This year, we have have three tracks on Thursday afternoon: one for system administrators, one for networking engineers, and the main track.
Wednesday
10:00-3:00: Jetstream Workshop
3:30-5:30: iRODS Workshop
Thursday
8:30-9:45: Welcome and Keynote by Dr. Larry Smarr: Pacific Research Platform
9:45-10:30: State Network Techs: State of the State Networks Panel
10:30-10:50: Break
10:50-11:20: Rob Vietzke, I2: Planning an Advanced Network in the Age of Cloud-Scale Datacenters, Open Systems, Software-Driven Everything and Big Science Collaboration
11:20-11:40: Christian Barnes – Director, Systems Engineering at Fortinet: Fortinet Security Fabric
11:40-1:10: Lunch.
11:40-1:10: System Administrator BoF and Lunch in their own room
1:10-1:30: Don Schulte, Amazon Web Services: Research & Technical Computing at AWS
This is where the tracks start. Tracks in parentheses.
1:30-2:00: Rob Gardner: SLATE presentation (Main)
1:30-2:00: David Merrifield and Bobby Clark: Topics in Networking (Networking)
2:00-3:30: Networking BoF (Networking)
2:00-2:45: HPC Directors/CIP BoF
2:00-2:40: Bryan Kinnan + others panel, UNL: ITAR in the Cloud, It Can be Done (System Administration)
2:40-3:00: Derek Weitzel, UNL: StashCache – Data Caching on the Open Science Grid (System Administration)
3:00-3:20: Kyle Hutson, KSU: Using Ceph for cost-effective performant HPC primary filesystems (System Administration)
2:45-3:30: HPC State of the States (Main)
3:30-4:00: Break for everyone
4:00-5:30: GPN Research Platform BoF
Friday
8:30-9:00: Henry Neeman, OU: A Grant Proposal Writing Apprenticeship for Research Computing Professionals
9:00-9:30: Brian Moore, SDSU: HPC themed REU at South Dakota State University
9:30-10:15: Jim Ferguson, OU: An Overview of the Carpentries Program
8:30-4:30: FIONA workshop