CI-SEEDS: Seeding the Next Generation Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem

CI-Seed：播种下一代网络基础设施生态系统CI-Seed的目标是：1)为培训准备解决当今跨学科科学问题的研究人员建立一个模范的劳动力发展计划，这将增加国内学生在与网络基础设施支持的社会相关的博士课程中的招生、留住和毕业率；2)建立一个共同的愿景，利用克莱姆森已建立的网络基础设施来实现大学重点领域的变革性研究；以及3)与广泛的学术界一起领导一系列活动，进行课程规划，以支持跨学科计算和数据支持的科学。该项目的智力价值在于开发了一个模范劳动力发展计划，该计划具有统一的研究主旨，以网络基础设施科学为指导，并受到NSF资助的强大的数据启用科学和数据研究的推动。该项目为初学研究生的暑期“网络基础设施训练营”提供资金，该训练营通过CI-Seed作为单一项目与REU项目协调。CI-Seed提供了一个框架，以资助和进一步支持研究生头两年的学习，目的是显著增加成功完成博士学位的可能性。CI-Seed促进了协作计算研究中新学术项目的规划活动。该项目的更广泛影响是非常显著的。CI-Seed建立在克莱姆森学院既定的招聘计划基础上，该计划接触到的女性和代表不足的学生群体远远超过全国平均水平。该项目为本科生的研究生学习创造了一条途径，并为新的博士生提供了协作计算的基础。该项目利用了计算机科学部与克莱姆森计算和信息技术部门、国家资助的网络研究所以及克莱姆森世界级超级计算设施、教育和培训的长期关系。该项目还利用了现有的学生前往南卡罗来纳州的奖励，以及与整个南卡罗来纳州和该地区的本科生服务机构和少数族裔机构建立了联系的SC/TN EPSCoR Track-2奖项。CI-Seed是一个示范项目，旨在提高跨学科计算研究领域国内博士生的招生和毕业率。

CI-SEEDS: Seeding the Next Generation Cyberinfrastructure EcosystemThe goals of CI-SEEDS are to: 1) establish an exemplar workforce development program for training researchers that are prepared to solve today's interdisciplinary science problems, and that will increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation rate of domestic students in doctoral programs relevant to a cyberinfrastructure-enabled society; 2) build a common vision that leverages the established cyberinfrastructure at Clemson to enable transformative research in areas of University emphasis; and 3) lead a set of activities with the broad academic community for curriculum planning that will support interdisciplinary computational and data-enabled science. The Intellectual Merit of this project is in developing a model workforce development program with a unifying research thrust, guided by the science of cyberinfrastructure, and motivated by strong NSF-funded research in data-enabled science and data. The project funds a summer "Cyberinfrastructure Bootcamp" for beginning graduate students which is coordinated with an REU program as a single program through CI-SEEDS. CI-SEEDS provides a framework to fund and further support beginning graduate students in their first two years of graduate study, with the goal of significantly increasing the probability of successful completion of a Ph.D. degree. CI-SEEDS catalyzes planning activities for new academic programs in collaborative computing research.The Broader Impacts of this project are very significant. CI-SEEDS builds upon an established recruiting program at Clemson that is reaching far more females and underrepresented student groups than the national average. The project creates a path for graduate study for undergraduate students, and provides a foundation for new Ph.D. students in collaborative computing. The project leverages the Computer Science Division's longstanding relationship with the Clemson Computing and Information Technology division, the state-funded CyberInstitute, and the world-class supercomputing facilities, education, and training at Clemson. The project also leverages existing awards for student travel to SC, and the SC/TN EPSCoR Track-2 award with established connections to undergraduate-serving and minority institutions throughout South Carolina and the region. CI-SEEDS serves as a model program to increase the recruitment and graduation rate of domestic doctoral students in interdisciplinary computing research areas.