Agenda and Materials
“Getting Together, Working Together"
This workshop was organized by CI Compass — the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence — that provides expertise and active support to cyberinfrastructure practitioners at NSF Major Facilities. The workshop was held in a hybrid format on March 1st and 2nd, 2022. The in-person portion of the meeting was held in Redondo Beach, in Southern California.
The goal of this workshop was for the MFs, CI community, and NSF to share best practices, discuss opportunities, and brainstorm solutions to the challenges faced today and in the future as related to the CI for NSF Major Facilities. The theme of this workshop was Getting Together, Working Together, emphasizing the need for collaboration to address both technical and social challenges faced by our community. Workshop topics included cloud migration, FAIR data, overcoming CI challenges, workforce development, and lessons learned during the pandemic. The workshop built on prior meetings: https://facilitiesci.github.io.
Below is the agenda and workshop materials
| Time (PST) | Title of Talk | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 7 - 8 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| 8 - 8:30 a.m. |
Workshop Welcome The talk will provide a brief introduction to CI Compass, the NSF CI Center of Excellence hosting the workshop and will provide an overview of workshop goals and logistics. |
Ewa Deelman, PI for CI Compass Research Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California |
| 8:30 - 9:15 a.m. |
Democratizing Science through Advanced Cyberinfrastructure |
Manish Parashar, Office Director |
| 9:15 - 9:35 a.m. |
Lightning Talks Brian Dobbins: Enabling Earth System Science in the Cloud Presentation |
Hosted by Jarek Nabrzyski, Co-PI CI Compass, Director of the Center for Research Computing at the University of Notre Dame Brian Dobbins, NCAR, Software Engineer Lee Ellett, Scripps Institution of Oceanoagraphy, Manager, Shipboard Technical Support |
| 9:35 - 9:55 a.m. |
Brainstorming: Developing and Retaining a Vibrant Team of Workers, Setting the Stage for Day 2
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Hosts: Jarek Nabryzski, University of Notre Dame, Director, Center for Research Computing Mats Rynge, USC/ISI, Senior Computer Scientist |
| 10 - 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 - 11 a.m. |
NSF Ecosystem Lightning Talks Jim Basney and Von Welch: Trusted CI Support for Research Infrastructure CI Jason Zurawski: EPOC Assistance for Team Science Frank Wuerthwein: The Prototype National Research Platform (PNRP) |
Host: Ilya Baldin, RENCI/Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Director of Network Research and Infrastructure Jim Basney - NCSA, Principal Research Scientist Von Welch - Indiana University, Director, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Resarch Jason Zurawski - Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Science Engagement Engineer/CSE4 Frank Wuerthwein - Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center |
| 11 a.m. to noon |
Developing Resilience and Managing Uncertainty during the Pandemic Being resilient is about how we respond to adversity. This session will identify challenges brought about by COVID-19 as well as the solutions and lessons learned in response, and discuss how to manage uncertainty so the MF community could cultivate organizational resilience and put in place better preparation for future crises and disasters. |
Hosts: Shafaq Chaudhry - University of Central Florida, Director, Research Technology - Graduate and Research IT Cassandra Hayes - Texas Tech University, Research Assistant Kerk Kee - Texas Tech University, Associate Professor |
| Noon - 1:20 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1:20 - 3:15 p.m. |
Making the Major Facilities Data Lifecycle FAIR to Provide AI-Ready Data Given the rise in application of AI/ML within cyberinfrastructure services and application of knowledge informed machine learning to science models, how can the major facilities be better prepared for this transition by leveraging FAIR data principles to create "AI-read" data. Donald Brower: FAIR Data and the MF Data Lifecycle CI Compass Charles Vardeman: Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences Doug Fils and Adam Shepherd: ESIP Schema.org cluster: Utilizing the Google Knowledge Graph for FAIR Earth Science Data Christine Laney: NEON's First Data Releases: Challenges and Opportunities to Provide FAIR Data Giri Prakash: AI Strategies for Improving Data Management Components and Preparing AI-ready Data that meets FAIR and Data Provenance Bruce Berriman: Application of FAIR Principles in Astronomy |
Hosts: Donald Brower - University of Notre Dame, Assistant Research Professor Speakers: Doug Fils - Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Data Management Technical Expert Christine Laney - Battelle, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Data Scientist Giri Prakash - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Section Head Bruce Berriman - Caltech |
| 3:15 - 3:45 p.m. | Virtual Office Hours | |
| 4 - 6 p.m. | Reception for In-Person Participants |
| Time (PST) | Title of Talk | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 7 - 8 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| 8 - 10 a.m. |
Cyberinfrastructure for Major Facilities: Challenges and a Path Forward Anirban Mandal and Robert Casey: Gordon Bonan: Ken Feldman (UW), Laura Stolp (WHOI), Rebecca Hudak (WHOI), R2R and ARF: Presentation Philip Gates: Cyberinfrastructure for Major Facilities - Challenges and a path forward Patrick Brady: Dan Stanzione: |
Hosts: Anirban Mandal - Assistant Director, Network Research and Infrastructure, RENCI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Speakers: Gordon Bonan - NCAR-NEON Ken Feldman - Data Systems Architect / Network Engineer, University of Washington Dan Stanzione - Executive Director, TACC, Associate Vice President for Research, University of Texas at Austin Lauren Clay - Associate Professor and Chair, University of Maryland Baltimore COunty Patrick Brady - University of University-Milwaukee Philip Gates - IT Support Supervisor
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| 10 - 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 a.m. - noon |
The March Towards the Clouds: MF Perspectives Karan Vahi and Brian Dobbins: Introduce Panel: The March Toward the Clouds: MF Perspectives Bob Flynn: What do you need to ask yourself before you move to the Cloud? Chad Trabant: Experiences on coming up with a project plan and strategy to move operations for 2 Major Facilities to the Cloud Jeff Glatstein: OOI Approach to the Cloud Benedikt Riedel: IceCube Processing on the Cloud Brian Dobbins: The March With the Clouds: NCAR David Halstead: Surging into the Cloud and Grids: Insights into keeping up with the processing workload for the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) |
Hosts: Brian Dobbins - Software Engineer, NCAR Karen Vahi - Senior Computer Scientist, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute Speakers: Bob Flynn - Program Manager, Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services, Internet2 Jeffrey Glatstein - Senior Manager of Cyberinfrastructure Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution David Halstead - NRAO Benedikt Riedel - University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Noon - 1:20 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 12:45 - 1:20 p.m. | Virtual Office Hours | |
| 1:20 - 2:20 p.m. |
Brainstorming: Developing and Retaining a Vibrant Team of Workers Breakout rooms will be created for the challenges that received the most votes and were potentially the most feasible to solve (from previous day).
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Organizers: Laura Christopherson - RENCI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kerk Kee - Associate Professor, Texas Tech University Angela Murillo - Assistant Professor, Indiana University Jarek Nabrzyski - Director, Center for Research Computing, University of Notre Dame Alex Olshansky - Instructor, Texas Tech University Mats Rynge - Senior Computer Scientist, University of Southern Caifornia, Information Sciences Institute |
| 2:20 - 3 p.m. |
NSF Ecosystem Lightning Talks Pascal Paschos: Collaboration Support in the OSG Fabric of Services Alex Szalay: Computing for Mid-Scale Science Projects Jeremy Fischer: Jetstream 2: Accelerating Cloud Computing via Jetstream Tyson Swetnam: Cyverse: Cyberinfrastructure for Data Driven Discovery
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Host: Anirban Mandal - Associate Director, CI Compass, Assistant Director, Network Research and Infrastructure, RENCI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Speakers: Pascal Paschos - Sr. Computational Scientist - Area Coordinator for Collaborations in Open Science Grid, University of Chicago Alex Szalay - Professor, Johns Hopkins University Jeremy Fischer - Manager, Jetstream Cloud, Indiana University Bloomington Tyson Swetnam - Research Assistant Professor, University of Arizona |
| 3 - 3:05 p.m. |
Closing Remarks Given by Ewa Deelman |
Ewa Deelman - Principal Investigator, CI Compass, Research Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California |
This project is supported by the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in the Directorate for Computer Information Science under Grant #2127548.