High-Performance & Distributed Computing for Polar Sciences: Workshop on Applications, Cyberinfrastructure Requirements and Opportunities

高性能和分布式计算（HPDC）在许多领域的仿真和建模方面产生了重大影响，从理解基本物理过程到设计新的功能材料。随着功能的日益丰富，高性能和分布式计算资源的访问和可用性的增加，将这些资源用于新问题类型和领域的机会出现了。提议的研讨会的目的是将HPDC和极地科学界聚集在一起，共同探索、检查和确定在极地科学研究中使用高性能计算技术和资源的机会和障碍。该研讨会有可能为这两个领域带来优势，NSF在过去几年中已经在这两个领域投入了大量资源。讲习班的成果将通过为旨在提高对极地地区在不同时间尺度上的变化及其与气候和其他地球系统的联系的理解的合作努力奠定基础，使科学和社会受益。此外，它将有助于极地网络基础设施的建设，这是美国国家科学基金会极地网络基础设施计划的目标之一。该研讨会将于10月底或11月初在罗格斯大学气候研究所举行，将有大约40名参与者参加，为期两天半。来自极地科学和HPDC社区的一群广泛的科学家将作为组委会成员参与其中，以确定主要的挑战、机遇和问题，例如：极地科学界已经获得了哪些HPDC/CI支持？缺少哪些HPDC/CI功能？不满意吗?不足还是不完整？除了可用性之外，限制极地科学进一步发展的网络基础设施障碍是什么？研讨会的参与者还将被要求创建一个科学挑战的排名清单，该社区的目标是在1年、5年和10年的时间框架内解决这些挑战。研讨会的最终结果将是一份报告，该报告将定义并传达美国国家科学基金会极地网络基础设施计划的社区愿景。

High-Performance and Distributed Computing (HPDC) has made significant impact in simulation and modeling of many domains, ranging from understandingfundamental physical processes to designing new and functional materials. With the growing richness of capabilities, increased ease of access and availability of high-performance and distributed computing resources, the opportunity to employ such resources to novel problems types and domains arises. The aim of the proposed workshop is to bring the HPDC and the Polar Science communities together to collectively explore, examine and identify the opportunities and barriers in the use of high performing computing techniques and resources for polar science studies. The workshop has the potential to bring advantages to both fields, where NSF has been investing considerable resources over the past years. Outcomes from the workshop will benefit science and society through the laying of the foundation for collaborative efforts aiming at improving the understanding of the variability of the polar regions at different timescales, and their connection to climate and other Earth systems. Moreover, it will contribute to the building of a polar cyberinfrastructure, one of the goals of the Polar Cyberinfrastructure Program at the National Science Foundation. The workshop will be held at the Rutgers Climate Institute and will host approximately 40 participants, lasting two and a half days, at the end of October or early November. A broad group of scientists from the polar science and HPDC communities, both broadly defined, will be engaged as members of the organizing committee to identify major challenges, opportunities and questions such as: What HPDC/CI support is already available to the Polar Science community? What HPDC/CI capabilities are missing? Unsatisfactory? Insufficient or Incomplete? What are the cyberinfrastructure barriers beyond availability that limits further advancing Polar Science? The workshop participants will be also asked to create a ranked list of scientific challenges that the community aims to tackle on a 1-year, 5-year and a decadal time frame. The final outcome of the workshop will be a report that defines and conveys a community-based vision for the Polar Cyberinfrastructure Program at the National Science Foundation.