Second Workshop on Instrumentation Needs of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (INCISE2) Research

提案编号：CNS 12-32197 PI(s): Fortes, Jose A.机构：University of florida第二次计算机与信息科学与工程仪器需求研讨会（INCISE2）研究项目建议：本提案计划举办第二次研讨会，以更深入地研究仪器开发、获取、利用和共享的性质、需求、重要性、挑战、当前变化和资助机制。为了在不同的CISE领域进行和/或预期的研究，汇集公认的CISE研究领导者进行这样的评估，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研究越来越多地关注那些不能完全从第一性原理中提取或使用约简模型来研究的极其庞大和复杂的物体。在其他因素中，规模是摩尔定律(Moore？美国法律和无处不在的网络。复杂性来自于将计算嵌入工件、许多组件和/或多层功能的互连。设计和/或建模此类对象所需的研究通常需要特殊的仪器，以非常小的空间/时间粒度窥视单个组件，或在足够大的规模和足够长的时间内观察/模拟/模拟许多对象。2008年举行的第一次INCISE研讨会的发现证实了研究仪器——广义上包括硬件、软件、数据集和服务——对于CISE学科的进步是必不可少的。从那时起，我们见证了云计算、全球IT系统、面向社区的工具、越来越多的IT丰富（也就是“更智能”）的系统和科学研究的网络基础设施的出现和快速成熟。这些在IT系统的性质和如何提供IT系统方面的深刻变化要求召开后续会议，重新审视CISE仪器的范围和需求，并讨论使研究人员能够在可持续的基础上创建和访问其项目所需的仪器的策略。该提案要求为组织这样一个后续会议提供资金。切口2 ？参与者来自不同的CISE研究领域。INCISE 2将在2012年CRA雪鸟会议（2012年7月22日至24日）的前两天举行。知识价值：除其他外，研讨会旨在解决以下问题：1。由云或其他方式提供的仪器即服务是否适合CISE研究？如果答案是肯定的，那么研讨会将进一步调查和描述适用的案例以及可以做些什么。如果答案是否定的，那么研讨会将调查仪器即服务的局限性，并提出解决这些问题的步骤。随着仪器仪表的需求和产品开始具有全球性或区域性，如何最好地满足这些需求？现有的全球和区域网络基础设施如何最好地用于仪器仪表目的？我们能否提高社会对这些网络基础设施的存在和使用的认识？网络基础设施和仪器仪表之间的关系是什么？CISE仪器目前面临的主要挑战是什么？例如，什么时候需要、可能和/或负担得起实验的重复性？CISE仪器是否有新的标准？为确保CISE社区仪器解决方案的可持续性，需要做些什么？更广泛的影响：研讨会期望对CISE研究不断发展的仪器需求以及如何最好地提供这些需求提供有价值的评估。它将向社区和供资机构就必要的供资机制提出建议，以满足已确定的需要。这些建议将广泛传播，包括那些招收大量少数民族学生和代表性不足群体的机构。这项活动的预期影响是提高这些机构的研究人员争夺仪器资金的能力，并使学术管理人员和资助机构了解CISE仪器的性质。与会者将在学科、性别、族裔和地域分布方面各不相同，以便使不同的代表观点能够对讲习班的结论产生影响。一份口头报告将在CRA研讨会上提交给CISE的系主任，一份书面报告将提供给NSF和200多所大学的CISE部门。IT越来越多地被嵌入到工件中，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，仪器仪表涉及整个社会。在过去的二十年中，CISE研究仪器的需求和解决这些需求的机制随着IT技术的发展而发生了变化，无论是从面临的研究挑战的角度还是从启用仪器的角度来看。计算机和信息技术（IT）的惊人进步已经导致了拥有数十亿晶体管的微处理器、拥有数百万行代码的软件环境、多层IT系统以及由数千台计算机、用户和应用程序组成的网络的当前时代。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）而增长，导致这些对象的任何单个设计师或用户都无法掌握的复杂性。因此，迫切需要进行这种评估。

Proposal #: CNS 12-32197 PI(s): Fortes, Jose A. Institution: University of FloridaTitle: Second Workshop on Instrumentation Needs of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (INCISE2) Research Project Proposed:This proposal, planning a second workshop to examine more deeply the nature, needs, importance, challenges, current changes, 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. The findings of the first INCISE workshop held in 2008 confirmed that research instrumentation - broadly construed to include hardware, software, datasets and services - is essential for the advancement of CISE disciplines. Since then we have witnessed the emergence and rapid maturation of cloud computing, global IT systems, community-oriented instruments, increasingly IT-rich (a.k.a. ?smarter?) systems and cyberinfrastructures for scientific research. These profound changes in both the nature of IT systems and how IT systems can be provisioned call for a follow-up meeting to revisit the scope and need of CISE instrumentation and to discuss strategies for enabling researchers to create and access the instruments needed by their projects on a sustainable basis. This proposal requests funds for organizing such a follow-up meeting ? INCISE 2 ? with diverse participants drawn from several areas of CISE research. INCISE 2 will take place on two days preceding the 2012 CRA Snowbird conference whose dates are July 22-24, 2012.Intellectual merit: Among others, the workshop aims to address the following questions:1. Is instrumentation-as-a-service, as provided by clouds or other means, appropriate for CISE research? When the answer is yes, the workshop will further investigate and characterize applicable cases and what can be done. When the answer is no, the workshop will investigate the limitations of instrumentation-as-a-service and suggest steps to address them.2. As the needs and offerings of instrumentation start having a global or regional nature, how are such needs best met and how are existing global and regional cyberinfrastructures best used for instrumentation purposes? Can we improve the community awareness of the existence and uses of these cyberinfrastructures? What are the relationships between cyberinfrastructure and instrumentation?3. What are the main challenges currently faced by CISE instrumentation? For example, when is reproducibility of experiments needed, possible and/or affordable? Are there standards emerging for CISE instrumentation? What needs to be done to ensure sustainability of instrumentation solutions for CISE communities?Broader impact: The workshop expects to provide a valuable assessment of the evolving instrumentation needs of CISE research and how they can be best provided. It will make recommendations to both the community and the funding agencies regarding the necessary funding mechanisms to meet the identified needs. The recommendations will be widely disseminated, including institutions with large enrolments of minority students and underrepresented groups. An expected impact of this activity is an increased ability on the part of the researchers of these institutions in competing for instrumentation funds and an understanding of the nature of CISE instrumentation by academic administrators and funding agencies. The participants will be diverse with respect to discipline, gender, ethnic group and geographical distribution in order to enable different representative perspectives to bear on the conclusions of the workshop. A verbal report will be made to CISE department chairs at the CRA workshop, and a written report will be made available to NSF and CISE departments in more than 200 universities.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.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.