Agenda


Day 1: Mon., November 11, 2019 – Nassau Inn

8:30-9:00am Breakfast

9:00-9:30am Introduction

· Introduction & Logistics: Jack Brassil, Mosharaf Chowdhury (10 min)

· Princeton University Welcome: Jen Rexford (5 min)

· Workshop goals: Deep Medhi, NSF (10 min)

· Participant Introductions (5 min)

9:30-10:30am Plenary I – Cloud RI operators

· Lightning Talks - KC, Manu, Timur, Peter/Orran, Dan, Mike (30 min)

- Clouds and Internet Converged for the Future – K.C. Wang (3 min)

- Wireless Ecosystem meets the Cloud – Manu Gosain (3 min)

- EdgeNet: A Lightweight, Scalable Edge Cloud – Timur Friedman (3 min)

- The Mass Open Cloud (MOC) – Peter Desnoyers / Orran Krieger (3 min)

- Open Cloud Testbed– Mike Zink (3 min)

- TBD - Dan Stanzione (3 min)

10:30-11:00am Break

11:00-12:15pm Breakout Sessions 1a-e: Assessing where we are today: Cloud RI mechanisms, Application domains, Technology transfer, Cloud Integration, Cloud Training, Barriers to use

a) Cloud RI mechanisms – Federation, HW/SW, schedulers, diversity – what’s already there, what works (and doesn’t), what is needed, what isn’t

b) Application domains – What research domains are supported, what is not? Edge, wireless? What is worth supporting?

c) Technology transfer – Identify successes and failures. Are we helping operators? Should that be a goal?

d) Cloud RI Education & Training – How are we and our students learning? Workshops? What works? What is the community health? Are we stimulating community engagement?

e) What are the barriers to academic use of Cloud RI? Ease of use? Should we invest more in documentation, professional software developers?

12:15am-1:15pm Lunch

1:15-2:00pm Groups 1a-e report back

2:00pm-3:00pm Plenary II: How do Commercial Clouds fit in?

· Operating Large Scale Virtualized WAN on Open Network Emulator (Microsoft Azure) – Lifen Wu (15 min)

· Cloud Heavy Hitter User (Princeton Neuroscience) – Sebastian Seung, Will Silversmith (15 min)

· Lightning Round – Public Clouds: Tamar E, Rob. F., Jamie S. (12 min)

- CloudBank – Rob Fatland (3 min)

- ECAS – Exploring Clouds for Acceleration of Science – Jamie Sunderland (3 min)

- Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Platform for Mission Critical Enterprise Applications – Tamar Eliam (3 min)

3:00pm-3:30pm Break

3:30 – 4:00 Plenary III – Visions of Future Cloud RI

· Lightning Round: Jeff, Rick, Joe, Justin, Glenn (30 min)

- Tiered Cloud – Rick McGeer (3 min)

- Should NSF Really Host Cloud Infrastructure? – Jeff de La Beaujardière (3 min)

- Desired Capabilities Of Next Generation Shared Experimental Cloud Computing Research Infrastructures – Joe Mambretti (3 min)

- Next Gen Cloud from the Science of Networked Computing – Justin Shi (3 min)

- Solid Clouds – Clouds Quick and Dependable Enough to be a Seamless Part of Reality – Glenn Ricart (3 min)

4:00-5:15pm Breakout Sessions 2a-e: Future Cloud RI requirements

a) Education & reaching underserved institutions – are we democratizing? Are special tools/practices needed?

b) Goals for future Cloud RI systems – What must be built to handle experiments in 5-10 years?

c+d) Does the research community just need bare metal as a service? HW Infrastructure –What compute, storage, and networking is needed?

e) What are the barriers to academic use of commercial cloud systems for Cloud RI users?

5:15-5:30pm Groups 2a-e report back

6:00 – 8:30 pm – Workshop Dinner: Palmer House, 1 Bayard Ln. (use Nassau St. entrance)

Day 2: Tues., November 12, 2019 – Nassau Inn

8:30-9:00am Breakfast

9:00-9:15am Recap from Day 1

9:15– 10:15am Plenary IV: Cloud RI Technology and Mechanisms (Analytics, Federation, SW/HW, etc)

· Fabric Overview: KC Wang/Jim Griffioen (10 min)

· Lightning Round: Brent, Mosharaf, DK, Chris, Jim, Chip, Paul, Amr., Mohammed, Stephen (50 min)

- Choosing the Right Programmable NICs for Future Shared Cloud Infrastructures – Brent Stephens (3 min)

- Terra: A Framework for Optimizing Hybrid Multi-Cloud Analytics – Mosharaf Chowdhury (3 min)

- Designing and Deploying High-Performance and Scalable MPI Library for Amazon-AWS and Microsoft-Azure Cloud – DK Panda (3 min)

- Experiments in integrating commercial cloud services with on premise research computing solutions – Chris Hill (3 min)

- Leveraging Federation to Enable New Types of Applications – Jim Griffioen (3 min)

- Federation – Chip Elliott (3 min)

- Computing across Clouds, Campuses, and Scientific Facilities – Paul Ruth (3 min)

- Data Management in an Untrusted Cloud – Amr El Abbadi (3 min)

- MergeTB – Stephen Schwab (3 min)

10:15 – 10:45am Break

10:45-12:00pm Breakout Session 3: Tools for Experimenters

a) All Things Data - management, virtualization, sharing, infrastructure data use

b) Federation - how to handle experiments spanning multi-cloud, multi-instrument

c) Experiment monitoring, debugging, understanding; Infrastructure monitoring & debugging

d) Future Cloud Research Infrastructure revisited

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:30pm Breakout Groups 3a-d Report Back

1:30 pm – 2:15 Plenary V: Big Science

· Lightning Round – Science users: Kevin, Mark C, Ryan, Joe, Mohan, Anirban (30 min)

- Enabling Open and Reproducible Science using Cloud Research Infrastructure -- Mohan Ramamurthy

- Cloud Computing at NASA’s Frontier Development Lab – Mark Cheung

- Cloud-Native Data Formats for Big Scientific Data – Ryan Abernathey

- Seven principles for effective scientific big data systems – Joe Hamman

- They did it and I reproduced it! Practical Scientific Reproducibility in the Cloud – Kevin Tyle

- Leveraging Distributed Cloud Testbeds for Domain Science Research and Experimentation – Anirban Mandal

2:15-3:30pm Plenary V: Group Discussion/Silent Group Google Doc Q&A

Workshop Google doc

3:30pm Adjourn & disband

3:45-5pm Editorial Session