NSF Org:	OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
Recipient:	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Initial Amendment Date:	April 10, 2023
Latest Amendment Date:	April 10, 2023
Award Number:	2317547
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Ashok Srinivasan OAC  Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE  Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Start Date:	April 15, 2023
End Date:	March 31, 2024 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$24,974.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$24,974.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2023 = $24,974.00
History of Investigator:	Ilkay Altintas (Principal Investigator) altintas@sdsc.edu Daniel Katz (Co-Principal Investigator) Sameer Shende (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of California-San Diego 9500 GILMAN DR LA JOLLA CA  US  92093-0021 (858)534-4896
Sponsor Congressional District:	50
Primary Place of Performance:	University of California-San Diego 9500 GILMAN DR LA JOLLA CA  US  92093-0934
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	50
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	UYTTZT6G9DT1
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE
Primary Program Source:	01002324DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	7231, 7556, 9179
Program Element Code(s):	736100
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.070

ABSTRACT

This project provides travel support for US-based students and early career researchers to attend the CCGrid 2023 conference in Bangalore, India in May 2023. The supported participants will attend special mentoring sessions, present a poster, and learn from the leaders in the Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing areas of Computer Science. The participants will submit a proposal for travel support and an extended abstract of their work that will be published in the workshop proceedings of the conference. This provides a unique opportunity for students and early career researchers in the US to the CCGrid 2023 conference.

Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing is fundamental to computer science and is the driving engine for future computing and the science and engineering research and education that now depends on it. The 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2023) is a leading forum to disseminate and discuss research activities and results on a broad range of topics in distributed systems, ranging from computing clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog and Edge Computing that support Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, seven workshops, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2023 conference. The conference places special emphasis on all aspects of equity, diversity, and inclusion in systems research. The conference will be held as an in-person event in Bangalore, India. Overall, the conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest research findings in all aspects of cluster, cloud and Internet computing. It is also an important event for PhD students and early career researchers to connect to the world of parallel computing in research institutions, scientific laboratories, and industry. This project provides travel support for US-based students and early-career researchers and creates a cohort who will attend the conference (by supporting a portion of their travel expenses), participate in the early career and students' showcase as well as the rest of the conference, discuss their work with each other and with colleagues, and build long-lasting supportive relationships for 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.

PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT

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This project provided travel support for four US-based students and one early career researcher to attend the CCGrid 2023 conference in Bangalore, India in May 2023. Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing is fundamental to computer science and is the driving engine for future computing and the science and engineering research and education that now depends on it. The 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2023) was a leading forum to disseminate and discuss research activities and results on a broad range of topics in distributed systems, ranging from computing clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog and Edge Computing that support Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data applications. The conference featured keynotes, technical presentations, posters, seven workshops, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2023 conference. Overall, the conference provided a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest research findings in all aspects of cluster, cloud and Internet computing. It was also an important event for PhD students and early career researchers to connect to the world of parallel computing in research institutions, scientific laboratories, and industry. The conference placed special emphasis on all aspects of equity, diversity, and inclusion in systems research. 

These five supported participants attended special mentoring sessions, presented a poster, and learned from the leaders in the Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing areas of Computer Science. The participants were selected based on their submitting a proposal for travel support and an extended abstract of their work that was published in the workshop proceedings of the conference. This provided a unique opportunity for students and early career researchers in the US to the CCGrid 2023 conference. They also formed a cohort who were able to discuss their work with each other and with colleagues, and build long-lasting supportive relationships for their careers.

In addition, the project supported four additional students and two additional early career researchers to attend the first US Research Software Engineer conference (US-RSE'23) in Chicago, where they similarly presented their research, discussed their research ideas with other conference participants, expanded their understanding of the research computing field by attending conference workshops and conference sessions, and explored potential research projects with new conference colleagues.

Last Modified: 07/30/2024
Modified by: Ilkay Altintas

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