CI-Team Implementation Project: Embedded Immersive Engagement for Cyberinfrastructure

该项目旨在为不断发展的网络研究和教育世界中的科学和工程劳动力做好充分的公民准备。这一目标将通过开放科学网格（OSG）背景下的嵌入式沉浸式参与（EIE）来实现。这项工作的指导思想是，广泛采用网络基础设施概念和技术需要努力培养学生、教师和托管这些概念和技术的校园IT组织的技能。网络基础设施提供商和消费者都必须投入到构建和交付科学发现所需的端到端处理和数据管理能力中。此外，科学计算必须扩展到现有的重心之外，以创建一个真正的国家共享网络基础设施，这样科学家和教育工作者就可以更广泛地体验到新的计算资源的好处，以及他们提供的新水平的合作。该项目需要一个为期三年的工作计划，扩展共享网络基础设施（4CI）的嵌入式沉浸式参与（EIE）的教学方法。通过该项目的EIE-4CI模型，网络基础设施专家嵌入到不同站点的研究和教育团队中，以实现以下目标：(1)使至少六个新的研究和教育团队充分利用可用的分布式网络基础设施资源进行生产；(2)使至少六个大学校园能够使用通用中间件跨多个设施运行生产质量的共享分布式基础设施；(3)建立知识、经验、文档和培训能力，以显著降低使用和/或贡献共享分布式设施的门槛；(4)为网络基础设施消费者和提供商提供实际操作的技术知识、工具和方法，以便在本项目结束后继续作为网络基础设施的全面贡献者；(5)探索问题并制定最佳实践，以支持将网络基础设施专家远程嵌入研究团队的高度可扩展模型。该项目的EIE-4CI方法将在校园和相关团队中形成一个网络研究和教育平台，在当地站点留下实际的网络基础设施知识和专业知识，并创建一种病毒式机制，将这些知识和专业知识扩展到直接参与该项目的新站点。因此，由于项目设计，其结果具有内在的可复制性和可持续性。

This project seeks to prepare a science and engineering workforce for full citizenship in the evolving world of cyber-enabled research and education. This goal will be accomplished via an Embedded Immersive Engagement (EIE) effort in the context of the Open Science Grid (OSG). The work is guided by the observation that broad adoption of cyberinfrastructure concepts and technologies requires an embedded effort to develop the skills of students, faculty, and IT organizations of the campuses that host them. Both cyberinfrastructure providers and consumers must be immersed in building and delivering end-to-end processing and data management capabilities needed for scientific discovery. Moreover, scientific computing must be expanded out of the existing center of gravity to create a truly national shared cyberinfrastructure, whereby scientists and educators more broadly can experience the benefits of new computational resources as well as new levels of collaboration they afford. The project entails a three-year plan of work that extends the pedagogical methodologies of Embedded Immersive Engagement (EIE) for shared cyberinfrastructure (4CI). Through the project's model of EIE-4CI, cyberinfrastructure experts are embedded within research and education teams at different sites to accomplish the following: (1) Bring at least six new research and education teams to full production utilization of available distributed cyberinfrastructure resources; (2) Enable at least six university campuses to operate a production quality shared distributed infrastructure across multiple facilities using common middleware; (3) Establish the knowledge, experience, documentation, and training capabilities to significantly lower the bar for use of and/or contribution to a shared distributed facility; (4) Provide cyberinfrastructure consumers and providers with hands-on technical knowledge, tools and methodologies to continue as full contributors to cyberinfrastructure beyond this project; and, (5) Explore the issues and develop best practices to support a highly scalable model of remotely embedding cyberinfrastructure experts into research teams. The project's EIE-4CI methodology will result in a cyber-enabled research and education platform at the campuses and with the teams involved, leaving behind hands-on cyberinfrastructure knowledge and expertise at the local site as well as creating a viral mechanism for extending that knowledge and expertise to new sites beyond those directly engaged in the project. The results are thus inherently replicable and sustainable by virtue of the project design.