Workshop in Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG)

为了克服地球动力学软件的缺陷，地球动力学界一直在制定一项地球动力学计算基础设施（CIG）计划，其目的是利用科学计算领域的现有技术，将其转化为一套工具包和代码，为更大的地球动力学界提供服务，从纯粹的建模者到现有模型的用户。重点是开发工具包，简化模型开发，促进思想和算法的交流。如果成功，这一努力有望通过提供工具和服务来彻底改变我们的社区计算方式，使我们能够更多地关注科学，而不是高性能计算的科学中立部分。我们的目标是使更多的学生、研究人员和教育工作者能够使用定量假设检验的工具。随着CIG的愿景和结构的最终确定以及为其提供资金的建议的准备，为了继续扩大物理学界的参与，我们提议在2004年1月16日至17日举办一个对整个社区开放的研讨会。通过在这个时候举行研讨会，我们希望在我们保持CIG倡议势头的愿望与继续参与社区的需要之间取得平衡。我们的目标是让参与者尽可能少地花费时间前往研讨会地点。因此，我们建议在洛杉矶国际机场（LAX）附近的一家拥有适当会议设施的酒店举办为期两天的研讨会。我们希望有大约50名科学家参加研讨会，大多数参与者分布在计算地球动力学界，以便我们保持各个子学科之间以及初级和高级科学家之间的平衡。此外，我们还计划邀请计算机科学和计算科学社区的成员，我们希望他们参与我们的规划。他们的参与将使地球物理学的参与者更好地了解他们如何利用信息技术和计算科学的进步。更广泛的影响：本次研讨会的更广泛的影响可能是巨大的。我们相信，这次研讨会将使物理学界走到一起，最终推动CIG的发展。CIG可能会通过加强所有研究人员可用的基础设施来改变物理学。CIG还将大大改变美国培养计算物理学研究生的方式。

In order to overcome deficiencies in geodynamics software, the geophysicscommunity has been formulating a plan for Computational Infrastructure forGeodynamics (CIG), whose purpose will be to leverage the current state of the art inscientific computing into a suite of toolkits and codes that serve the greater geodynamicscommunity from pure modelers to users of existing models. The emphasis is ondeveloping toolkits that ease model development and foster the interchange of ideas andalgorithms. If successful, this effort promises to revolutionize the way our communitycomputes by providing tools and services that allow us to focus more on the science andless on the science-neutral parts of high-performance computation. The goal is toempower a larger community of students, researchers, educators with the tools forquantitative hypothesis testing.In order to continue to broaden participation from the geophysics community as thevision for and structure of CIG are finalized and the proposal to fund it are prepared, wepropose to hold a workshop, open to the entire community January 16-17, 2004. Byholding the workshop at this time we are hoping to strike a balance between our desire tomaintain momentum in the CIG initiative with the need for continued engagement withthe community. Our objective is for participants to expend as little time as possibletraveling to the workshop venue. It is for this reason that we propose to hold the two-dayworkshop in a hotel with appropriate conference facilities immediately adjacent to theLos Angeles International Airport (LAX). Our hope is to have about 50 scientists at theworkshop with the majority of the participants spread through the computationalgeodynamics community in such a way that we maintain balance between the various subdisciplines as well as between junior and senior scientists. In addition, we also plan toinvite members of the computer science and computational science communities who wehope to engage in our planning. Their participation will allow the geophysics participantsto better understand how they can take advantage of advances in information technologyand computational science.Broader Impacts: The broader impacts of this workshop are likely to be substantial. Webelieve that this workshop will allow the geophysics community to come together in afinal push to advance CIG. CIG will likely alter geophysics by strengthening theinfrastructure available to all researchers. CIG will also substantially alter the waygraduate students in computational geophysics are trained in the US.