EAGER: Distilling a Process for a National CI Roadmap from NSF Collaboratories

许多大型NSF合作伙伴都在单独解决有时非常相似的CI挑战，并使用相同的学术研究软件。这些项目在开发新的研究软件方面也面临着非常相似的挑战，这是实现合作实验室的科学目标所必需的。在这些项目中实现CI的调整、重复使用和协调发展可能会导致国家CI路线图，极大地增强美国的研究和教育基础设施。然而，在项目中期采用新技术和方法会给个别项目的科学目标的成功带来足够高的风险，这种协调和杠杆作用很少在深层次上经历。这项研究将探索风险和收益，以及开发新的流程和社区，以建立一个协调的国家CI路线图。在制定协调传播与信息新流程的过程中，调查人员和参与的合作者将审查问题和关切，包括：外包服务的风险评估和管理以及开发或新兴开源软件的参与和使用；隐私、完整性、保证；代码管理；领域科学和支持基础设施边界的软件分离；虚拟化；联合身份和团体管理；托管数据管理和分析服务；与校园服务的整合和依赖以及与校园信息技术领导层的沟通。

Many large NSF Collaboratories are individually solving sometimes very similar CI challenges and utilizing the same academic research software. These projects also face very similar challenges in the development of new research software necessary to achieve the science objectives of the collaboratory. Alignment, re-use and coordinated development of enabling CI across these projects could lead to a National CI Roadmap, greatly enhancing infrastructure for research and education in the US. However, adopting new technologies and approaches mid-project imposes sufficiently high risk to the success of the science goals of the individual projects that this level of coordination and leverage rarely experienced at a deep level. This research will explore the risks and benefits, and development of new processes and communities to establish a coordinated National CI Roadmap. In developing new processes for coordinated CI, the investigators and participating collaboratories will examine issues and concerns including: risk assessment and management for outsourced services and participation and utilization of developing or emerging open source software; privacy, integrity, assurances; code management; separation of software at the boundary of domain science and enabling infrastructure; virtualization; federated identity and group management; hosted data management and analytics offerings; integration with and dependence upon campus services and communicating with campus IT leadership.