Project GreenLight Workshop for MSI-CIEC: Greening and Growing Campus Cyberinfrastructure for Minority-Serving Institutions

与所有学院和大学一样，少数民族服务机构（MSIs）正在制定战略，以支持先进的网络基础设施的科学和工程研究。这些机构对两种使能技术特别感兴趣：可视化和节能联网集群计算。 NSF支持的UCSD OptIPuter/OptiPortal和GreenLight项目现在已经准备好在美国进行更广泛的部署。来自十几个MSI机构的研究人员要求在UCSD获得实践经验。 该项目为参与者提供GreenLight Instrument的技术背景和最佳实践，用于计算和安装，维护和使用OptIPortals进行高级远程呈现和可视化。GreenLight项目与NSF少数民族服务机构网络基础设施联盟（MSI-CIEC）正式合作，该联盟已在加州大学圣地亚哥分校举办了三次研讨会（迄今为止）。组成高等教育平等联盟、美国印第安人高等教育联盟、西班牙裔学院和大学协会以及全国高等教育平等机会协会的组织建立了MSI-CIEC，以促进、鼓励和便利少数群体服务机构有意义地参与网络基础设施。GreenLight Instrument使应用科学家能够了解如何做出更环保的选择，同时仍然利用计算，存储和网络的指数增长，使他们能够继续在前沿科学研究方面进行全球竞争。GreenLight Instrument帮助校园和用户了解如何利用新型可再生能源和离网能源/冷却源，以及采用中间件来自动选择集群计算/存储/电源策略的最佳选择。总体结果是节省成本和能源的校园，所有机构的宝贵成果，但为少数民族服务的机构，往往比他们的大多数服务的4年制大学同行低得多的运营预算至关重要。

Like all colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions (MSIs) are developing strategies to support science and engineering research with advanced cyberinfrastructure. Two enabling technologies are of particular interest to these institutions: visualization and energy-conscious networked cluster computing. The NSF-supported UCSD OptIPuter/OptiPortal and GreenLight projects are now ready for broader deployment across the US. Researchers from a dozen MSI institutions have asked for hands-on experience at UCSD. This project provides participants with technical background and best practices on the GreenLight Instrument for computing and installing, maintaining, and using OptIPortals for advanced telepresence and visualization. Project GreenLight officially partners with the NSF Minority-Serving Institutions CyberInfrastructure Coalition (MSI-CIEC), which has held three workshops (to date) at UC San Diego. The organizations that comprise the Alliance for Equity in Higher Education, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), established the MSI-CIEC to promote, encourage and facilitate the meaningful engagement of minority-serving institutions in cyberinfrastructure. The GreenLight Instrument enables application scientists to understand how to make greener choices, while still exploiting the exponential growth of computing, storage, and networking required for them to continue to compete globally on frontier scientific research. The GreenLight Instrument helps campuses and users understand how to take advantage of novel renewable and off-grid energy/cooling sources as well as employ middleware that automates optimal choice of cluster compute/storage/power strategies. The overall result is both cost and energy savings to campuses, valuable results for all institutions but essential for minority-serving institutions which often operate with far lower operating budgets than their majority-serving 4-year college counterparts.