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

随着产生大量数据的“大数据”现象的出现，实时分析和处理这些数据的需求也在增加。这些数据的来源包括社交媒体、机器人、科学仪器和模拟。“大数据”的实时分析在工业、金融、通信、急救人员和公共安全等领域都有很大的前景。这些应用程序的共同点是需要立即处理、分析和响应数据，以做出“实时”决策并引导应用程序。这个项目将组织和举办一个讲习班，为共同了解需求奠定基础，并帮助科学界为越来越多的数据和越来越快的获取速度做好准备。该项目将支持一个社区研讨会，以了解需要流数据和相关（近）实时转向和控制的应用程序类别。这类应用程序的复杂性、普及性和规模都在不断增加。研讨会的目标是确定该领域的应用程序、基础设施和技术社区，并阐明它们面临的挑战。研讨会参与者将关注应用程序的特性和需求，以及支持它们所需的硬件和软件，并将确定NSF生产分布式网络基础设施（硬件和软件）的短期和长期建议。

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.