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Construction and Service of a Web-based Cyber-learning Platform for the Computational Science and Engineering Community in Korea

국내 계산과학공학 커뮤니티를 위한 웹 기반 사이버-러닝 플랫폼 구축 및 서비스

  • Suh, Young-Kyoon (Supercomputing R&D Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)) ;
  • Cho, Kum Won (Supercomputing R&D Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI))
  • Received : 2016.01.27
  • Accepted : 2016.06.20
  • Published : 2016.08.31

Abstract

Recently, many attentions have been paid to conducting convergence research across diverse disciplines. Along with this convergence era, an IT-based multi-disciplinary convergence project, called EDISON (EDucation-research Integrated Simulation On the Net), has been launched to support the studies of researchers engaged in several computational science and engineering (CSE) fields and to boost learning motivations of CSE students. Since 2011, we have been successfully carrying out the EDISON project. EDISON as a cyber-learning platform enables CSE researchers to share their own high-performance computing (HPC) simulation softwares developed to solve their research problems accompanying large-scale computation and I/O and users to run the softwares with little constraints on the web. Also, the EDISON platform has been utilized as lecture material by many universities in Korea. This article introduces the construction and service statistics of this EDISON platform. Specifically, we explicate several distinctions between EDISON and existing other HPC service platforms and discuss a three-layered technical architecture of the EDISON platform. We then present the up-to-date service statistics of EDISON over the past four years. Finally, we conclude this article and describe future plans.

최근 다양한 분야의 융합 연구에 대한 관심이 고조되고 있다. 이러한 시대 흐름에 발맞추어, 다수의 계산과학공학 분야의 연구자들의 연구 활동을 지원하고 학생들의 학습 의욕을 증진시키기 위한 IT기반 학제-간 융합 사업인 EDISON 프로젝트가 발주되었다. 우리는 2011년부터 이 EDISON 프로젝트를 성공적으로 수행해오고 있다. EDISON은 사이버-러닝 플랫폼으로서, 계산과학공학 연구자들이 거대 계산 및 I/O가 필요한 자신의 연구 문제를 해결하기 위해 개발한 고성능 컴퓨팅 시뮬레이션 소프트웨어를 웹에서 자유롭게 공유할 수 있게 하고, 사용자들의 아무런 제약 없이 실행할 수 있게 한다. 또한 EDISON은 국내 많은 대학의 강의 자료로 활용되고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 EDISON 플랫폼의 구축 및 서비스 통계를 소개한다. 구체적으로, 우리는 기존 다른 고성능 계산과학 플랫폼과 EDISON 플랫폼과의 몇몇 차이를 설명하고, EDISON 플랫폼의 세 가지 기술적 계층 구조에 대해 논의한다. 이어 지난 4년 동안 EDISON 서비스에 대한 최신 통계를 제시한다. 끝으로, 본 논문의 결론을 맺고, 향후 계획에 대해 기술한다.

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