Announcements about Community Technical Workshops

[Stephen Wolff <>]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 

Focused Technical Workshop: Improving Data Mobility & Management for International Climate Science

Submissions due April 30, 2014

 

Hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

July 14-16, 2014, Boulder, Colorado

http://events.internet2.edu/2014/ftw-climate/

 

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

ESnet and Internet2 – in collaboration with partners Indiana University (IU), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and NOAA – are hosting a multi-day workshop that will bring together network, software, and data management experts with scientists from the international climate community.

 

The goal of the workshop is to initiate an active dialogue among climate scientists, climate data managers, and cyberinfrastructure engineers with the goal of setting longer-term relationship building in motion. The workshop also hopes to provide climate researchers with broad, concrete, technical, immediately useful tools, and resources for improved data transport and management.  

 

SUBMISSIONS:

The program committee is seeking presentation proposals for these focus areas:

Focus Area #1: Technology Best Practices

·       Network (architectures, performance measurement, security)

·       Computing systems (reference architectures, security, and forensics, network connect)

·       Software (Data transfer, workflow management systems, Earth System Grid Federation)

Focus Area #2: Scientific Drivers

·       Process of science

·       Past, present, future outcomes

·       Event horizon for change (e.g. new technology and processes that will be a fundamental change?)

Focus Area #3: Facility Overviews

·      Trends in data scale

·      Infrastructure deployment plans

·      Support for high-performance data movement, data analysis, or other Big Data capabilities

 

HOW TO SUBMIT:

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please send an email to that includes:

• Talk title
• Abstract
• Talk duration
• Speaker(s)
• Contact information (name, title, organization, and email for any speakers other than the submitter).

 

DEADLINE:

Submissions due April 30th. Accepted speakers will be notified by May 15.

 

MEETING FORMAT:

The workshop will include a slate of invited speakers and panelists in a format designed to encourage lively, interactive discussions with the goal of developing a set of tangible next steps for supporting this data-intensive science community. The workshop intends to include breakout sessions as well as many opportunities for professional networking.

 

QUESTIONS? 

 

 

stephen wolff
Interim VP and CTO