Seminar – SciTech

Seminar: Research and development of advanced information processing technologies and intelligent systems for supporting geosciences innovations

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on November 30, 2017 with No Comments

Since October 2016, Rosa Filgueira has been working at the British Geological Survey (BGS) as a Senior Data Scientist. She is involved in a variety of national and international research projects where she applies different technologies from Data Science and … Read More

Seminar: The Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure: Five Years Later

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on October 27, 2017 with No Comments

In March of 2013 I visited ISI and presented on what was then the fledging Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure (CTSC), an effort to provide the NSF community with cybersecurity expertise and leadership. It’s been nearly five years since and … Read More

Seminar: Who is afraid of I/O? – Exploring I/O Challenges and Opportunities at the Exascale

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on July 31, 2017 with No Comments

Clear trends in the past and current petascale systems (i.e., Jaguar and Titan) and the new generation of systems that will transition us toward exascale (i.e., Aurora and Summit) outline how concurrency and peak performance are growing dramatically, however, I/O … Read More

Seminar: Introducing AWS Batch: A Highly-efficient, Dynamically Scaled Batch Computing Service

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on February 24, 2017 with No Comments

AWS Batch is a fully-managed service that enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run batch computing workloads of any scale on AWS. The service automatically provisions compute resources and optimizes the workload distribution based on the quantity … Read More

Seminar: The Palomar Transient Factory

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on February 8, 2017 with No Comments

Astrophysics is transforming from a data-starved to a data-swamped discipline, fundamentally changing the nature of scientific inquiry and discovery. New technologies are enabling the detection, transmission, and storage of data of hitherto unimaginable quantity and quality across the electromagnetic, gravity … Read More

Seminar: Modeling Distributed Platforms from Application Traces for Realistic File Transfer Simulation

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on December 18, 2016 with No Comments

Simulation is a fast, controlled, and reproducible way to evaluate new algorithms for distributed computing platforms in a variety of conditions. However, the realism of simulations is rarely assessed, which critically questions the applicability of a whole range of findings. … Read More

Seminar: Multi-objective scheduling and enactment of scientific workflows in Clouds

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on August 24, 2016 with No Comments

The talk gives first an overview of the research conducted at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck in the area of parallel and distributed systems. Afterwards, it focuses scientific workflows (our common topic of interest) by presenting research … Read More

Seminar: Mythbusting Scientific Knowledge Transfer with nanoHUB.org

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on June 7, 2016 with No Comments

Gordon Moore’s 1965 prediction of continued semiconductor device down-scaling and circuit up-scaling has become a self-fulfilling prophesy in the past 40 years. Open source code development and sharing of the process modeling software SUPREM and the circuit modeling software SPICE … Read More

Seminar: ENVRIplus: Review of existing Research Infrastructures: requirements, technologies, achievements and gaps leading to characterization

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on March 28, 2016 with No Comments

ENVRIplus is a Horizon 2020 project bringing together Environmental and Earth System Research Infrastructures (RIs), projects and networks together with technical specialist partners to create a more coherent, interdisciplinary and interoperable cluster of Environmental Research Infrastructures across Europe. It is … Read More

Seminar: Improving Bioinformatic Methods via Enhancing and Scaling Up Workflows

by Rafael Ferreira da Silva on March 17, 2016 with No Comments

Workflows have proved to be an excellent medium for representing scientific methods in general and especially also in the areas life sciences and chemistry. In the last 20 years quite a few mature workflow engines and workflow editors with diverse … Read More

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