Webinar: DesignSafe: Data Challenges for National Scale Cyberinfrastructure ft. Chris Jordan, TACC

This webinar was originally hosted on December 9, 2024.

NSF CI Compass hosted its December installment of the webinar series, featuring Chris Jordan, lead of the Data Management and Collections group at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Jordan's presentation is titled "DesignSafe: Data Challenges for National Scale Cyberinfrastructure."

Abstract

National-scale Cyberinfrastructure projects, such as DesignSafe, face a range of challenges for supporting the data needs of their communities. These include a diversity of data sizes and types, a range of applications for data analysis, and coordination with important data producers such as experimental facilities and sensor instrument operators. In addition, these challenges must be considered with respect to the entire data lifecycle, as new datasets used as input for research will have different needs than those organized and published with completed papers. Using DesignSafe as an example, we will present a brief overview of some of these challenges, discuss lessons learned at the technical infrastructure level and implications for policy, and briefly address the evolving landscape for national-scale data cyberinfrastructure in the age of AI and ML integration into research.

Bio

Chris Jordan leads the Data Management and Collections group at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and previously acted as Data Reliability Manager for the San Diego Supercomputer Center.. He has worked in national research cyberinfrastructure for over two decades, as a staff member and later as the Data area lead for the NSF TeraGrid and XSEDE projects. He currently operates the Corral petabyte-scale resource for high value data collections, including DesignSafe and many more.

See the original event listing  here.