MRI: Acquisition of the Kentucky Research Informatics Cloud (KyRIC)

该项目将创建一个大数据云基础设施，即肯塔基州研究信息学云（KyRIC），以加速跨多个学科的数据驱动发现和计算研究教育。今天的科学发现是通过利用大量可用数据的计算和数据密集型研究实现的。 KyRIC将推进许多跨学科的令人兴奋的研究计划，如生物信息学和系统生物学算法，大型图和进化网络分析，图像处理以及计算建模和仿真。KyRIC支持的研究的突破将在许多领域产生重要的社会效益，例如增加农业产量，提高经济竞争力，创造新产品和市场。KyRIC将使用混合架构来支持大规模并行应用程序，这些应用程序将解决大数据科学中令人兴奋和具有挑战性的新数据和内存密集型研究。KyRIC混合系统将由两个子系统组成：一个50节点的集群，每个集群有4个10核处理器，3 TB RAM和8 TB SSD阵列;以及一个Peta规模的存储系统，提供2 PB的基于对象的存储。KyRIC将采用领先的云管理软件，允许节点根据用户当前执行的大数据作业组合进行重新配置、调度和加载特定问题的应用软件。 因此，该项目将促进和支持广泛的新研究活动，每一项活动都有其独特的特点，超出了我们现有基础设施的能力。全州的研究人员将利用我们最新的高性能网络随时访问KyRIC，从列克星敦到路易斯维尔和辛辛那提有多个100 GB/s的链接。KyRIC还将加入XSEDE，以更好地将肯塔基州（英国）大学与国家多千万亿次能力相结合。KyRIC将提供直观的访问、快速的基础设施定制以及桌面与XSEDE等资源之间更高的带宽和更低的延迟，以促进改进的算法设计、软件开发和交互式数据分析。KyRIC将被超过1000名英国研究人员（教师，员工和学生）以及肯塔基州的计算研究合作者使用，特别是路易斯维尔大学（UL），北方肯塔基州大学（NKU）和肯塔基州州立大学（KSU）。 该资源将使令人兴奋的数据密集型项目成为可能，增强研究生和本科生的计算研究教育，帮助吸引和留住有才华的年轻教师，并促进大数据科学和技术，从而影响肯塔基州和国家的经济发展。

This project will create a big data cloud infrastructure, the Kentucky Research Informatics Cloud (KyRIC), to accelerate data-driven discovery and computational research education across multiple disciplines. Scientific discovery today is being enabled through computational and data intensive research that exploits enormous amounts of available data. KyRIC will advance a number of exciting research programs across many disciplines, such as Bioinformatics and System Biology Algorithms, Large Graph and Evolutionary Network Analysis, Image Processing, and Computational Modeling and Simulation. Breakthroughs in KyRIC-enabled research will have important societal benefits in a number of areas, such as increasing agricultural yields, improving economic competitiveness, and creating new products and markets. KyRIC will use a hybrid architecture to support massively parallel applications that will address exciting and challenging new data and memory intensive research in big data science. The KyRIC hybrid system will consists of two subsystems: a 50 nodes cluster, each with 4 10-core processors, 3TB RAM, and an 8TB SSD array; and a Peta-scale storage system providing 2 PB of object-based storage. KyRIC will employ leading-edge cloud management software that will allow nodes to be reconfigured, scheduled, and loaded with problem-specific applications software based on the current mix of big data jobs being executed by users. As a result, the project will enable and support a wide range of new research activities, each with its own unique characteristics that are beyond the capacity of our existing infrastructure. KyRIC will be readily accessed by researchers across the state utilizing our latest high-performance network, with multiple 100GB/s links from Lexington to Louisville and Cincinnati. KyRIC will also join XSEDE to better integrate the University of Kentucky (UK) with national multi-petascale capabilities.KyRIC will provide intuitive access, rapid infrastructure customizations, and higher bandwidth and lower latency between the desktop and resources like XSEDE to facilite improved algorithm design, software development, and interactive data analysis. KyRIC will be used by over 1000 UK researchers (faculty, staff, and students) and by computational research collaborators across the state of Kentucky, notably University of Louisville (UL), Northern Kentucky University (NKU), and Kentucky State University (KSU). The resource will make exciting data-intensive projects possible, enhance computational research education for graduate and undergraduate students, help attract and retain talented younger faculty, and promote big data science and technology, thus impacting Kentucky's and the nation's economic development.