EU-US Workshop on Large Scientific Databases, September 8-9, 1999, Annapolis, Maryland

研讨会由美国国家科学基金会(NSF)和欧盟欧洲委员会(EC)赞助，是美国和欧盟关于信息技术研究合作的官方协议的一部分。它的目标是“大型科学数据库”这一主题。在这一领域进行研究的动机是，由仪器(如星载雷达)和模拟(在具有非常大内存和快速处理器的计算机上运行)产生的科学数据收集的数量和规模迅速增加。这些数据集合非常大--达到PB大小；它们必须可供地理上分布的用户社区访问；此外，它们可能是不同管理的集合的融合。这一小型(30人)研讨会将审查当前的研究进展，并为未来的欧盟/美国联合研究项目制定知识内容。这一成果有望为下个世纪科学数据库领域的智能和深思熟虑的合作奠定基础。由该讲习班推动的信息系统将使多个、多语言、多学科研究小组的工作得以科学融合，供其他人用作新科学的基础。研讨会的结果将在http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/euus/.上公布。

The workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States, and by the European Commission (EC) of the European Union, as part of an official agreement between the US and the EU about collaboration on Information Technology research. It is targeted towards the topic of "Large Scientific Databases". The motivation for research in this area is the rapidly increasing number and size of collections of scientific data that are produced by instruments (such as satellite-borne radar) and simulations (run on computers with very large memories and fast processors). These data collections are very large -- reaching into the petabyte size; they must be accessible to geographically distributed user communities; furthermore they may be a fusion of heterogeneously curated collections. This small (30 person) workshop will examine current research thrusts and formulate the intellectual content for future joint EU/US research projects. The results are expected to lay the architecture for intelligent and thoughtful collaboration in the area of scientific databases in the next century. Information systems motivated by this workshop will allow the scientific fusion of the work of multiple, multilingual, multidisciplinary research groups to be used by others as the basis of new science. The workshop results will be available at http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/euus/.