THE MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE INSTITUTE MSICI2
June 26-30, 2006 San Diego Supercomputer Center
PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE
Monday Morning June 26: The Cyberinfrastructure Opportunity – SDSC Auditorium
7:15 – 8:30 - Breakfast
8:15 – 8:30
Check-in, laptop wireless configuring SDSC Staff
8:30 – 9:00
Participant Introductions
All
9:00 – 9:45
Welcome and CI Overview *
Anke Kamrath, SDSC
Scott Lathrop, University of
9:45 – 10:30
Introduction to the TeraGrid *
Chicago
10:30-10:45
Morning Break
10:45 – 11:30
Future of the Internet *
KC Claffy, SDSC
11:30 – 12:15
Linking the Back Country*
Hans-Werner Braun, SDSC
12:15 – 1:30 pm - Lunch
Monday Afternoon June 26: Cyberinfrastructure and the Institution – SDSC Auditorium
1:30 – 2:15
2:15 – 3:00
3:00 – 3:15
3:15 – 4:30
The International Connection with
PRAGMA Grid*
Grids and the Home Institution
(Campus Grids) – Access and
Resource Providers *
Afternoon Break
Grids in action: Security and SDSC
Infrastructure*, Tour
Peter Arzberger, UCSD
Laura McGinnis, PSC
Victor Hazlewood, SDSC
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
Administering shared resources
Managing a grid resource
Grid information management
Training grid resource users
Building a Network Foundation
My Interests and Roles
Monday Evening:
Kris Stewart, SDSU
Alma Palazzolo & Joseph Czech, SDSC
Mark Sheddon, SDSC, TeraGrid
Reagan Moore, SDSC
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, SDSC
Paolo Pinheiro da Silva, UTEP
MSI CI2 Participants
Mixer for CI Scientists, Administrators and Participants
* - Access Grid Participation Available
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Tuesday June 27, 2006
Tuesday Morning
8:30 – 8:45
Introduction to Evaluation Process
8:45 – 9:15
Grid Technology *
What can we learn about unusual
earthquake hazards from large scale
numerical simulations on the Grid? *
Morning Break
Grids in Biology – Bioinformatics and
Medicine *
Computational Science and Drug
Discovery *
9:15 – 10:30
10:30 – 10:45
10:45 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:30
12:30 – 1:30 PM
Geoffrey Fox for Julie
Foertsch
Shava Smallen, SDSC
Bernard Minster, Scripps
Institution of
Oceanography
Nicholas Schork
UCSD
Andy McCammon
Lunch
Tuesday Afternoon
1:30 – 2:15
Data Management *
Reagan Moore, SDSC
2:15 – 2:25
Introduction to Parallel Sessions
Geoffrey Fox
2:25 – 2:35 PM
2:35 – 4:30 PM
Afternoon To-Go Break
Parallel Sessions:
Focus on “Data Grids” –
Storage Resource Broker (SRB): Hands-on
Workshop and Discussion
(Please bring your laptops)
Grid: Portals and Science Gateways
Hands-on Demonstrations of
Cyberinfrastructure (Please bring your
laptops)!
Session I: The
Computer Scientist
and CI
Auditorium
Session II: Access to
Cyberinfrastructure
Room 279
Session III: The MSI
Cyberinfrastructure
Curriculum
Room 462
4:30 PM
Nancy WilkinsDiehr,
Krishna Muriki,
Steve Cutchin
Kris Stewart,
Mohsen Beheshti,
Workshop
Participants
Auditorium
4:30 – 5:00
6:00 PM
Essential resources, prerequisites and core
courses for parallel computing and
computational science related subjects
Roman
Olschanowsky,
Leesa Breiger
Dinner
Wrap-Up
10-minute summaries by session moderator/ scribes
Presentation: CI In Africa - James Turner
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
Wednesday June 28, 2006
Wednesday Morning
9:00 – 11:30
Cal(IT)2 Tour and Program
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM
Larry Smarr and colleagues
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: Rooms 279, 408, 377
Session I:
The Computer
Scientist and
Cyberinfrastructure
Room 279
Compute Grids- “Rocks – A – Palooza”
Mason Katz
Greg Bruno
Anoop Rejandra
Session II:
The Application
Scientist and
Cyberinfrastructure
Room 377
Chemical and Bio-Informatics and Related
Topics
Marlon Pierce and
Workshop
Participants
Session III:
The MSI
Cyberinfrastructure
Curriculum
Room 408
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 Macalla
4:20 PM
Auditorium
4:20 – 5:00
6:00 – 7:30
Dinner
Wrap-Up
10-minute summaries by session moderator/ scribes
Building Partnerships for Future Collaboration
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
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
Computer Science of Grids [Peer-to-Peer,
Scientist and
Multicore, SemantiGrid] – Multiple
Cyberinfrastructure
presenters/ panel
– Room 279
Shava Smallen,
Geoffrey Fox,
Workshop
Participants
Session II: The
Application Scientist
and CI – Room 225 or
Auditorium
Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Resources
at SDSC
Bioinformatics connections to Astrobiology
Hannes Niedner,
Kim Binsted,
Workshop
Participants
Session III: The MSI
Cyberinfrastructure
Curriculum
Room 225 or
Auditorium
Undergraduates; Community Colleges and K12: Presentations and discussions: Resources,
prerequisites and core courses needed for
Grid and Informatics related subjects; CI and
Teacher Education; QuarkNet; AG in
Education; and Digital Curricula
Richard Alò
Lukas Buehler,
Workshop
Participants
11:30 – 12:00
Auditorium Wrap-up Panel - summarizing 3 sessions)
12:00 – 2:00 BOF Lunch – Team Tables- 377, Auditorium, SDSC Patio
 Interface between Astrophysics and Biology * – Auditorium – w/AMES colleagues
(Access Grid)
 Remote Grids – First Steps
 Preparing Students for CI Leadership
 Sociology and Psychology of CI-Enabled Team Research
 Collaboration Technologies
 Others TBD
2:00 – 2:10
Afternoon Break
2:10 – 4:10 PM
Final Wrap-up and Next Steps
Thursday Dinner Session: 5:00 PM – Summer Sunset BBQ - ERC Patio
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. MSICI2 Planning
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER