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SUMMARY:All-Hands Breakout Session 4: Policies
DESCRIPTION:The vision of the ERN is to simplify multi-campus collaborations and partnerships that advance the frontiers of research and innovation. In order to do this successfully the ERN needs to consider current university policies as well as engage with university administrations (VPRs\, CIOs\, General Counsel\, and IRB directors) in developing a policy strategy to help us bring the vision to reality. This session will give the ERN community a chance to discuss university policies and what considerations need to be taken into account as we create new policies and procedures. What needs to be in place that allows ease of sharing knowledge\, data\, infrastructure\, and people? Sustainability\, another important discussion point\, as well as compliance requirements and security concerns should also be addressed during this session. A goal of this session is to create a working group focused on CI sharing policies as well as creating content to be included in the Mid-Scale proposal. 
URL:https://ern.ci/event/all-hands-breakout-session-4-policies/
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SUMMARY:All-Hands Breakout Session 3: Materials Discovery
DESCRIPTION:Materials Discovery is one of the research areas where gaining a deeper understanding of the workflows\,  research computing and data requirements\, collaborations\, and challenges will enable the ERN to have the broadest impact across multiple research disciplines\, pedagogical approaches\, senior level college and university administrators\, and other organizations within the region and beyond. Researchers in materials discovery are realizing that their traditional data-intensive HPC workflows are reaching the limits of spatial and temporal scales required to make deeper insights and predictions. For this reason\, they are looking to new paradigms that include convergence of HPC and Machine Learning (ML) methodologies\, algorithm development\, and novel ways to access the data distributed across multiple institutions used in training systems as promising approaches to overcome the major computational performance limitations.  Materials Discovery offers an attractive testbed for advanced cyberinfrastructure of the sort the ERN can offer through future funding opportunities such as the Mid-Scale RI-1 program and DMREF. As with Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET\, this session will explore possibilities for extending collaborations to include other institutions as well as the community of Research Computing and Networking organizations and to form a working group to focus on future workshops and content for the Mid-Scale proposal.  
URL:https://ern.ci/event/all-hands-breakout-session-3-materials-discovery/
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SUMMARY:All-Hands Breakout Session 2: Cryo-EM
DESCRIPTION:Cryo-EM/ET is one of the research areas where gaining a deeper understanding of the workflows\,  research computing and data requirements\, collaborations\, and challenges will enable the ERN to have the broadest impact across multiple research disciplines\, pedagogical approaches\, senior level college and university administrators\, and other organizations within the region and beyond. We estimate that the Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET community in the Northeast comprises nearly 50 centers serving more than 800 laboratories from Pennsylvania to Maine. Applications of Cryo-EM span structural biology and material science. Single Particle Reconstruction information produced by these centers is producing transformative insights.  Given the cost and value of the instruments involved\, fast turnaround and efficient use of resources is key.  While all centers are well equipped to deliver images from prepared samples\, processing and storage of these images can present significant and unnecessary obstacles\, especially for labs that do not have easy access to computing resources and expertise. The Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET microscopy labs in the Northeast have formed a relatively tight knit community\, allowing for free flow of information and experience\, and reducing duplication of effort\, and accelerating the adoption of new techniques. This session will explore possibilities for extending this collaboration to include the community of Research Computing and Networking organizations that serve these labs and the broader impacts and to form a working group to focus on future workshops and content for the Mid-Scale proposal. 
URL:https://ern.ci/event/all-hands-breakout-session-2-cryo-em/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200608T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200608T160000
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SUMMARY:All-Hands Breakout Session 1: Architecture/Federation
DESCRIPTION:Realizing the vision of the federated collaboratories will require the development of many layers of abstractions ranging from hardware\, networking\, federation architecture\, scientific workflows\, and domain-specific models and tools to enable collaborative discovery.  In preparation for upcoming workshops focused on gathering information to be included in the ERN Mid-Scale preproposal\, this session will be an ERN community forum to discuss what the “federated collaboratory” might look like from both a hardware and software perspective as well as what federation should look like as we strive for a seamless collaborative sharing  experience. Another goal of the session is to start identifying an ERN technical team who will lead the architecting/federating/software strategies for the Mid-Scale proposal.
URL:https://ern.ci/event/all-hands-breakout-session-1-architecture-federation/
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SUMMARY:Virtual All-Hands Meeting: Opening Session
DESCRIPTION:The NSF Mid-Scale is about the design of an instrument to support research. We propose to build an instrument to access and connect researchers and their research instruments\, data sources\, and associated computational capabilities through federation\, a software and hardware defined “federated collaboratory\,” designed to simplify multi-campus collaborations and partnerships that advance the frontiers of research and innovation. The sessions during this virtual ERN All Hands Meeting are the next step in the process of helping the ERN achieve this vision.
URL:https://ern.ci/event/virtual-all-hands-meeting-opening-session/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200323T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200323T160000
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CREATED:20200320T132605Z
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SUMMARY:NSF MRI Award to UVA
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ron Hutchins is currently VP of IT at University of Virginia in Charlottesville\, VA.  \n\n\n\nAbstract: Ron’s focus at UVA has included growing research computing services in both the systems and the support team. Through two NSF awards (CC* and MRI) UVA has focused on high performance connectivity and protected data. The 2019 award of the ACCORD MRI grant is expanding support for computing resources for protected data\, both HIPAA and CUI\, for UVA and the other public universities in Virginia. Through this award\, the ACCORD partners will be able to host protected data and perform high throughput and highly parallel computations on that data. A focus is being put on building a library of containers that can be reused to speed up approval of the computing environment for research. This presentation will include a brief overview of the ACCORD program and answer any questions.
URL:https://ern.ci/event/nsf-mri-award-to-uva-presented-by-ron-hutchins/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T160000
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SUMMARY:The Open Cloud Testbed
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Zink – Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Massachusetts Amherst \nAbstract:  A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts\, Boston University\, and Northeastern University recently received an award from the National Science Foundation to construct and support a testbed for research and experimentation into new cloud Testbeds such as this are critical for enabling research into new cloud technologies. This is research that requires experiments which potentially can change the operation of the cloud itself. By providing capabilities that currently are only available to researchers within a few large commercial cloud providers\, the new testbed will allow diverse communities to exploit these technologies\, thus “democratizing” cloud computing research and allowing increased collaboration between the research and open source communities. \nSpeaker Bio: Michael Zink is currently Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.  He received his PhD in 2003 from the Multimedia Communications Laboratory at Darmstadt  University of Technology. He works in the areas of future multimedia systems\, Internet architectures\, and sensor networks. Dr. Zink is a senior member of the IEEE and ACM.
URL:https://ern.ci/event/the-open-cloud-testbed/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191216T033000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191216T160000
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SUMMARY:Chameleon: How to Build a Cloud++
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kate Keahey – Senior Fellow\, University of Chicago Computation institute \n\n\n\nAbstract: Chameleon is a large-scale\, deeply reconfigurable experimental platform built to support Computer Sciences systems research. Community projects range from systems research developing exascale operating systems\, virtualization methods\, performance variability studies\, and power management research to projects in software defined networking\, machine learning\, and resource management. What makes Chameleon unique is that it provides these sophisticated capabilities based on a mainstream infrastructure cloud system (OpenStack). In this talk\, I will explain the challenges we faced in building Chameleon\, lessons learned\, operations experiences\, and describe our packaging of the system that integrates both the developed capabilities and the operational experience and facilitates managing platforms of this kind. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Kate Keahey is one of the pioneers of infrastructure cloud computing. The Nimbus project she created is recognized as one of the first open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service implementations and she continues to work on research aligning cloud computing concepts with the needs of scientific centers and applications. To facilitate such research for the community at large\, Kate leads the Chameleon project\, providing a deeply reconfigurable\, large-scale\, and open experimental platform for Computer Science systems research. Kate also co-founded and serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of the SoftwareX journal\, a new format designed to publish software contributions. Kate is a Senior Computer Scientist at  Argonne National Laboratory and a Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago.
URL:https://ern.ci/event/chameleon-how-to-build-a-cloud/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T160000
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CREATED:20200301T183438Z
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SUMMARY:Building a state-of-the-art campus compute resource at Franklin & Marshall College
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carrie Rampp – Vice President and CIO\, Franklin & Marshall College \n\n\n\nAbstract: Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) is building and deploying a campus cluster resource to better meet the needs of our researchers and their students who need greater access to high performance compute resources to support intensive data analysis and computation. This project provides much needed local compute nodes for F&M’s researchers and students while also contributing to the growing fabric of shared computing clusters across the country. This project contributes these new resources to the Open Science Grid (OSG) which is a national\, distributed computing partnership that allows participants to share their resources with other researchers to maximize the impact these investments have on scientific research and discovery. 
URL:https://ern.ci/event/building-a-state-of-the-art-campus-compute-resource-at-franklin-marshall-college/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T113006
CREATED:20200301T193446Z
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SUMMARY:The Open Storage Network: Distributed Storage Infrastructure for Data-Driven Science
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alex Szalay – Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science\, Johns Hopkins University \n\n\n\nAbstract: The Open Storage Network(OSN) is a network of storage nodes distributed across the US that is designed to simplify sharing of active scientific data sets.  While other uses may emerge over time\, the OSN is intended initially to serve two principal needs: (1) facilitate smooth flow of large data sets between data and computing resources such as instruments\, synthetic data projects\, campus or regional data centers\, and cloud providers; and (2) make it easy to expose long tail data sets to the entire scientific community.  The current pilot deployment\, which consists of CEPH storage nodes at five sites across the US\, started to host and expanding set of scientific data sets in January 2020. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Alexander Szalay is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Director of the Institute for Data Intensive Science. He is a cosmologist\, working on the statistical measures of the spatial distribution of galaxies and galaxy formation. He is a Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences\, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 he received an Alexander Von Humboldt Award in Physical Sciences\, in 2007 the Microsoft Jim Gray Award. In 2008 he became Doctor Honoris Causa of the Eotvos University\, Budapest.
URL:https://ern.ci/event/the-open-storage-network-distributed-storage-infrastructure-for-data-driven-science/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T160000
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CREATED:20200301T192730Z
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SUMMARY:The FABRIC Testbed
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jim Griffoen – Professor and Director\, University of Kentucky Center for Computational Sciences \n\n\n\nAbstract: FABRIC is a unique national research infrastructure to enable cutting-edge and exploratory research at-scale in networking\, cybersecurity\, distributed computing and storage systems\, machine learning\, and science applications.  FABRIC is an everywhere programmable nationwide instrument comprised of novel extensible network elements equipped with large amounts of compute and storage\, interconnected by high speed\, dedicated optical links. It will connect a number of specialized testbeds (5G/IoT PAWR\, NSF Clouds) and high-performance computing facilities to create a rich fabric for a wide variety of experimental activities. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Jim Griffoen is Professor of Computer Science\, Director of the Center for Computational Sciences\, and Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Networking at the University of Kentucky.  his research interests include future network architectures\, cloud computing\, programmable networks/software defined networks\, network measurement and monitoring systems\, experimental testbed networks\, network virtualization\, and network protocol design.
URL:https://ern.ci/event/the-fabric-testbed/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191007T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191007T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T113006
CREATED:20200301T191850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200301T191945Z
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SUMMARY:Atrio – Composable Cloud Computing
DESCRIPTION:Atrio Dynamically provisions applications and platforms using an intelligent scheduling and provisioning stack on top of existing infrastructure\, forming an elastic edge-to-cloud computing network
URL:https://ern.ci/event/atrio-composable-cloud-computing/
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