The Role of Software and Software Institutes in Computational Science Over Time

工作坊将汇聚主要软件网络基础设施项目的主要研究人员，并在未来讨论与社会有关的问题。2011年和2012年，OCI持续创新软件基础设施(SI2)计划资助了小型开发工作中的软件工作，这些工作可以提供可以集成到更大的网络基础设施中的软件部件，以及提供重要社区软件的更大合作。此外，将颁发新的SI2奖，旨在使大型软件研究所概念化，旨在为领域科学家在其学科内和学科间的努力中实现突破所需的软件提供一个结构。美国国家科学基金会的新倡议，如地球立方，正在定义地球科学中网络基础设施发展的路线图。本次研讨会将汇集最近SI2奖项的主要调查人员，讨论潜在的协同效应和合作，定义未来的挑战，讨论SI2努力与计划中的软件学院的关系，并探索OCI资助的软件在广泛的NSF倡议的背景下的关系，如EarthCube、DataWay和其他计划的社区重点努力。为了实现其目标，研讨会将集中于以下主题：(I)在SI2研究所和NSF范围内的计划(如EarthCube、DataWay和其他)的背景下讨论SI2项目；(Ii)分享在构建高质量软件和服务方面的经验；(Iii)促进协作，并为协作和网络基础设施发展提供激励；以及(Iv)长期保持软件能力，确定软件价值。研讨会将邀请依赖国家网络基础设施来满足其计算和数据管理需求的重大科学和工程项目参加。它们的参与将有助于确保作为SI2项目一部分开发的网络基础设施软件具有相关性，并广泛适用于若干科学和工程领域。这次研讨会的结果可能会指导未来网络基础设施的开发和测试。

The workshop will bring together Principle Investigators of the leading software cyberinfrastructure projects and discuss issues relevant to the community as we move into the future. In 2011 and 2012 the OCI Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program funded software efforts in small development efforts that can provide software pieces that can be integrated into the larger cyberinfrastructure, and larger collaborations that were delivering significant community software. In addition, new SI2 awards aimed at conceptualizing large-scale software institutes, aimed at providing a fabric for the software needed by domain scientists to achieve breakthroughs in their intra and inter-disciplinary efforts, will be awarded. New NSF initiatives such as EarthCube are defining roadmaps for cyberinfrastructure development in Earth sciences. This workshop will bring together the Principle Investigators of the recent SI2 awards to discuss potential synergies and collaborations, define challenges ahead, discuss the relationship of the SI2 efforts to the planned Software Institutes, and explore the relationship of the OCI-funded software in the context of the broad NSF initiatives such as EarthCube, DataWay, and other planned community-focused efforts.To achieve its goals, the workshop will focus on these main themes: (i) Discussing SI2 projects within the context of SI2 Institutes and NSF-wide initiative such as EarthCube, DataWay, and others; (ii) sharing experiences in building quality software and services; (iii) fostering collaboration and providing incentives for collaboration and cyberinfrastructure development as a career; and (iv) sustaining the software capabilities in the long term, defining software value.The workshop will solicit participation from major science and engineering projects that rely on the national cyberinfrastructure for their computations and data management needs. Their participation will help ensure that the cyberinfrastructure software developed as part of SI2 projects will be relevant and broadly applicable to a number of science and engineering domains. The results of this workshop will then potentially guide cyberinfrastructure development and testing in the future.