PFI-TT: Using Science Gateways to Enable Greater Access to High Performance Computing in Support of Advanced Manufacturing

该PFI项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力将有助于简化高度监管行业（如航空航天和医疗器械制造）的设计、制造和产品生命周期管理流程，从而在产品的所有阶段更广泛地使用建模和仿真工具。的生命周期。今天，在许多高度管制的行业中，产品开发和制造是一个漫长而昂贵的过程，如果产品未能进入市场，则会给制造商带来巨大的商业风险，如果产品在操作中失败，则会给客户带来巨大的个人风险。如果使用得当，建模和仿真方法可以大大降低这些风险，并提供更深入的了解产品中的物理过程？的生命周期。 然而，这些复杂的方法并没有在整个工业供应链中得到深入采用，因为需要实现这些好处。 这里提出的工作将使用分布式系统，网络基础设施和信息技术的方法来扩大和简化对高性能计算资源和先进建模与仿真软件的访问，增加先进制造与分布式系统中计算机科学和网络安全创新的集成，吸引和培训以计算机科学为基础的劳动力，帮助实现制造业的转型。拟议的项目将通过利用美国国家科学基金会在科学网关方面的投资来应对这些挑战，科学网关提供最终用户环境，简化和保护对高性能计算资源上的高级建模和仿真软件的访问。拟议的项目具有高度的智力价值，因为它使科学网关在工程和网络安全成熟度方面向前迈进了一步。 该项目将开发一种通用的方法，用于创建应用程序编程接口，以科学网关中间件的可重构构建块，可以映射到不同的用户环境的要求。这些方法将应用于开发编程接口和数据模型，这些模型来自私营部门/学术伙伴合作开发的可信数字公域科学网关的抽象模型。该网关将允许可执行模型的安全创建/共享，支持建模和仿真方法的可再现验证过程，支持特定物理产品或过程的特定模型的验证，并允许在各种外部条件下系统地探索模型中的不确定性量化。总之，这些能力将使供应链中的制造商之间、工业部门中的制造商之间以及制造商和监管机构之间更好地合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this PFI project will be to help streamline the design, manufacturing, and product lifecycle management processes in highly regulated industries such as aerospace and medical device manufacturing by enabling broader use of modeling and simulation tools at all phases of a product?s lifecycle. Today, product develop and manufacturing in many highly regulated industries is a long, expensive process that carries substantial commercial risks to manufacturers if products fail to reach markets and substantial personal risks to customers if the products fail in operations. If used properly, modeling and simulation methods can substantially reduce these risks and provide deeper insight into poorly understood physical processes in a product?s lifecycle. However, these sophisticated methods are not as deeply adopted throughout industry supply chains as is needed to realize the benefits. The work proposed here will use the methods of distributed systems, cyberinfrastructure, and information technology to broaden and simplify access to high performance computing resources and advanced modeling and simulation software, increasing the integration of advanced manufacturing with the innovations of computer science and cybersecurity in distributed systems, attracting and training a computer science-grounded workforce that can help enable a transformation in the manufacturing sector. The proposed project will address these challenges by leveraging the investment by the National Science Foundation in science gateways, which provide end user environments that simplify and secure access to advanced modeling and simulation software on high performance computing resources. The proposed project has a high degree of intellectual merit as it takes science gateways a step forward in engineering and cybersecurity maturity. This project will develop a general approach for creating Application Programming Interfaces to science gateway middleware out of reconfigurable building blocks that can be mapped to the requirements of different user environments. These methods will be applied to the development of programming interfaces and data models derived from abstract models of a trusted digital commons science gateway developed in a private sector/academic partner collaboration. This gateway will allow the secure creation/sharing of executable models, support the process of reproducible verification of modeling and simulation methods, support the validation of a particular model for a particular physical product or process, and allow systematic exploration of uncertainty quantification in the models under diverse external conditions. Together, these capabilities will enable greater collaboration between manufacturers in a supply chain, manufacturers across industrial sectors, and between manufacturers and regulatory agencies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.