① Chinese Academy of Sciences equipment Sharing management platform V3.0 system acceptance will be on-site
② Computer Network Information Center to train core team members
③ inspection experts field trips
Newspaper reporter Alice Grace
The high level of research equipment and technical services is of paramount importance for the development of cutting-edge research at high levels. For CAS researchers, there is an alternative to using scientific research equipment, and they have one option - to open the 'China Academy of Sciences instrument Equipment sharing management platform V3.0 system ', the use of the hospital's shared system to complete scientific research and experimental work.
Zhang Hongsong, director of the Equipment Project Management Office of the State Administration of Taxation of the CAS, told the "China Science News" reporter: "On December 22, 2017, the V3.0 system construction project passed the acceptance by experts. After the system was launched online for more than a year, Various aspects of the test, the performance of stable performance is good now the system on-line large-scale equipment more than 8,000 sets, valued at more than 11 billion yuan; the number of users reached 40,000 people, has become the largest laboratory equipment online services and operations management System.
Build a shared platform
The utilization rate of research facilities and equipment is not high, and some research facilities and equipment are repeatedly constructed and purchased, which is a problem existing in the field of utilization of scientific research resources for many years. Therefore, in 2014, the State promulgated the "State Council's Decision on Major National Scientific Research Facilities and Large- Scientific research instruments open to the community. "As the 'national science and technology team', as early as 2008, the Chinese Academy of Sciences started the exploration of establishing a public technical support system and set up a platform for sharing scientific research instruments.
Zhang Hongsong said: 'On the basis of multi-party research in 2008, we set about establishing a V1.0 system for shared management platform for equipment and instruments, which was improved on the basis of Nanjing Research Institute of Soil and Water Research and achieved a system launch in 2009. "
New things there are always many imperfections, 1.0 version put into use, many problems are exposed. 'At the time while using the perfect function, we decided to upgrade version 2.0, the new features added.' Zhang Song told reporters.
As soon as version 2.0 of the Device Sharing Platform was launched, a great deal of attention was paid to researchers, and the number of devices and instruments added to the platform rapidly grew from 2,000 to 6,000. "We did not expect the 2.0 version to be so popular that the number of devices on the line suddenly exceeded Three times the original software design has certain shortcomings, the system has been subjected to many restrictions. 'Zhang Hongsong said.
'The biggest problem at the time was that the system was slow to respond and clicked the mouse for a long time without moving the page.' Recalled the scene at the time, Zhang Hongsong said: 'Every day I receive a lot of opinions and complaints, especially psychological pressure.'
'Our original intention is to serve the researchers.' In the face of great difficulties, the Academy of Sciences leadership to give strong support to reorganize the project team, withstood the pressure, wondering how to further upgrade the system to improve the user experience .2014 brewing for a long time V3.0 system began preparations, CAS Computer Network Information Center undertook the system construction.
To provide scientific research services support
V3.0 system project manager, Chinese Academy of Sciences Computer Network Information Center Jiao Wenbin management information department, said: 'To be honest, large-scale equipment management is a very professional one thing, when I did not end, almost bland Down task.
After careful analysis and discussion, Jiao Wenbin team came to the conclusion - the core issue of the system is the structure is not perfect.In the case of limited funds, they find experts to improve and refine the program, and finally overcome this problem.In October 2016, V3.0 system on-line operation.
Shi Guangjun, senior engineer in the management information department of the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said: 'V3.0 has been greatly improved in system design, user experience is more convenient, service support is more comprehensive, service configuration is more flexible, and users can also move on the mobile end On the completion of appointment, review and other work, the system performance has been greatly improved.
Zhang Hongsong said: 'The new system now every time the mouse, the reaction speed in milliseconds.If spent a lot of money to achieve, is relatively easy, but in the case of less funding to achieve this level, which is the project team of all staff Pay and work hard.
After one year of commissioning, the platform surrendered a dazzling transcript.The system has been successfully applied in 15 large-scale instrument regional centers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 114 research institutes. As of the end of November 2017, 10000000 hours, handling nearly 600,000 orders single orders.
'Instrument sharing platform running for nearly 10 years, has accumulated a lot of data, system optimization and upgrade switching, we developed a data migration tool.' Jiao Wenbin told reporters.
Due to the fact that many researchers make system appointments during the daytime, ITM staff often choose to migrate data on weekends or midnight. 'From V2.0 to V3.0, there was a lot of data Can not go wrong, during that time overtime is commonplace.Finally, we completed more than 43000000 migration of data, and the data is complete and accurate.Jiao Wenbin said.
Zhang Hongsong compared the construction of an instrument sharing platform to that of an urban transportation system: "There can not be only a private car in a city, but also a sound public transportation system. Many young researchers are confronted with the problem of insufficient funds for starting up in the early stage, Purchase easily hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions of dollars of equipment, instrument sharing platform can provide them a good environment for innovation.
In addition, the V3.0 system also has ancillary settlement capabilities. 'In the past, scientists need to go to the financial office to collect checks when they cross-used scientific research equipment, and time-consuming reimbursement is required after the payment is settled. Now the system can be used To the settlement once every six months, which greatly facilitates the scientific research staff, across the use of equipment and use of our instruments and equipment as convenient, significantly improve work efficiency. "Zhang Hongsong said.
Jiao Wenbin told reporters that in the construction of the V3.0 system, we sincerely cooperate and break the deadlock between management and technology 'two skins.' The key to the new system is that it is fully operational and operational, and now it is operating around the clock, we can achieve Real-time monitoring, the user can check the use of the equipment on the platform anytime, anywhere through the mobile phone, so as to match the actual workload according to their work. "Jiao Wenbin said.
'Sharing' to promote win-win cooperation
In the 10-year exploration path shared by the construction equipment, the Chinese Academy of Sciences took the lead in breaking down all the limitations of the 'equipment group' of the equipment and has now formed a preliminary technology of 'taking the public service center of the grade as the foundation and the large-scale equipment regional center as the backbone' Support system and large-scale equipment for the national open sharing service network.
Zhang Hongsong said: 'As of the end of November 2017, 1.5 million hours of out-of-hospital sharing machines on the shared platform and over 4,000 of the out-of-home users have been gradually raised in terms of scientific research capability and open sharing rate.
Zhang Hongsong said: "Now many scientists work to the first thing is to open the system, booking equipment, processing information, sharing platform has been the instrument and equipment sharing platform to break the 'wall' restrictions and regional restrictions, and even across the city to achieve sharing. Become an essential assistant for everyone to work.
The successful popularization and application of V3.0 system has played an important role in promoting the output of major scientific and technological innovations.Relying on the superconducting common technology platform of the large-scale instrument regional center of Beijing Material Science and Nanotechnology, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, In-depth study, has won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award, the highest science and technology award and other awards.
The establishment of an instrument sharing platform has brought about hot and overloaded operations of certain 'hot' equipment. Zhang Hongsong said that an average of one machine operating at 1600 hours a year is 100% of the work load. With the exploration and innovative research work, the average usage of instruments and equipment is still at an ideal level of 70% ~ 80%, and now the annual average workload of a large number of instruments and equipment in the system has exceeded this level. He said: 'In the future, we will further improve the system and promote our practices and experiences. We welcome other units to join in and provide a broader and broader stage for the vast numbers of scientific workers to display their talents.'
Jiao Wenbin said: 'In the future, we will focus on building a smart laboratory to provide more personalized micro services to meet user needs, from' instrument sharing 'to' smart research ', allowing laboratories, scientific research instruments and scientific data on this platform On the real flow.
