STCI: OptIPlanet Cyber-Mashup: Persistent Visualization and Collaboration Services for Global Cyber Infrastructure

该提案将使用2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）提供的资金进行奖励，并符合2009年3月20日白宫备忘录第2节中规定的要求，该备忘录题为“确保复苏法案资金的负责任支出”。随着全球分布的研究团队更紧密地合作，利用高性能网络基础设施解决复杂问题，从千万亿次计算机到生成大量数据的专用仪器，对高分辨率可视化的需求对于分析变得越来越重要，并正在推动全球采用“OptIPortals”。OptIPortal是一种通过光学网络互连的超分辨率可视化显示仪器，可以创建数据可视化的“网络混搭”或并列，从而实现更大的洞察力。 SAGE，可扩展自适应图形环境，是跨平台的中间件，使世界各地的用户能够拥有一个通用的操作环境或框架，用于在一个或多个OptIPortals上访问，流式传输和并列高分辨率可视化。该项目将把SAGE从一个变革性的研究原型转变为一项强化技术，利用共享的国家和国际网络基础设施，为可视化和协作提供生产质量、社区驱动的开放服务，以促进科学研究和教育。知识产权应对数据的复杂性和规模是一个跨越整个电子科学的问题。使用OptIPortals和SAGE，科学家可以从多个来源创建可视化管道-无论是超级计算机，数据存储系统和/或仪器（如高清摄像头），以及笔记本电脑屏幕和网络-访问和共享各种信息，以各种分辨率和格式，并创建巨大的网络混搭。更广泛的影响我们的国家已经投资于网络连接，中间件支持的网络基础设施，用于在全世界的研究人员之间生成和传播PB（最终是EB）数据。然而，缺少的是一个全球一体化的协作工作环境，以促进数据分析和高生产力。提供生产质量SAGE的资金将使更广泛的科学家和学生社区更容易访问网络基础设施，并有助于保持美国在高性能计算方面的领导地位。

This proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), and meets the requirements established in Section 2 of the White House Memorandum entitled, Ensuring Responsible Spending of Recovery Act Funds, dated March 20, 2009. As globally distributed research teams work more closely to solve complex problems utilizing high-performance cyberinfrastructure, from petascale computers to specialized instrumentation generating massive amounts of data, the need for high-resolution visualization is becoming more critical for analysis, and is propelling the worldwide adoption of "OptIPortals". An OptIPortal is an ultra-resolution visualization display instrument interconnected by optical networks that enables the creation of "cyber-mashups," or juxtapositions, of data visualizations, enabling greater insight. SAGE, the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment, is cross-platform middleware that enables users worldwide to have a common operating environment, or framework, for accessing, streaming and juxtaposing high-resolution visualizations on one or more OptIPortals. This project will transition SAGE from a transformative research prototype to a hardened technology that provides production-quality, community-driven open services for visualization and collaboration utilizing shared national and international cyberinfrastructure, for the advancement of scientific research and education.Intellectual MeritCoping with complexity and scale in data is a problem that spans all of e-science. Using OptIPortals and SAGE, scientists can create visualization pipelines from multiple sources - whether supercomputers, data storage systems and/or instruments (such as high-definition cameras), as well as laptop screens and the Web - to access and share a variety of information, in a variety of resolutions and formats, and create giant Cyber-Mashups.Broader ImpactOur Nation already invests in network-connected, middleware-enabled cyberinfrastructure to generate and disseminate petabytes (ultimately exabytes) of data among researchers worldwide. What is missing, however, is a globally integrated collaborative work environment to facilitate data analysis and high productivity. Funding to provide a production-quality SAGE will make cyberinfrastructure more accessible to broader communities of scientists and students, and help maintain US leadership in high-performance computing.