International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG 2014 )

该项目将支持1）10名美国科学家参加将于2014年6月3日至5日在爱尔兰都柏林举行的第六届科学网关国际研讨会（IWSG 2014）的国际旅行，以及2）在IEEE Xplore数字图书馆出版会议记录的费用。IWSG 2014是IWSG研讨会系列的第六次研讨会，也是美国科学门户研究所研讨会（SGIW）的合作伙伴研讨会。这是一个跨学科的研讨会，汇集了来自各个科学领域的研究人员和行业合作伙伴，例如生命科学，化学，物理，数字媒体，沿着科学网关开发商和科学网关提供商。它形成了一个国际平台，用于讨论该领域的问题和解决方案，确定新问题，塑造未来的研究方向;促进思想，标准和共同要求的交流，并推动在电子科学中更广泛地采用科学网关。由此产生的会议记录以及摘要和谈话将公开提供。此外，最佳论文的作者将被邀请提交他们的论文的显着扩展和更新版本的科学网关在杂志上的特刊“并发性和计算：实践和经验”。新技术、模拟和实验方法使研究人员能够在极短的时间内创建大量数据。对计算能力和存储的需求随着分布式计算基础设施（DCI）（例如网格和云基础设施）的提供的增加而得到满足。尽管资源越来越多，但这些设施和基础设施的广泛采用并没有跟上同样的步伐。其主要原因在于这些基础设施的人机界面的复杂性。科学网关是一种提供简单直观的计算基础设施访问的方法，无论其位置如何。科学网关是通过门户网站或桌面应用程序集成在一起的特定于社区的工具，应用程序和数据集合，为分布式数据管理和DCI提供资源和服务的访问。它们提供了一个定制的、直观的用户界面来访问大型计算和数据资源，从而有可能向更广泛的受众开放DCI的使用。底层基础设施的复杂性可以通过适当定制的界面对最终用户完全隐藏。随着人们对科学网关的兴趣在过去几年中不断增加，越来越多的新用户社区可以方便地利用网格或云计算资源。创建成功的科学网关的一个重要因素是用户、科学网关开发人员和科学提供者之间的合作。这次会议将汇集来自研究领域的国际专家和代表XSEDE，EGI，OSG，PRACE等DCIs的专家。

This project will support 1) international travel of 10 US scientists to attend the 6th International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG 2014) that will take place 3-5 June 2014 in Dublin, Ireland and 2) the cost of publishing the proceedings in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. IWSG 2014 is the 6th workshop of the successful IWSG workshop series and the partner workshop of the US workshop Science Gateway Institute Workshop (SGIW). It is an interdisciplinary workshop that brings together researchers and industry partners from various scientific domains, e.g. life sciences, chemistry, physics, digital media, along with science gateways developers
and science gateway providers. It forms an international platform for discussing problems and solutions in the area, identifying new issues, shaping future directions for research; fostering the exchange of ideas, standards and common requirements, and pushing towards the wider adoption of science gateways in e-Science. The resulting proceedings as well as abstractsand talks will be made publicly available. Additionally, authors of best papers will be invited to submit significantly extended and updated version of their papers to a special issue on science gateways in the journal "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience". The special issue will be jointly organized with SGIW.New technologies, simulations and experimental methods have enabled researchers to create huge amounts of data in extremely short times. The demand for compute power and storage is met with a rise in provision of distributed computing infrastructures (DCIs), such as grid and cloud infrastructures. Despite the increasing availability of resources, the broad uptake of these facilities and infrastructures is not following the same pace. The main reasons for this lie in the complexity of the human interface to these infrastructures. A science gateway is an approach to offer easy and intuitive access to computing infrastructures irrespective of their location. Science gateways are community-specific sets of tools, applications, and data collections that are integrated together via a web portal or a desktop application, providing access to resources and services for distributed data management and DCIs. They offer the potential to open the utilization of DCIs to wider audiences by providing a customized and intuitive user interface to access large computational and data resources. The complexity of the underlying infrastructure can be completely hidden from the end-users by a suitably tailored interface. As interest in science gateways has accelerated in the past few years, an increasing number of new user communities can utilize grid or cloud computing resources in a convenient manner. An important factor for creating successful science gateways is the collaboration between users, science gateway developers, and science providers. This meeting will bring together international experts from research domains and experts representing DCIs such as XSEDE, EGI, OSG, PRACE and others.