2017 Workshop
September 6-7, 2017 – Alexandria, VA
Workshop Report
Survey Results
Whitepapers
Whitepapers per Large Facility
- National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
- CHESS
- DesignSafe – Cyberinfrastructure for NSF Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure
- Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope National Solar Observatory
- Gemini Observatory
- IceCube
- JOIDES Resolution Science Operator
- IRIS Data Services
- The NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence: Large Facilities Services
- LIGO Laboratory
- Research Vessels: Seagoing Datacenters
- National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
- National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)
- National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)
- UNAVCO
- Unidata
- 2DCC
- Ocean Networks Canada
- AmLight
- Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R)
- RCRV
Agenda
September 6-7, 2017
Rooms:
- Plenary talks and panels: Edison Ballroom
- Breakout 1 and 3: Banneker Room
- Breakout 2 and 4: Bell Room
Day 1 – Wednesday, September 6, 2017
| 07:30 – 08:30 | Registration/Breakfast (Edison Ballroom) |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome / Goals of the Workshop Irene Qualters and William Miller, NSF / Steering Committee |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Setting the stage (Review of survey responses + Discussion) Steering Committee |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Panel 1 Focus: Integration, interoperability and reuse of CI solutions, practices - How do your projects discover and evaluate available solutions? - How do your projects deal with changing availability of CI? - Can increased awareness/reuse of CI solutions increase interoperability across facilities? - Can community efforts in integration, interoperability and sustainability lead to well defined interfaces that facilitate access to and incorporation of new technologies? - What are the most critical CI gaps that you would like to be addressed? Moderator: Ewa Deelman, USC/ISI Panelists: Aaron Anderson (NCAR), Gonzalo Merino (IceCube), Mike Zentner (NanoHub), Kate Keahey (Chameleon) |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Panel 2 Focus: Workforce development, and education and outreach - What are workforce development related challenges and best practices, e.g., recruitment, training, incentives, reward structures, etc.? - How can we better facilitate awareness and sharing of solutions and best practices across different and disparate communities? - How can training and outreach become key mechanisms for concurrent improvement of workforce effectiveness and ability to adopt best tools and understand future needs - How similar or different are the training needs of our community with respect to industry? Can industry practices and resources be leveraged? Moderators: Valerio Pascucci, Univ. of Utah, Donald Petravick, NCSA/UIUC Panelists: Tim Cockerill (TACC), Aaron Andersen (NCAR), Albert Lazzarini (LIGO), Mohan Ramamurthy (UCAR) All Presentation Slides |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Breakouts for Panel 1 (Leads: E. Deelman and K. Keahey; Room: Banneker) Breakouts for Panel 2 (Leads: V. Pascucci and D. Petravick; Room: Bell) |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Report out from breakouts |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Planning for Day 2 |
| 18:00 – 21:00 | Reception |
Day 2 – Thursday, September 7, 2017
| 07:30 – 08:15 | Breakfast (Edison Ballroom) |
| 08:15 - 08:30 | Summary of Day 1 / Goals of the Day 2 |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Invited Talk 1: NSF/OAC Update Irene Qualters, NSF |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Invited Talk 2: Summary of Cybersecurity Summit – James Marsteller, CTSC |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Break |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Panel 3 Focus: CI Models, Challenges, Best Practices - What are the existing models / best practices for architecting/acquiring and operating CI resources/services (storage, compute expertise, software)? - What role can academic and commercial service offerings (e.g., cloud services) play? - What are there advantages/disadvantages of developing shared CI resource / service models? - How CI take advantage rapidly evolving technologies and enterprise solutions? Moderator: Ellen Rathje, NHERI/University of Texas at Austin Panelists: Ivan Rodero (OOI), Frank Wuerthwein (LHC/OSG), Tom Gulbransen (NEON) |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Lunch Break |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Panel 4 Focus: Sustaining Facilities CI / Developing a community - What are the dimensions of CI (storage, compute expertise, software) sustainability? - What are the barriers (if any) towards sustaining CI solutions, both within facilities and externally? - What are possible models for CI sustainability? - Can sharing, reuse, interoperability provide pathways to sustainability? Can community/market models play a role? - How can we create and sustain a community to facilitate sharing and sustainability? Moderators: Victoria Stodden, UIUC, and Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Panelists: Miron Livny (OSG), Tim Ahern (IRIS), Dan Stanzione (NHERI), John Towns (XSEDE) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Break |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Breakouts for Panel 3 (Lead: E. Rathje; Room: Banneker) Breakouts for Panel 4 (Leads: V. Stodden and M. Parashar; Room: Bell) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Report out from breakouts |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Workshop closing |