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

该项目支持合作的网络基础设施(CI)研究活动，旨在培养在技术和文化上有能力参与国际科学网络的新一代研究人员。该项目的目标是促进对分布式软件定义的网络基础设施的科学理解，以及利用不同国家的数据和工具运行科学应用程序的能力。具体地说，目标应用是环境建模、灾害管理和智慧城市，重点关注这些领域如何相互影响。相关的中间件研究为软件定义的数据共享、通过软件定义的中间件互操作以及分布式IT系统的协调软件定义寻求解决方案。该项目通过国际合作寻求对科学问题的严格理解和解决，这些合作带来了跨国应用的真实世界背景，并创建了跨国网络基础设施实例，研究人员可以在这些实例中获得实际的见解。美国初级博士候选人研究人员预计将在不同国家的合作地点短暂停留，从事与项目相关的主题工作，并可以直接接触到前沿设施、全球问题的当地实例和致力于这些问题的顶尖科学家。同时，他们还沉浸在国际团队活动中。年度讲习班有助于构思、制定、推进和报告协作研究项目，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的国家信息和通信技术研究所。该项目旨在建立一个框架，与东亚合作伙伴协调以传播和信息为基础和以传播和传播为基础的研究，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.