Workshop on Science Applications and Infrastructure in Clouds and Grids

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Oxford, UK
March 15-16, 2012

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Venue Location:

Maths Institute, (http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk) in the downstairs lecture theatre.
Address: 24–29 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LB

Science in general continues to make increasing use of advanced computing methods to process and visualize data, to perform simulations for comparison with expensive or difficult experiments, to extend the reach of theory beyond accessible experimental ranges, and to mine results from large collections of complex data. The "Science Applications and Infrastructure in Clouds and Grids" workshop to be held in conjunction with Open Grid Forum's OGF 34 meeting will address many of these important topics.

Cyberinfrastructures and e-infrastructures are being used to carry out intensive computations and data processing in ways that support individual researchers, and also in ways that enable collaborations between researchers. In addition to traditional grid computing methods, clouds are increasingly being used to broaden and extend the range of tools used to meet demands for computing and data services.

Previous workshops in this series, as described below, have been used to explore the high-performance range of cloud and grid applications and to discuss science agency uses of clouds and grids. The purpose of this workshop is to investigate cloud and grid framework software efforts and applications in greater detail, with focus on the following questions:

What are the relative benefits of cloud vs. grid models?
Are clouds and grids best used in conjunction with each other, or on their own?
What sort of scientific applications are better suited to each model? Which run better on grids, and which on clouds? Are some areas of research better suited to each model than others?
How does the difference between cost and support personnel considerations affect research, planning, and funding?
How do trust and security issues and other constraints affect the uptake of cloud resources?
What is missing at the cyber/einfrastructure layers, in the applications and supporting libraries, or in the funding models to improve the uptake of cloud resources?
What is the role of private, community, hybrid and/or commercial cloud models in building frameworks to support scientific research?
How can scientific research best make use of the work coming out of the existing cloud projects and related activities? What new projects along these lines should be pursued?
What are the roles of standards bodies and interoperation projects in improving the uptake of research in the clouds? Can we improve on the situation?

We invite prospective participants to submit brief abstracts, on the order of one paragraph, on any of the related topics from the above list to the workshop organizers, and to request special topics for consideration if so inclined. We are also interested in presentations on forefront applications and/or framework infrastructures useful in clouds and grids in support of science application areas. These will be considered for acceptance for a short (order 20 to 30 minute) presentation at the workshop, to be followed up by an optional short position paper to be published in the workshop report.

This workshop is a follow-on in the series started by two previous workshops on High Performance Applications of Cloud and Grid Tools held in April, 2011 and Science Agency Uses of Clouds and Grids held July, 2011. Deadline for submission of abstracts is Feb 24, 2012.

Agenda:

Thursday:

Time	Speaker	Topic
0900-0930	Jensen	Introduction, aims of workshop, overview
0930-1000	Katz	Grid Computing: The Next Decade
1000-1030	El-Khatib	Assembling the EVOp Infrastructure
1030-1100	Coffee
1100-1130	Terstyanszky	Running workflows on Cloud and Grids
1130-1200	Jegou	The benefits of mixing grid and cloud workloads for genomics
1200-1230	Drescher	EGI Infrastructure Platform: Infrastructure services for scalable scientific platforms

1230-1330	Lunch

1330-1400	McGough	Experiences in running High Throughput Computing on the Cloud
1400-1430	Solomonides	Data Sciences and Data Protection - Progressing from restraint to constraint
1430-1500	Alexandrov	Towards EU-Brazil Open Data and Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity
1500-1530	Coffee
1530-1600	Hinrich	Fusion of Bandwidth on Demand and Virtual Organisations
1630-1700	Andronico	CLEVER (CLoud-Enabled Virtual EnviRonment)

Friday:

Time	Speaker	Topic
0900-0930	Wallom	Utilising Hybrid Clouds to Provide Resources to Higher Educational Institutions
0930-1000	Owen	Analysis of Affymetrix expression data using R on Azure Cloud
1000-1030	Sun	A constraints-based resource discovery model for multi-provider Cloud environments
1030-1100	Coffee
1100-1130	Gillam	You pay for what you get: ensuring value for money in the Cloud
1130-1200	Kiss	Science Gateways for improving the uptake of Grid and Cloud Computing Infrastructures
1200-1215	Jensen	Close

1215-*	Lunch

Logistics:

The workshop is free to attend but we ask you to register beforehand.

Sponsors:

Funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), supported by the e-Research centre at the University of Oxford (OeRC), and organised by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). We acknowledge the role of the US Department of Energy Office for Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Internet2 and the SIENA project in supporting previous workshops in this series.

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