International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG 2014 )

该项目将资助1)10名美国科学家参加将于2014年6月3-5日在爱尔兰都柏林举行的第六届国际科学网关研讨会(IWSG 2014)的国际旅行，以及2)在IEEE Xplore数字图书馆发表会议记录的费用。IWSG 2014是成功举办的IWSG系列讲习班的第6期讲习班，也是美国讲习班科学门户研究所讲习班(SGIW)的伙伴讲习班。这是一个跨学科的研讨会，汇集了来自不同科学领域的研究人员和行业合作伙伴，例如生命科学、化学、物理、数字媒体，以及科学门户开发商和科学门户提供商。它形成了一个国际平台，用于讨论该领域的问题和解决办法，确定新的问题，确定未来的研究方向，促进思想、标准和共同要求的交流，并推动在电子科学中更广泛地采用科学网关。由此产生的会议记录以及摘要和谈话将向公众公布。此外，最佳论文的作者将被邀请向《并发与计算：实践与经验》期刊上关于科学门户的特刊提交其论文的显著扩展和更新版本。这期特刊将与SGIW联合组织。新技术、模拟和实验方法使研究人员能够在极短的时间内创建大量数据。对计算能力和存储的需求随着提供分布式计算基础设施(DCI)的增加而得到满足，例如网格和云基础设施。尽管资源的可获得性越来越高，但这些设施和基础设施的广泛使用并没有跟上同样的步伐。造成这种情况的主要原因在于这些基础设施的人机界面非常复杂。科学门户是一种提供对计算基础设施的轻松、直观访问的方法，无论其位置如何。科学网关是一组特定于社区的工具、应用程序和数据集合，它们通过Web门户或桌面应用程序集成在一起，为分布式数据管理和DCI提供对资源和服务的访问。它们通过提供定制和直观的用户界面来访问大型计算和数据资源，从而有可能向更广泛的受众开放DCIS的使用。通过适当定制的界面，可以对终端用户完全隐藏底层基础设施的复杂性。随着人们对科学门户的兴趣在过去几年中加速增长，越来越多的新用户社区可以方便地利用网格或云计算资源。创建成功的科学门户的一个重要因素是用户、科学门户开发者和科学提供商之间的合作。本次会议将汇集来自研究领域的国际专家和代表DCIS的专家，如XSEDE、EGI、OSG、PRACE等。

This project will support 1) international travel of 10 US scientists to attend the 6th International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG 2014) that will take place 3-5 June 2014 in Dublin, Ireland and 2) the cost of publishing the proceedings in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. IWSG 2014 is the 6th workshop of the successful IWSG workshop series and the partner workshop of the US workshop Science Gateway Institute Workshop (SGIW). It is an interdisciplinary workshop that brings together researchers and industry partners from various scientific domains, e.g. life sciences, chemistry, physics, digital media, along with science gateways developers
and science gateway providers. It forms an international platform for discussing problems and solutions in the area, identifying new issues, shaping future directions for research; fostering the exchange of ideas, standards and common requirements, and pushing towards the wider adoption of science gateways in e-Science. The resulting proceedings as well as abstractsand talks will be made publicly available. Additionally, authors of best papers will be invited to submit significantly extended and updated version of their papers to a special issue on science gateways in the journal "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience". The special issue will be jointly organized with SGIW.New technologies, simulations and experimental methods have enabled researchers to create huge amounts of data in extremely short times. The demand for compute power and storage is met with a rise in provision of distributed computing infrastructures (DCIs), such as grid and cloud infrastructures. Despite the increasing availability of resources, the broad uptake of these facilities and infrastructures is not following the same pace. The main reasons for this lie in the complexity of the human interface to these infrastructures. A science gateway is an approach to offer easy and intuitive access to computing infrastructures irrespective of their location. Science gateways are community-specific sets of tools, applications, and data collections that are integrated together via a web portal or a desktop application, providing access to resources and services for distributed data management and DCIs. They offer the potential to open the utilization of DCIs to wider audiences by providing a customized and intuitive user interface to access large computational and data resources. The complexity of the underlying infrastructure can be completely hidden from the end-users by a suitably tailored interface. As interest in science gateways has accelerated in the past few years, an increasing number of new user communities can utilize grid or cloud computing resources in a convenient manner. An important factor for creating successful science gateways is the collaboration between users, science gateway developers, and science providers. This meeting will bring together international experts from research domains and experts representing DCIs such as XSEDE, EGI, OSG, PRACE and others.