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OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 29, 2013 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 29, 2013 |
| Award Number: | 1339856 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Bogdan Mihaila
bmihaila@nsf.gov (703)292-8235 OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | October 1, 2013 |
| End Date: | September 30, 2019 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $1,742,099.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $1,742,099.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
9500 GILMAN DR LA JOLLA CA US 92093-0021 (858)534-4896 |
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9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla CA US 92093-0934 |
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| NSF Program(s): |
Cross-BIO Activities, Software Institutes |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
Science Gateways are virtual environments that dramatically accelerate scientific discovery by enabling scientific communities to utilize distributed computational and data resources (that is, cyberinfrastructure). Successful Science Gateways provide access to sophisticated and powerful resources, while shielding their users from the resources' complexities. Given Science Gateways' demonstrated impact on progress in many scientific fields, it is important to remove barriers to the creation of new gateways and make it easier to sustain them. The Science Gateway Platform (SciGaP) project will create a set of hosted infrastructure services that can be easily adopted by gateway providers to build new gateways based on robust and reliable open source tools. The proposed work will transform the way Science Gateways are constructed by significantly lowering the development overhead for communities requiring access to cyberinfrastructure, and support the efficient utilization of shared resources.
SciGaP will transform access to large scale computing and data resources by reducing development time of new gateways and by accelerating scientific research for communities in need of access to large-scale resources. SciGaP's adherence to open community and open governance principles of the Apache Software Foundation will assure open source software access and open operation of its services. This will give all project stakeholders a voice in the software and will clear the proprietary fog that surrounds cyberinfrastructure services. The benefits of SciGaP services are not restricted to scientific fields, but can be used to accelerate progress in any field of endeavor that is limited by access to computational resources. SciGaP services will be usable by a community of any size, whether it is an individual, a lab group, a department, an institution, or an international community. SciGaP will help train a new generation of cyberinfrastructure developers in open source development, providing these early career developers with the ability to make publicly documented contributions to gateway software and to bridge the gap between academic and non-academic development.
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PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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This Project Outcomes Report for the General Public is displayed verbatim as submitted by the Principal Investigator (PI) for this award. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Report are those of the PI and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation; NSF has not approved or endorsed its content.
The practice of modern science absolutely depends upon access to digital resources such as supercomputers and large data repositories. Accordingly, scientists need easy access to such resources, independent of their location. In many fields, routine analyses require computational resources that are not available to researchers at their home institution, or specific datasets that were created within the community of practice, or data that exist in national or international resources outside of their home institution. Individual communities have responded to the need for access to digital resources by creating Science Gateways, which are on-line resources that make access to needed resources easy and intuitive. The problem is, creating individual gateways “from scratch” is costly and requires a significant amount of time and effort.
This project created a set of services designed to make gateway creation simple and fast by providing an infrastructure that all Science Gateways require. The project, Science Gateway Platform as a service (SciGaP), created a set of online services and a simple, customizable interface that allows any community to create a new Science Gateway with a minimum of effort. New Science Gateways can use SciGaP services to accomplish the key functions that all gateways require, such as managing users, submitting jobs to supercomputers, saving user data, and sharing data with others.
Intellectual merit:
The intellectual merit of the SciGaP project lies in its ability to accelerate discovery across all fields of scientific research. At present, SciGaP services support 30 new gateways representing more than 15,000 individual scientists. These scientists have been able to access over 42 million core hours of compute time from 35 different computing resources (including both campus and XSEDE resources) using SciGaP services. The SciGaP project also supported investigators in acquiring 12 new research grants totaling over $10M. Gateways supported by the SciGaP award project have support more than 1100 scientific publications in 2019.
Broader impacts:
The project provided training opportunities for more than 70 student interns, funded through this NSF award and through the Google Summer of Code. The award led to the creation of a Science Gateway Architectures course at Indiana University to provide a pipeline of trained students for the project.
The general purpose software and infrastructure developed in the SciGaP project will provide an operational system relevant for new science gateways in other scientific domains for the foreseeable future. We believe that the acceleration of the discovery process across a wide variety of scientific fields will provide broad societal benefits, for example improved workforce development, improved policy decisions, and better responses to emerging disease outbreaks.
Last Modified: 12/30/2019
Modified by: Mark A Miller
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