[wg-all] Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Science Applications and Infrastructure in Clouds and Grids, Oxford, UK, March 15-16 2012

[Alan Sill]

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to call your  
attention to the following workshop to be held in conjunction with the  
Open Grid Forum OGF 34 meeting.  We invite your contributions in the  
form of a brief abstract in response to the questions that form the  
focus of the workshop, as described below. All submissions will be  
considered; a wide variety of submissions is recruited.

Your cooperation in circulating this call to your colleagues would be  
appreciated.  Please respond or direct any questions to the primary  
workshop organizer, Dr. Jens Jensen of the Rutherford Appleton  
Laboratory,  by e-mail at jens.jensen at stfc.ac.uk or by the  
registration form that should be available at the workshop site shortly.

Workshop on Science Applications and Infrastructure
in Clouds and Grids

http://www.ogf.org/SAICG

Oxford, UK
March 15-16, 2012

Science in general continues to make increasing use of advanced  
computing methods to process and visualize data, to perform  
simulations for comparison with expensive or difficult experiments, to  
extend the reach of theory beyond accessible experimental ranges, and  
to mine results from large collections of complex data. The "Science  
Applications and Infrastructure in Clouds and Grids" workshop to be  
held in conjunction with Open Grid Forum's OGF 34 meetingwill address  
many of these important topics.

Cyberinfrastructures and e-infrastructures are being used to carry out  
intensive computations and data processing in ways that support  
individual researchers, and also in ways that enable collaborations  
between researchers. In addition to traditional grid computing  
methods, clouds are increasingly being used to broaden and extend the  
range of tools used to meet demands for computing and data services.

Previous workshops in this series, as described below, have been used  
to explore the high-performance range of cloud and grid applications  
and to discuss science agency uses of clouds and grids. The purpose of  
this workshop is to investigate cloud and grid framework software  
efforts and applications in greater detail, with focus on the  
following questions:

	• What are the relative benefits of cloud vs. grid models?
	• Are clouds and grids best used in conjunction with each other, or  
on their own?
	• What sort of scientific applications are better suited to each  
model? Which run better on grids, and which on clouds? Are some areas  
of research better suited to each model than others?
	• How does the difference between cost and support personnel  
considerations affect research, planning, and funding?
	• How do trust and security issues and other constraints affect the  
uptake of cloud resources?
	• What is missing at the cyber/einfrastructure layers, in the  
applications and supporting libraries, or in the funding models to  
improve the uptake of cloud resources?
	• What is the role of private, community, hybrid and/or commercial  
cloud models in building frameworks to support scientific research?
	• How can scientific research best make use of the work coming out of  
the existing cloud projects and related activities? What new projects  
along these lines should be pursued?
	• What are the roles of standards bodies and interoperation projects  
in improving the uptake of research in the clouds? Can we improve on  
the situation?

We invite prospective participants to submit brief abstracts, on the  
order of one paragraph, on any of the related topics from the above  
list to the workshop organizers, and to request special topics for  
consideration if so inclined. We are also interested in presentations  
on forefront applications and/or framework infrastructures useful in  
clouds and grids in support of science application areas. These will  
be considered for acceptance for a short (order 20 to 30 minute)  
presentation at the workshop, to be followed up by an optional short  
position paper to be published in the workshop report.

This workshop is a follow-on in the series started by two previous  
workshops on High Performance Applications of Cloud and Grid Tools  
held in April, 2011 and Science Agency Uses of Clouds and Grids held  
July, 2011.

Deadline for submission of abstracts is Feb 24, 2012.

Logistics:

The workshop will be free to attend but we ask you to register  
beforehand. It is expected that the workshop day will be scheduled for  
Thursday March 15, possibly extending to the morning of Friday 16th,  
depending on the number and quality of submissions.

Sponsors:

Funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council  
(EPSRC), supported by the e-Research centre at the University of  
Oxford (OeRC), and organised by the Science and Technology Facilities  
Council (STFC). We acknowledge the role of the US Department of Energy  
Office for Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Internet2 and the  
SIENA project in supporting previous workshops in this series.

OGFSM, Open Grid ForumSM, Grid ForumSM, and the OGF Logo are  
trademarks of OGF.



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