Workshop on Instrumentation Needs of Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research

提案编号：CNS 08- 36228 PI：Fortes，Jose A.机构：University of佛罗里达Gainesville，FL 32611- 2002标题： 计算机和信息科学与工程项目的仪器需求研讨会建议：该提案，规划研讨会，以检查仪器开发，收购，利用和共享的性质，需求，重要性，挑战和资金机制，为正在进行的和/或预期的研究在不同的CISE领域的目的，汇集公认的CISE研究领导人进行这样的评估，并产生一份报告，可以与CISE社区，同事，学术管理人员，政府资助机构和行业共享。CISE研究越来越关注非常大和复杂的对象，其行为不能完全从第一原理中提取或使用简化模型进行研究。除其他因素外，规模是摩尔？的法律和无处不在的网络。复杂性来自于计算嵌入到工件中，许多组件和/或多层功能的互连。设计和/或建模这些对象所需的研究通常需要特殊的仪器，以便在非常小的空间/时间粒度下观察单个组件，或者在足够大的规模和足够长的时间内观察/仿真/模拟许多对象。在过去的二十年中，CISE研究仪器的需求，以及解决这些问题的机制，已经改变了IT技术的发展，无论是从研究面临的挑战和启用的工具的角度来看。计算机和信息技术（IT）的惊人进步已经导致了具有数十亿个晶体管的微处理器、具有数百万行代码的软件环境、多层IT系统以及数千台计算机、用户和应用程序的网络的当前时代。因此，计算机科学家和工程师研究的对象往往具有前所未有的规模和复杂性。CISE仪器通常通过连接许多其他工件（在某些情况下，在飞行中）来增长，导致这些对象的任何单个设计者或用户都无法掌握的复杂性。因此，迫切需要进行这种评估。更广泛的影响：IT越来越多地嵌入到工件中，这些工件可能包括非IT组件，其性质包括机械、电气、通信、能源生产、化学、运输、娱乐、医疗和国防。因此，仪器仪表触及整个社会。

Proposal #: CNS 08-36228PI(s): Fortes, Jose A.Institution: University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-2002Title: Workshop on Instrumentation Needs of Computer and Information Science and EngineeringProject Proposed:This proposal, planning a workshop to examine the nature, needs, importance, challenges, and funding mechanisms of instrumentation development, acquisition, utilization, and sharing, for purposes of ongoing and/or anticipated research in different CISE areas, brings together recognized CISE research leaders to conduct such an assessment and produce a report that can be shared with the CISE community, colleagues, academic administrators, government funding agencies, and industry. CISE research is increasingly concerned with extremely large and complex objects whose behavior cannot be entirely distilled from first principles or investigated using reduction models. Among other factors, scale is a consequence of Moore?s law and pervasive networking. Complexity arises from the embedding of computing into artifacts, interconnection of many components and/or multiple layers of functionality. Research needed to design and/or model such objects often requires special instruments to either peer into individual components at very small space/time granularity or to observe/emulate/simulate many objects at large enough scale and during long enough times. Over the last two decades the CISE research instrumentation needs, and mechanisms to address them, have changed as a reflection of the evolution of IT technology, both from the standpoint of the research challenges to be faced and the instruments enabled. The amazing progress of computer and information technologies (IT) has led to the current era of microprocessors with billions of transistors, software environments with millions of lines of code, multi-layered IT systems, and networks of thousands of computers, users, and applications. As a consequence, the objects computer scientists and engineers study often have an unprecedented scale and complexity. CISE instruments often grow by connecting many other artifacts (in some cases, on the fly) leading to complexity that cannot be mastered by any single designer or user of those objects. Thus, an urgent need exists for such assessment. Broader Impact: IT is increasingly being embedded into artifacts which might include non-IT components whose natures include mechanical, electrical, communication, energy production, chemical, transportation, entertainment, medical, and defense. Thus, instrumentation touches society overall.