GENI Initiative Townhall Meeting

计算研究协会(CRA)将为国家科学基金会(NSF)协调一次公开市政厅会议，以吸引更广泛的研究社区参与GENI倡议。本提案寻求支持与本次会议相关的计划、广告、登记和报告活动相关的费用。CRA在为计算机和信息科学与工程局(CEISE)提供支持方面具有独特的地位：我们的组织使命是加强计算方面的研究和高级教育。我们有代表计算社区为NSF管理成功会议的可靠记录。GENI计划设想创建新的网络和分布式系统架构，例如：内置安全性和健壮性；通过包括移动、无线和传感器网络，实现普及计算的愿景，并弥合物理和虚拟世界之间的差距；支持对其他关键基础设施的控制和管理；包括易操作性和可用性；以及支持新的社会级别的服务和应用。GENI计划包括一个研究计划和一个旨在探索大规模新架构的全球实验设施。CEISE鼓励广泛的社区参与，旨在让其他机构、其他国家以及公司实体参与这一新倡议的规划和执行。为了扩大社区的参与，CISE将在CRA的协助下，在2006年春季举行一次试点市政厅会议。会议议程包括小组分组会议，就有关设施的具体专题向专家咨询委员会提供意见，例如：联网和分布式系统研究对实验设施的要求；设施及其部件的实施；以及设施定义和建造过程的管理。此外，本次会议将向CISE通报这种会议的价值和有利可图的议程。这项提议要求资金支付所有与会议有关的费用、与旅行有关的费用以及组织会议和必要的后续活动的工作人员时间。还要求与会者提供支持，为与会者提供膳食，以及为会议主席提供与旅行有关的费用。情报优点：会议产生的报告将为CISE提供来自计算机界的广泛研究人员在部署最先进技术方面的宝贵意见，全球实验基因设施.广泛影响：将作出特别努力，通过以下两个CRA委员会的现有网络和通信工具宣传市政厅会议：妇女在计算机研究中的地位委员会(CRA-W)和多样化计算联盟(CDC)，以吸引来自不同人群的与会者。

The Computing Research Association (CRA) will coordinate a public town hall meeting for the National Science Foundation (NSF) to engage the broader research community in the GENI Initiative. This proposal seeks support for expenses related to the planning, advertising, registration, and reporting activities associated with this meeting. CRA is in a unique position to provide support to the Directorate for Computer andInformation Science and Engineering (CISE): our organizational mission is to strengthen research and advanced education in computing. We have a proven record of managing successful meetings for NSF on behalf of the computing community. The GENI initiative envisions the creation of new networking and distributed system architectures that, for example: Build in security and robustness; Enable the vision of pervasive computing and bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds by including mobile, wireless and sensor networks; Enable control and management of other critical infrastructures; Include ease of operation and usability; and Enable new classes of societal-level services and applications.The GENI initiative includes a research program and a global experimental facility designed to explore new architectures at scale. CISE is encouraging broad community input and aims to engage other agencies, other countries, as well as corporate entities in the planning and execution of this new Initiative. To broaden community participation, CISE will hold, with the assistance of CRA, a pilot town hall meeting in spring 2006. The agenda for the meeting includes smaller group breakout sessions to provide input to CISE on specific topics regarding the facility such as: requirements for the experimental facility for networking and distributed systems research; implementation of the facility and its parts; and, the management of the process of defining and construction of a facility. Further, this meeting will inform CISE as to the value of such meetings and profitable agendas.This proposal requests funds to pay for all meeting-related expenses, travel-related costs and staff time for organizing the meeting and for necessary follow-up activities.Participant support is also requested to provide for meals for the attendees as well as travel-related costs for the session chairs.Intellectual Merit: The reports generated from the meeting will provide CISE with valuable input from a wide range of researchers from the computing community in the deployment of the state of-the-art, global experimental GENI Facility.Broader Impacts: Special effort will be made to attract participants from a diverse population through the advertisement of the town hall meeting via established networks and communication tools of two of CRAs committees: the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC).