Confab25 Program

Registration Check In — 12:00PM–1:00PM (Grand Ballroom Foyer)

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

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.

• Inder Monga
  Executive Director, ESnet

• Benjamin Brown
  Director, DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research Facilities Division

• In Conversation: Inder Monga & Ben Brown, Followed by Open Q&A

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

• In Conversation: Carol Burns and John Sarrao
  Dr. Burns is Deputy Director for Research and Chief Research Officer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Dr. Sarrao is Director, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

• Pavel Lougovski
  Director, DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research Advanced Computing Technology Division

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

Evening/Dinner — 5:30PM–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 will be provided as part of the meeting.

Registration Check In & Breakfast — 8:00AM–9:00AM  (Grand Ballroom Foyer)

Light breakfast will be provided.

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

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  (Yatish Kumar, ESnet; Vardan Gyurjyan, JLab)

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

• ARIES (Rob Hovsapian, NREL;  Evangelos Chaniotakis, ESnet)

• Vera Rubin/LSST (Adam Bolton, SLAC; Julio Ibarra, Florida International University)

Lightning Talks

Lunch — 12:00PM–1:00PM

Working Lunch (lunch provided) 

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

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, ALCF)

• IRI Panel Discussion and Q&A

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)

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

• ESnet Measurement & Analytics (Ed Balas, ESnet)

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

• Session Q&A

Registration Check In & Breakfast — 8:00AM–9:00AM  (Grand Ballroom Foyer)

Light breakfast will be provided.

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

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

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

• The ESGF2 IRI Pathfinder Project (Forrest Hoffman, ORNL)

Lightning Talks

Lunch — 12:00PM–1:00PM

Working Lunch (lunch provided) 

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

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?

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

• SLAC Shared Scientific Data Facility (S3DF) (Jay Srinivasan, SLAC)

• High Performance Data Facility (HPDF) (Kate Mace, Jefferson Lab)

• Panel: DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) High Performance Computing Facilities
  (Wahid Bhimji, NERSC ; Katherine Riley, ALCF; Arjun Shanker, OLCF)

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?

• Keynote: Ian Foster
  Director, Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory

• Advanced Wireless for Field Sciences: Fixed and Portable Data Networking Solutions for Collaborative Science (Andrew Wiedlea, ESnet)

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

Confab25 Closing & Thank You 

• Inder Monga
  Executive Director, ESnet