Sustainable Funding Workshop
Wednesday, October 2 |
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| 7:30 |
Registration, Continental Breakfast - Foyer, Ballroom C
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| 8:30 |
Keynote:
Sustainability
Dr. Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate, National Science Foundation
Unable to attend
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| 9:00 |
Irene Qualters, Division Director (Acting), Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
Unable to attend
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| 9:15 |
“Sustainability” – perspective, background & context
Dr. David Lifka, Director, Center for Advanced Computing, Cornell University; CASC chair
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| 9:45 |
Panel I: Strategic Value of supporting advanced computing & data analysis; Administrative costs for supporting research
Moderator: Dr. David Lifka, CASC Chair, Cornell
• Strategic Value and Sustainable Cost Structure
of
Advanced Computing Dr. Curtis Cole, CIO, Cornell Medical Center
• UCLA Perspective Dr. Jim Davis, Vice Provost, Office of Information Technology, UCLA
• Sustainable Funding and Business Models for Academic Cyberinfrastructure Facilities Victoria Hamilton, Director, Research Initiatives, Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, Columbia University
• Administrative Perspectives Dr. Juan Sanchez, Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Austin
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| 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:15 |
Panel II: Models, challenges and opportunities at advanced computing facilities
Moderator: Dr. Amy Apon, Clemson University; CASC past-chair
• [Super]computing on the Edge: Challenges and Opportunities Dr. Susan Atlas, Director, Center for Advanced Research Computing, University of New Mexico
• Research Support – Building the ARCC Dr. Tim Kuhfuss, Director, Advanced Research Computing Center, University of Wyoming
• Institutional Models, Challenges, and Opportunities Dr. Tony Mezzacappa, Director, Joint Institute for Computational Science, University of Tennessee
• Models, challenges and opportunities at advanced computing facilities Dr. Jan Odegard, Director, Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice University
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| 12:15 |
Lunch
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| 1:15 |
Panel III: Models, challenges and opportunities at advanced cyberinfrastructure facilities
Moderator: Dr. Rajendra Bose, CASC Secretary, Columbia University
• NEES Cyberinfrastructure:
Meeting the Needs of the Civil
Engineering Community Dr. Thomas Hacker, co-PI, Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), Purdue University
• Models, challenges and opportunities. Administrative costs? Resources in greatest need? Dr. John Towns, Principal Investigator, XSEDE
• CyberGIS Center
for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies Dr. Shaowen Wang, Senior Research Scientist, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• The promise and challenge of individualized health Dr. Vasan Yegnasubramanian, Dir., Next Generation Sequencing Center, Johns Hopkins University
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| 2:45 |
Coffee Break
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| 3:15 |
Panel IV: Role of State, Federal & Regional Government in creating new infrastructure models
Moderator: Dr. Curt Hillegas, CASC vice-chair, Princeton University
• Perspective Dr. Rajendra Bose, Manager, Research Computing Services, Columbia University
• Perspective Jim Bottum, Director CCIT, Clemson University – South Carolina regional effort
• The MGHPCC Data Center and Consortium John Goodhue, Executive Director, Massachusetts Green HPC Center
• Perspective Victoria Hamilton, Director, Research Initiatives, Office of the Executive Vice
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| 4:30 |
Recap and plan for day 2
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| 5:45 |
Buses Board in Front of Hotel for Dinner Cruise
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| 7:00pm |
Dinner Cruise aboard Spirit of Washington
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| Thursday, October 3 |
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| 7:30 |
Continental Breakfast - Foyer Ballroom C |
| 8:30 |
Panel V: Workforce Issues at HPC Centers
Moderator: Dr. Rajendra Bose, Columbia University
• Workforce Development (Video, PDF) Linda Akli, SURA, XSEDE Training, Education and Outreach
• Refueling the U.S. Innovation Economy: STEM Reform (Video, PDF) Dr. Robert Atkinson, President, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
• Remarks (Video) Dr. Cynthia McIntyre, Senior Vice President, Council on Competitiveness
• OSC and Workforce Development Dr. Pankaj Shah, Director, Ohio Supercomputer Center
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| 9:30 |
Panel VI: Federal agency funding of cyberinfrastructure activities: Programs, priorities, future funding
Moderator: Dr. Curt Hillegas, CASC Vice- Chair, Princeton University
• Dr. Christine Chalk, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Department of Energy Office of Science Unable to attend
• Dr. Susan Gregurick, Director, BBCB, NIGMS, NIH Unable to attend
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| 9:30 |
Panel VI session replaced due to Federal Shutdown:
Moderator: Dr. Curt Hillegas, CASC Vice- Chair, Princeton University
• Towards a science and technology for sustainable cyberinfrastructure Dr. Fernando Pineda, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins
• Survey of Campus Research Storage Needs, etc. Dr. Richard Moore, Division Director, Data-Enabled Scientific Computing, San Diego Supercomputer Center
• Successes, Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned Dr. Jarek Nabrzyski, Director, Center for Research Computing, Notre Dame
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| 10:45 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 |
Panel VII: Looking to the Future in HPC – petascale to exascale; big data to cloud; industry trends
Moderator: Dr. David Lifka, CASC Chair, Cornell University
• The Crystal Ball Petascale to Exascale Trends Dr. Barry Bolding, Vice President, Storage & Data Management, Cray
• Industry Trends Dr. Daron Green, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Connections, Microsoft
• Nicole Hemsoth, Managing Editor, HPCWire Unable to attend
• The Future of HPC Dr. David Scott, HPC Scientist, Intel Corporation
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| 12:30 |
Lunch
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Sustainability Workshop Concludes
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CASC Member Meeting
Thursday, October 3 |
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| 1:30 |
Welcome, Introductions, New members & Guests
Dr. David Lifka, CASC Chair
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| 2:00 |
Data Update
Dr. Robert Chadduck, NSF, ACI unable to attend
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| 3:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 3:30 |
CASC Survey results:
Dr. Nick Berente, University of Georgia Business School
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| 6:00 |
CASC Reception - Foyer Ballroom C
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| Friday, October 4 |
| 7:30 |
Breakfast - Foyer Ballroom C |
| 8:30 |
CASC Business Meeting: Dr. David Lifka, CASC Chair
• Membership
• Finances
• Election process
• Visibility - Brochure
• New - Working Groups - HIPAA
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| 9:30 |
Dr. Jim Dreher, Acting Deputy Division Director, Division of Biological Infrastructure, National Science Foundation unable to attend
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| 10:00 |
Congressional perspective:
Richard Yamada, Professional Staff, House Science Committee
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| 10:30 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 |
Dr. Jon Eisenberg, Director of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Academy of Sciences
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| 11:30 |
Dr. Robert Leland, Physicist,
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
on detail from Sandia National Laboratory unable to attend
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| Noon |
Adjourn
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