Distributed Computing, Multidisciplinary Science and the NSF's Software Insitute Program

软件基础设施正在成为科学发现的一个更加重要和昂贵的推动者。调查人员将收集并展示来自科学、软件开发人员和软件集成商社区的输入，这些输入涉及NSF可以提供的功能和服务（例如，质量保证、托管、培训、影响评估），这些功能和服务将提高我们的科学家可用的软件基础设施的整体质量，降低该软件的拥有成本，并最大化NSF在开发方面的投资回报。维护和发展这个基础设施。这三个社区将通过背靠背的重点研讨会参与进来，这些研讨会将汇集来自广泛领域和学科的选定专家，讨论软件基础设施的生命周期。研讨会将生成报告，为即将到来的NSF对科学软件研究所的呼吁提供输入和要求。第一次研讨会将讨论计算基础设施由分布式资源组成的领域科学家的软件需求和期望，包括计算机，数据和仪器，例如，大型强子对撞机实验，OSG， LIGO，地球系统网格，SCEC， NEES， caBIG和BIRN等项目。来自软件集成商的集体经验和驱动因素，他们一直在为这样的项目提供和支持软件基础设施，将在第二个研讨会中讨论。第三个讲习班将涵盖开发和维护广泛采用的科学软件工具的项目的需要和期望。科学软件基础结构的三个维度将在整个研讨会中被涵盖：纵向的解决端到端需求，横向的适应可重用性和广泛的影响，以及负责开发、支持和维护软件工件的软件提供者。

Software infrastructure is becoming an ever more important and costly enabler of scientific discovery. The investigators will gather and present input from the science, software developers, and software integrator communities concerning the functions and services (e.g., quality assurance, hosting, training, impacts assessment) that the NSF can provide that would improve the overall quality of the software infrastructure available to our scientists, reduce the cost-of-ownership of this software and maximize the return on the NSF investment in developing, maintaining and evolving this infrastructure.The three communities will be engaged through back-to-back focused workshops that will bring together selected experts from a broad range of fields and disciplines to discuss the life-cycle of software infrastructure. The workshops will generate reports that input to and give requirements for the upcoming NSF's call for Scientific Software Institutes. The first workshop will address the software requirements and expectations of domain scientists whose computational infrastructure consists of distributed resources, including computers, data, and instrumentations as illustrated, for example, by projects such as the LHC experiments, OSG, LIGO, Earth System Grid, SCEC, NEES, caBIG, and BIRN. The collective experiences and drivers from software integrators who have been providing and supporting the software infrastructure for such projects will be discussed in the second workshop. The third workshop will cover the needs and expectations of projects that develop and maintain widely adopted scientific software tools. The three dimensions of scientific software infrastructure will be covered throughout the workshops' vertical that addresses end-to-end requirements, horizontal that accommodates reusability and broad impact, and the software providers who are responsible for developing, supporting and sustaining the software artifacts.