PLaNetS: Physics Lambda Network System

与支持现代社会的道路、桥梁、电网、电话线和供水系统等有形基础设施一样，“网络基础设施”指的是分布式计算机、信息和通信技术与人员和集成组件相结合，为科学研究提供长期平台。科学家和工程师越来越依赖全球可访问的信息网络基础设施来推动研究和教育。世纪的网络基础设施将涉及开发资源，如超级计算机、大容量大容量存储系统、系统软件套件和编程环境、交互式可视化、大规模数据储存库和数字化科学数据管理系统。这些系统将通过各种范围和粒度的高容量网络连接起来，再加上一系列软件工具和服务，隐藏了潜在的复杂性和异质性，同时寻求提供无处不在的访问和增强的可用性。此外，还需要支持培训将使用和支持这些资源的当代和后代研究人员、教育工作者和技术专家。 这就是这个研究小组的工作方向。 在与相关的网络基础设施项目iVDGL，CHEPREO合作，也UltraLight E O的努力，这个小组将达到各种学生在合作机构，包括大量的学生从传统上代表性不足的群体和少数民族和学生从我们的合作国际机构。

Like the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, power grids, telephone lines, and water systems that support modern society, "cyberinfrastructure" refers to the distributed computer, information and communication technologies combined with the personnel and integrating components that provide a long-term platform to empower scientific research. Scientists and engineers increasingly rely on the availability of globally accessible information cyberinfrastructure to drive research and education.Cyberinfrastructure in the 21st Century will be involved in developing resources, such as supercomputers, high-capacity mass-storage systems, system software suites and programming environments, interactive visualization, large-scale data repositories and digitized scientific data management systems.These will be connected by high capacity networks of various reach and granularity, coupled with an array of software tools and services that hide the underlying complexities and heterogeneity, while seeking to provide ubiquitous access and enhanced usability. Further, support will be needed for the training of current and future generations of researchers, educators, and technical specialists who will use and support these resources. That is where the work of this research team is directed. In collaboration with related cyber-infrastructure projects iVDGL, CHEPREO, and also UltraLight E&O efforts, this group will reach a variety of students at collaborating institutes including a significant number of students from traditionally underrepresented groups and minorities and students from our collaborating international institutions.