1 Report on NSF Workshop on Center Scale Activities Related to Accelerators for Data Intensive Applications

computational social science, and security, and computer science researchers from the technology areas of multi-core processors, general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU), and field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The workshop included over 25 participants, with broad representation from academia and industry. The goal of the workshop was to outline the requirements and make recommendations to the NSF as input for a future solicitation on Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S2I2) *NSF 10-551+. The expected outcome was two-fold: To better understand the opportunities of multi-core, GPGPU, FPGA, and other accelerator technologies for the biology, computational social science and security application domains; and To use this improved understanding to provide recommendations to the NSF for a solicitation establishing center-scale institutes for sustainable software infrastructure to promote interdisciplinary research