Collaborative Research: Streaming and Steering Applications: Requirements and Infrastructure (October 1-3, 2015)

随着产生的数据量越来越大的“大数据”现象，对实时分析和处理这些数据的需求也在增加。这些数据的示例来源包括社交媒体、机器人、科学仪器和模拟。大数据的实时分析为工业、金融、通信、急救人员和公共安全带来了巨大的希望，仅举几个有希望的领域。这些应用程序的共同之处是需要立即处理、分析和响应数据，以做出“实时”决策并控制应用程序。该项目将组织和举办一次研讨会，为对需求的共同理解奠定基础，并帮助科学界为越来越大的数据量和获取速度做好准备。该项目将支持社区研讨会，以了解需要流动数据和相关(接近)实时指导和控制的应用程序类别。这类应用程序的复杂性、普及性和规模都在增加。讲习班的目标是确定这一领域的应用、基础设施和技术社区，并澄清它们面临的挑战。研讨会参与者将重点介绍支持它们所需的应用程序功能和要求以及硬件和软件，并将为NSF的生产分布式网络基础设施(硬件和软件)确定短期和长期的建议。

In association with the "big data" phenomena with greater volumes of data being generated, there has been an increase in the need to analyze and process that data in real-time. Example sources of this data include social media, robots, scientific instruments and simulations. Real-time analysis of "big data" holds great promise for industry, finance, communication, first responders, and public safety, to name just a few promising areas. Common to these applications is the requirement to process, analyze and respond to data immediately to make "live" decisions and steer applications. This project will organize and hold a workshop that will lay the foundations for a common understanding of the requirements and help the scientific community prepare for data of ever greater volumes and acquisition velocity.This project will support a community workshop to understand the class of applications that entail streaming data and related (near) real-time steering and control. Such applications are increasing in their sophistication, pervasiveness and scale. The goal of the workshop is to identify application, infrastructure and technology communities in this area and to clarify challenges that they face. Workshop participants will focus on application features and requirements as well as hardware and software needed to support them and will identify recommendations for NSF's production distributed cyberinfrastructure (hardware and software) for both the short and long term.