Better Scientific Software Fellowship Program: Recognizing and Developing the Cyberinfrastructure Workforce

更好的科学软件奖学金计划：认可和发展网络基础设施劳动力

• 批准号: 2327079
• 负责人: MaryAnn Leung
• 金额: $ 32.76万
• 依托单位: Sustainable Horizons Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2025-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2327079&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Better; Scientific; Software; Fellowship; Program

Researchers supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Energy (DOE) are longstanding leaders in advanced computing, pushing the growth of computational and data-enabled science and engineering as an essential driver of scientific and technological progress. However, we face growing challenges and needs in scientific software and in recruiting and retaining a skilled cyberinfrastructure (CI) workforce. Addressing these challenges requires broad collaboration to foster a diverse and skilled CI workforce, along with practices, processes, and tools to improve developer productivity and software sustainability—as key aspects of increasing scientific productivity and ensuring the integrity of computational results. The Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship Program—launched in 2018 with support from DOE, with NSF joining sponsorship in 2021—provides recognition and funding for leaders and advocates of high-quality scientific software. NSF partnership in sponsoring the BSSw Fellowship Program's 2024 cohort enables a more robust approach toward pioneering the future of advanced computing ecosystems and communities in support of US scientific leadership. This effort aligns with NSF's vision for "an agile, integrated, robust, trustworthy, and sustainable CI ecosystem that drives new thinking and transformative discoveries in all areas of science and engineering research and education."Beginning in summer 2023, the BSSw Fellowship Program (BSSwF) will be administered by the BSSwF Management Partnership, consisting of Sustainable Horizons Institute (who provide extensive experience in managing workforce development programs), a representative from NSF, and the scientists at Argonne, Berkeley, Livermore, Oak Ridge, and Sandia National Laboratories who launched the BSSwF and lead it. The successes—and clear synergies of the BSSwF with NSF’s Blueprint for CI Learning and Workforce Development—lay the foundation for continuing NSF sponsorship of three BSSw Fellows and three Honorable Mentions for the 2024 fellowship class. The program includes innovative workforce development methodologies and approaches designed to engage a broad range of diverse CI professionals on multiple fronts, including phase of career, age, institution type and size, and topical specialty. A specific focus is broadening participation of underrepresented groups, including people who are Black or African American, Hispanic/Latinx, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islanders, women, persons with disabilities, and first-generation scholars. The BSSw Fellowship Program enhances CI workforce development and pathways to NSF and DOE software communities, through community building and by nurturing a diverse network of people who advance software practices as a fundamental aspect of increasing overall scientific productivity and providing much-needed recognition for their contributions.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.

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和能源部（DOE）支持的研究人员是高级计算领域的长期领导者，推动了计算和数据支持科学和工程的发展，这是科学和技术进步的重要驱动力。但是，我们面临科学软件以及招募和保留熟练的网络基础设施（CI）劳动力方面的挑战和需求。应对这些挑战需要广泛的合作，以促进转移和熟练的CI劳动力，以及提高开发人员生产力和软件可持续性的实践，过程和工具，这是提高科学生产力并确保计算结果完整性的关键方面。更好的科学软件（BSSW）奖学金计划（在DOE的支持下于2018年启动，NSF在2021年加入赞助）为高质量科学软件的领导者和倡导者提供了认可和资金。 NSF赞助BSSW奖学金计划的2024年队列的合作伙伴关系为开拓高级计算生态系统和社区的未来提供了一种更强大的方法，以支持美国科学领导。这项努力与NSF对“敏捷，综合，健壮，可信赖和可持续的CI生态系统的愿景相吻合，从而推动了科学和工程研究和教育各个领域的新思维和变革性发现。从2023年夏季夏季开始，BSSW奖学金计划（BSSWF）将由BSSWF管理的工程（BSSWF）提供，该公司将通过跨国公司的范围来管理（BSSWF），从而构成了一致的工程，该伙伴关系构成了一致的工程，该公司的建设（构成了一致的范围，构成了一致的范围，构成了一致的范围。开发计划）是NSF的代表，以及Argonne，Berkeley，Livermore，Oak Ridge和Sandia National Laboratories的科学家，他们推出了BSSWF并领导它。成功（以及BSSWF与NSF的CI学习和劳动力发展蓝图的成功协同）为继续NSF赞助三个BSSW先生的基础和2024年奖学金班的三个荣誉提及奠定了基础。该计划包括创新的劳动力开发方法和方法，旨在在多个方面与广泛的潜水CI专业人士相吸引，包括职业，年龄，机构类型和规模以及主题专业的阶段。一个具体的重点是扩大代表性不足的群体的参与，包括黑人或非裔美国人，西班牙裔/拉丁裔，美洲印第安人，阿拉斯加本地人，夏威夷人，太平洋岛民，妇女，残疾人和第一代学者。 BSSW奖学金计划通过社区建设和培育多样化的人网络来增强CI劳动力的发展和通往NSF和DOE软件社区的途径，这些人是提高软件实践的多样化网络，这些网络是提高整体科学生产力的基本方面，并为他们的贡献提供了众多奖项，这反映了NSF的合法任务和支持的良好的支持。 标准。