Workshop: Cyberinfrastructure for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

LIGO/Virgo、Fermi和世界各地许多地面天文台首次观测到双中子星星合并，宣布了期待已久的多信使天体物理学（MMA）领域的到来。仅仅对这一事件的观测和分析就花费了数周的时间，消耗了全球引力和天文学界相当大一部分的人力和计算资源。南极的冰立方中微子天文台最近发现了一个非常高能量（PeV）的中微子，费米和MAGIC天文台也发现了与该中微子在时间和位置上一致的高能伽马射线。大型综合巡天望远镜（LSST）的主要调查将于2022年底开始，需要额外的能力来确保每天的大规模数据集与引力，粒子和其他天文和天体物理观测进行处理和协调，并且所有这些都是近实时的，延迟非常低。MMA现在需要解决数据量和复杂性增加的挑战，因为我们开始全天候监控频繁的多信使事件。因此，这次关于多信使天体物理学网络基础设施（CI）的研讨会将为多信使天体物理学和网络基础设施的专家提供一个论坛，以开发新的社区规模数据网络基础设施的概念，以便及时处理，处理，分析和建模多信使天体物理数据。该研讨会将于2018年5月23日至24日在马里兰州大学的物理科学综合大楼举行。该项目推进了未来NSF投资的10个大想法中的三个的目标：“宇宙的窗口：多信使天体物理学的时代”，“利用数据革命”和“在NSF不断增长的融合研究”。这10个大的想法将推动美国研究的前沿，提供创新的方法来解决世界面临的一些最紧迫的问题，以及导致尚未知道的发现。该项目还推进了国家战略计算倡议（NSCI）的目标，一项旨在发展后摩尔定律时代新技术能力的努力。该研讨会奖由物理学和新兴科学与工程研究网络基础设施（CESER）部门的计算物理计划提供支持该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The first observation of a binary neutron star merger by LIGO/Virgo, Fermi and many ground- based observatories around the world announced the arrival of the long-anticipated field of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (MMA). Observation and analysis of just this single event took weeks, and consumed a significant fraction of the human and computational resources of the global gravitational and astronomical communities. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at South Pole has recently identified a very high-energy (PeV) neutrino and the Fermi and MAGIC observatories have identified high-energy gamma rays coincident in time and location with that neutrino. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) primary survey will start in late 2022, needing extra capacity to ensure the daily massive datasets are processed and coordinated with gravitational, particle, and other astronomical and astrophysical observations, and all in near- real-time and with very low latency. MMA needs now to address the challenges of this increase in the amount and complexity of data that will soon be upon us, as we start around-the-clock monitoring of frequent multi-messenger events. As such, this workshop on Cyberinfrastructure (CI) for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics will provide a forum for experts in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics and Cyberinfrastracture to develop concepts for new community-scale data cyberinfrastructure for timely handling, processing, analysis, and modeling of multi-messenger astrophysical data. The workshop will be held at the Physical Science Complex at the University of Maryland on May 23-24, 2018.This project advances the objectives of three of 10 Big Ideas for Future NSF Investments: "Windows on the Universe: The Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics", "Harnessing the Data Revolution" and "Growing Convergent Research at NSF". The 10 big ideas will push forward the frontiers of U.S. research, provide innovative approaches to solve some of the most pressing problems the world faces, as well as lead to discoveries not yet known. This project also advances objectives of the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), an effort aimed at developing new technological capabilities in the post-Moore's Law era.This workshop award is supported by the Computational Physics program in the Division of Physics and the Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research (CESER) program in the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure.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.