CC* Compute: A Customizable, Reproducible, and Secure Cloud Infrastructure as a Service for Scientific Research in Southern California

__在科学，工程，生物医学和社会科学的学科，多机构的研究。混合云平台还促进了区域和国家的研究合作，因为部分资源被集成到开放科学网格（OSG）中。总部设在南加州大学（USC）的许多多机构研究项目的研究所，沿着他们的区域和国家合作者，从使用OSG中受益。它还扩大了其研究成果和项目本身的影响，因为该系统提供了与外部合作者分享研究成果和知识的各种方式。对区域大学的计划支持以及与OSG的集成增加了为更广泛的社区服务的机会。通过提供对公共和私有云服务以及本地高性能计算（HPC）和数据资源的访问，该系统支持广泛的研究社区。混合云系统的设计有助于创建可定制的虚拟化平台和可复制的基于容器的应用服务，从而实现多维计算和数据解决方案。研究人员可以从标准服务目录中进行选择，以构建预定义的虚拟机和容器化应用程序，或者在必要时创建自己的专用环境。沿着内置的安全性、可复制的服务模块以及创建和共享定制环境的能力，混合云系统连接了多学科研究领域，并增强了先进网络基础设施的可用性，从而提高了研究生产力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________This project creates a hybrid cloud infrastructure as a scientific computing gateway that promotes and supports inter-disciplinary, multi-institutional research in science, engineering, biomedicine, and the social sciences. The hybrid cloud platform also promotes regional and national research collaboration, as a portion of the resources is integrated into the Open Science Grid (OSG). Many institutes with multi-institutional research projects headquartered at University of Southern California (USC), along with their regional and national collaborators, benefit from use of the OSG. It also extends the impact of their research outcomes and the projects themselves, as the system offers various ways to share research outputs and knowledge with external collaborators. The planned support for regional universities and integration with OSG increases opportunities to serve a broader community.A broad research community is supported by this system by providing access to public and private cloud services as well as local high performance computing (HPC) and data resources. The design of the hybrid cloud system facilitates the creation of customizable, virtualized platforms and reproducible, container-based application services that enable multi-dimensional computing and data solutions. Researchers are able to pick and choose from a standard service catalogue to build pre-defined virtual machines and containerized applications, or, if necessary, create their own specialized environments. Along with built-in security, reproducible service modules, and the capability of creating and sharing customized environments, the hybrid cloud system bridges multi-disciplinary research domains and enhances the usability of advanced cyberinfrastructure for improved research productivity.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.