The Minority-Serving Institutions Cyberinfrastructure Institute MSICI2

Preliminary Program

The Minority-Serving Institutions Cyberinfrastructure Institute MSICI²

June 26-30, 2006 SDSC

Webcast via SDSC CIChannel

Monday Morning June 26, 2006: The Cyberinfrastructure Opportunity

7:15 – 8:30 - Breakfast

8:15 – 8:30	Check-in, laptop wireless configuring	SDSC Staff
8:30 – 9:00	Participant Introductions	All
9:00 – 9:45	Welcome and CI Overview	Anke Kamrath, SDSC
9:45 – 10:30	Introduction to the TeraGrid	Scott Lathrop, University of Chicago
10:30-10:45	Morning Break
10:45 – 11:30	Future of the Internet	KC Claffy, SDSC
11:30 – 12:15	Linking the Back Country	Hans-Werner Braun, SDSC

12:15 – 1:30 pm - Lunch

Monday Afternoon June 26: Cyberinfrastructure and the Institution

1:30 – 2:15	The International Connection with PRAGMA Grid	Peter Arzberger, UCSD
2:15 – 3:00	Grids and the Home Institution (Campus Grids) – Access and Resource Providers	Laura McGinnis, PSC
3:00 – 3:15	Afternoon Break
3:15 – 4:30	Grids in action: Security and SDSC Infrastructure, Tour	Victor Hazlewood, SDSC

4:30-6:00 - Meet the Participants, Cyberinfrastructure-Scientists and Administrators

Short (10-minute) presentations from participants, active administrators, teachers and researchers; each giving their perspective of key issues.

Teaching students about grids	Kris Stewart, SDSU
Administering a grid	Alma Palazzo & Joseph Czech, SDSC
Managing a grid resource	Mark Sheddon, SDSC, TeraGrid
Grid information management	Reagan Moore, SDSC
Training grid resource users	Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, SDSC
CI-Miner: Provenance System	Paolo Pinheiro da Silva, UTEP
My Interests and Roles	Particpants

Monday Evening: Mixer for CI Scientists, Administrators and Participants

Tuesday June 27, 2006

Tuesday Morning

8:30 – 8:45	Introduction to Evaluation Process	Geoffrey Fox for Julie Foertsch
8:45 – 9:30	Grid Technology : Software Engineering for Grids	Shava Smallen, SDSC
9:30 – 10:30	Grids in Earth/ Environmental Science	Bernard Minster, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
10:30 – 10:45	Morning Break
10:45 – 11:30	Grids in Biology (Bioinformatics and Medicine)	Nicholas Schork UCSD
11:30 – 12:30	Computational Science and Drug Discovery	Andy McCammon UCSD

12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch

Tuesday Afternoon

1:30 – 2:15	Data Management	Reagan Moore, SDSC
2:15 – 2:25	Introduction to Parallel Sessions	Geoffrey Fox

2:25 – 2:35 PM Afternoon To-Go Break

2:35 – 4:30 PM Parallel Sessions:

Session I: The Computer Scientist and CI
Auditorium

Focus on “Data Grids” –

Storage Resource Broker (SRB): Hands-on Workshop and Discussion and Session Notes

(Please bring your laptops)

Roman Olschanowsky, Leesa Breiger

Session II: Access to Cyberinfrastructure
Room 279

Grid: Portals and Science Gateways

Hands-on Demonstrations of Cyberinfrastructure (Please bring your laptops)!

Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Krishna Muriki, Steve Cutchin

Session III: The MSI Cyberinfrastructure Curriculum
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Essential resources, prerequisites and core courses for parallel computing and computational science related subjects
(All Students)

Kris Stewart, Mohsen Beheshti, Workshop Participants

Plenary Session in Auditorium

4:30 – 5:00

Wrap-Up

10-minute summaries by session moderator/ scribes

6:00 PM Dinner Presentation: Cyberinfrastructure In Africa and Movie James Turner (Virginia Tech)

Wednesday June 28, 2006

Wednesday Morning

9:00 – 11:30

Cal(IT)²Tour and Program

Calit2 Projects in Cyberinfrastructure

Tribal Digital Village

Education@calit2

Larry Smarr, Srinivas Sukumar, Jerry Sheehan

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Lunch

Wednesday Afternoon

1:15 – 2:00

Astronomy Cyberinfrastructure

Roy Williams (Cal Tech)

2:00 – 2:20 Afternoon To-Go Break

2:20 – 4:20 Parallel Sessions

Session I:
The Computer Scientist and Cyberinfrastructure

Compute Grids - "Rocks - A - Palooza" (canceled)

Mason Katz,

Greg Bruno,

Anoop Rejandra

Session II:
The Application Scientist and Cyberinfrastructure

Chemical Informatics

Marlon Pierce

Session III:
The MSI Cyberinfrastructure Curriculum

Focus on upper-level Undergraduates and Graduate Students. Resources needed, prerequisites and core courses for Grid and Informatics- related subjects; Role of SC xy

Scott Lathrop

Tom Maccalla

Plenary Session in Auditorium

4:20 – 5:00

Wrap-Up

10-minute summaries by session moderator/ scribes

6:00 – 7:30 Dinner Building Partnerships for Future Collaboration

Thursday June 29, 2006

8:30 – 9:00	Computational Astrobiology	Kim Binsted
9:00 – 9:30	Taverna in Action	Marlon Pierce

9:30 – 9:45 – Morning Break

9:45 – 11:30 AM: Parallel Sessions: Presentations and Hands-on Tutorials

Session I: The Computer Scientist and Cyberinfrastructure - Auditorium

Computer Science of Grids [Peer-to-Peer, Multicore, SemantiGrid] – Multiple presenters/ panel

Shava Smallen,

Geoffrey Fox,

Workshop Participants

Session II: The Application Scientist and CI - Room 279

Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Resources at SDSC

Bioinformatics connections to Astrobiology

Hannes Niedner,

Kim Binsted,

Workshop Participants

Session III: The MSI Cyberinfrastructure Curriculum

(AG essential)

Lower-level Undergraduates; Community Colleges and K-12: Presentations and discussions on needed resources, prerequisites and core courses for Grid and Informatics related subjects; Using CI for Teacher Education; QuarkNet; AG in Education, Digital Curricula

Richard Alò,

Edee Wiziecki,

Nouna Bakhiet,

Lukas Buehler,

Workshop Participants

11:30 – 12:00 Wrap-up Panel (Plenary) summarizing 3 sessions (Auditorium)

12:00 – 2:00 BOF Lunch – Team Tables

Interface between Astrophysics and Biology – Auditorium – w/AMES colleagues
Remote Grids – First Steps
Preparing Students for CI Leadership
Sociology and Psychology of CI-Enabled Team Research
Collaboration Technologies
Others?

2:00 – 2:10 Afternoon Break

2:10 – 4:10 PM Final Wrap-up and Next Steps

Thursday Dinner Session: 5:00 PM - Beach BBQ

Friday June 29th

Ad-hoc sessions to follow up on earlier sessions, individual meetings between faculty and CI scientists as arranged, tours of SIO, other facilities at UCSD.