Presentations

Irvin Lopez-Audetat discusses the Monitoring Infrastructure for Network and Computing Environment Research (MINCER) project that aims to provide a foundation for in-depth insight and analysis of distributed heterogeneous computing environments, supporting and enhancing research and education in computer and network systems. Our approach is to work in conjunction with the Open Science Grid (OSG).

Christina Koch, OSG Rsearcher Facilitation Lead, and Tim Cartwright, OSG Campus Coordinator, discuss how buildling the community of contributors is an inseparable aspect of providing the OSDF, OSPool and OSStore.

Michael Couso, a research computing support supervisor, discussed how the University of Montana became a contributor to the OSPool. Couso discussed connecting to the OSPool and opening the door to a broad community and the process of scaling up and growing outward.

Join Brian Bockelman, Douglas Thain, Ewa Deelman, Manish Parashar, Miron Livny, and Peter Couvares for a panel discussion on translational computer science.

Peter Pizzimenti, Associate Director of Research Computing at Syracuse University, discusses why Syracuse invests in research computing, What it takes to support research computing and where they are going.

Patricia Tran, bioinformatics and computational pipeline scientist, bioinformatics research support service, discusses working with big data in biology and the requirements to be scalable, flexible and use high throughput computing.

Sarvani Chadalapaka discusses UC Merced’s Cyberinfrastructre and Research Technologies Mission and both its contribution and use of OSG resources, noting that they chose OSG because of its alignment with CC* requirements, pre-proposal and deployment support and training and onboarding support.

Kevin Thompson from the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure of the National Science Foundation discussed the Camus Cyberinfrastructure (CC) vision. Thompson discusses the CC Program that is Coordinated in networking, compute and storage. Thompson also discusses the contributors to the OSPool and the services of the OSDF.

NSF NCAR’s labs and programs collectively cover a breadth of research topics in Earth system science, from the effects of the Sun on Earth’s atmosphere to the role of the ocean in weather and climate prediction, as well as supporting and training the next-generation of Earth system scientists. However, with the current legacy `download and analyze’ model followed by most of our remote users, we are not realizing the full research potential of NCAR’s wealth of datasets. Our goal is to integrate NCAR’s curated data collections with the OSDF data and compute fabric to broaden access capabilities. In this talk, we present progress on this collaboration and demonstrate geoscience workflows which ingest data from NCAR’s Research Data Archive using pelicanFS via OSDF caches.

Wheat, Senior Professor of Computer Science at Oral Roberts University, discusses the campus CC* awards, contributing to the OSPool and its impact on the ORU faculty and students.

Oana Carja discusses using the OSPool and high throughput computing in the field of biological evolution, with the aim of understanding the rules that govern evolutionary processes.

Prakriti Garg presents on using throughput computing to study the gene regulatory network using network inference and unsupervised learning

Miron Livny provides the opening remarks for HTC25. Livny discusses the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) vision: Distributed high throughput computing and research computing facilitation are powerful enables or scientific discovery; The value proposition of throughput computing for researchers with AI workloads, and translational (computer) science. He also discusses that building a lasting relationship with a community requires an evolving value proposition and mutual trust.

Christina Koch presents on facilitation impacts at HTC25. Lead Research Computing Facilitator Christine Koch describes the facilitation services provided to researchers and ways to connect. In addition, Koch discusses PATh’s role as a resource provider for NAIRR and building a data community.

Recent technological advances have revealed an enormous diversity of lifeforms by sequencing their genomes. There are now millions of available genomes, each comprised of thousands of genes. The universe of newly discovered genes is expanding far faster than our ability to study them in the laboratory. Here, Erik Wright presents how high-throughput computing is unlocking the function of novel genes at an unfathomable scale.

The OSG David Swanson award is awarded each year in memory of David Swanson to an attendee of the OSG School who has gone on to do interesting things. This year’s recipient, Brandi Pessman, presents on how spiders respond to rising noise levels in cities. Using high-throughput computing, Brandi digitally reconstructed spider webs to track spider movements during web construction.

Jason Kwan presents on the use of high-throughput computing in metagenomics research, discussing how CHTC allows for large-scale searches and metagenomic assemblies that require a lot of RAM.

CHTC Fellows discuss the work and goals of their Fellows Projects - for CHTC and Pelican