SCIWORK: SCI PI Workshop; Washington, DC; First Quarter 2004

该提案计划，组织和执行CISE的新的共享网络基础设施（SCI）部门，定于2004年2月下旬PI会议。会议的目标是：加强PI和更大社区之间的合作，增加信息交流，听取PI及其最新成果，探索跨奖项的杠杆工作和产出领域，使研究社区成员了解SCI的状态和方向，讨论新的机会和新兴的研究领域，并听取NSF其他项目的网络基础设施活动与SCI密切相关。这次会议对NSF官员和PI的好处一样多：预计SCI将在这次会议之前有一个新的部门主任，这次会议为新的和现有的NSF官员提供了一个机会，使他们能够快速了解SCI活动的全面组合。该网站还将记录会议成果，并作为与会议有关的信息和材料的档案。大部分在SCI中活跃的奖项将被邀请演讲。所有PI的将被邀请提供海报的海报会议，并预计一些演示。为期3天的活动将根据会议轨道组织。由于会谈的数量，将需要平行轨道。SCI中的主要项目，如PACI，Teragrid/DTF/ETF和NMI将被广泛覆盖。讲座的技术类别涵盖网络和计算基础设施，包括：网络基础设施计划、高级应用程序、网络监控和测量、光网络、网络服务和安全以及中间件。

The proposal plans, organizes and carries out a PI meeting for CISE's new Shared Cyberinfrastructure (SCI) division, targeted for late February 2004. The meeting's goals are: to enhance collaboration among PI's and the larger community, increase information exchange, hear from PI's and their results to-date, explore areas of leveraging work and outputs across awards, expose members of the research community to status and direction of SCI, discuss new opportunities and emerging areas of research, and hear from other programs at NSF whose Cyberinfrastructure activities are closely related to SCI. This meeting benefits NSF officers as much as the PI's: it is expected that SCI will have a new Division Director on board by the time of this meeting, and this event offers new and existing NSF officers the chance to quickly come up to speed on a comprehensive portfolio of SCI activities.A web site will be made available to coordinate attendance, agenda, and logistics. The site will also document meeting results and act as an archive of information and material relating to the meeting. The majority of active awards in SCI will be invited to give talks. All PI's will be invited to provide posters for a poster session, and some demos are expected. The 3-day event will be organized according to session tracks. Due to the volume of talks, parallel tracks will be necessary. Major programs in SCI, such as PACI, Teragrid/DTF/ETF, and NMI will be covered extensively. Technical categories of talks span networking and computational infrastructure, and they include: Cyberinfrastructure programs, advanced applications, network monitoring and measurement, optical networks, network services and security, and middleware.