals. o An Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory that will be a flexible environment to support research, development, experimentation, and evaluation with cyberinfrastructure technology and tools. o A comprehensive Integrated Data Cyberinfrastructure to serve a broad class of existing and emerging data-oriented users. The customers and beneficiaries of cyberinfrastructure are its users, and the ultimate metric of success for cyberinfrastructure is the ability to focus on the challenges of the science rather than the challenges of the tools in driving new discovery. SDSC will build and deliver key services, infrastructure, and innovations that will enhance the ultimate success of cyberinfrastructure. Together with a community of collaborators including the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), TeraGrid/ETF, project-focused community efforts, and a broad group of domain scientists, engineers and computer scientists, SDSC will provide a cohesive combination of expertise, hardware, and software to facilitate the transformation of the cyberinfrastructure vision into reality.