MRI: Acquisition of a Regional Resource for Long-Term Archiving of Large Scale Research Data Collections

该项目将支持俄克拉荷马大学(OU)S购买、部署和维护大型存储仪器--OU&Amp；区域研究商店(OURRstore)。这一工具将使教职员工、博士后、研究生和本科生能够进行数据密集型研究(通过建立大型和不断增长的数据集)，并共享和发布这些数据集(他们可以使这些数据集可供发现和搜索)。科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)研究的数据密集度越来越高，研究数据集合大量增长。然而，相当大一部分大学和学院不仅在数据量、速度和多样性方面准备不足，尤其是在快速增长的数据收集的长期管理方面。此外，许多STEM研究项目在实验期间需要大量的存储空间，以至于将它们全部保存在磁盘上太昂贵了，不切实际。这一挑战正在迅速变得更加严峻，因为磁盘价格现在的上涨速度比过去慢得多。OURRstore是一种大型存储工具，由大量磁带库以及服务器、磁盘、网络组件和软件等关键支持子系统组成。OURRstore允许存储容量的大规模增长，以满足其服务的庞大而广泛的研究社区的需求。通过创新、低成本的商业模式，OURRstore提供经济高效的数据存储、访问和解决方案。该仪器支持的研究课题包括：天气预报、天气雷达和天气数据挖掘，包括龙卷风和飓风等严重风暴的预报；地震触发因素和地震学；农业、林业、水和地球生态系统的数据和建模；沿海模拟；控制植被生长和发展的分子系统；基础设施的微生物污染；反复应激对生物体的影响；线粒体RNA的处理；纳米技术；视觉神经科学；极端环境的生理适应；天体物理物体和恒星大气；恶意软件网络安全；微博在社交媒体上的影响。OURRstore通过以下方式最大限度地提高其在美国的影响力。首先，它是负担得起的、大规模、长期、多机构存储的全国典范。其次，OURRstore社区包括大量来自代表性不足的人群：超过200名研究团队成员是以下一种或多种：女性、非裔美国人、拉美裔美国人、美洲原住民、残疾人和美国退伍军人。第三，该工具将加强俄亥俄州立大学目前的一系列网络研讨会，这是一个广受欢迎的外展计划。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The project will support University of Oklahoma (OU)'s acquisition, deployment and maintenance of a large-scale storage instrument -- the OU & Regional Research Store (OURRstore). This instrument will enable faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduates to pursue data-intensive research (by building large and growing data collections), and to share and publish these datasets (which they can make discoverable and searchable). Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) research is increasingly data-intensive, with massive growth of research data collections. Yet a substantial fraction of universities and colleges have been underprepared not only for the volume, velocity and variety of data, but especially for long term stewardship of rapidly growing data collections. In addition, many STEM research projects require substantial storage during their experiments, so much so that holding it all on disk is too expensive to be practical. This challenge is quickly becoming more acute, because disk prices are now improving much more slowly than in the past.OURRstore is a large-scale storage instrument, consisting of a substantial tape library, as well as crucial support subsystems such as servers, disk, network components and software. OURRstore allows the massive growth of storage capacity needed to address the requirements of the large and broad research community that it serves. Via an innovative, low cost business model, OURRstore offers a cost-effective data storage and access and solution. The research topics supported by the instrument include: weather forecasting, weather radar and weather data mining, including for severe storms such as tornadoes and hurricanes; earthquake triggers and seismology; data and modeling for agriculture, forestry, water and earth ecosystems; coastal simulation; molecular systems that control growth and development of vegetation; microbial contamination of infrastructure; effects of repeated stress on organisms; RNA processing in mitochondria; nanotechnology; visual neuroscience; physiological adaptation to extreme environments; astrophysical objects and stellar atmospheres; malware cybersecurity; influence of microblogs on social media. OURRstore maximizes its impact across the US in the following ways. First, it serves as a national model for affordable, large scale, long term, multi-institutional storage. Second, the OURRstore community includes a substantial number of people from underrepresented populations: over 200 research team members are one or more of the following: women, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, disabled, and US veterans. Third, the instrument will enhance OU's current "Supercomputing in Plain English" webinar series, a popular outreach program.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.