2020 NSF Workshop on Smart Cyberinfrastructure
February 25-27, 2020, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, VA.
Rooms:
Plenary sessions in Conference Theater
Breakout 1 in Potomac I
Breakout 2 in Potomac VI
Breakout 3 in Potomac V
Day 1 – Tuesday, February 25, 2020 |
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| 07:30 – 08:00 | Registration/Breakfast |
| 08:00 – 08:10 |
Valerio Pascucci, University of Utah & Steering Committee |
| 08:10 – 08:40 | William Miller, Science Advisor, NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) Manish Parashar, Director, NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) NSF Welcome and workshop introduction |
| 08:40 – 10:00 | Setting up the stage: Steering Committee (10 min presentations + 5 min questions) • Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center Improving AI/ML algorithms and associated data repositories on NSF Enabled Cyberinfrastructure • Ian Foster, The University of Chicago Improve Efficient Use of the NSF Enable Cyberinfrastructure through AI/ML and smart technologies • Xinyu Zhao, University of Connecticut Cyberinfrastructure requirements for AI/ML-based scientific applications • Michela Taufer, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Large collaborative initiatives and engagement of the international community • Open discussion (20 min) |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Keynote talk 1, Amir Gholami, UC Berkeley An Integrated Approach for Efficient Neural Network Design, Training, and Inference |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | Panel Discussion 1: AI/ML opportunities for a modernization of the NSF cyberinfrastructure from the edge to large facilities. Organizer: Dan Stanzione Panelists: Ian Foster, Salim Hariri, Jelena Mirkovic, Helen Gu |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Organize breakout sessions |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Plenary talk 1, Karan Bhatia, Google The Google Cloud |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Plenary talk 2, Yoshio Tanaka, AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI) Challenges for Smart Cyberinfrastructure in Making Society 5.0 a Reality |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Keynote talk 2, Fleming Crim, Chief Operating Officer, National Science Foundation, The NSF vision |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Plenary talk 3, Bill Tang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Features of an NSF Smart Cyberinfrastructure Roadmap Supporting Science Applications |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Plenary talk 4, Mark Asch, University of Picardy, Smart CI and the Real World |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Breakout sessions start parallel discussions: Breakout 1 in Potomac I: Cyberinfrastructure requirements for AI/ML-based scientific applications (lead Xinyu Zhao, co-leads/scribes Jose Fortes, Helen Gu) Breakout 2 in Potomac VI: Development of the next generation physical (hardware) cyberinfrastructure tightly integrated with AI, ML and smart technologies (lead Dan Stanzione, co-leads/scribes Ian Foster, Steve Petruzza). Breakout 3 in Potomac V: Improving AI/ML algorithms on NSF Enabled Cyberinfrastructure: (Lead: Ilkay Altintas, co-leads/scribes Michela Taufer, Timo Bremer) |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Breakout sessions reconvene and complete answers to main charge questions |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Breakout leads summarize findings and recommendations in a set of slides and a shared document. |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Leads report to the entire workshop (15 min each group including questions) |
Day 2 – Wednesday, February 26, 2020 |
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| 07:00 – 08:00 | Breakfast |
| 08:00 – 08:10 | Valerio Pascucci, University of Utah & Steering Committee Summary of Day 1 / Goals of the Day 2 |
| 08:10 – 08:30 | Plenary Talk 5, Nicola Ferrier, Argonne National Laboratory AI@Edge: a Software-Defined Sensor Network |
| 08:30 – 09:40 | Lightning talks session 1 10 minutes each (5 slides + panel) |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Plenary Talk 6, Hank Hoffmann, The University of Chicago, AI/ML methods for computer systems optimization |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Lightning talks session 2 10 minutes each (5 slides + panel) |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Panel discussion 3: Improving AI/ML algorithms and associated data repositories on NSF Enabled Cyberinfrastructure: Organizer: Ilkay Altintas, Speakers: Peer-Timo Bremer, Yoshio Tanaka, Andrew Chien, Karan Bhatia |
| 12:15 – 13:10 | Lunch Break |
| 13:10 – 14:10 | Panel Discussion 4: Effective Workforce Training, development of a community of researchers and practitioners. Organizer: Michela Taufer Panelists: Abani Patra, Jose Fortes, Mark Asch, Morris Riedel, Carlos Costa |
| 14:10 – 14:15 | Organize breakout sessions |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Breakout sessions start parallel discussions: Breakout 4 in Potomac V: AI, ML and smart technologies for data acquisition, experiments, and the edge of the cyberinfrsrtucture (lead Hank Hoffmann, co-lead/scribe Salim Hariri, Steve Petruzza) Breakout 5 in Potomac I: Improving AI/ML associated data repositories on NSF Enabled Cyberinfrastructure (Lead Ilkay Altintas, co-lead/scribe Helen Gu, Timo Bremer) Breakout 6 in Potomac VI, Effective Workforce Training, development of an international community of researchers and practitioners (Lead Michela Taufer, co-lead/scribe Terry Moore, Jose Fortes) |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Breakout sessions reconvene and complete answers to main charge questions |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Breakout leads summarize findings and recommendations in a set of slides and a shared document. |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Leads report to the entire workshop (15 min each group including questions) |
Day 3 – Thursday, February 27, 2020 |
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| 07:00 – 08:00 | Breakfast |
| 08:00 – 08:15 | Valerio Pascucci, University of Utah & Steering Committee Summary of Days 1-2 / Goals of the Day 3 |
| 08:15 – 08:35 | Plenary Talk 7, Dan Stanzione, The University of Texas at Austin Providing AI/DL/ML support in a Large Shared Facility: Perspective from TACC |
| 08:35 – 08:55 | Plenary Talk 8, Eliu Huerta, National Center for Supercomputing Applications Convergence of AI and HPC for Big-Data Experiments |
| 08:55 – 09:15 | Plenary Talk 9, Morris Riedel, Juelich Supercomputing Centre AI in international initiatives |
| 09:15 – 10:00 | Final Breakout sessions: Feedback from community, assign responsibilities and start drafting report. |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Coffee break |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Continue Final Breakout sessions: Commit to writing assignments after workshop. |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Keynote talk 3, Henry Kautz, NSF, Director, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CISE/IIS), National Science Foundation An NSF Vision for AI Computational Infrastructure: From Tensor Clouds to the Edge |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Presentation for draft summary findings and recommendations (steering committee) |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Open discussion and feedback |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Closing remarks, assignments for writing the report |
