SAVI: PRAGMA - Enabling Scientific Expeditions and Infrastructure Experimentation for Pacific Rim Institutions and Researchers

环太平洋应用程序和网格中间件组装(PRAGMA)最初是一个研讨会系列，探索了使中小型国际研究科学家网络能够解决常见科学问题的技术、组织和信任维度。该奖项利用国际科学考察来打造领域科学家和网络基础设施研究人员的团队。他们一起开发和测试创建可用的、国际规模的网络环境所需的基础技术。该奖项不仅包括技术开发人员，还包括湖泊生态、生物多样性和计算机辅助药物发现领域的科学家。在技术开发方面，该奖项将：将PRADGMA的技术基础设施重建为具有独特控制方法的多提供商/多机构云；测试和开发新的分析和来源工具，以跟踪探险队如何利用数据；加强与由IPv4和IPv6覆盖网络实现的用户控制的信任信封的数据共享；以及推进传感器网络网络基础设施。教育和培训计划将通过一个国际学生协会大幅扩大。围绕影响印度、中国和东南亚的共同问题展开新的合作，将作为探险活动开展。该奖项通过与佛罗里达大学、印第安纳大学、威斯康星大学的合作扩大了美国研究人员的参与度，并由加州大学圣迭戈分校牵头。PRAGMA是对关键的国际研究网络活动和大规模生产资源的补充。它利用国际成员在人员、专业知识、工具和基础设施方面的大量投资，其智力优势是开发实用的方法，使团体能够通过网络基础设施进行合作。更广泛的影响是，从根本上使大量小团体能够在国际视角至关重要的科学问题上合作；更好地向美国研究界通报美国境外的工具和专家；以及为下一代学生创建专业网络。这个奖项被指定为跨虚拟学院(SAVI)的科学奖，由美国国家科学基金会网络基础设施办公室、生物科学局、计算机和信息科学与工程局以及国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。

The Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA), which began as a workshop series, explores the technical, organizational, and trust dimensions that enable small-to-medium-sized international networks of research scientists to address common scientific questions.This award uses international scientific expeditions to forge teams of domain scientists and cyberinfrastructure researchers. Together, they develop and test the underlying technologies that are needed to create usable, international-scale, cyber environments. This award includes not only technology developers but also domain scientists in lake ecology, biodiversity and computer-aided drug discovery. In technology development, the award will: rebuild PRAGMA's technical infrastructure as a multi-provider/multi-institution cloud with a unique control approach; test and develop new analysis and provenance tools to track how data are utilized by the expeditions; enhance data sharing with user-controlled trust envelopes enabled by IPv4 and IPv6 overlay networks; and advance sensor network cyberinfrastructure. Education and training programs will be dramatically expanded through an international student association. New collaborations with a refined focus on common questions that affect India, China, and Southeast Asia will be developed as expeditions. This award broadens engagement of US researchers through a partnership that includes: University of Florida, Indiana University, University of Wisconsin, and led by the University of California, San Diego.PRAGMA complements key international research network activities and large-scale production resources. It leverages significant investments in people, expertise, tools and infrastructure made by international members.The intellectual merit is developing practical approaches to enable groups to collaborate through the cyberinfrastructure. The broader impacts are to fundamentally enable large numbers of small groups to work together on scientific problems where international perspective is essential; better inform the US research community of tools and experts out-side of the US; and create professional networks for the next generation of students. The transformational impact will be a model for building people networks to conduct science across international boundaries.This award is designated as a Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) and is being co-funded by NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure; Directorate for Biological Sciences; Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering; and Office of International Science and Engineering.