CC* Compute: Improved Computing for Advanced Research and Education (ICARE)

大学研究人员和教育工作者需要访问高性能计算、高带宽连接、可共享存储和高吞吐量数据传输。不幸的是，机构网络基础设施可能是不同和未连接的计算资源的孤岛，功能有限，服务交付不一致。高级研究和教育的改进计算（ICARE）团队解决了这些问题，并通过作为一个共享的高吞吐量计算站点来推进发现和理解。信息技术（IT）专业人员和科研界共同努力，根据项目驱动的需求协调校园级网络基础设施的改善。这些项目包括改善自然灾害预测的科学研究项目，生产用于维护生物多样性的创新建模工具，影响用于治疗许多疾病的核受体药物的设计，开发DNA测序的深度学习方法，以及探索基因组对气候变化的反应。ICARE的主要特点是UM共享计算集群（UMSCC）。UMSCC配置有8个计算节点、3个GPU节点和2个存储节点。开源软件解决方案和参与开放科学网格（OSG）促进了数据密集型研究，并将计算资源扩展到内部和外部研究小组，研究生和本科生研究人员以及国家。这一努力加强了不同研究人员群体之间的合作，并为IT专业人员、教育工作者和研究人员之间的持续讨论和规划提供了一种工具。该项目的一个特殊方面是IT专业人员和校园科研界之间的直接关系，这是提供健全的IT解决方案，这是至关重要的，在未来的竞争力，在赠款资金和学术贡献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

University researchers and educators require access to high performance computing, high bandwidth connections, sharable storage, and high-throughput data transfers. Unfortunately, institutional cyberinfrastructures can be silos of dissimilar and unconnected computing resources, with limited functionality, and inconsistent service delivery. The Improved Computing for Advanced Research and Education (ICARE) team addresses these issues and advances discovery and understanding by serving as a shared high-throughput computing site. Information Technology (IT) professionals and the scientific research community work together to coordinate campus-level cyberinfrastructure improvements based on project-driven needs. These include scientific research projects that improve natural disaster forecasting, produce innovative modeling tools used for maintaining biodiversity, impact the design of nuclear receptor drugs used to treat many diseases, develop deep learning approaches to DNA sequencing, and explore genomic responses to climate change.The main feature of ICARE is the UM Shared Computing Cluster (UMSCC). UMSCC is configured with 8 computing nodes, 3 GPU nodes, and 2 storage nodes. Open source software solutions and participation in the Open Science Grid (OSG) facilitates data intensive research and extends computing resources to internal and external research groups, graduate and undergraduate researchers, and the nation. This effort strengthens collaboration between diverse groups of researchers and provides a vehicle for ongoing discussion and planning between IT professionals, educators, and researchers. A special aspect of this project is the direct relationship between IT professionals and the campus scientific research community, which is providing sound IT solutions that are critical for future competitiveness in grant funding and academic contribution.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.