NSF Workshop on Creating Scientific Software Innovation Institutes for Sustained Cyberinfrastructure Achievement and Excellence

CF21是一个全面的愿景，它承认软件是科学研究的主要方式。不同的软件元素如何形成一个连贯、可持续的网络基础设施的复杂性变得令人震惊，因为越来越多的资助倡议针对国家和国际层面的技术能力和社区互动产生了更多的元素。环境观测站社区生态系统必须包含构成这一网络基础设施的所有要素，贯穿技术、学科、社区和实践，以加速科学进步和竞争力。NSF资助的环境观测站和相关的网络基础设施项目范围广泛，跨越许多社区，包括AON(北极观测网络)、CHyMP(CUAHSI水文建模平台)、CUAHSI HIS(CUAHSI水文信息系统)、CZOS(关键区域观测站)、HydoNexrad(水电下一代雷达)、LTER(长期生态研究)、NEON(国家生态观测站网络)、OOI(海洋观测倡议)和WSC(水资源可持续性和气候方案)。其中每一个都有自己的软件开发努力，并有重叠的网络基础设施要求和科学议程，但没有统一的努力来促进贯穿所有这些领域的可持续研究、教育和交流。这一由美国国家科学基金会赞助的研讨会提供了一个论坛，探讨如何实现CF21愿景，并产生稳健、可持续的产品和方法，以响应环境观测站社区日益增长的网络基础设施需求。它阐述了推动有效治理模式的社区架构，以协调可持续的社区实践，包括整合社区工作流程、资源的互操作性和虚拟组织原则，这些原则将在这些社区的间隙推动新的科学。研讨会提供了机会，让环境观测站、行业、高性能计算、网格、云、园区桥和员工培训领域的领导人就什么是成功的S2I2学院的主题进行公开讨论。

CF21 is a comprehensive vision that recognizes software as a primary modality for science research. The complexity of how disparate software elements form a cohesive, sustainable cyberinfrastructure becomes staggering, as more elements are produced from an increasing number of funded initiatives targeting technological capability and community interactions at national and international scales. The environmental observatory community ecosystem must encompass all elements comprising this cyberinfrastructure, crosscutting through technologies, disciplines, communities, and practices towards accelerating scientific progress and competitiveness. NSF-funded environmental observatories and related cyberinfrastructure projects are broad and span many communities including AON (Arctic Observing Network), CHyMP (CUAHSI Hydrologic Modeling Platform), CUAHSI HIS (CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System), CZOs (Critical Zone Observatories), HydoNexrad (Hydro Next-generation Radar), LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research), NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network), OOI (Ocean Observing Initiative), and WSC (Water Sustainability and Climate Program). Each of these has their own software development efforts and has overlapping cyberinfrastructure requirements and science agendas, yet there is no unified effort that facilitates sustainable research, education and communication cross-cutting through all of them. This NSF-sponsored workshop provides a forum for exploring how to realize the CF21 vision and yield robust, sustainable products and methods that respond to the growing cyberinfrastructure needs of the environmental observatory communities. It addresses community architectures driving effective governance models for coordination of sustainable community practices including integration of community workflows, interoperability of resources, and virtual organization principles that will drive new science at the interstices of these communities. The workshop provides the opportunity for open discussion among leaders in each of the environmental observatories, industry, HPC, grid, cloud, campus bridging and workforce training on the topic of what constitutes a successful S2I2 institute.