GLIF 12th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop

全球Lambda集成设施（GLIF）第12届年度全球Lambda网格研讨会将于2012年10月11日至12日在芝加哥举行，与第8届IEEE国际电子科学会议、开放网格论坛和微软电子科学研讨会同时举行。GLIF组织的年度研讨会为参与设计、开发和使用先进光网络的研究和教育网络管理人员、工程师、计算机科学家和学科科学家提供了一个国际论坛，以满足、讨论、开发和展示复杂社会问题的创新解决方案。这些光网络是不断发展的全球高性能计算和通信生态系统的基础，并提供“大管道”，使科学家能够及时访问复杂的数字“大数据”集合，以便他们能够提取知识和见解。全球网络是全球网络基础设施的重要组成部分，GLIF社区专注于如何优化设计和开发由互联分布式计算、传感器和仪器资源组成的按需lambdagrid，以最好地实现数据密集型科学，从而代表智力价值。GLIF 2012为更好地构建高性能网络或“大管道”提供了一个机会，使其能够最好地访问“大数据”，以便为科学家提供及时的信息进行分析并最终获得知识。这些领域的新兴工作已经影响了从生物信息学到宏基因组学再到地球科学等科学学科，而最终受益的将是普通公众。

The Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) 12th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop is being held in Chicago, October 11-12, 2012, collocated with the 8th IEEE International e-Science Conference, the Open Grid Forum, and the Microsoft e-Science Workshop. The GLIF organization's annual workshop provides an international forum for Research & Education network managers and engineers, computer scientists and discipline scientists who are involved in the design, development and use of advanced optical networks to meet, discuss, develop and demonstrate innovative solutions to complex societal problems. These optical networks are the underpinnings of an evolving global high-performance computing and communications ecosystem, and provide the "big pipes" that enable scientists to access complex collections of digital "big data" in timely fashion so that they can extract knowledge and insight.Global networking is a vital component of global cyberinfrastructure, and it is the GLIF community that focuses on how to optimally design and develop on-demand LambdaGrids of interconnected distributed computing, sensor and instrument resources to best enable data-intensive science, thus representing intellectual merit.GLIF 2012 presents an opportunity to better architect how high-performance networks, or "big pipes", can best enable access to "big data" in order to provide scientists with timely information for analysis and ultimately knowledge. Nascent work in these areas is already impacting scientific disciplines, from bioinformatics to metagenomics to geosciences, and it is the general public that will ultimately benefit.