INDIS 2020 Workshop Program

Workshop Date: Thursday, Nov 12, 2020

Location: SC20 Virtual Conference Platform, Track 4

Detailed Schedule on the SC20 Website: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/session/?sess=sess210

NOTE I: All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

NOTE II: All contents will be available on-demand after the initial broadcast for registered workshop attendees.

Agenda for the INDIS Workshop:

• 10:00 AM "INDIS Welcome Message," Michelle Zhu, Mariam Kiran, Sarah Neuwirth
• 10:05 AM "A Brief History of INDIS," Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam)
• 10:10 AM Keynote 1 (Live): ""Grand" Challenges for a Science Mission Network," Chin Guok (ESnet)
• 10:55 AM "Introduction to SCinet," Kevin Hayden (Argonne National Laboratory)
• 11:00 AM "SCinet Architecture - Past, Present, Future," JP Velders (University of Amsterdam)
• 11:05 AM SCinet Experimental Networks Panel (Live)
  • "Panel Introduction: Experimental Networks (XNET)," Cees de Laat (UvA), Ezra Kissel (ESnet)
  • XNET Lightning Talks
    • "The BRIDGES Project - Building a Global Cyber-Infrastructure Canvas Supporting Networked Applications Experimentation and Evolution," Jerry Sobieski (George Mason University)
    • "FABRIC/FAB Deep Dive," Anita Nikolich (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Ilya Baldin (RENCI)
    • "SAGE: AI at the Edge for Software-defined Wireless Sensors," Pete Beckman (Argonne National Laboratory)
    • "Quantum Networking," Inder Monga (ESnet)
    • "Extending the Research Engineering Network to the Wireless Edge," Andrew Wiedlea (ESnet)
  • Panel Discussion: Experimental Networks (XNET)
• 11:55 AM "Morning" Break
• 12:10 PM 1st Virtual SCinet Network Research Exhibition Showcase (Live)
  • "Network Research Exhibition (NRE): An Introduction," Davey Wheeler (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), JP Velders (UvA)
  • NRE Demo Talk I: "P4 Experimental Networks for the Global Research Platform," Jim Chen (Northwestern University / iCAIR)
  • NRE Demo Talk II: "Advanced Data Algorithms & Architectures for Security Monitoring," Thomas Kroeger (Sandia National Laboratories)
• 12:55 PM Paper Session I (including Live Q&As)
  • "Using P4 and RDMA to collect Telemetry Data," Rutger Beltman, Silke Knossen, Joseph Hill, Paola Grosso
  • "Application Aware Software Defined Flows of Workflow Ensembles," George Papadimitriou, Eric Lyons, Cong Wang, Komal Thareja, Ryan Tanaka, Paul Ruth, J. J. Villalobos, Ivan Rodero, Ewa Deelman, Michael Zink, Anirban Mandal
• 01:45 PM "Lunch" Break
• 02:30 PM Keynote 2 (Live): "Enhancing Distributed Computing with Programmable and Open Optical Networks," Andrea Fumagalli (University of Texas at Dallas)
• 03:15 PM Paper Session II (including Live Q&As)
  • "A Trial Deployment of a Reliable Network-Multicast Application across Internet2," Yuanlong Tan, Malathi Veeraraghavan, Hwajung Lee, Steve Emmerson, Jack Davidson
  • "ROBIN (RuciO/BIgData Express/SENSE): A Next-Generation High-Performance Data Service Platform," Wenji Wu, Liang Zhang, Qiming Lu, Phil Demar, Robert Illingworth, Joe Mambretti, Se-Young Yu, Jim Hao Chen, Inder Monga, Xi Yang, Tom Lehman, Chin Guok, John Macauley
  • "The NetSage Measurement Framework: Design, Development, and Discoveries," Katrina Turner, Mahesh Khanal, Tyson Seto-Mook, Alberto Gonzalez, Jason Leigh, Andrew Lake, Sartaj Singh Baveja, Samir Faci, Brian Tierney, Lisa Ensman, Daniel Doyle, Edward Balas, Douglas Southworth, Jennifer Schopf
• 04:30 PM "Afternoon" Break
• 04:45 PM Invited Talk (Live): "AI for Networking: the Engineering Perspective," Mariam Kiran (ESnet)
• 05:15 PM Paper Session III (including Live Q&As)
  • "An Evaluation of Ethernet Performance for Scientific Workloads," Joseph P. Kenny, Jeremiah J. Wilke, Craig D. Ulmer, Gavin M. Baker, Samuel Knight, Jerrold A. Friesen
  • "Computing Bottleneck Structures at Scale for High-Precision Network Performance Analysis," Noah Amsel, Jordi Ros-Giralt, Sruthi Yellamraju, James Ezick, Brendan von Hofe, Alison Ryan, Richard Lethin
• 06:05 PM "Awards Ceremony & Closing Remarks," Michelle Zhu, Mariam Kiran, Sarah Neuwirth
• 06:15 PM End of Day / Break to setup 1st Virtual Happy Hour
• 06:30 PM 1st Virtual Happy Hour: Zoom Discussion open to all Workshop Attendees!
  • [Connection Option 1] Link: https://tinyurl.com/indis-social
  • [Connection Option 2] Zoom Meeting ID: 847 1514 2034, Passcode: 043122