Collaborative Research: CI-Team Demonstration: Towards a Culture of Computational Science

协作研究：CI 团队演示：迈向计算科学文化

• 批准号: 0636334
• 负责人: Andrew Grimshaw
• 金额: $ 21.75万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-01 至 2008-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0636334&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CI; Team; Demonstration

Rapid developments in cyberinfrastructure are revolutionizing the practice of science and engineering. As the power and reach of computers has grown, computational science has emerged as the third branch of science, complementing analytical theory and experiment. In many fields, especially engineering disciplines and physical and biological sciences, the problems that must be solved are so complex that computation has overtaken pure analytic theory in importance. Despite the growth in importance of the field and in demand for practitioners, academic institutions have been slow to react. At most colleges and universities there is little in the way of a curriculum in computational science. The significance of this was made clear in the recently published report of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), "Computational Science: Ensuring America's Competitiveness" (PITAC 2006). The report specifically noted that the existing educational infrastructure could not meet this need and highlighted the failure of universities to adapt to the new needs of students, both graduate and undergraduate, for education in computational disciplines. The report issued a very specific call: It is past time for universities to take action. They must examine their educational practices and organizational structures to provide and reward interdisciplinary and collaborative research and education. New structures, programs, and institutional incentives are urgently required (PITAC 2006).The failure of academic institutions to prepare students and to encourage their faculty to learn new approaches threatens to compromise U.S. scientific leadership and economic competitiveness in a rapidly changing world. This project will develop essential components comprising a first step toward "changing the culture" at the University of Virginia, while creating a strategy that will be extensible, sustainable, and exportable. Our solution consists of a multi-pronged strategy including formal coursework, outreach to faculty, and collaboration with nearby institutions such as Sweet Briar College (an all women's school) so as to provide practical experience in the use of computational tools and infrastructure to a wide audience in the university community. Broader ImpactThis project will affect both the culture of science and engineering at UVA and beyond. It will improve the quality of research at Virginia by fostering a change in culture towards inter-disciplinary computational science and by training our students, research scientists, and faculty in contemporary computational techniques and the use of the emerging cyberinfrastructure. A similar change will be experienced both by our partner institutions and by the companies and universities downstream. The downstream effects, better research and product development, will improve US economic competitiveness.

网络基础设施的快速发展正在彻底改变科学和工程的实践。 随着计算机的力量和影响力的增长，计算科学已经成为科学的第三个分支，并补充了分析理论和实验。在许多领域，尤其是工程学科以及物理和生物科学的领域中，必须解决的问题是如此复杂，以至于计算在重要性上已经超过了纯粹的分析理论。 尽管该领域的重要性和对从业人员的需求增长，但反应速度仍然很慢。 在大多数学院，计算科学课程的方式几乎没有。 总统信息技术咨询委员会（PITAC）的“计算科学：确保美国的竞争力”的最近发布的报告中明确了这一点（Pitac 2006）。 该报告特别指出，现有的教育基础设施无法满足这一需求，并强调了大学未能适应研究生和本科生的新需求，以了解计算学科的教育。该报告发布了一个非常具体的电话：这是大学采取行动的时间。 他们必须检查他们的教育实践和组织结构，以提供和奖励跨学科和协作研究和教育。 迫切需要新的结构，计划和机构激励措施（Pitac 2006）。学术机构未能为学生做好准备，并鼓励他们的教职员工学习新方法有可能在快速变化的世界中损害美国的科学领导力和经济竞争力。该项目将开发基本的组成部分，其中包括在弗吉尼亚大学迈向“改变文化”的第一步，同时制定了一种可扩展，可持续和出口的战略。我们的解决方案包括一项多管齐下的战略，包括正式的课程，向教师宣传以及与附近的机构合作，例如Sweet Briar College（一所全女性学校），以便为大学社区的广泛受众提供使用计算工具和基础设施的实用经验。 更广泛的影响将影响UVA及其他地区的科学和工程文化。它将通过促进跨学科计算科学的变化以及培训学生，研究科学家和教职员工的当代计算技术以及新兴的网络基础设施的使用来提高弗吉尼亚州的研究质量。我们的合作伙伴机构和下游的公司和大学都会经历类似的变化。下游效应，更好的研究和产品开发将提高美国的经济竞争力。