Second Workshop on Instrumentation Needs of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (INCISE2) Research

提案#：CNS12-32197 PI(S)：Fortes，Jose A.机构：佛罗里达大学标题：第二届计算机与信息科学与工程仪器需求研讨会研究项目建议：该提案，计划举办第二次研讨会，以更深入地审查仪器设备开发、获取、利用和共享的性质、需求、重要性、挑战、当前变化和资金机制，为了在不同的CESE领域进行和/或预期的研究，召集公认的CESE研究领导者进行这样的评估，并编制一份报告，可以与CESE社区、同事、学术行政人员、政府资助机构和行业共享。CISE的研究越来越关注那些行为不能完全从第一原理中提炼出来或使用约化模型进行研究的极大和复杂的对象。在其他因素中，规模是摩尔-S定律和无处不在的网络的结果。复杂性源于将计算嵌入到人工产物中、许多组件的互连和/或多层功能。设计和/或模拟这样的对象所需的研究通常需要特殊的仪器，以便以非常小的空间/时间粒度观察单个组件，或者在足够大的规模和足够长的时间内观察/模拟/模拟许多对象。2008年举行的第一次CUISE研讨会的结果证实，研究仪器--广义地解释为包括硬件、软件、数据集和服务--对于促进CEISE学科的发展至关重要。从那时起，我们见证了云计算的出现和迅速成熟，全球IT系统，面向社区的工具，日益丰富的IT(又名。？更聪明？)科学研究的系统和网络基础设施。信息技术系统的性质和如何配置信息技术系统的这些深刻变化要求召开一次后续会议，以重新审查CESE工具的范围和需求，并讨论使研究人员能够在可持续的基础上创建和获取其项目所需工具的战略。这项提议要求资金来组织这样一次后续会议？切开2号？不同的参与者来自CEISE研究的几个领域。切割2将在2012年CRA雪鸟会议的前两天举行，会议日期为2012年7月22日至24日。智力价值：研讨会的目的之一是解决以下问题：1.通过云或其他方式提供的仪器即服务是否适合CISE研究？如果答案是肯定的，研讨会将进一步调查和说明适用案例以及可以做些什么。如果答案是否定的，研讨会将调查仪器即服务的局限性，并提出解决这些限制的步骤。随着仪器设备的需求和提供开始具有全球或区域性质，如何最好地满足这种需求，以及如何最好地将现有的全球和区域网络基础设施用于仪器设备目的？我们能否提高社会对这些网络基础设施的存在和使用的认识？网络基础设施和仪器设备之间的关系是什么？3.目前CSISE仪器设备面临的主要挑战是什么？例如，什么时候需要实验的重现性，可能和/或负担得起？CISE仪器仪表是否有新的标准出现？需要做些什么来确保CISE社区仪器解决方案的可持续性？更广泛的影响：研讨会期望对CISE研究不断发展的仪器需求以及如何最好地提供这些需求提供有价值的评估。委员会将向社会人士和资助机构建议所需的资助机制，以满足已确定的需求。这些建议将得到广泛传播，包括招收大量少数族裔学生和代表性不足的群体的机构。这项活动的预期影响是，这些机构的研究人员在争取仪器设备资金方面的能力有所提高，学术管理人员和资助机构对CESE仪器设备的性质有了了解。与会者将在纪律、性别、族裔和地域分布方面各有不同，以使不同的代表性观点对研讨会的结论产生影响。一份口头报告将在CRA研讨会上提交给CISE系主任，一份书面报告将提供给200多所大学的NSF和CISE部门。IT越来越多地被嵌入到文物中，可能包括非IT组件，其性质包括机械、电气、通信、能源生产、化学、交通、娱乐、医疗和国防。在过去的二十年里，CISE研究仪器的需求和解决这些需求的机制发生了变化，这反映了信息技术的发展，无论是从要面对的研究挑战的角度还是从启用的仪器的角度来看。计算机和信息技术(IT)的惊人进步导致了当前的时代，即具有数十亿个晶体管的微处理器、具有数百万行代码的软件环境、多层IT系统以及由数千台计算机、用户和应用程序组成的网络。因此，计算机科学家和工程师研究的对象往往具有前所未有的规模和复杂性。Cise仪器通常通过连接许多其他文物(在某些情况下，在运行中)而增长，从而导致这些对象的任何单一设计者或用户都无法掌握的复杂性。因此，迫切需要这样的评估。

Proposal #: CNS 12-32197 PI(s): Fortes, Jose A. Institution: University of FloridaTitle: Second Workshop on Instrumentation Needs of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (INCISE2) Research Project Proposed:This proposal, planning a second workshop to examine more deeply the nature, needs, importance, challenges, current changes, and funding mechanisms of instrumentation development, acquisition, utilization, and sharing, for purposes of ongoing and/or anticipated research in different CISE areas, brings together recognized CISE research leaders to conduct such an assessment and produce a report that can be shared with the CISE community, colleagues, academic administrators, government funding agencies, and industry. CISE research is increasingly concerned with extremely large and complex objects whose behavior cannot be entirely distilled from first principles or investigated using reduction models. Among other factors, scale is a consequence of Moore?s law and pervasive networking. Complexity arises from the embedding of computing into artifacts, interconnection of many components and/or multiple layers of functionality. Research needed to design and/or model such objects often requires special instruments to either peer into individual components at very small space/time granularity or to observe/emulate/simulate many objects at large enough scale and during long enough times. The findings of the first INCISE workshop held in 2008 confirmed that research instrumentation - broadly construed to include hardware, software, datasets and services - is essential for the advancement of CISE disciplines. Since then we have witnessed the emergence and rapid maturation of cloud computing, global IT systems, community-oriented instruments, increasingly IT-rich (a.k.a. ?smarter?) systems and cyberinfrastructures for scientific research. These profound changes in both the nature of IT systems and how IT systems can be provisioned call for a follow-up meeting to revisit the scope and need of CISE instrumentation and to discuss strategies for enabling researchers to create and access the instruments needed by their projects on a sustainable basis. This proposal requests funds for organizing such a follow-up meeting ? INCISE 2 ? with diverse participants drawn from several areas of CISE research. INCISE 2 will take place on two days preceding the 2012 CRA Snowbird conference whose dates are July 22-24, 2012.Intellectual merit: Among others, the workshop aims to address the following questions:1. Is instrumentation-as-a-service, as provided by clouds or other means, appropriate for CISE research? When the answer is yes, the workshop will further investigate and characterize applicable cases and what can be done. When the answer is no, the workshop will investigate the limitations of instrumentation-as-a-service and suggest steps to address them.2. As the needs and offerings of instrumentation start having a global or regional nature, how are such needs best met and how are existing global and regional cyberinfrastructures best used for instrumentation purposes? Can we improve the community awareness of the existence and uses of these cyberinfrastructures? What are the relationships between cyberinfrastructure and instrumentation?3. What are the main challenges currently faced by CISE instrumentation? For example, when is reproducibility of experiments needed, possible and/or affordable? Are there standards emerging for CISE instrumentation? What needs to be done to ensure sustainability of instrumentation solutions for CISE communities?Broader impact: The workshop expects to provide a valuable assessment of the evolving instrumentation needs of CISE research and how they can be best provided. It will make recommendations to both the community and the funding agencies regarding the necessary funding mechanisms to meet the identified needs. The recommendations will be widely disseminated, including institutions with large enrolments of minority students and underrepresented groups. An expected impact of this activity is an increased ability on the part of the researchers of these institutions in competing for instrumentation funds and an understanding of the nature of CISE instrumentation by academic administrators and funding agencies. The participants will be diverse with respect to discipline, gender, ethnic group and geographical distribution in order to enable different representative perspectives to bear on the conclusions of the workshop. A verbal report will be made to CISE department chairs at the CRA workshop, and a written report will be made available to NSF and CISE departments in more than 200 universities.IT is increasingly being embedded into artifacts which might include non-IT components whose natures include mechanical, electrical, communication, energy production, chemical, transportation, entertainment, medical, and defense. Thus, instrumentation touches society overall.Over the last two decades the CISE research instrumentation needs, and mechanisms to address them, have changed as a reflection of the evolution of IT technology, both from the standpoint of the research challenges to be faced and the instruments enabled. The amazing progress of computer and information technologies (IT) has led to the current era of microprocessors with billions of transistors, software environments with millions of lines of code, multi-layered IT systems, and networks of thousands of computers, users, and applications. As a consequence, the objects computer scientists and engineers study often have an unprecedented scale and complexity. CISE instruments often grow by connecting many other artifacts (in some cases, on the fly) leading to complexity that cannot be mastered by any single designer or user of those objects. Thus, an urgent need exists for such assessment.