CASC Spring Meeting
Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel
Arlington, VA
February 29th - March 2nd 2012

 

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Wednesday, February 29  

1:00 pm

Cloud Computing: Applicability for Research Computing 

Dave Lifka - vice chair, CASC, Moderator
Understanding the Cloud trend.  What does it mean for research computing? Where can it help?  Where is not appropriate?

  1. Use of Clouds - Large scale scientific computing
    • DOE’s Magellan Report - Shane Canon, NERSC
  2. Recent Examples of SaaS & IaaS Solutions
    • “Penguin on demand” hosted at IU - Craig Stewart & Matt Jacobs, IU
    • Globus Online - Steve Tuecke, University of Chicago
    • HUB zero - Michael McLennan, Purdue
    • Red Cloud - Dave Lifka, Cornell
  3. Other solutions and analysis of Cloud
    • Internet2 - Dave Lambert, President
      Jim Bottum - Clemson, I2 Board member
    • NIST -  Bob Bohn - Cloud Computing Technical Manager
    • EDUCAUSE analysis - Guy Almes, Texas A&M
    • XSEDE cloud  - John Towns, NCSA

 

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Opening Reception 

 

Thursday, March 1st

8:00 am

Breakfast


8:30 am

Welcome and round the table introductions
Amy Apon, Chair, CASC, Moderator

 

8:45 am

NSF Geosciences
Dr.Tim Kileen, Assistant Director

  • Programs, Plans & Budget

 

9:30 am

NSF CISE
Dr. Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director 

  • Programs, Plans & Budget

 

10:15 am

Break

 

10:45 am

NSF OCI
Alan Blatecky, Assisstant Director

  • Focus and approach to ACI / Programs, Plans & Budget

 

11:30 am

Education and SC’12
Dr. Almadena Chtchelkanova - NSF CISE

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

1:00 pm

Data, Data and More Data

  • Report of the NSB - Data Management - Dr. Jose Marie Griffith
  • NSF Data Task Force - Dr. Sastry Pantula (MPS
  • DOE  Office of Science - Dr. Lucy Nowell, ASCR
  • Big Data - Dr. Karen Remington, NIH/NIGMS
  • OSTP - Michael Stebbins (invited)

 

3:00 pm

Break

 

3:30 pm

Data Concerns in academe

  • Dr. Nick Tsinoremas - University of Miami
  • Dr. Richard Moore - SDSC
  • Dr. Jay Boisseau -  TACC

Data Workshop proposal - H.Birali Runesha, U of Chicago

 

4:30 pm

CASC Business Meeting

  • Membership
  • 2013 Brochure
  • By-Laws
  • CASC meeting & workshop dates for Fall 2012, Spring 2013
  • CNSF exhibit May 15, 2012

 

6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner - Westin Hotel

 

Friday, March 2nd

8:00 am

Breakfast -

Congress: whys and wherefores - Panel discussion

  • Peter Harsha, Director of Government Affairs, Computing Research Association (CRA)
  • Dr. Howard Silver, Executive Director, Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA)
  • Dr. Samuel Rankin, Associate Executive Director, American Mathematical Society(AMS)
  • Toby Smith, Vice President for Policy, Association of American Universities (AAU)

 

9:30 am

Break

 

10:00 am

DOE - Office of Science
Dr.William Brinkman, Director

  • Programs, Plans & Budget

 

11:00 am

 The International Scene - Science & Technology
  • David Stonner, Sr. International Analyst & Coordinator, NSF Office of International Programs

 

Noon

Adjourn

 



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801 North Glebe Road
Arlington, VA 22203
703.537.4254

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