2019 NSF Workshop on Connecting Large Facilities and Cyberinfrastructure

网络基础设施（CI）是一种渗透并实现现代科学的结构，并得到了NSF的长期支持。CI包括先进的计算、数据、软件和网络基础设施，以及必要的专业人力资本。NSF支持的大型设施是主要的科学研究平台，代表了NSF最重要的投资。设施严重依赖现有的CI和新的CI能力和解决方案来支持其科学界。然而，设施使用的CI目前主要由每个设施独立建造。2015年，NSF开始支持一系列以CI for Large Facilities为重点的研讨会，将设施和CI社区聚集在一起，分享共同的经验和挑战，讨论在社区内利用CI的潜在合作和机会。2019年NSF大型设施和CI研讨会旨在通过一个分享想法和经验的论坛，继续和推进讨论，交流和社区建设，重要的是，为未来的CI研究，开发和部署做好准备。研讨会的具体目标包括：1）确定设施之间的共同网络基础设施挑战，2）了解设施数据生命周期，包括数据生命周期阶段之间的共性和差异，3）探索设施和大型CI项目之间的联合培训和教育机会，4）分享CI项目管理经验，以及5）讨论建立CI专业人员社区的方法。研讨会的一个重要焦点将是支持整个设施科学生命周期所需的CI，其中包括数据捕获和处理，数据存储和归档，以及数据访问，分析，可视化和传播。探索共同的CI挑战的潜在合作是另一个重要目标。其他研讨会主题可能包括计算，网络管理，教育和劳动力发展。 研讨会报告将在网上发布，以便向更广泛的传播和信息界传播讨论情况和结论。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is a fabric that pervades and enables modern science and has been long-supported at NSF. CI comprises advanced computing, data, software, and networking infrastructure, as well as the necessary specialized human capital. NSF-supported Large Facilities are major scientific research platforms and represent some of the NSF's most substantial investments. Facilities rely heavily on existing CI and new CI capabilities and solutions to support their scientific communities. However, CI used by facilities is currently predominantly built independently by each facility. In 2015, NSF began to support a series of workshops focused on CI for Large Facilities to bring together the facility and CI communities to share common experiences and challenges, discuss potential collaborations and opportunities for leveraging CI within the community. The 2019 Workshop on NSF Large Facilities and CI aims to continue and advance the discussion, exchange, and community building, through a forum for sharing of ideas and experiences and, importantly, prepare for future CI research, development, and deployment. Specific goals of the workshop include 1) identifying common cyberinfrastructure challenges among facilities, 2) understanding the facility data lifecycle, including the commonalities and differences between data lifecycle stages, 3) exploring opportunities for joint training and education among facilities and large CI projects, 4) sharing experiences in CI project management, and 5) discussing approaches to building a community of CI professionals. An important focus of the workshop will be the CI needed to support the entire facility science lifecycle, which spans data capture and processing, data storage and archiving, and data access, analysis, visualization, and dissemination. The exploration of potential collaborations on common CI challenges is another important aim. Other workshop topics may include computation, network management, and education and workforce development. A workshop report will be posted online to disseminate the discussions and findings to the broader CI community. Participation will be encouraged from a diverse set of CI researchers and professionals at various stages in their careers.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.