2018 Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) Principal Investigators Workshop

该项目将在华盛顿特区举办一个为期两天的研讨会，将来自大约250个奖项的软件基础设施(SI2)获奖者(目标是让每个科学软件元素(SSE)、科学软件集成(SSI)和科学软件创新研究所(S2I2)项目的一名首席研究员参与进来，其中许多是协作性奖项)聚集在一起。研讨会将有来自计算和数据启用的科学与工程(CDS&amp；E)、关键弹性相互依赖的基础设施系统和流程(CRISP)、风险投资的PI以及SI2探索性研究(AGER)和快速响应研究(RAPID)的早期概念补助金的获奖者参加。此外，靠近国家科学基金会将鼓励来自整个基金会的项目官员参与。这次研讨会的目标包括：(A)为个人投资机构之间以及与国家科学基金会项目官员分享技术信息提供一个有重点的论坛；(B)鼓励对新出现的主题进行探索；(C)在所支持的软件项目中确定新的最佳实践；(D)激发实现软件可持续性的新方法的思考；以及(D)通过在线门户网站传播研究人员共享的经验。研讨会预计将有近150名SI2和其他获奖者、其他演讲者和小组成员参加。拟议的讲习班将支持目前的软件网络基础设施开发项目之间的思想交流。它将为与开发健壮的软件有关的问题和与软件可持续性问题有关的国家软件生态系统的更广泛议程提供指导。NSF项目官员的参与有望帮助跨学科SI2获奖者了解整个NSF网络基础设施的相关性和影响。这些研究人员和项目官员参加一个共同论坛将有助于确保作为SI2项目的一部分开发的网络基础设施软件将与尽可能多的科学和工程领域相关并广泛适用。因此，该研讨会的结果有可能指导参与项目和更广泛的软件开发社区的网络基础设施开发和网络基础设施驱动的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will host a 2-day workshop in Washington, DC, which will bring together the community of Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) awardees (with the goal of involving one principal investigator from each Scientific Software Elements (SSE), Scientific Software Integration (SSI), and Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S2I2) project, many of which are collaborative awards) from approximately 250 awards. The workshop will have participation from Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E), Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP), and Venture funded PIs as well as SI2 Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) and Rapid Response Research (RAPID) awardees. In addition, the proximity to NSF will encourage participation by Program Officers from across the Foundation. Goals of this workshop include: (a) providing a focused forum for PIs to share technical information with each other and with NSF Program Officers, (b) encouraging exploration of emerging topics, (c) identifying emerging best practices across the supported software projects, (d) stimulating thinking on new ways of achieving software sustainability, and (d) disseminating the shared experiences of the researchers via an online web portal. The workshop is expected to host close to 150 SI2 and other awardees, other speakers and panelists. The proposed workshop will support the exchange of ideas among the current software cyberinfrastructure development projects. It will provide guidance on issues related to the development of robust software and to the problem of software sustainability with the broader agenda for national software ecosystem. Involvement of program officers across NSF is expected to help the interdisciplinary SI2 awardees understand the relevance and impact of cyberinfrastructure throughout the NSF. The participation of these researchers and program officers in a common forum will help ensure that the cyberinfrastructure software developed as part of SI2 projects will be relevant and broadly applicable to the most science and engineering domains possible. The results of this workshop thus have the potential to guide cyberinfrastructure development and cyberinfrastructure driven research for both the participating projects and for the wider software development community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.