New Partners for HPC Centers: Experimental Facilities and International Instrument Collaborations with Exascale Datasets

Moderator: Deborah Bard (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Panelists: Sadaf R. Alam (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), ETH Zurich), Lance Wilson (Monash University), Frank Würthwein (University of California, San Diego; Open Science Grid (OSG)), Dirk Pleiter (Forschungszentrum Juelich), Amedeo Perazzo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Abstract: As data sets from experimental user facilities and international instrument collaborations grow in both size and complexity there is an urgent need for new capabilities to transfer, reduce, analyze, store, search, and curate the data in order to facilitate scientific discovery. Supercomputing facilities around the world have begun to expand services and provide new capabilities for both types of communities in support of experiment workflows, from preprocessing to complete analysis. This panel discussion will offer a lively exchange between supercomputing facility staff and the application community, including users of experimental facilities. We will identify:

- What are the biggest pain points for experimental scientists in using HPC?

- What steps are being taken to address these pain points?

- How do experimental facilities partner with HPC centers?

- How do we design a sustainable model for collaboration, incorporating both technology development and business?



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