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| Wednesday, October 6, 2010 | ||
| 08:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00 AM | Conference Introduction and Logistics
Main objectives, logistics and agenda.
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Jacek Becla (SLAC, XLDB4 chair) |
| 9:15 AM | Welcome -- Science and Computing at SLAC
Official "welcome" and introduction to new exciting science
and computing challenges at SLAC.
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Donald Lemma (SLAC CIO and Computing Division Director) |
| 9:30 AM | Complex Scientific Analytics at Extreme Scale
A comprehensive overview of how big science approaches complex
analytics at extreme scale.
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Gregory Dubois-Felsmann (HEP), Andrew Connolly (astronomy), John Caron (atmospheric research), Bill Howe (ocean sciences), Eugene Kolker (bio), Jacek Becla (summary) |
| 10:50 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 11:10 AM | Complex Industrial and Government Analytics at Extreme Scale
A comprehensive overview of how data-intensive industries approach
complex analytics at extreme scale, it will highlight similarities
and differences comparing to approaches taken by big science.
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Irina Vayndiner (MITRE),
Steve Hirsch (NYSE Euronext),
Mike McIntire (Yahoo!), Peter Breunig (Chevron), Damian Reeves (Quantcast) moderator: Kian-Tat Lim (SLAC) |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30 PM | Operational Issues with Managing Large Database Clusters
Practical, operational issues with managing large database clusters,
based on experiences from at least two large-scale industrial setups.
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Oliver Ratzesberger (eBay), Jeffrey Rothschild (Facebook) |
| 2:10 PM | Behind the Scenes of Big Science Projects
A talk explaining how big and long-term scientific projects get started,
what the decision processes are, how requirements and data volumes are
decided, how vendors are evaluated.
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Amber Boehnlein (DOE) |
| 2:55 PM | Existing Scientific Tools/Formats - netCDF, HDF5, fits, xtc
A set of short talks to make non-scientific communities aware of most
commonly used scientific formats and related tools custom-built by
scientists.
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Daniel L. Wang (SLAC) |
| 3:15 PM | Ice Cream Social - Poster Session for Gold Sponsors | |
| 3:55 PM | Existing Scientific Tools
A continuation of short talks to make non-scientific communities aware
of most commonly used scientific tools custom-built by scientists.
Considering covering: root, castor, xrootd.
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Richard Dubois (SLAC) |
| 4:15 PM | Lightning Talks (8 x 5 min)
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| 5:00 PM | Adjourn | |
| 6:30 PM | Reception and dinner | |
| Thursday, October 7, 2010 | ||
| 08:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:40 AM | Announcements and Logistics
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Jacek Becla |
| 8:45 AM | Emerging Technologies for Complex Extreme Scale Analytics
Unifying emerging technologies such as map/reduce, streaming databases,
and workflow management into a coherent tool set for extreme scale data
analytics.
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Jeff Hammerbacher (Cloudera) |
| 9:25 AM | Emerging Scientific Tools - SciDB
Lessons learned from studying scientific use cases and interacting with
scientific communities by the SciDB team. SciDB response to these needs.
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Mike Stonebraker (MIT) |
| 9:45 AM | Science Benchmark
Introducing the idea behind science benchmark, current status and plans.
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Mike Stonebraker (MIT) science benchmark paper |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:40 AM | Extreme Scale Architectures and New Hardware Trends
Impact of new hardware trends such as solid state disks, GPUs,
servers with very-many-cores.
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Alex Szalay (JHU) Tamas Budavari (JHU) |
| 11:25 AM | Data Preservation and Integration
Challenges related integrating data from multiple sources and
preserving petabytes of data.
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Jane Mandelbaum (Library of Congress) |
| 12:05 PM | Automated Information Extraction, Content Curation and Machine Learning
Needs in the area of automating data processing and analytics.
Perspectives from industry and science.
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Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo!), Kirk Borne (GMU) |
| 12:45 PM | Closeout
Next conference planning, final conclusions and closeout.
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Jacek Becla |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00 PM | Adjourn | |