Confab25 Program

12:00PM Registration Check-in Opens for Badge Pickup (Grand Ballroom Foyer)

Afternoon — 1:00–5:00PM (Grand Ballroom)

1:00–1:15PM: Meeting Welcome: Overview & Logistics

1:15–5:00PM: Future Visions & Directions: State-of-the-art networking for science

Description: Join us for the Confab25 opening session to hear from DOE and ESnet leadership about updates and future directions for ESnet to meet the rapidly advancing requirements of large-scale integrated DOE scientific research. The opening session will include dinner and a keynote speaker.

• The Future of Networking: Moving Toward ESnet7 and Beyond
  Inder Monga
  Executive Director, ESnet

• Keynote: DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research Facilities Division: Updates and Future Directions
  Benjamin Brown
  Director, DOE Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research Facilities Division

• Ben Brown and Inder Monga In Conversation: The Future of Advanced Networking in DOE's Scientific Integrated Research Infrastructure (Followed by Open Q&A)
  Inder Monga & Ben Brown 

2:30–3:00PM Break

• Carol Burns and John Sarrao In Conversation: Scientific Laboratories of the Future
  Carol Burns, Deputy Director for Research and Chief Research Officer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  John Sarrao, Director, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

• Keynote: From Data to Discovery: Advancing AI at Scale with Cross-Facility Collaboration
  Ian Foster
  Director, Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory

• Pioneering a Hybrid DOE Science Ecosystem with Commercial Cloud Integration
  Scott Godwin
  Director, Center for Cloud Computing, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Quantum Information Science
  Pavel Lougovski
  Director, DOE Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research Advanced Computing Technology Division

Dinner — 5:30–7:30PM (Crown Room)

• Keynote: What's Past is Prologue: Studies of Extreme Weather using Machine Learning and Climate Emulators
  William Collins
  Associate Laboratory Director of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Monday dinner is provided as part of the meeting.

8:00AM Registration Check-in Opens for Badge Pickup (Grand Ballroom Foyer)

8:00–9:00AM Light breakfast will be provided. (Grand Ballroom Foyer)

Morning (Grand Ballroom)

9:00–9:10AM: Tuesday Welcome & Announcements 

9:10–11:30AM: ESnet-Enabled Science 

Description: ESnet’s vision is to enable scientific progress that is unconstrained by the physical location of instruments, people, computing resources, or data. This session features ESnet collaborations with scientists and networking experts to realize this vision for specific science projects and experiments.

• Streaming to a Facility Near You: Update on EJFAT

  • EJFAT Technical Perspective (Yatish Kumar, ESnet)

  • EJFAT Scientific Perspective (Vardan Gyurjyan, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

• ESnet and LHC: a Co-Design Case Study (Eli Dart, ESnet)

10:00–10:30AM Break

• ARIES 

  • Wired for the Future: The Role of ESnet in Grid Modernization and SuperLab 2.0 (Rob Hovsapian, National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

  • OSCARS Improvements for IRI and Beyond (Evangelos Chaniotakis, ESnet) 

• Rubin Observatory 

  • Networking Cosmic Photons for the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (Adam Bolton, Rubin Observatory; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

  • The Vera Rubin Observatory Long-Haul Network: Powered by Research and Education Networks (Julio Ibarra, Florida International University)

11:30AM–12:00PM: Lightning Talks

• GRETA/Deleria Streaming (Mario Cromaz,  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

• An O-RAN Advanced Wireless Testbed for Science (SUDO-AW) (Robert Hayek, Argonne National Laboratory) 

• From Theory to Practice: Implementing Federated Authentication in SciStream Deployments (Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Laboratory)

• Cosmology at Petabyte Scale: Building SaaS for Scientific Workloads (Patrick Wells, Argonne National Laboratory)

Lunch — 12:00–1:00PM

Working Lunch (lunch provided) 

Afternoon  (Grand Ballroom)

1:00–2:30PM: Integrated Research Infrastructure: Updates from the Leadership Committee

Description: Members of the Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) Management Council will provide IRI updates and discuss opportunities to engage with IRI activities.

• Update from IRI Leadership Committee (Debbie Bard, NERSC)

• Outreach & Engagement Subcommittee (Eli Dart, ESnet)

• TRUSTID Subcommittee (Ryan Adamson, OLCF; Tiffany Connors, NERSC)

• IRI Interfaces Subcommittee (I2SC) (John MacAuley, ESnet; Paul Rich, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility)

• IRI Panel Discussion and Q&A

2:30–3:00PM Break

3:00–4:45PM: Not Just Fast Data: ESnet Advanced Networking Services to Enable Science

Description: How do ESnet services tie together for users to create a high performance networking system for science?

• Overview of Session & ESnet Advanced Services (Jon-Paul Herron, ESnet) 

• ESnet Cloud Services (Dale Carder, ESnet)

• ESnet Measurement & Analytics (Ed Balas, ESnet)

• High Touch: High-precision, Real-time Visibility Into Network Traffic (Bruce Mah, ESnet)

• Build Your Own Network for Science (John MacAuley, ESnet)

• Session Panel Q&A

4:45PM–5:00PM: Tuesday Closing Announcements

8:00AM Registration Check-in Opens for Badge Pickup (Grand Ballroom Foyer)

8:00–9:00AM Light breakfast will be provided. (Grand Ballroom Foyer)

Morning — 9:00AM–12:00PM (Grand Ballroom)

9:00–9:15AM: Wednesday Welcome & Announcements 

9:15–11:30AM: Integrated Research Infrastructure Workflows: Science & Technology Examples

Description: What does Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) look like in practice? Hear from ongoing efforts to bring research tools, infrastructure, and user facilities together seamlessly and securely in novel ways to radically accelerate discovery and innovation.

• Keynote: Love in the Time of Exascale: Orchestrating a Future-Proof Romance Between LCLS-II, AI, and DOE’s HPC Ecosystem
  Jana Thayer
  Division Director, Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

10:00–10:30AM Break

• The DIII-D IRI Pathfinder: Recent Developments and Progress towards Fusion Digital Twins (Mitchell Clark, General Atomics)

• Integrated Data Analytics Needs in ESGF2-US (Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

• JAWS: Write once, run everywhere (Kjiersten Fagnan, Joint Genome Institute)

• Psi-K Workflow Front-end (David Rogers, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:30AM–12:00PM: Lightning Talks

• OSDF and ESnet — Now and Beyond, Fabio Andrijauskas (University of California San Diego)

• From SSH to TLS: Best Practices, Benchmarks, and Lessons Learned for Secure Multi-Site Science, Flavio Castro (Argonne National Laboratory)

• Brazil's e-Science (ESnet-like) Network, Leandro Ciuffo (RNP - Brazil's National Research and Education Network)

• Deploying cross-facility, interactive containerized streaming workflows, Samuel Welborn (NERSC)

• The Secure Scientific Service Mesh (S3M) at ORNL, Tyler Skluzacek (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Lunch — 12:00–1:00PM

Working Lunch (lunch provided) 

Afternoon — 1:00–5:00PM  (Grand Ballroom)

1:00–2:30PM The Future of DOE Scientific Computing and Data

Description: Given the increasingly large-scale science research projects involving multiple data and high performance computing facilities, how is the DOE infrastructure evolving to meet these needs?

• Overview of Session

• CosmoExplorer: Sharing and analyzing cosmological simulations across DOE computing facilities (Katrin Heitmann,  Argonne National Laboratory) 

• The SLAC Shared Science Data Facility: A Gateway to Integrated Research Workflows at SLAC (Jay Srinivasan, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

• What exactly is the High Performance Data Facility Project? (Kate Mace, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

• Panel: DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) High Performance Computing Facilities 

  • Wahid Bhimji, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

  • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

  • Katherine Riley, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)

2:30–3:00PM Break

3:00–4:15PM: Emerging & Evolving Technologies: Where are we headed?

Description: What are the emerging and evolving tools and technologies that will likely become part of daily use within the next five years? Where are they today, and how do we plan for wider adoption and integration?

• NAIRR Pilot: Accelerating AI Innovation and Workforce Development
  Katerina Antypas
  Director, National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC))

• Advanced Wireless for Field Sciences (Andrew Wiedlea, ESnet)

• ESnet Plans: Future Projects and Capabilities (Chin Guok, ESnet)
  
  

4:15–5:00PM: Confab25 Closing of Plenary Sessions

• Audience Reflections & Discussion

• Confab25 Plenary Recap & Take-Aways (Inder Monga , Executive Director, ESnet)