Workshop Proposal: Rethinking NSF's Computational Ecosystem for 21st Century Science and Engineering

近四十年来，NSF有效地支持了前沿计算资源的广泛可用性和创新使用，以加速科学和工程的进步。这些NSF投资涵盖了特定学科的仪器和设施；具有不同能力和架构的计算系统，针对不同的应用进行了优化；用于分配资源和与用户交互的虚拟组织；网络主干连接并提供对这些资源的访问。最近在科学和工程兴趣和优先事项以及使能技术方面取得的重大进展，有助于当前的观点，即网络基础设施支持研究，适当地体现了由相互关联、适当协同发展的要素组成的“生态系统”模型。本次研讨会的目标是进一步培育和促进美国国家科学基金会支持的网络基础设施生态系统，包括其相互关联、适当发展的要素组成，以继续受到科学兴趣和优先事项的推动，并响应日益增长的技术发展步伐。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

For nearly four decades, NSF has effectively supported the broad availability and innovative uses of leading edge computational resources to accelerate advances in science and engineering. These NSF investments have spanned discipline-specific instruments and facilities; computational systems of varying capabilities and architectures optimized for different applications; virtual organizations for allocating resources and interfacing with users; and network backbones connecting and providing access to these resources. Recent profound advances across science and engineering interests and priorities, as well as in enabling technologies, contribute to the current view of cyberinfrastructure supporting research as appropriately embodying a model of an "ecosystem" constituting interconnected, appropriately synergistically evolving, elements.The objective of this workshop is to further foster and promote the NSF supported cyberinfrastructure ecosystem, including its makeup of interconnected, appropriately evolving, elements, to continue to be both motivated by scientific interests and priorities, as well as to evolve responsively to an increasing pace of technologies developments.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.