Preliminary Program
The Minority-Serving Institutions Cyberinfrastructure Institute MSICI2
June 26-30, 2006 SDSC
Monday Morning June 26, 2006: The Cyberinfrastructure
7:15 – 8:30 - Breakfast
8:15 – 8:30 |
Check-in, laptop wireless configuring |
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Participant Introductions |
All |
9:00 – 9:45 |
Welcome and CI Overview |
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9:45 – 10:30 |
Introduction to the TeraGrid |
Scott Lathrop, |
10:30-10:45 |
Morning Break |
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10:45 – 11:30 |
Future of the Internet |
KC Claffy, SDSC |
11:30 – 12:15 |
Linking the Back Country |
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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 |
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3:15 – 4:30 |
Grids in action: Security and SDSC Infrastructure, Tour |
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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 |
Mary Hart, SDSC |
Managing a grid resource |
Mark Sheddon, SDSC, TeraGrid |
Grid information management |
Reagan Moore, SDSC |
Training grid resource users |
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, SDSC |
Building a Network Foundation |
Paolo Pinheiro da Silva |
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 – 9:15 |
Grid Technology : Software Engineering for Grids |
Shava Smallen, SDSC |
9:45 – 10:30 |
Grids in Earth/ Environmental Science |
Debi Kilb, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
10:30 – 10:45 |
Morning Break |
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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 |
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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 |
Focus on “Data Grids” – Storage Resource Broker (SRB): Hands-on Workshop and Discussion (Please bring your laptops) |
Leesa Breiger |
Session II: Access to Cyberinfrastructure |
Grid: Portals and Science Gateways Hands-on Demonstrations of Cyberinfrastructure (Please bring your laptops)! |
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, |
Session III: The MSI Cyberinfrastructure Curriculum |
Essential resources, prerequisites and
core courses for parallel computing and computational science related
subjects |
Kris Stewart, Mohsen Beheshti |
Plenary Session in Auditorium
4:30 – 5:00 |
Wrap-Up |
10-minute summaries by session moderator/ scribes |
6:00 PM Dinner Presentation: CI In
Wednesday June 28, 2006
Wednesday Morning
9:00 – 11:30 |
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Larry Smarr and colleagues |
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: |
“Compute Grids”-Presentations and hands-on; |
SDSC Compute Grids group |
Session II: |
· Chem Informatics |
Marlon Pierce |
Session III: |
Focus on upper-level Undergraduates and Graduate Students. Resources needed, prerequisites and core courses for Grid and Informatics- related subjects; Role of SC xy |
Geoffrey Fox 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 |
Other Participant Presentations |
TBA |
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, Kai Hwang (USC); Geoffrey Fox |
Session II: The Application Scientist and CI - Room 279 |
Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Resources at SDSC Bioinformatics connections to Astrobiology |
Hannes Niedner Kim Binsted |
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 (UHD) |
11:30 – 12:00 Wrap-up Panel (Plenary) summarizing 3 sessions (Auditorium)
12:00 – 2:00 BOF Lunch – Team Tables
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.