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A Workshop on Effective Approaches to

Campus Research Computing Cyberinfrastructure

April 25-27, 2006
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel
1700 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202

Home || Workshop Proposal || Agenda/Presentations || Roster || Final Report


Agenda/Presentations

Tuesday April 25 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Time Speaker Purpose
3:00-4:00 Jim Bottum, CIO-Purdue
Guy Almes, NSF [PDFa] [PDFb]
Motivation
NSF Roadmap
4:00-4:10 Break  
4:10-5:30 CIO Panel:
(Moderator: Pat Dreher - MIT)
Jim Bottum, Purdue
Dave Lambert, Georgetown
Bill Lewis, Arizona State
Michael Pearce, USC [PDF]
Dialogue with CIOs to air out approaches, pitfalls, obstacles, strategies, etc.


Wednesday April 26 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Speakers should be encouraged to address what's important to them from this list:

  • Faculty, post-doc, graduate student training (code optimization strategies)
  • Software, numerical library availability and support
  • Computational allocation approaches and strategies, account mgt, accounting
  • Storage allocation approaches and strategies
  • Physical plant issues (power, cooling, space)
  • Growth strategies, considerations
  • Funding models
  • Metrics or otherwise for determining success
  • Operations, security, availability, DR/BCP
  • Campus landscape - description of mosaic of centrally and departmentally run facilities
  • Campus and national networking issues
Time Speaker Anchor Architecture
1:00-2:00 Pat Dreher, MIT [PDF]
Curtis Hillegas, Princeton [PDF]
BlueGene
2:00-3:00 Vijay Agarwala, Penn State [PDF]
Jim Pepin, USC [PDF]
Clusters - Condo style
3:00-3:30 Break  
3:30-4:30 Klara Jelinkova, Wisconsin [PDF]
Dwight McKay, Purdue [PDF]
Clusters - campus grids, flocks
4:30-5:45 Panel
(Moderator: Jim Pepin, USC)
 


Wednesday Dinner 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Speaker - BOF tables with summary gap analyses for deliberation on Thursday panel [PDF]


Thursday April 27 8:00 AM - Noon

Time Speaker Issue
8:00-8:30 Jill Gemmill, UAB [PDF] Virtual Organizations
8:45-9:30 Sebastien Goasguen, Purdue [PDF]
Jan Odegard, Rice [PDF]
Managing facilities and networks to facilitate usage of national-optical resources
9:30-10:00 Gordon Springer, Missouri [PDF]
Steve Moore, Georgetown
Technopolitical, Technosocial considerations

Time Speaker Topic
10:30-Noon Panel
(Moderator: Kevin Morooney, Penn State)
 



This workshop is supported with funding from Internet2, Pennsylvania State University,
and the NSF - Grant No. OCI-0627970. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).


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