This workshop is open to all faculty, students, and staff at Notre Dame with an interest in computing applied to scientific problems. The program will feature a number of brief topics by nationally recognized experts in scientific computing on clusters, clouds, and grids. To keep the workshop lively, each session will feature three or four brief presentations, followed by time for questions and discussion with the audience. We hope everyone will come away with a new idea or connection to follow up on. Feel free to attend any or all of the three sessions that fit your schedule. No registration is required.
1:00 Welcome and Introductions
Douglas Thain, Jarek Nabrzyski, Kevin Bowyer
1:05-2:15 Challenges of Scalable Scientific Applications
Moderator: Jarek Nabrzyski
Gabriele Garzolio, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Open Science Grid
LSST Image Simulation on the Open Science Grid
Joannes Westerink, University of Notre Dame
High Performance Scalable Hurricane Wave and Surge Simulations
Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab
Exploring Application Paradigms with Montage
2:15-3:30 New Infrastructure Capabilities
Moderator: Douglas Thain
Jim Basney, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Secure Access to Research Infrastructure via the InCommon Federation
Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab
Scientific software as a service: Lessons learned from Globus Online
Rong Ge, Marquette University
Models and Techniques for Energy Efficient High Performance Computing
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
Live Checkpointing of Applications in the Cloud
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:00 Big Data, Big Storage, Big Problems
Moderator: Paul Brenner
Dean Hildebrand, IBM
The Current State of pNFS
Jesus Izaguirre, University of Notre Dame
Managing Massive Simulation Data from Folding@Home
Yong Zhao, University of Electronic and Science Technology of China
A Comparative Study of Hadoop vs a Commercial Database