POSE: Phase I: Constellation: A Pathway to Establish the STE||AR Open-Source Organization

为了进一步推进人工智能（AI）研究和应对气候变化，社会需要高效利用高性能计算（HPC）资源。该项目将制定一个计划，建立恒星开源组织，旨在使高性能计算的使用尽可能容易和高效。在社区的帮助下，恒星将通过协调针对多个科学领域的工具和技术的开发，为更快地采用这些技术提供教育服务和技术支持，并为社区提供咨询服务，来开发用户和开发者的软件生态系统。CONSTEllATION项目将制定路线图，以建立STEllAR非营利开源组织。STEllAR组织将制定战略并监督安全、标准化和工业强度HPX（高性能并行，一种用于并发和并行的标准c++库）运行时的开发，以克服ExaScale时代及以后出现的挑战。STEllAR还将帮助社区围绕HPX构建应用程序接口（API）、基础设施、工具和生态系统。此外，组织将提供(1)通过构建开发人员工具和文档、技术支持、持续测试和集成以及标准化来保证应用程序；(2)专业支持，包括培训、定制包装、技术架构；(3)社区服务，如教育、劳动力发展和外展。随着社会进入ExaScale时代，异步多任务运行时系统（amt）的快速采用将有助于提高现代高性能应用程序的并行效率和可移植性，并提高计算资源的能源效率。这些能力将使科学界能够克服普遍采用的批量同步模型的缺点，并为在人工智能、气候变化、生物信息学和许多其他具有高社会影响的应用领域开发下一代应用铺平道路。此外，STEllAR将成为高性能计算和相关应用领域的推广和教育中心。参见：https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpxhttps://hpx-docs.stellar-group.org/latest/html/index.htmlhttps://stellar-group.orgThis该奖项反映了NSF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。

To further advance research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and combatting climate change, society requires the efficient use of high-performance computing (HPC) resources. This project will lay out a plan to establish the STEllAR open-source organization that aims at making the use of HPC as accessible and efficient as possible. With the help of the community, STEllAR will develop a software ecosystem of users and developers by coordinating the development of tools and technologies targeting multiple science domains, delivering educational services and technical support for faster adoption of such technologies, and providing consultancy services to the community. The CONSTEllATION project will develop a roadmap to establish the STEllAR non-profit open-source organization. The STEllAR organization will strategize and oversee the development of a secure, standardized, and industrial strength HPX (High Performance ParalleX, a standard C++ library for concurrency and parallelism) runtime to overcome the challenges that arise in the ExaScale era and beyond. STEllAR will also help the community to build the application program interface (API), infrastructure, tools, and ecosystem around HPX. In addition, the organization will provide (1) application assurance through building developer tools and documentation, technical support, continuous testing and integration, and standardization; (2) professional support including training, custom packaging, and technology architecture; and (3) community services such as education, workforce development, and outreach. Rapid adoption of Asynchronous Many-Task runtime systems (AMTs) will help to increase the parallel efficiency and portability of modern high-performance applications and improve the energy efficiency of computing resources as society enters the ExaScale era. These capabilities will enable the scientific community to overcome the shortcomings of the commonly practiced Bulk Synchronization model and make way for developing a next generation of applications in AI, climate change, bio-informatics, and many other application domains of high societal impact. In addition, STEllAR will be a hub for outreach and education in the field of high-performance computing and related application areas.See:https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpxhttps://hpx-docs.stellar-group.org/latest/html/index.htmlhttps://stellar-group.orgThis 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.