CNSECCS 2018 Symposium

The second symposium for the Center for Network and Storage Enabled Collaborative Computation was held on October 15 and 16, 2018.

The Challenge: Many scientific disciplines are rapidly increasing the size, variety and complexity of data they must work with. As the data grows, scientists are challenged to manage, share and analyze that data and become diverted from a focus on their scientific research to data-access and data-management concerns. Even more problematic is determining how to support many scientists sharing and accessing this ever increasing amount of data.

This symposium was intended to bring together those interested in these questions to share experiences and best practices, and to discuss both challenges and possible solutions that enable scientists to work together on “big, distributed or diverse data”.

Speakers came from a wide range of research domains, as well as federal funding agencies.

We would like to gratefully acknowledge MICDE (https://micde.umich.edu/) and UMOR (http://www.research.umich.edu/research-um/office-research) whose support helped make this Symposium possible.
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Event site (video of the presentations will be available soon):
https://indico.cern.ch/event/692449/overview

2017 Symposium

The Center for Network and Storage Enabled Collaborative Computational Science held its first symposium at the University of Michigan May 18-19, 2017, exploring the themes the Center was founded on.

This symposium was intended to bring together those interested in these questions to share experiences and best practices, and to discuss both challenges and possible solutions that enable scientists to work together on “big, distributed or diverse data”.

MORE INFORMATION: Event details and a complete list of speakers and slides are available at: https://indico.cern.ch/event/622909/overview.

2017 Videos and Slides

Unfortunately, not all talks were captured on video. For a complete list of speakers and slides, visit the event’s site.

  • Welcome and Opening Remarks

    Eric Michielssen, AVP for Advanced Research Computing, University of Michigan

    Slides (PDF)

  • Symposium and CNSECCS Overview

    Shawn McKee, CNSECCS Director and Research Scientist, Physics Department, University of Michigan

    Slides (PDF)

  • ConFlux, an Ecosystem for Data-enabled Computational Physics

    Karthik Duraisamy, Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan

    Slides (PDF)

  • OSiRIS: Targeting the Multi-science, Multi-institutional Collaborative Data Challenge

    Shawn McKee, CNSECCS Director and Research Scientist, Physics Department, University of Michigan

    Slides (PDF)

  • Data Ingestion At Scale

    Jeffrey Sica, Research Database Administrator, Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS), University of Michigan

    Slides (PDF)

  • Bootstrapping Big Data with Spark SQL and Data Frames

    Brock Palen, Director, Advanced Research Computing- Technology Services (ARC-TS), University of Michigan

    Slides (PDF)

  • Highly Scalable Metadata Management with Signac

    Carl Adorf, Ph.D Candidate, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan

    Slides (PDF)