Name: Campus Infrastructures Community Workshop at Duke University: Connecting Science to Cycles and Data
Start: 2013-08-27T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2013-08-28T16:20:00-04:00
Location: Duke University

Campus Infrastructures Community Workshop at Duke University: Connecting Science to Cycles and Data

from Tuesday, 27 August 2013 (08:00) to Wednesday, 28 August 2013 (16:20)

Monday, 26 August 2013
Tuesday, 27 August 2013

08:30 Registration and Coffee
Registration and Coffee
08:30 - 09:30
09:30 Opening and Welcoming Remarks - Steffen Bass (Duke University)
Opening and Welcoming Remarks
- Steffen Bass (Duke University)
09:30 - 09:40
09:40 OSG Roadmap for Connecting Science to Cycles and Data - Robert Gardner (University of Chicago)
OSG Roadmap for Connecting Science to Cycles and Data
- Robert Gardner (University of Chicago)
09:40 - 10:00
10:00 An Overview of Campus Cyberinfrastructure at Duke University - John Pormann (Duke University)
An Overview of Campus Cyberinfrastructure at Duke University
- John Pormann (Duke University)
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Cyberinfrastructure Futures: Enhanced Workflow Services, Science DMZs and Software Defined Networks - Paul Ruth (RENCI) Jeff Chase (Duke University)
Cyberinfrastructure Futures: Enhanced Workflow Services, Science DMZs and Software Defined Networks
- Paul Ruth (RENCI)
- Jeff Chase (Duke University)
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 11:20
11:20 Computational Needs for the Growing Field of Neural Engineering - Bryan Howell (Duke University)
Computational Needs for the Growing Field of Neural Engineering
- Bryan Howell (Duke University)
11:20 - 11:40
11:40 Computational Chemistry - Agostino Migliore (Duke University) Aaron Virshup (Duke University)
Computational Chemistry
- Agostino Migliore (Duke University)
- Aaron Virshup (Duke University)
11:40 - 12:00
12:00 Recreating the Big Bang in the Lab - Computational Challenges in High-Energy Nuclear Physics - Steffen Bass (Duke University)
Recreating the Big Bang in the Lab - Computational Challenges in High-Energy Nuclear Physics
- Steffen Bass (Duke University)
12:00 - 12:20
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Contributions

13:30 Properties of High Throughput Applications - Mats Rynge (USC / Information Sciences Institute)

13:45 OSG Connect registration and login services - David Champion (University of Chicago)

14:00 QuickStart to using OSG Connect - Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago)

14:15 Access OSG Connect cycles from your laptop using Bosco - Marco Mambelli (University of Chicago)

14:30 Scaling up to more resources - Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago)

14:42 A simple R (statistical analysis) calculation on OSG Connect - Marco Mambelli (University of Chicago)

14:57 A simple Mathematica calculation on OSG Connect - Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 15:50
15:50
15:50 - 17:50
Contributions

15:50 Stash: The OSG Connect Storage Service - David Champion (University of Chicago)

16:00 Using Globus Online with Stash - Steve Tuecke (University of Chicago)

16:15 Data Transfers via HTCondor transport mechanisms - Suchandra Thapa (Computation Institute / University of Chicago)

16:25 Accessing Stash remotely from your job - Suchandra Thapa (Computation Institute / University of Chicago)

16:40 Software access using HTCondor transport mechanisms - Marco Mambelli (University of Chicago)

16:50 Software access using OASIS - the OSG software service - Marco Mambelli (University of Chicago)

17:05 Using Parrot and OASIS - Suchandra Thapa (Computation Institute / University of Chicago)
Wednesday, 28 August 2013

08:30 Coffee
Coffee
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 An example using GNU Octave on OSG Connect - Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago)

09:15 Using the CERN ROOT application (high energy physics) on OSG Connect - Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago)

09:25 Using BLAST on OSG Connect - Derek Weitzel (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 10:50
10:50
10:50 - 12:00
Contributions

10:50 Bosco integrated with R (BoscoR) on OSG Connect - Derek Weitzel (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

11:05 Using Pegasus to manage workflows on OSG Connect - Mats Rynge (USC / Information Sciences Institute)

11:25 Using Swift (a parallel scripting language) on OSG Connect - Suchandra Thapa (Computation Institute / University of Chicago)
12:00 Panel Discussion - Steve Tuecke (University of Chicago) Steffen Bass (Duke University) John Pormann (Duke University) John McGee (RENCI) Robert Gardner (University of Chicago) Jeff Chase (Duke University)
Panel Discussion
- Steve Tuecke (University of Chicago)
- Steffen Bass (Duke University)
- John Pormann (Duke University)
- John McGee (RENCI)
- Robert Gardner (University of Chicago)
- Jeff Chase (Duke University)
12:00 - 12:20
12:20 Workshop Adjourns
Workshop Adjourns
12:20 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Several Duke IT, RENCI and OSG staff will be on hand to follow-up with user issues, project planning, and general distributed high throughput issues relevant to the Duke research community
Several Duke IT, RENCI and OSG staff will be on hand to follow-up with user issues, project planning, and general distributed high throughput issues relevant to the Duke research community
13:30 - 16:20
Contributions

13:30 Research Computing at Duke & RENCI Discussion

14:00 Starting a Project on OSG Connect - Guidance for PIs and Project Managers - Robert Gardner (University of Chicago)

14:20 Breakout II: Launching Projects on OSG Connect working group

14:20 Breakout I: Strategies for connecting Duke campus grid resources, OSG Connect working group

15:10 Breakout III: More on user software and libraries: using PALMS with OASIS - the OSG software server - Marco Mambelli (University of Chicago)