Workshops on Cyberscience Grand Challenges and Implications for Cyberinfrastructure

这个奖项是为了支持关于网络科学对网络基础设施的重大挑战和影响的初步和最终研讨会。网络科学是一种革命性的科学发现新方法，它从开发可量化的模型开始，然后开发所需的算法、软件和模拟工具，以提供对科学和工程中的问题的独特见解。然后，通过计算建模和模拟，以一种新颖和必要的方式补充实验和理论。网络科学的进步，加上网络基础设施的进步，有可能开启一个科学发现的新时代，这将极大地帮助解决我们国家面临的许多重大挑战问题。迫切需要评估现代网络科学的现状，评估与未来十年人类面临的重大挑战问题相关的需求、障碍和机遇，并确定由此对下一代网络基础设施的影响，包括硬件、网络、存储、软件、算法、数据、可视化和教育项目。这两个为期一天的研讨会将汇聚美国计算科学和工程界的领军人物，最终目标是制作一份报告，确定并阐明未来十年科学重大挑战问题对未来网络基础设施的关键影响。第一期讲习班将于2009年夏末举行，也就是工作组审议的早期阶段。第二期讲习班将于2010年春季举行，目标是为报告定稿。研讨会的具体目的是(1)彻底了解现代科学和工程应用对网络基础设施的要求，必须部署这些要求以应对未来十年的科学挑战；(2)确定促进分布式计算科学界内部合作的机制，以解决更传统方法无法解决的复杂问题；以及(3)就新项目的想法提出一套经过深思熟虑的建议，以更紧密地将先进的科学和工程问题解决与对网络基础设施的持续投资结合在一起。

0956167OdenThis award is to support a preliminary and a final workshop on Cyberscience Grand Challenges and Implications for Cyberinfrastructure. CyberScience is a revolutionary new approach to scientifc discovery that begins with the development of quantifable models, and then develops the algorithms, software, and simulation tools required to provide unique insights into problems in science and engineering. Experiment and theory are then complemented in a novel and essential way by computational modeling and simulation. Advances in cyberscience, accelerated by advances in cyberinfrastructure, have the potential to usher in a new age of scientifc discovery that will greatly aid in the solution of many of the important Grand Challenge Problems facing our nation. There is an urgent need to take stock of the state of modern cyberscience, to assess the needs, barriers, and opportunities associated with the Grand Challenges problems facing humanity over the coming decade,and define the resulting implications for next-generation cyberinfrastructure, including hardware,networking, storage, software, algorithms, data, visualization, and educational programs. The pair of one-day workshops that will bring together leading figures in the U.S. computational science and engineering community, with the ultimate goal ofproducing a report identifying and articulating the critical impacts of the scientific grand challenge problems of the coming decade on future cyberinfrastructure. The first workshop will be held in late summer 2009, in the early stages of the group's deliberations. The second workshop will be held in spring 2010, with the goal of finalizing the report. The specific aims of the workshops are to (1) develop a thorough understanding of the requirements of modern science and engineering applications on the cyberinfrastructure that must be deployed to address the scientific GrandChallenges of the coming decade; 2) identify mechanisms for facilitating collaborations within distributed computational science communities to address complex problems that are beyond the reach of more traditional approaches; and(3) produce a set of well-considered recommendations on ideas for new programs to more tightly couple advanced problem-solving in science and engineering with continuing investments in cyberinfrastructure.