Workshop on the Assessment of Cyberinfrastructure Resources in EPSCoR Jurisdictions

摘要提案编号：eps -1036917提案标题：EPSCoR辖区内网络基础设施资源评估研讨会本提案请求资助举办研讨会，目的是了解评估EPSCoR CI质量和竞争力的测量方法，比较现有EPSCoR CI的质量与2007年的质量，并评估进一步促进CI发展的最佳实践。在研讨会开始之前，将进行一项调查，以评估所有29个EPSCoR管辖区广泛定义的CI现状。本次调查结果将在为期一天半的研讨会上进行讨论，包括概述演讲、小组讨论和分组会议，重点是CI指标、网络、高性能计算、CI软件、劳动力发展和应对科学挑战。这项工作有可能推进CI并支持广泛的科学领域。网络基础设施在科学和工程研究中发挥着越来越重要的作用，并显著改变了科学和工程方法。这项活动将使基金会能够收集有关EPSCoR合格司法管辖区当前带宽和CI能力的准确和全面的数据，并了解过去3-4年的变化情况。本次研讨会将概述可采取的行动，以确保用于研究目的的网络基础设施广泛可用，并将协助EPSCoR管辖区解决在国家层面上对CI重要性增长的一部分所出现的任何障碍。该项目也有可能提高人们对CI与科学研究和教育相互作用的认识。更广泛的影响许多组织都对支持美国高校研究的网络基础设施感兴趣，特别是因为带宽和CI已被确定为影响EPSCoR学术机构获取信息和计算能力的两个主要限制因素。任何有助于支持CI部署和制定实施计划以扩大CI访问的努力都有可能大大提高这些司法管辖区的研究和经济竞争力。

AbstractProposal Number: EPS-1036917Proposal Title: Workshop on the Assessment of Cyberinfrastructure Resources in EPSCoR JurisdictionsThis proposal requests funding to hold a workshop with the goals of understanding measurements for evaluating the quality and competitiveness of EPSCoR CI, comparing the quality of EPSCoR CI available to that available in 2007, and evaluating best practices for furthering CI development broadly construed. Before the workshop begins, a survey will be conducted to evaluate the current state of CI, broadly defined, across all 29 EPSCoR jurisdictions. The results of the survey will be discussed at the workshop as part of a 1½ day agenda consisting of overview presentations, panels, and breakout sessions with a focus on CI metrics, networking, HPC, CI software, workforce development, and meeting scientific challenges. This work has the potential to advance CI and support a broad set of science domains.Intellectual MeritCyberinfrastructure is playing an increasingly important role in the conduct of science and engineering research and significantly changing science and engineering methods. This activity will enable the Foundation to gather accurate and comprehensive data regarding current bandwidth and CI capabilities of EPSCoR eligible jurisdictions, and to understand how this has changed over the past 3-4 years. This workshop will outline actions that can be taken to ensure that cyberinfrastructure for research purposes is broadly available, and will assist EPSCoR jurisdictions to address any road blocks that have come up as part of the growth in importance to CI at a national level. This project also has the potential to increase awareness of the interaction of CI and scientific research and education.Broader ImpactsMany organizations have a stake or interest in cyberinfrastructure in support of research at US colleges and universities, especially since bandwidth and CI have been identified as two of the primary limiting factors affecting access to information and computing capacity at EPSCoR academic institutions. Any effort that can assist in supporting the deployment of CI and developing implementation plans to expand CI access has the potential to greatly improve the research and economic competitiveness of those jurisdictions.