Call for Workflow seminar topics

Post date: Oct 11, 2016 6:26:17 PM

On behalf of the International HPC Training Consortium* we would like to cordially invite you to propose a presentation on a workflow topic to be webcast to the community.

Discussions with the research community have identified a strong need among researchers to learn more about workflow tools, resources, and techniques. The breadth of methods and software tools is vast and the community is seeking clarity on selecting the approaches and tools to apply to advance and communicate their research.

We are interested in soliciting presenters for a series of seminars on workflows to be webcast over the next year to inform the community on the capabilities that are available and to assist people with the use of these tools and resources.

We invite you to submit a short proposal for a seminar topic of your choosing to be considered for inclusion in the seminar series. The submission should be about 1 page in length and include the following:

• • Your name, email, phone, title, and institutional affiliation

  • Title for your seminar topic

  • A one paragraph abstract of your proposed seminar topic

  • Proposed length of time for the seminar (e.g. one hour, or longer?)

  • Proposed timeframe for presenting your topic (months/weeks you will be able to present over the next year)

  • Your prior experience presenting this material

  • Target audience (researchers, developers, domains of study, etc.)

  • Pre-requisites for someone participating - e.g. programming knowledge, prior HPC experience, etc.

  • User base for the software (e.g. what is the size and domains of use by the current user community)

  • Software availability (e.g. free, open source, licensed, other)

  • Software requirements for any participant to benefit from any planned hands-on activities

  • Use cases you plan to cover with examples of applications/usage by researchers

  • Training materials and other reference materials that exist (e.g. provide links)

We welcome a broad range of topics. Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

• • Overview of workflows - why and how

  • Specific workflow packages (e.g. Pegasus, Swift, Galaxy, Kepler, etc.)

  • Large data handling

  • Challenges of scaling to petascale and beyond

    • Fault tolerance and fault recovery

  • Domain-specific workflows

  • Other?

Please submit your plan by Monday, October 24, 2016 to Scott Lathrop - lathrop@illinois.edu

We plan to review all submissions and make decisions in time to announce the seminar series at SC16 in November.

If you have any questions, please direct them to Scott Lathrop - lathrop@illinois.edu

Thank you for your consideration.

The International HPC Training Consortium

(*) Note: The International HPC Training Consortium includes representatives from HPC Centers, higher education institutions, government agencies, and business and industry from around the world. The Consortium seeks to prepare the research and education community to gain access to and make effective use of cyberinfrastructure at the local, regional, national, and international level. The target audience is broadly inclusive from novices getting started in the use of local computing systems, to users of the most advanced computational and data-enabled computing systems, including petascale and beyond systems. The organizational aspects are supported by representatives from the NSF funded Blue Waters project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Additional information on the Consortium is available at https://sites.google.com/a/lbl.gov/hpc-training-best-practices