INDIS 2024 Workshop Program

(updated Dec 12th 2024)

Workshop Date: Monday, November 18th, 2024, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Location: In-person

Detailed Schedule on the SC24 Website: Link

Agenda for the INDIS 2024 Workshop (All times are in EST)

• (9:00 am) Welcome Remarks by the SCinet Chair and Overview of SCinet Architecture - Angie Asmus [slides]
  (Session lead: Akbar Kara)
• (9:10 am) Keynote: "DOE’s Integrated Research Infrastructure in the AI Era" - Dr Benjamin Brown (US Department of Energy) [slides]
  (Session lead: Cees de Laat)
• (10:00 am) Coffee Break
• (10:30 am) Invited Talk: "Complexity and Deployment" - Russ White (Akamai) [slides]
  (Session lead: Akbar Kara)
• (11:00 am) Panel on Network Research Exhibitions Powered by SCinet and its Partners - Kurt Feirrera, Andrew Lee, Hans Addleman [slides]
  This panel will showcase groundbreaking advancements in high-speed networking, as demonstrated by this year’s Network Research Exhibition (NRE) participants. Bringing together experts from academia, research institutions, and industry, the session will explore cutting-edge innovations in network architectures, ultra-high-speed data transfers, and real-time scientific collaborations. Panelists will highlight key findings and challenges from the live NRE experiments, including advancements in AI,Quantum, testbeds, and global-scale data-intensive applications. The discussion will focus on the future of high-performance networking and its critical role in driving scientific discovery, addressing emerging trends and the evolving demands of data-driven research.
  1. "Hybrid CPU, GPU, QPU infrastructure for hybrid quantum-classical computing use cases development with secure QKD/PQC links", Piotr Rydlichowski [slides]
  2. "Engineering AI for Self-driving Networks", Mariam Kiran [slides]
  3. "NREs and the Global Research Platform", Joe Mambretti [slides] and "Resilient, Performant Networks and Distributed Processing", Linden Mercer [slides]
  4. "The Global Network Advancement Group: A Next Generation System for Data Intensive Sciences", Harvey Newman [slides]

• (11:50 am) Short paper session
  (Session lead: Anees Al Najjar)
  1. "On Scaling Neuronal Network Simulations Using Distributed Computing", Vladimir Omelyusik, Khawar Shehzad, Tyler Banks, Praveen Rao, Satish Nair [slides]
  2. "Jupyter Notebook Attacks Taxonomy: Ransomware, Data Exfiltration, and Security Misconfiguration", Phuong Cao [slides]
  3. "Secure Collaborative Model Training with Dynamic Federated Learning in Multi-Domain Environments", Anestis Dalgkitsis, Alexandros Koufakis, Jorrit Stutterheim, Aleandro Mifsud, Priyanka Atwani, Leon Gommans, Cees de Laat, Chrysa Papagianni, Ana Oprescu [slides]
  4. "LIDC: A Location Independent Multi-Cluster Computing Framework for Data Intensive Science", Susmit Shannigrahi, Sankalpa Timilsina [slides]
  5. "SANReN’s 100 Gbps Data Transfer Service: Transferring data fast!", Kasandra Pillay, Johann Hugo, Ajay Makan, Thokozani Khwela, Thuso Bogopa, Manqoba Shabalala [slides]
  6. "A Study of a Deterministic Networking Framework for Latency Critical Large Scientific Data Transfers", Dipak Ghosal, Kesheng Wu [slides]

• (12:30 pm) Lunch Break
• (2:30 pm) Paper session "Network Data-Intensive"
  (Session lead: Mariam Kiran)
  1. "Recent Linux Improvements that Impact TCP Throughput: Insights from R&E Networks", Marcos Schwarz, Brian Tierney, Kiran Vasu, Eli Dart, Christian Rothenberg, Jeronimo Bezerra, Italo Valcy [slides]
  2. "Improving transition to IPv6-only via RFC8925 and IPv4 DNS Interventions", Tom Costello, Nick Buraglio, Andy Fleming, Ben Tasker, Brandon Siegel [slides]
  3. "Leveraging In-band Network Telemetry for Automated DDoS Detection in Production Programmable Networks: The AmLight Use Case", Hadi Sahin, Jeronimo Bezerra, Italo Brito, Renata Frez, Vasilka Chergova, Luis Fernandez Lopez, Julio Ibarra [slides]

• (3:00 pm) Afternoon Break
• (3:30 pm) Invited Talk: "Agile Network Management: The Impact of Automation and Orchestration", Sonja Filiposka (UKIM) [slides]
  (Session lead: Mariam Kiran)
• (4:00 pm) Paper session "Network Quantum Computing"
  (Session lead: Anees Al Najjar)
  1. "Entanglement Capacity Estimates and Throughput Measurements of Quantum Channels", Nageswara S. Rao, Muneer Alshowkan, Joseph Chapman, Nicholas Peters, Hsuan-Hao Lu, Joseph Lukens, Saikat Guha [slides]
  2. "QNTN: Establishing a Regional Quantum Network in Tennessee", Mohamed Shaban, Muhammad Ismail, Mariam Kiran [slides]

• (4:40 pm) Paper session "Architecture, Network, Data-Intensive"
  (Session lead: Anees Al Najjar)
  1. "New Techniques to Route in Folded-Clos Topology Data Center Networks", Nirmala Shenoy, Peter Willis, Yin Pan, Bill Stackpole, John Hamilton [slides]
  2. "Framework for Integrating Machine Learning Methods for Path-Aware Source Routing", Anees Al-Najjar, Domingos Paraiso, Mariam Kiran, Cristina Dominicini, Everson Borges, Rafael Guimaraes, Magnos Martinello, Harvey Newman [slides]

• (5:20 pm) Outstanding Paper Award and Closing Remarks - co-Chairs [slides]
• (5:30 pm) End of workshop