CC* Team: Research Innovation with Scientists and Engineers (RISE)

科学发现的步伐和科学知识的传播越来越多地受到通过建模、数据科学和数字通信平台进行计算的推动。并非所有研究人员都处于同等地位，能够利用这场计算革命，因为他们的团队中没有足够的专业知识，或者没有足够的资金聘请计算专家担任全职职位。宾夕法尼亚州立大学正在努力确保拥有24个校区的宾夕法尼亚州立大学系统的研究人员和教育工作者能够获得进行最高质量研究和教育所需的尖端网络基础设施和计算专业知识。宾夕法尼亚州立大学的做法是建立一支网络基础设施协调员团队，由调查人员共享，并就各种规模的项目进行咨询，将共享的知识和现代计算技术和工具的最佳做法带给尽可能广泛的宾夕法尼亚州立大学社区。这些促进者被称为“科学家和工程师的研究创新”(RISE)团队，他们是数据库、可视化、代码优化、应用程序开发、Web服务和云计算方面的专家。他们对研究网络基础设施有广泛的了解，并能够设计、设计和开发新的网络基础设施。他们还将对各种科学领域有深入的了解，并将使计算机发现成为可能。投资于这样一个团队将带来巨大的回报，通过提高教师的生产力，更有效地使用研究和教育资金，并最终在包括物理、天文学、生物信息学、化学、能源和气候模型在内的广泛科学领域获得新发现。该项目与科学家和工程师建立一个研究创新网络团队(RISE)，他们将与校园级CI专家、领域科学家、研究小组和教育工作者合作，在全州范围内的宾夕法尼亚州立大学系统(包括24个校区，服务于超过10万名学生)中推动支持科学发现的新方法。Rise团队将通过咨询和向教师提供直接服务，直接促进研究网络基础设施在天文学、生物学、化学、气象学、物理学等领域的使用和创建。Rise团队将与开放科学网格合作建立宾夕法尼亚州立大学作为OSG网站，开发复制交换分子动力学软件，将机器学习应用于分子生物物理学，建立射电天文学数字信号处理软件，与HTCondor合作进行特征开发和测试，在可持续和可维护的生态系统中安装新的气候建模工具和软件，开发基因测序管理平台，部署和维护基础设施，以支持与LIGO的实时引力波分析，并建立恒星天体物理模拟的科学门户。通过Rise团队共享的知识，他们将提高使用和开发网络基础设施的研究人员的生产力，使他们能够取得比孤立状态下更多的成就。为了扩大参与，研究人员将开发一个种子资助计划，根据该计划，教职员工可以申请获得与RISE团队的更长时间的参与，其中成员将被嵌入研究小组。RISE成员还将定期举办培训讲习班和研讨会，以满足宾夕法尼亚州立大学所有校区教职员工的需求。参与、扩大和协调活动将涉及RISE团队成员和项目调查员在分校之间的定期旅行。该奖项反映了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 pace of scientific discovery and the dissemination of scientific knowledge are increasingly being driven by computation through modeling, data science, and digital communication platforms. Not all researchers are equally positioned to leverage this computational revolution due to having inadequate expertise in their groups or insufficient funding to hire computational experts into full time positions. Penn State is working to ensure that researchers and educators across the 24-campus Penn State system have access to the cutting-edge cyberinfrastructure and computational expertise that they need to conduct the highest quality research and education. Penn State's approach is to build a team of cyberinfrastructure facilitators who are shared across investigators and who consult on projects at various scales to bring shared knowledge and the best-practices of modern computational techniques and tools to the broadest possible Penn State community. These facilitators, known as the "Research Innovation with Scientists and Engineers" (RISE) team, are experts in databases, visualization, code optimization, application development, web services, and cloud computing. They have broad knowledge of research cyberinfrastructure and are able to architect, design, and develop new cyberinfrastructure. They will also have deep knowledge of various scientific domains and will enable computational discovery. Investing in such a team will pay substantial dividends through increased productivity of faculty, more efficient use of research and education funding, and ultimately new discoveries across a broad swath of scientific domains including Physics, Astronomy, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Energy, and Climate Modeling.This project builds a cyber-team for Research Innovation with Scientists and Engineers (RISE) who will partner with campus-level CI experts, domain scientists, research groups, and educators to drive new approaches that support scientific discovery across the state-wide Pennsylvania State University system including 24 campuses serving more than 100,000 students. The RISE team will directly facilitate the usage and creation of research cyberinfrastructure across domains including Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Meteorology, Physics and more through consulting and providing direct services to faculty. The RISE team will partner with the Open Science Grid to establish Penn State as an OSG site, develop replica-exchange molecular dynamics software, apply machine learning to molecular biophysics, build digital signal processing software for radio astronomy, collaborate on feature development and testing with HTCondor, onboard new climate modeling tools and software in a sustainable and maintainable ecosystem, develop a gene sequencing management platform, deploy and maintain infrastructure to support real-time gravitational wave analysis with LIGO, and build a science gateway for stellar astrophysics simulations. Through the RISE team's shared knowledge, they will elevate the productivity of researchers who use and develop cyberinfrastructure allowing them to accomplish far more than they could in isolation. In order to broaden participation, the investigators will develop a seed grant program whereby faculty can apply to receive extended engagement with the RISE team where members would be embedded into research groups. RISE members will also regularly conduct training workshops and seminars in response to the needs of faculty across all Penn State campuses. Participation broadening and coordination activities will involve regular travel among the branch campuses by RISE team members and project investigators.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.