GENI Initiative Townhall Workshops

计算研究协会（CRA）将为美国国家科学基金会（NSF）协调一系列公开的市政厅会议，让更广泛的研究界参与GENI计划。本提案寻求支持与这些会议有关的规划、广告、登记和报告活动的费用。CRA在为计算机和信息科学与工程理事会（CISE）提供支持方面处于独特的地位：其组织使命是加强计算机方面的研究和高等教育。CRA在代表计算社区为NSF管理成功的会议方面有良好的记录。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，弥合物理世界和虚拟世界之间的差距；能够控制和管理其他关键基础设施；包括易于操作和可用性；打造新型社会服务和应用。GENI计划包括一个研究计划和一个旨在大规模探索新架构的全球实验设施。CISE正在鼓励广泛的社区投入，并力求使其他机构、其他国家和公司实体参与这一新倡议的规划和执行。为了扩大社区参与，CISE将在CRA的协助下，于2006年春季和夏季举行三次市民大会。每次会议的议程包括较小的分组分组会议，就有关设施的具体主题向CISE提供意见，例如：网络和分布式系统研究实验设施的要求；设施及其组成部分的实施；以及对设施定义和建设过程的管理。每次会议结束时将生成一份报告，记录意见和建议。这项提议要求经费支付所有与会议有关的费用、旅费和工作人员组织会议和必要的后续活动的时间。还要求与会者提供支持，以提供与会者的膳食以及会议主席的旅行相关费用。知识价值：每次会议产生的报告将为CISE提供来自计算社区的广泛研究人员在部署最先进的全球实验GENI设施方面的宝贵意见。更广泛的影响：将特别努力吸引来自不同人群的参与者，通过两个计算机研究委员会，即妇女在计算机研究中的地位委员会（CRA- w）和计算机多样化联盟（CDC）的既定网络和通信工具，通过市政厅会议的广告。

The Computing Research Association (CRA) will coordinate a series of public, town hall meetings 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 these meetings. CRA is in a unique position to provide support to the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): its organizational mission is to strengthen research and advanced education in computing. CRA has 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 series of three (3) town hall meetings in spring and summer 2006. The agenda for each 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. A report will be generated at the end of each meeting to record the comments and suggestions. This proposal requests funds to pay for all meeting-related expenses, travel-related costs and staff time for organizing the meetings 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 each 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 meetings via established networks and communication tools of two of the CRA committees, the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC).