CC*IIE Engineer: Exploration of Roles and Tools to Fulfill Diverse Researcher Needs in Collaborative Environments

需要将校园中的超级计算机和其他网络基础设施（CI）资源配置过程和实践转变为由CI工程师的专业知识处理的联合混合云服务。CI工程师补充了校园系统/网络工程人员，并领导提供本地和远程资源（例如，支持网络的科学仪器，公共云）的无缝编排，以满足教师和学生的数据密集型研究和教育需求。该项目调查了CI工程师职位的可行性和可持续性的角色、工具和政策。不仅仅是探索，该项目还涉及到域应用程序工作流的几个试点实验。这些实验考虑了将跨学科合作从实验环境过渡到生产系统所必需的连接和通信程序。为了自动提供特定于应用程序的资源，正在为各种数据密集型（基于web的）应用程序开发自定义模板。自定义模板将数据密集型应用的高级策略和性能吞吐量需求抽象出来，并将其个性化为可通过OpenStack和OpenFlow等虚拟化技术按需实现的低级控制规范。最后，将生成案例研究、最佳实践和开源软件应用程序，以促进研究和教育中的混合云服务模式，同时避免多层协调。我们非常重视扩大代表性不足群体的参与，以及CI工程师与同行社区的互动，这些社区正在应对下一代校园网络基础设施的挑战。

There is a need to transform supercomputer and other cyberinfrastructure (CI) resource provisioning procedures and practices on campuses with federated, hybrid cloud services handled by specialized expertise of a CI Engineer. The CI Engineer complements campus system/network engineering personnel, and leads the seamless orchestration of provisioning local and remote resources (e.g., cyber-enabled scientific instruments, public clouds) to meet data-intensive research and education needs of faculty and students.This project investigates roles, tools and policies that enable the viability and sustainability of the CI Engineer position. More than just exploration, the project involves several pilot experiments with domain-application workflows. The experiments consider connectivity and communication procedures necessary for transitioning interdisciplinary collaborations from experimental environments to production systems. To automate the provisioning of application-specific resources, custom templates are being developed for diverse data-intensive (web-based) applications. The custom templates abstract the high-level policy and performance throughput requirements of data-intensive applications, and personalize them to lower-level control specifications implementable in an on-demand manner by virtualization technologies such as OpenStack and OpenFlow. Lastly, case studies, best practices and open-source software applications are to be generated to foster hybrid cloud service models in research and education, while avoiding many layers of co-ordination. Significant attention is being paid to broadening participation of underrepresented groups, and to the CI Engineer interaction with peer communities that are addressing challenges of next-generation campus cyberinfrastructures.