EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: EarthCube Integration & Test Environment

EarthCube支持为地球科学研究创建可互操作的工具和服务，但是目前还没有集成和测试这些组件的环境。EarthCube集成和测试环境（ECITE），是EarthCube测试平台工作组活动的产物。ECITE方法侧重于集成现有的有效技术和资源，以及由EarthCube社区建立的能力，以提供一个联合的和可互操作的测试环境。ECITE吗?通过提供相关的调度工具和工作集成和测试环境，美国全国范围的地球科学网络基础设施还将促进对区域网络基础设施和跨地理位置和学科的协作地球科学的理解。ECITE努力的一个标志是，来自地球科学界多个学科和地理区域的科学家和技术人员将参与开发需求、原型、设计、构建和测试集成测试平台，以支持跨学科研究。多学科ECITE团队由阿拉巴马州亨茨维尔大学（UAH）的Sara Graves领导，包括来自美国所有地区的参与者。ECITE的活动将使EarthCube能够进一步支持其他成员，并为更广泛的科学界贡献领导力。ECITE联邦集成和测试（I&amp；T）环境具有扩展和扩展到NSF广泛集成和测试能力的潜力，可以作为其他机构的模型和示例。拟议的ECITE功能对于确保实现EarthCube的更广泛目标至关重要。ECITE团队将积极参与EarthCube和更广泛的地球科学界对系统的需求定义、设计和测试。ECITE将由一个无缝的联邦系统组成，该系统由遍布美国的可扩展和位置独立的分布式计算资源（节点）组成。混合联邦系统将提供一组健壮的分布式资源，包括公共云和私有云功能。节点将提供需要最少系统管理的计算和存储资源。ECITE是确保EarthCube组件能够协同工作以提供一个成功的框架的重要一步，该框架可以继续发展以满足地球科学界的需求。本研究解决了集成、测试和评估方法以及具有强大互操作性主题的最佳实践的及时问题，通过集成不同和异构的数据、算法、系统和科学来推进学科研究。结果和发现将为EarthCube的发展和未来的集成工作提供指导。ECITE团队的目标是使集成和测试（I&amp；T）环境易于使用，并随时可供EarthCube社区使用。访问由此产生的平台将使并鼓励EarthCube社区开发原型，尝试新技术，并分享想法、概念和实验

EarthCube is supporting the creation of interoperable tools and services for Earth science research, but no environment currently exists for integration and testing of these components. The EarthCube Integration and Test Environment (ECITE), an outgrowth of activities of the EarthCube Testbed Working Group. The ECITE approach focuses on integrating existing effective technologies and resources as well as capabilities being built by the EarthCube community to provide a federated and interoperable test environment. ECITE?s nationwide cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences will also advance the understanding of regional cyberinfrastructure and collaborative geosciences across geographic locations and disciplines by contributing relevant scheduling tools and a working integration and testing environment. A hallmark of the ECITE effort will be engagement of scientists and technologists from multiple disciplines and geographic regions across the geosciences community to develop requirements, prototype, design, build, and test an integration test-bed that will support cross-disciplinary research. The multi-disciplinary ECITE team is led by Sara Graves of the University of Huntsville in Alabama (UAH) and includes participants from all areas of the United States. ECITE activities will enable EarthCube to further support other members and contribute leadership to the broader scientific community. The ECITE federated Integration and Test (I&T) environment has the potential to scale and extend to an NSF wide integration and test capability that can serve as a model and example for other agencies. The proposed ECITE functionality is vital to ensure that the broader goals of the EarthCube are achieved.The ECITE team will actively engage EarthCube and the wider geosciences community in definition of requirements, design, and testing of the system. ECITE will consist of a seamless federated system of scalable and location independent distributed computational resources (nodes) across the US. The hybrid federated system will provide a robust set of distributed resources to include both public and private cloud capabilities. The nodes will provide compute and storage resources requiring minimal system administration.ECITE is an important step in ensuring that EarthCube components will be able to work together to provide a successful framework that can continue to evolve to meet the needs of the geosciences community. This research addresses timely issues of integration, test and evaluation methodologies and best practices with a strong interoperability theme to advance disciplinary research through the integration of diverse and heterogeneous data, algorithms, systems and sciences. The results and findings will provide guidance for EarthCube evolution and future integration efforts. The ECITE team aims to make the Integration and Test (I&T) environment easy to use and readily available to the EarthCube community. Access to the resulting platform will enable and encourage the EarthCube community to develop prototypes, try out new technologies, and to share ideas, concepts and experiments