Collaborative Research: CI-Team Demonstration: Towards a Culture of Computational Science

协作研究：CI 团队演示：迈向计算科学文化

• 批准号: 0636334
• 负责人: Andrew Grimshaw
• 金额: $ 21.75万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-01 至 2008-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0636334&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CI; Team; Demonstration

Rapid developments in cyberinfrastructure are revolutionizing the practice of science and engineering. As the power and reach of computers has grown, computational science has emerged as the third branch of science, complementing analytical theory and experiment. In many fields, especially engineering disciplines and physical and biological sciences, the problems that must be solved are so complex that computation has overtaken pure analytic theory in importance. Despite the growth in importance of the field and in demand for practitioners, academic institutions have been slow to react. At most colleges and universities there is little in the way of a curriculum in computational science. The significance of this was made clear in the recently published report of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), "Computational Science: Ensuring America's Competitiveness" (PITAC 2006). The report specifically noted that the existing educational infrastructure could not meet this need and highlighted the failure of universities to adapt to the new needs of students, both graduate and undergraduate, for education in computational disciplines. The report issued a very specific call: It is past time for universities to take action. They must examine their educational practices and organizational structures to provide and reward interdisciplinary and collaborative research and education. New structures, programs, and institutional incentives are urgently required (PITAC 2006).The failure of academic institutions to prepare students and to encourage their faculty to learn new approaches threatens to compromise U.S. scientific leadership and economic competitiveness in a rapidly changing world. This project will develop essential components comprising a first step toward "changing the culture" at the University of Virginia, while creating a strategy that will be extensible, sustainable, and exportable. Our solution consists of a multi-pronged strategy including formal coursework, outreach to faculty, and collaboration with nearby institutions such as Sweet Briar College (an all women's school) so as to provide practical experience in the use of computational tools and infrastructure to a wide audience in the university community. Broader ImpactThis project will affect both the culture of science and engineering at UVA and beyond. It will improve the quality of research at Virginia by fostering a change in culture towards inter-disciplinary computational science and by training our students, research scientists, and faculty in contemporary computational techniques and the use of the emerging cyberinfrastructure. A similar change will be experienced both by our partner institutions and by the companies and universities downstream. The downstream effects, better research and product development, will improve US economic competitiveness.

网络基础设施的快速发展正在彻底改变科学和工程实践。 随着计算机的能力和范围的增长，计算科学已经成为科学的第三个分支，补充了分析理论和实验。在许多领域，特别是工程学科和物理与生物科学，必须解决的问题是如此复杂，以至于计算的重要性已经超过了纯分析理论。 尽管该领域的重要性和对从业人员的需求不断增长，但学术机构反应缓慢。 在大多数学院和大学里，很少有计算科学的课程。 总统信息技术咨询委员会（PITAC）最近发表的报告《计算科学：确保美国的竞争力》（PITAC 2006）明确了这一点的重要性。 报告特别指出，现有的教育基础设施无法满足这一需求，并强调大学未能适应研究生和本科生对计算学科教育的新需求。该报告发出了一个非常具体的呼吁：大学采取行动的时间已经过去了。 它们必须审查其教育实践和组织结构，以提供和奖励跨学科和合作研究和教育。 新的结构、项目和制度激励是迫切需要的（PITAC 2006）。学术机构未能培养学生和鼓励教师学习新方法，这可能会损害美国在快速变化的世界中的科学领导地位和经济竞争力。该项目将开发基本组件，包括在弗吉尼亚大学“改变文化”的第一步，同时创建一个可扩展，可持续和可出口的战略。我们的解决方案包括一个多管齐下的策略，包括正式的课程，推广到教师，并与附近的机构，如甜石楠学院（全女子学校）的合作，以提供在使用计算工具和基础设施的实践经验，以广大观众在大学社区。 更广泛的影响这个项目将影响UVA及其他地区的科学和工程文化。它将通过促进跨学科计算科学文化的变化，并通过培训我们的学生，研究科学家和教师在当代计算技术和新兴网络基础设施的使用，提高弗吉尼亚州的研究质量。我们的合作机构以及下游的公司和大学都将经历类似的变化。下游效应，更好的研究和产品开发，将提高美国的经济竞争力。