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Cyberinfrastructure Defined
For the purposes of this workshop, “cyberinfrastructure” will
be defined as “the coordinated aggregation of software, hardware
and other technologies as well as human expertise to support current
and future discoveries in science and engineering and to integrate relevant
and often disparate resources to provide a useful, usable and enabling
computational and data framework characterized by broad access.”
Areas of Emphasis
The workshop will focus on three areas of emphasis. Participants
will be asked to participate in a series of structured break-out
sessions designed to address the three primary questions and a number
of drill-down questions.
Next generation strength areas in the U.S. facilitated by Cyberinfrastructure
Topics include:
- Product design/integration
- Bioscience, Nanoscience and Materials
- Plant wide enterprise wide management
- Supply chain management
- Knowledge/Information management - environmental compliance
- High computational scale areas - CFD, molecular dynamics
- Environmental, safety, security impact planning
Cyberinfrastructure Technical Areas of Impact
Topics include:
- Simulation, modeling, optimization and design
- Ubiquitous sensing and interfaces
- Spatially wide area data aggregation
- Large-scale/wide area data management and analysis
- Large-scale data visualization
- Network Science
Cyberinfrastructure Foundations
Topics include:
- Education and training
- Computational tools and algorithms
- Grid computing and data storage
- Standards
- Computation, data and network infrastructure
- Interdisciplinary development
- Security
- Collaboration
- Data sciences
Key Questions to be Addressed
During the workshop, participants will examine current and emerging issues
regarding the interrelation of the cyberinfrastructure and chemical
and biological Systems. The three areas of emphasis define the
structure and format of the workshop; the key questions to be addressed
include:
- What are the future IT-enabled economic drivers for process systems
in the US?
- How can the cyberinfrastructure affect or impact these drivers?
- What are the new problems and what are the tools needed?
- What technologies and integration are needed, where is the expertise,
and what is the state of technical capability?
- What are the respective roles of industry, government and academia
and how should they interrelate?
- What investments are needed in the CI and what investments are needed
in the process systems areas? What should be the source of the investments?
- What partnerships/coalitions are needed?
- How will new and emerging technologies and CI capabilities need to
affect organization roles and responsibilities – academia/industry,
researcher/research teams, etc.
- Where are education and training needed?
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