Collaborative Research: Software Infrastructure for Accelerating Grand Challenge Science with Future Computing Platforms

解决重大科学挑战需要有效利用网络基础设施。未来的计算平台，包括现场可编程门阵列（fpga）、通用图形处理单元（gpgpu）、多核和多线程处理器以及云计算平台，在大量可持续软件的支持下，可以极大地加速创新，解决具有社会重要性的复杂问题。这个项目将组织科学团体，通过可持续的软件来帮助利用未来计算平台的破坏性潜力。生物科学、社会科学和安全领域的重大挑战问题将根据其未得到充分满足的需求和展示的可能性来确定目标。用户将通过跨学科的研讨会参与进来，这些研讨会将领域专家与软件技术人员聚集在一起，目的是确定核心机会领域，确定关键的软件基础结构，并发现软件可持续性挑战。作为持续创新软件基础设施（SI2）计划的一部分，该项目将为未来计算平台上的可持续软件中心提供深入的概念设计。该设计面向重大挑战问题，将确定通用和专门的软件基础设施、研究、开发和扩展优先级，并与SI2项目的SSE和SSI组件进行协调。这些互动将提供对重大挑战的全面理解，这些挑战最好地映射到未来的计算平台和软件基础设施，以最好地支持科学家的需求。研讨会将加强对未来平台变革性研究潜力的理解，并在利用其潜力的过程中对跨领域问题产生关键见解。发表的结果将有助于指导未来的研究，并减少代表性不足群体的进入障碍。

Solving scientific grand challenges requires effective use of cyber infrastructure. Future computing platforms, including Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs), multi-core and multi-threaded processors, and Cloud computing platforms, can dramatically accelerate innovation to solve complex problems of societal importance when supported by a critical mass of sustainable software.This project will organize scientific communities to help leverage the disruptive potential of future computing platforms through sustainable software. Grand challenge problems in biological science, social science, and security domains will be targeted based on their under-served needs and demonstrated possibilities. Users will be engaged through interdisciplinary workshops that bring together domain experts with software technologists with the goals of identifying core opportunity areas, determining critical software infrastructure, and discovering software sustainability challenges. The outcome will be an in-depth conceptual design for a Center for Sustainable Software on Future Computing Platforms, as part of the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program. The design, scoped toward grand challenge problems, will identify common and specialized software infrastructure, research, development and outreach priorities, and coordination with the SSE and SSI components of the SI2 program. The interactions will offer a comprehensive understanding of grand challenges that best map to future computing platforms and the software infrastructure to best support scientists' needs. The workshops will enhance understanding of future platforms' potential for transformative research and lead to key insights into cross-cutting problems in leveraging their potential. Published results will help guide future research and reduce barriers to entry for under-represented groups.