US-EA CENTRA: US - East Asia Collaborations to Enable Transnational Cyberinfrastructure Applications

该项目支持协作网络基础设施（CI）研究活动，旨在教育新一代的研究人员，他们在技术和文化上都有能力参与国际科学网络。该项目的目标是促进对分布式软件定义网络基础设施的科学理解，以及使用不同国家的数据和工具运行科学应用程序的能力。具体来说，目标应用程序是环境建模，灾害管理和智能城市，重点是这些领域如何相互影响。相关的中间件研究寻求解决方案的软件定义的数据共享，通过软件定义的中间件互操作性，和协调的软件定义的分布式IT系统。 该项目旨在通过国际合作来严格理解和解决科学问题，这些国际合作带来了跨国应用的现实世界背景，并创建了跨国网络基础设施实例，使研究人员获得了实际的见解。初级美国博士候选研究人员预期将在不同国家的合作地点短期停留，从事与项目有关的专题工作，并可直接接触最先进的设施、全球问题的当地实例和从事这些问题研究的顶尖科学家。 与此同时，他们还沉浸在国际团队活动中。年度讲习班有助于概念化、框架化、推进和报告合作研究项目，并有助于建立协调框架。东亚的主要机构合作伙伴包括台湾国家应用研究实验室的国家高性能计算中心和日本国立信息与通信技术研究所。该项目旨在建立一个框架，与东亚合作伙伴协调基于CI和CI的研究，以实现科学进步，并使初级研究人员参与国际活动。

This project supports collaborative cyberinfrastructure (CI) research activities designed to educate a new generation of researchers who are technically and culturally competent to engage with international scientific networks. The goal of this project is to advance the scientific understanding of distributed software-defined cyberinfrastructures and the ability to run scientific applications using data and tools in different countries. Specifically, the targeted applications are in environmental modeling, disaster management and smart cities, focusing on how these domains impact each other. The related middleware research seeks solutions for software-defined data sharing, middleware interoperability via software-definition, and coordinated software-definition of distributed IT systems. This project pursues rigorous understanding and solution of the scientific problems via international collaborations which bring out real-world contexts of transnational applications and create transnational cyberinfrastructure instances where researchers get practical insight. Junior U.S. Ph.D. candidate researchers are expected to have short stays at collaborating sites in different countries working on project-related topics and have direct access to leading-edge facilities, local instances of global problems and top scientists working on these problems. At the same time they are immersed in international team activities. Annual workshops help conceptualize, frame, advance and report on collaborative research projects and contribute to establishing the coordination framework. Key institutional partners in East Asia include the National Center for High-Performance Computing of the National Applied Research Laboratories of Taiwan and the National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of Japan. This project is to contribute towards a framework to coordinate CI-based and CI-enabled research with East Asian partners in order to achieve scientific progress and engage junior researchers in international activities.