Organizational Workshop for the Future Cyberinfrastructure Consortium

该项目支持10月6日至7日在华盛顿举行的为期两个半天的研讨会，其中GENI项目办公室（GENI Project Office）可以领导多个会议，重点规划未来网络基础设施联盟（FCIC）的创建。FCIC的最初目的是在NSF和雷声公司/BBN之间的现有合作协议于2017年到期后，为GENI项目的运营、管理、研究愿景和治理提供支持。该项目的智力价值在于其目标是协调和举办一个研讨会，该研讨会是由全球政策组织领导的为期十个月的全社区对GENI未来管理和治理的调查的高潮。该研讨会将汇集致力于参与GENI在BBN时代之后继续发展的学者社区。该项目的更广泛影响在于其活动不仅为GENI项目的延续奠定了基础，而且还为联盟，项目/行政办公室和物理基础设施（包括网络，存储，该研讨会的主题是“未来网络基础设施联盟”。除了其研究使命之外，该联盟还打算扩大GENI作为中学、学院和大学教学工具的广泛使用，使所有学生，包括代表性不足的族裔群体、妇女和残疾人，更容易接触分布式系统的艺术、科学和技术。

This project supports a two half-day workshop on October 6-7 in Washington, DC, in which the GENI Project Office (GPO) can lead multiple sessions of focused planning for the creation of the Future Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (FCIC). The initial purpose of the FCIC is to provide for the operation, administration, research vision, and governance of the GENI project after the current cooperative agreement between NSF and Raytheon/BBN for the GPO expires in 2017. The intellectual merit of this project is in its goal to coordinate and house a workshop that is the culmination of a GPO-led, ten month long, community-wide inquiry into the future administration and governance of GENI. The workshop will bring together the community of scholars who have committed to participate in continuing the evolution of GENI past the era of the BBN GPO.The broader impact of this project is in its activities laying the groundwork not just for the continuation of the GENI project, but also for the continued evolution of the ecosystem of consortium, project/administrative office, and physical infrastructure - including network, storage, and computational assets - to a persistent and sustainable national cyberinfrastructure for the support of experimental research in distributed systems, as reflected in the workshop's title: Future Cyberinfrastructure Consortium. In addition to its research mission, the Consortium intends to expand the already wide use of GENI as a teaching tool in secondary schools, colleges, and universities, where it makes the art, science, and technology of distributed systems more accessible to all students, including under-represented ethnic groups, women, and the disabled.