2020 — 2022 |
Kesselman, Carl [⬀] Kim, Byoung-Do |
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Cc* Compute: a Customizable, Reproducible, and Secure Cloud Infrastructure as a Service For Scientific Research in Southern California @ University of Southern California
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 South Carolina (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.
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0.961 |
2021 — 2023 |
Kesselman, Carl [⬀] Kim, Byoung-Do Pyun, Yul |
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Cc* Regional: a Purpose-Builtsocal Science Dmz For Catalyzing Scientific Research Collaborations @ University of Southern California
The Los Nettos Regional Network is a long-standing regional research and education (R&E) network with a history of supporting science and engineering research for its more than 30 members and associates in the greater Los Angeles area. This project builds a friction-free regional Science DMZ network across multiple Southern California college campuses, catalyzing collaborative research capabilities at the institutions. The project establishes the network infrastructure and software necessary to facilitate high speed transfers of large-scale research data for regional and national scientific collaborations. The campuses included in the network are Loyola Marymount University, Occidental College, and The Claremont Colleges consortium, which consists of Claremont Graduate University, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Keck Graduate Institute, Pitzer College, Pomona College, and Scripps College.
This purpose-built science network is specially customized for each institution’s unique needs and follows the well-known Science DMZ guidelines established by ESnet. The new network interconnects with state, national, and international networks, such as CENIC’s California Research and Education Network (CalREN), Internet2, and Pacific Wave. Many projects in various science domains benefit from the significant network capacity increase that this project supports. Coordinated activities at the regional level, including technical training for administrators and researchers at each campus, ensure uniform standards are maintained. This scalable R&E network can be expanded in the future for researchers and students at other smaller regional institutions (e.g., Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, ArtCenter College of Design) as their need for collaboration widens.
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.
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0.961 |
2023 — 2024 |
Kesselman, Carl [⬀] Kim, Byoung-Do |
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Cc* Regional Computing: Building Cyberinfrastructure to Forge a Regional Research Computing Alliance in Southern California @ University of Southern California
Educational institutions in Southern California, particularly those focused on undergraduate studies, face challenges in accessing essential high-performance computing (HPC) resources and cyber-infrastructure. This lack of accessibility leads to decreased knowledge and experience with HPC among students and faculty and inhibits advancements in data-intensive research activities. The University of Southern California’s (USC) Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) houses one of the largest HPC facilities in the region and is deploying new cyberinfrastructure to expand their services and expertise to under-resourced universities in the area. The implementation of this new HPC system with corresponding user support services further solidifies the existing collaboration between USC and the Los Nettos consortium, comprised of 6 member universities and 30 associate networks.<br/><br/>The new system offers a similar computing environment to national HPC centers with advanced computing capacity, high-speed network, and abundant research applications and tools in its software stack. Additionally, the system leverages existing cyberinfrastructure at USC such as central file systems, HPC cluster interconnection, and federated authentication. This project significantly increases the accessibility of advanced cyberinfrastructure to students and researchers of regional institutions while catalyzing multi-institutional research collaborations, thereby forming a computational research and education hub in the region—the Southern California Research Computing Alliance.<br/><br/>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.
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0.961 |