Track 4: Advanced CI Coordination Ecosystem: Monitoring and Measurement Services

纽约州立大学布法罗分校团队提供监测和测量服务，作为高级网络基础设施协调生态系统：服务与支持(接入)计划的一部分。先进的网络基础设施(CI)包括高性能计算(HPC)、云计算和先进网络，在确保美国在科学和工程领域的领先地位方面发挥着关键作用，是帮助推动美国经济的强大工具。事实上，在从研究和设计到制造的所有技术领域，CI的表现都是必不可少的。鉴于CI的重要性及其巨大的成本，重要的是所有利益相关者，即公众、最终用户、系统支持人员、应用程序开发人员和决策者，都拥有可用于帮助优化和测量CI性能的工具，以及使用它的应用程序。布法罗大学正在开发CI度量和优化工具，即XDMoD(XD Metrics On Demand)及其开源对应工具Open XDMoD，它们在全球学术界和工业界用于高级CI监控和报告。该项目建立并扩展了为NSF在高级网络基础设施协调生态系统：服务与支持计划中的大笔投资测量和监控服务的基础。该项目的亮点包括：(1)开发一个灵活的框架，允许利益相关者使用他们希望对来自国家和地方CI资源的性能数据进行分析的工具；(2)开发CI生态系统的综合视图，包括网络、数据和公共云，以促进从地方到国家层面的CI规划；(3)开发CI模拟器，以预测CI生态系统对提议的新系统或现有系统的变化的响应，从而实现高效的部署和使用；以及(4)开发自动化工具，以监控已建立的和新的CI架构的应用性能指标(包括能源)。解决方案的时间与能耗之间的关系对于确定采用承诺更低能耗的新型CI架构的可行性非常重要。开放式XDMoD通过被世界各地的机构用于更好地管理其CI资产而产生广泛影响，包括学术、工业和政府研究中心。这些工具的开发和部署包括一系列活动，以包容的方式培训未来的CI劳动力，促进多样性和公平性。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 SUNY at Buffalo team provides monitoring and measurement services as part of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program. Advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI), which includes high performance computing (HPC), cloud computing and advanced networks, plays a pivotal role in ensuring U.S. leadership in science and engineering and serves as a powerful tool to help drive the U.S. economy. Indeed, CI performance is essential in all technology fields from research and design to manufacturing. Given the importance of CI, as well as its substantial cost, it is important that all stakeholders, i.e., the public, end-users, system support personnel, application developers and decision makers, have at their disposal tools to help optimize and measure CI performance, as well as the applications that use it.The University at Buffalo is developing CI measurement and optimization tools, namely XDMoD (XD Metrics on Demand) and its open-source counterpart, Open XDMoD, which are in use worldwide for advanced CI monitoring and reporting in academia and industry. This project builds upon and expands this foundation for measuring and monitoring services for the large NSF investment in the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support program. Highlights of this project include: (1) development of a flexible framework that allows stakeholders to use analytical tools they desire on performance data from national and local CI resources; (2) development of a comprehensive view of the CI ecosystem, including network, data, and public clouds, to facilitate CI planning from the local to the national level; (3) development of a CI simulator to predict the response of the CI ecosystem to proposed new systems or changes in existing systems enabling efficient deployment and use; and (4) development of automated tools to monitor application performance metrics (including energy) on established and novel CI architectures. The relationship between time-to-solution versus energy consumed is important to determine the feasibility of adopting novel CI architectures which promise lower energy consumption.Open XDMoD has a broad impact through its use by institutions worldwide to better manage their CI assets, including academic, industrial, and governmental research centers. Development and deployment of the tools include a range of activities to train the future CI workforce in an inclusive manner promoting diversity and equity.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.