Travel: NSF Travel Grant Support for IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2024 Conference

IEEE/ACM关于集群、云和互联网计算的2024国际研讨会(CCGrid 2024)是一个高端学术论坛，用于展示云计算、边缘计算和物联网(IoT)、互联网计算和集群计算等关键大规模计算主题的工作。这些主题涉及支持私营企业和公共使用的关键基础设施，包括药物发现、人工智能和气候变化等领域的所有计算研究。这些基础设施现在对维护国家安全至关重要。在这些领域保持不同的技术专长和研究计划，以推动进步并保持美国目前使用的日益增长的大规模计算资源的数量，这是至关重要的。为此，像CCGrid 2024这样的学术会议为全国的博士生提供了一个重要的培训功能，使他们能够与该领域的领先专家接触，并让其他人参与他们自己的研究。该项目帮助资助在美国高等教育机构注册的符合条件的学生的旅行，这些学生基于经济需求和优点在这些领域寻求研究事业，并特别关注计算机学科中代表不足的少数群体。该项目将为20-25名学生提供旅行资金，以支持作为CCGrid 2024学生旅行补助计划的一部分的旅行和会议注册。旅行补助金主席将与会议委员会一起审查申请，根据经济需要、机构和个人的多样性以及优点，优先考虑学生，努力代表计算机领域代表性不足的少数群体的学生，以及如果没有直接财政支持，将无法参加会议的学生。旅费资助委员会主席将记录申请和收到的申请，以及从学生申请者中挑选学生的方法。这些数据将被存储并与未来的会议组织者共享，以确保该计划能够继续改进。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已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。

The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing 2024 (CCGrid 2024) is a high tier academic forum for presenting work in critical large-scale computing topics such as Cloud Computing, Edge Computing and Internet of Things (IoT), Internet Computing, and Cluster computing. These topics concern critical infrastructure that supports private business as well as public use, including all computational research into fields such as drug discovery, artificial intelligence, and climate change. This infrastructure is now crucial to maintaining national security. It is critical to maintain diverse technical expertise and research programs into these areas to drive progress forward and maintain the ever growing quantity of large-scale computational resources used in the United States today. To that end, academic conferences such as CCGrid 2024 provide a crucial training functionality for Ph.D. students nationwide, allowing them to engage with leading experts in the field, and engage others in their own research. This project helps fund the travel of eligible students enrolled in US institutions of higher learning who are pursuing research careers in these domains based on financial need and merit with special attention to underrepresented and minority groups within computing disciplines.This project will provide 20-25 students with travel funding to support travel and conference registration as part of the CCGrid 2024 Student Travel Grant Program. The Travel Grant Chair will review applications alongside the conference committee to prioritize students based on financial need, institutional and individual diversity, and merit with efforts to represent students that are from underrepresented minority groups in computing and students who would otherwise be unable to attend the conference without direct financial support. The Travel Grant Committee Chair will document the applications and received and the methodology used to select students from student applicants. This data will be stored and shared with future conference organizers to ensure the program can continue to improve.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.