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

IEEE/ACM 2024年集群、云和互联网计算国际研讨会（CCGrid 2024）是一个高层次的学术论坛，旨在展示关键的大规模计算主题，如云计算、边缘计算和物联网（IoT）、互联网计算和集群计算。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。这一基础设施现在对维护国家安全至关重要。在这些领域保持多样化的技术专长和研究计划至关重要，以推动进步，并保持当今美国使用的大规模计算资源数量不断增长。为此，CCGrid 2024等学术会议为博士提供了重要的培训功能。学生在全国范围内，使他们能够从事与该领域的领先专家，并从事自己的研究他人。该项目将资助符合条件的美国高等院校学生的旅行，这些学生将根据经济需求和成绩在这些领域从事研究工作，特别关注计算学科中代表性不足和少数群体。该项目将为20-25名学生提供旅行资金，以支持旅行和会议注册，作为CCGrid 2024学生旅行资助计划的一部分。旅行资助主席将与会议委员会一起审查申请，根据财务需求，机构和个人多样性优先考虑学生，并努力代表来自计算中代表性不足的少数群体的学生以及那些在没有直接财政支持的情况下无法参加会议的学生。旅费补助委员会主席将记录收到的申请和从学生申请人中选择学生的方法。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 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.