Data-Intensive Science Workshops, to be held Sept. 19 to 20, 2010, Seattle, WA; and Mar 20 to 21, 2011, Washington DC

西雅图儿童医院获得了一笔赠款，用于举办两个讲习班，探讨云计算提供的机会，以应对从生物研究产生的大量数据中揭示科学知识的任务。研讨会的目标是响应国家科学基金会关于21世纪科学与工程的网络基础设施框架的战略愿景，该愿景挑战社会发展和维持能够使21世纪科学和工程成为可能的必要的网络基础设施。云计算为解决这一数据瓶颈的挑战提供了前所未有的机会，并开启了数据密集型科学（DIS）的新时代。这两个研讨会将汇集生物信息学的从业者，讨论挑战、机遇和策略，以提出应对这些挑战的短期和长期策略。有一个重要的和非常及时的广泛应用的潜力，因为现在有许多学科经常生成的数据集压倒了存储和分析基础设施。这些研讨会不仅将展示社区及其面临的挑战，更重要的是，将讨论如何最好地应对这些挑战。这些研讨会将连接计算、数据分析和跨学科研究社区，包括研究人员、分析人员、开发人员、教育工作者、社区和部落领导人、科学管理人员和政策制定者。这将使高层次的（战略的）和具体的（操作的）讨论和开发用户需求、基于用户的评估以及标准化开发成为可能，其影响超出了特定的社区挑战。云计算可以在帮助四种主要类型的多样性问题和机构方面产生重大影响。首先，云有可能允许来自各种规模的研究机构的研究小组访问大量的计算资源，特别是那些无法负担增加本地计算基础设施的中小型研究机构。同样，第二，少数族裔服务机构（如霍华德大学）和第三，性别服务机构（如韦尔斯利学院）可以利用共同的资源来提高他们的计算能力。第四，年轻的研究人员可以随时获得他们当前支持水平之外的资源，而更高级的研究人员可以适应他们所在领域对计算资源日益增长的需求。这些研讨会将于2010年9月19日至20日（西雅图，华盛顿州；西雅图儿童研究所）和2011年3月20日至21日（华盛顿特区；J. Craig Venter研究所）举行。有关研讨会及其成果的更多信息将通过PI的实验室主页http://kolkerlab.proteinspire.org/获得。

The Seattle Children's Hospital is awarded a grant to conduct two workshops that will address the opportunities offered by cloud computing to confront the task of uncovering scientific knowledge from enormous amounts of data generated by biological research. The workshop goals are responsive to the NSF strategic vision on Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering, which challenges the community to develop and sustain the necessary cyberinfrastructure capable of enabling science and engineering in the 21st century. Cloud computing offers an unprecedented opportunity to address the challenges of this data bottleneck and open up a new era in Data-Intensive Science (DIS). The two workshops will bring practitioners in biological informatics together to discuss challenges, opportunities and strategies in order to propose short- and long-term strategies to take on these challenges. There is a significant and very timely potential for widespread applicability in that there are many disciplines that now routinely generate data sets that overwhelm storage and analysis infrastructures. The workshops will showcase not only the communities and their challenges, but, more importantly, address how best to meet those challenges. The workshops will connect computational, data analysis, and inter-disciplinary research communities, including researchers, analyzers, developers, educators, community and tribal leaders, scientific administrators, and policymakers. This will enable both high-level (strategic) and specific (operational) discussions and developments of the user requirements, user-based evaluations, and standardized development with broad impact beyond the particular community challenges. Cloud computing can have a major impact at helping four main types of diversity issues and institutions. First, clouds have the potential to allow access to extensive compute resources to research groups from all sizes of institutes, but particularly the small to mid-sized institutes that cannot afford to increase their local compute infrastructure. Similarly, secondly, minority-serving institutes (e.g. Howard University) and, thirdly, gender-serving institutions (e.g. Wellesley College) can take advantage of a common resource to boost their compute capabilities. Fourth, young investigators can have ready access to resources outside of their current support levels while more senior investigators can adapt to the increased need for compute resources in their field. These workshops will be held in September 19-20, 2010 (Seattle, WA; Seattle Children's Research Institute) and March 20-21, 2011 (Washington, D.C.; J. Craig Venter Institute). Further information on the workshops and their outcomes will be available via the PI's lab home page at http://kolkerlab.proteinspire.org/.