Track 1: ACCESS Resource Allocations Marketplace and Platform Services (RAMPS)

卡内基-梅隆大学团队提供分配服务，作为高级网络基础设施协调生态系统：服务和支持（ACCESS）计划的一部分。资源分配市场和平台服务（RAMPS）项目正在改变ACCESS生态系统中nsf资助的不断发展的资源分配过程。这个生态系统包括许多最强大的计算、存储和相关的网络基础设施资源，可供美国研究界使用。这些资源为推进所有科学领域的科学和教育提供了必要的能力。RAMPS分配环境提供了一个受欢迎的门户，激发了对科学发现的合作和参与，同时在必要时继续提供必要的把关功能，以平衡资源需求和可用供应。通过消除研究人员和他们所需资源之间的障碍，RAMPS市场推翻了许多现有的分配方法，RAMPS创造了一个开放、诱人和民主化的市场。分配环境中的多样性、公平性和包容性（DEI）是该项目的中心焦点。RAMPS正在努力确保妇女、残疾人和得不到充分服务的人群充分参与科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）。RAMPS为研究人员、教育工作者和学生提供了一个高效、可扩展和简化的界面，以请求资源来支持他们的研究、教育和劳动力发展努力。RAMPS模型的四个分配层级，即Explore， Discover, Ramp-Up, or Maximize，为研究人员提供了不同需求的多个入口点选择，优化分配应用程序过程效率，审查工作量，审查周转时间和资源可用性之间的权衡。对于生态系统中的资源提供者来说，RAMPS简化了集成新系统和服务的过程。RAMPS软件平台强调模块化、可扩展性和去中心化，具有足够的灵活性，可以适应当前和未来的计算性和非计算性资源和服务的分配。ACCESS信用，一种通用的分配货币，以及标准化的分配层级使得RAMPS能够加速分配请求和审查。最后，通过一系列创新试点，RAMPS正在向生态系统和分配市场引入颠覆性功能，以：告知当前和未来的增强功能；通过建立一套校园和区域On-RAMPS，分散ACCESS分配的入口点；整合云资源；将计算工作流定义为可分配的资源；并加强分配基础设施，以服务于传感器网络和仪器。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Carnegie-Mellon University team provides allocation services as part of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program. The Resource Allocations Marketplace and Platform Services (RAMPS) project is transforming the process of allocation for the ever-evolving range of NSF-funded resources in the ACCESS ecosystem. This ecosystem includes many of the most powerful computing, storage, and related cyberinfrastructure resources available to the U.S. research community. These resources provide essential capabilities for advancing science and education across all fields of science. The RAMPS allocation environment offers a welcoming gateway that inspires collaboration and participation in the pursuit of scientific discovery while continuing to provide an essential gatekeeping function when necessary to balance demand for resources with the available supply. The RAMPS marketplace is toppling many current allocations approaches by removing barriers between researchers and their needed resources, RAMPS creates an open, inviting, and democratized marketplace. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the allocations environment is a central focus of the project. RAMPS is working to ensure the full participation of women, persons with disabilities, and underserved populations in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). RAMPS provides an efficient, scalable and simplified interface for researchers, educators, and students to request resources in support of their research, educational, and workforce development endeavors. The RAMPS model of four allocation tiers, i.e., Explore, Discover, Ramp-Up, or Maximize, gives researchers with different needs multiple entry point options which optimize trade-offs between allocation application process efficiency, review effort, review turnaround times, and availability of resources. For the resource providers in the ecosystem, RAMPS streamlines the process of integrating new systems and services. Built with an emphasis on modularity, extensibility, and decentralization, the RAMPS software platform is flexible enough to accommodate allocations for current and future computational and non-computational resources and services. ACCESS Credits, a universal allocation currency, and standardized allocation tiers allow RAMPS to accelerate allocation requests and reviews. Finally, through a suite of Innovative Pilots, RAMPS is introducing disruptive features to the ecosystem and allocations marketplace to: inform current and future enhancements; decentralize the entry points for ACCESS allocations by building a set of campus and regional On-RAMPS; integrate cloud resources; define computational workflows as allocable resources; and enhance the allocations infrastructure to serve sensor nets and instrumentation.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.