Collaborative research using eScience infrastructure and high speed networks

Call for papers for:

• Workshop co-located with the IEEE International Conference on eScience on 9 October 2012 in Chicago, Illinois
• Special section of the scientific journal Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)

Scope

Modern science is generating large amounts of data and timely data transfers are a crucial aspect for the emerging international scientific collaborations. Infrastructural resources such as instruments, storage, computing facilities, and visualization (e.g. tiled displays, 4K video, holography) are increasingly used and shared by researchers at geographically distributed locations.

High-speed networks enable the use and sharing of these resources over long distances. Especially when point-to-point connections with a high, guaranteed bandwidth and low latency and security (aka lightpaths) are used. 

In many countries lightpath services are offered as a service of the National Research and Education Networks (NREN’s). Many NREN’s participate in GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, to provide lightpaths internationally as an integrated facility to support data-intensive scientific research. NRENs and GLIF have been a motor for novel usecase of the networks.

On October 9th a workshop on this topic will be held co-located with the IEEE International Conference on eScience, the Open Grid Forum (OGF) and the 12th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop (GLIF).
In addition, a special section of the scientific journal Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) will be dedicated to this topic.

Researchers are invited to submit extended abstracts for a presentation at this workshop and/or to submit a full paper for the special section of the FGCS.

Topics

Both the workshop and the special section will focus on novel uses of high-speed networks enabled by NRENs around the world and by the GLIF community. This special section will cover and highlight applications that use such networks to connect instruments and facilities around the world in a novel manner. It will also explore upcoming trends in the design and architectures of these advanced networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Distributed applications running on high-speed networks
• Network architectures for integrated e-Science research
• Advances in networking devices that support management and control of distributed e-Science infrastructures
• Models for networks and infrastructure descriptions suitable for inter-NRENs cooperation

Call for abstracts

Researchers are invited to submit extended abstracts describing a scientific use case of the advanced use of distributed resources connected by high speed (national or international) lightpaths. 
Extended abstracts of 600 to 1200 words (one to two A4 pages) must be submitted in English, the official language of the conference. These should be accompanied (attached to the extended abstract above the two pages) by a short professional biography of the author(s) and the full names and contact details of the author(s) as outlined below. Keywords will assist the program committee in planning the final program of the conference.

Authors who do not wish to present at the workshop should indicate this in the abstract.

Important dates Workshop abstract submission: 25 June 2012 Full paper submission: 15 July 2012 Workshop acceptance notification: 11 July 2012 Final extended abstract: 10 September 2012 Full paper acceptance notification: 30 September 2012 Workshop: 9 October 2012 Workshop Program Committee Scott Lusher, The NL eScience Center, The Netherlands Inder Monga, ESnet, USA Gera Pronk, SURFnet, The Netherlands Peter Hinrich, SURFnet, The Netherlands (contact person; peter.hinrich@surfnet.nl) Paola Grosso, UvA, The Netherlands