Abstract: The National Research Platform (NRP) is envisioning an open cyberinfrastructure (CI) that allows the federation of CI across all roughly 4,000 accredited, degree granting higher education institutions, nonprofit research institutions, and national laboratories. In its present form, NRP focuses on reducing the total cost of ownership of AI Education, and to provide a social meeting place between computer and domain scientists to accelerate domain science adoption of new programming paradigms & architectures in light of the end of Moore’s law. Providing an AI research infrastructure with close to 1500 GPUs and more than 20PB of storage open to the national research community is a desired side-effect.
Speaker Bio: Frank Würthwein is the director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). Würthwein leads Distributed High-Throughput Computing (HPC) at SDSC, and he is a faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Physics, as well as a founding faculty member of the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute on campus. His research focuses on experimental particle physics, and in particular the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. He continues to serve, as he has for many years, as executive director of the Open Science Grid, the premiere national cyberinfrastructure for distributed high-throughput computing.
