EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: EarthCube Integration & Test Environment

EarthCube正在支持为地球科学研究创建可互操作的工具和服务，但目前还不存在集成和测试这些组件的环境。 EarthCube集成和测试环境（ECITE），EarthCube测试平台工作组活动的产物。ECITE方法的重点是整合现有的有效技术和资源，以及EarthCube社区正在构建的功能，以提供一个联合的和可互操作的测试环境。ECITE？美国的全国性地球科学网络基础设施还将通过提供相关的时间安排工具和工作集成和测试环境，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的参与，以开发需求，原型，设计，构建和测试一个支持跨学科研究的集成测试平台。 多学科ECITE团队由亚拉巴马亨茨维尔大学（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发挥领导作用。ECITE联邦集成和测试（IT）环境具有扩展和扩展到NSF范围的集成和测试能力的潜力，可以作为其他机构的模型和示例。建议的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的需求定义，设计和系统测试。ECITE将由一个无缝的联邦系统组成，该系统由美国各地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强大的分布式资源，包括公共云和私有云功能。 这些节点将提供计算和存储资源，只需最少的系统管理。ECITE是确保EarthCube各组成部分能够协同工作的重要一步，以提供一个成功的框架，该框架可以继续发展，以满足地球科学界的需求。 这项研究解决了集成，测试和评估方法和最佳实践的及时问题，具有强大的互操作性主题，通过整合多样化和异构的数据，算法，系统和科学来推进学科研究。这些结果和发现将为EarthCube的发展和未来的整合工作提供指导。ECITE团队的目标是使集成和测试（IT）环境易于使用，并随时提供给EarthCube社区。进入由此产生的平台将使EarthCube社区能够并鼓励他们开发原型，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