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Gateways 2020 is scheduled from October 12 to October 23, with the tutorial and workshop track during the first week and the main conference track during the second week. This fifth Gateways annual conference is an opportunity for gateway creators and enthusiasts to learn, share, connect, and shape the future of gateways, while supporting and growing our community. Register for the conference by October 5.

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Friday, October 9
 

10:00am EDT

Pre-conference check-in, orientation, and social hour (optional, can also check in next week)
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This is a great opportunity to get checked in ahead of time and learn about using the QiqoChat platform for Gateways 2020. Drop in for a quick orientation and tech check. It shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes. The idea is that if you drop in to one of these, next week will be a bit smoother (like finding the conference venue the night before the meeting starts). We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!

Having trouble logging into the QiqoChat website? You can also call the Help Desk Zoom meeting during Help Desk hours. Look up your local telephone number (or dial 646-558-8656), enter Meeting ID 858 1833 1992 with passcode 6384.
Presenters
avatar for Katherine Lawrence

Katherine Lawrence

Associate Director, Community Engagement & Exchange, U of Michigan/Science Gateways Community Institute
I help people creating advanced digital resources for research and education connect their projects with helpful services, expertise, and information. Ask me how the Science Gateways Community Institute can support your projects--at no cost--to better leverage the people and money... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2020 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome

12:00pm EDT

Pre-conference check-in, orientation, and social hour (optional, can also check in next week)
Join the conference
This is a great opportunity to get checked in ahead of time and learn about using the QiqoChat platform for Gateways 2020. Drop in for a quick orientation and tech check. It shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes. The idea is that if you drop in to one of these, next week will be a bit smoother (like finding the conference venue the night before the meeting starts). We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!
Presenters
avatar for Katherine Lawrence

Katherine Lawrence

Associate Director, Community Engagement & Exchange, U of Michigan/Science Gateways Community Institute
I help people creating advanced digital resources for research and education connect their projects with helpful services, expertise, and information. Ask me how the Science Gateways Community Institute can support your projects--at no cost--to better leverage the people and money... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome

4:00pm EDT

Pre-conference check-in, orientation, and social hour (optional, can also check in next week)
Join the conference
This is a great opportunity to get checked in ahead of time and learn about using the QiqoChat platform for Gateways 2020. Drop in for a quick orientation and tech check. It shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes. The idea is that if you drop in to one of these, next week will be a bit smoother (like finding the conference venue the night before the meeting starts). We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!

Having trouble logging into the QiqoChat website? You can also call the Help Desk Zoom meeting during Help Desk hours. Look up your local telephone number (or dial 646-558-8656), enter Meeting ID 858 1833 1992 with passcode 6384.
Presenters
avatar for Katherine Lawrence

Katherine Lawrence

Associate Director, Community Engagement & Exchange, U of Michigan/Science Gateways Community Institute
I help people creating advanced digital resources for research and education connect their projects with helpful services, expertise, and information. Ask me how the Science Gateways Community Institute can support your projects--at no cost--to better leverage the people and money... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2020 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome
 
Monday, October 12
 

12:00pm EDT

Welcome/Help Desk open -- Please check in!
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Before you attend your first session, please stop by the Welcome/Help Desk to check in with the conference organizers. We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!

Having trouble logging into the QiqoChat website? You can also call the Help Desk Zoom meeting during Help Desk hours. Look up your local telephone number (or dial 646-558-8656), enter Meeting ID 858 1833 1992 with passcode 6384.
Monday October 12, 2020 12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome

1:00pm EDT

Deploying Science Gateways with Apache Airavata
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Limit: 50 participants

The authors present the Apache Airavata framework for deploying science gateways, illustrating how to request, administer, modify, and extend a basic gateway tenant to the middleware.

Science gateways provide science-specific user interfaces to scientific applications and data for end users who are unfamiliar with or need more capabilities than provided by command-line interfaces. Frameworks for science gateway provide software that can be used to create science gateways, but these still must be operated and maintained by the gateway provider. Hosted solutions for science gateways are based on frameworks and provide configurable science gateway tenants that can be managed without the gateway provider needing to install and operate any science gateway software, removing the burden of operating a production gateway from the gateway provider.

This tutorial provides an overview of the Apache Airavata software framework for science gateways and focuses on how to request, configure, manage, and customize a tenant gateway on SciGaP.org, the hosted version of Apache Airavata operated by the Cyberinfrastructure Integration Research Center (https://circ.iu.edu) at Indiana University.

  • Audience: Anyone interested in the topic is welcome to attend. Participants will benefit from prior general knowledge of how to execute scientific applications on HPC and Cloud environments, but this is not required. 
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Prerequisite Knowledge: Familiarity with Python, basics of web development, basics of running scientific applications on clusters are required for the hands-on exercises. All interested participants are welcome. Familiarity with Python, Linux, and basics of Web programming will help with the hands-on exercises but are not required. Attendees will be provided with a sample hosted Django tenant to SciGaP services and will have access to a virtual cluster on XSEDE’s Jetstream with pre-installed applications.
  • Technology Requirements and Setup: See https://apache-airavata-django-portal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/gateways_tutorial/. 
  • Agenda: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRAVATA/Gateways20+Tutorial 

Presenters
DW
SM
EA
MP
SP
MC

Monday October 12, 2020 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Tutorial Rooms
  Tutorial/Workshop, Tutorial

1:00pm EDT

How to Build and Engage with Your Community
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Community engagement is one of the cornerstones of successful science gateways. The approach “If I build it, they will come” seldom works for science gateways - user-driven design and development, close collaboration with the user community offering support measures as well as outreach from the beginning of a project are some of the measures to build and grow a community for a science gateway. An active and growing community contributes to its sustainability and, thus, to a sustainable software life cycle. The goal is to enhance computational solutions instead of starting for every project from scratch or reinventing the wheel. Typically, the principal investigators (PIs) leading the creation of science gateways and gateway creators are domain experts or research computing specialists and not community engagement specialists.
This 3-hour tutorial will introduce success stories especially in the community engagement area and their specific outreach measures and strategies. The hands-on sessions will give the participants the ability to discuss and work through exercises for their own projects and science gateways and/or examples given in advance. Exercises include (i) elevator pitches about a science gateway to different target audiences: from the user community to stakeholders to anticipated partners in the project; (ii) communication exercises for meetings assuming participants from diverse backgrounds and knowledge; (iii) BrainTrust exercises in working groups where participants can present or discuss a specific challenge they face in their project or science gateway related to community engagement. The exercises are inspired by SGCI’s successful Focus Week (Science Gateways Community Institute) and the successful series of Virtual Residency workshops led by Oklahoma University.

  • Audience: Participants of any skill level may attend the tutorial and there are no technical or software requirements.

Presenters
SG
SB
SB
BC

Monday October 12, 2020 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Tutorial Rooms
  Tutorial/Workshop, Tutorial

2:30pm EDT

Tutorial Break
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Monday October 12, 2020 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Social Spaces
  Break
 
Tuesday, October 13
 

12:00pm EDT

Welcome/Help Desk open -- Please check in!
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Before you attend your first session, please stop by the Welcome/Help Desk to check in with the conference organizers. We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!

Having trouble logging into the QiqoChat website? You can also call the Help Desk Zoom meeting during Help Desk hours. Look up your local telephone number (or dial 646-558-8656), enter Meeting ID 858 1833 1992 with passcode 6384.
Tuesday October 13, 2020 12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome

1:00pm EDT

DataAtRisk.org Workshop
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Limit: 50 participants

The DataAtRisk.org Workshop will introduce participants to the NSF Science Gateways project: DataAtRisk.org through hands-on activities with data that is actually at risk. Workshop leaders will introduce the DataAtRisk.org platform, a data help desk for nominating data assets for in-depth data curation, and guide two tracks of data curation activities to highlight different user roles (Advocates and Heros).

DataAtRisk.org responds to the clear need for a community-building application by connecting data in need to data expertise and resources. Data owners, managers, or others nominate assets for targeted preservation action by data management experts and volunteers, and create a community of Data Heroes who ensure the longevity of data products essential to high quality research.

DataAtRisk.org is a web platform that creates and leverages a commons-based approach to data stewardship and preservation. Fundamentally a networking tool that connects users with data in need to data stewardship experts, DataAtRisk.org allows users to nominate or identify threatened data with substantial research value for a team of volunteers to evaluate, curate, and deposit in appropriate data repositories. This workshop will be split into two tracks according to the design of the DataAtRisk.org system: one for participants to evaluate datasets for curation requirements and another for participants to work in groups to execute pre-identified curation “tasks.”
  • Audience: The DataAtRisk.org Workshop is suitable for participants with any level of data curation skills, including those new to the topic.
  • Technology Requirements: Participants will not require any additional equipment or setup beyond a computer and internet access.

Presenters
KM
MP
RD
DH
AB
JS
NM

Tuesday October 13, 2020 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Tutorial Rooms
  Tutorial/Workshop, Workshop

1:00pm EDT

Open OnDemand, XDMoD, and ColdFront: an HPC center management toolset
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The University at Buffalo Center for Computational Research (UB CCR) and Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) team up to offer HPC systems personnel a step-by-step tutorial for installing, configuring and using what many centers now consider vital software products for managing and enabling access to their resources. UB CCR offers two open source products - an allocations management system, ColdFront, and an HPC metrics & data analytics tool, XDMoD. OSC provides the open source Open OnDemand portal for easy, seamless web-based access for users to HPC resources. These three tools have been designed to work together to provide a full package of HPC center management and access products. In this tutorial the system administrators and software developers from OSC and UB CCR will provide an overview of the installation and configuration of each of these software packages. We’ll show how to use these three products in conjunction with each other and the Slurm job scheduler.

We will begin the tutorial with a short overview of each software product and how they tie together to provide seamless management of an HPC center. We’ll spend the first half focusing on ColdFront and XDMoD. The second half will be spent on OnDemand including a demonstration of configuring interactive apps for use on the cluster. We’ll end with instructions on how to tie together XDMoD with OnDemand for access to job metrics within OnDemand. Due to the pace of this workshop, we do not anticipate attendees will be able to follow along step-by-step. We will provide a full Docker cluster-in-a-container environment with instructions for attendees to complete outside of the workshop. In addition to this, we will offer post-workshop Zoom sessions and Slack channels for each of the three software products so attendees can ask specific questions of the individual development teams.
  • Audience: Target audience is HPC system administrators and user support personnel. 
  • Skill level: No experience necessary for presentation portion of tutorial. Intermediate experience recommended for utilizing the Docker cluster-in-a-container environment.
  • Prerequisites: An understanding of HPC clusters and batch scheduling is highly recommended. Docker experience is helpful, but not required for using the toolset environment provided.
  • Technology Requirements:  Only a connection to Zoom is required (provided through the QiqoChat conference platform). However, to utilize the HPC toolset cluster-in-a-container provided as part of the tutorial, users will need to install Docker and any prerequisites. Installation information can be found here:  https://github.com/ubccr/hpc-toolset-tutorial
Presenters
BP
AC
EF
DS
AB
DH

Tuesday October 13, 2020 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Tutorial Rooms
  Tutorial/Workshop, Tutorial

2:30pm EDT

Tutorial Break
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Tuesday October 13, 2020 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Social Spaces
  Break
 
Wednesday, October 14
 

12:00pm EDT

Welcome/Help Desk open -- Please check in!
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Before you attend your first session, please stop by the Welcome/Help Desk to check in with the conference organizers. We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!

Having trouble logging into the QiqoChat website? You can also call the Help Desk Zoom meeting during Help Desk hours. Look up your local telephone number (or dial 646-558-8656), enter Meeting ID 858 1833 1992 with passcode 6384.
Wednesday October 14, 2020 12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome

1:00pm EDT

Secure Coding Practices & Automated Assessment Tools
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Limit: 30 participants

High performance computing increasingly involves the development and deployment of network and cloud services to access resources for computation, communication, data, instruments, and analytics. Unique to the HPC field is the large amount of software that we develop to drive these services. These services must assure data integrity and availability, while providing access to a global scientific and engineering community.
Securing your network is not enough. Every service that you deploy is a window into your data center from the outside world, and a window that could be exploited by an attacker.

This tutorial is relevant to anyone wanting to learn about minimizing security flaws in the software they develop or manage. We share our experiences gained from performing vulnerability assessments of critical middleware. You will learn skills critical for software developers and analysts concerned with security.

Software assurance tools – tools that scan the source or binary code of a program to find weaknesses – are the first line of defense in assessing the security of a software project. These tools can catch flaws in a program that affect both the correctness and safety of the code. This tutorial is also relevant to anyone wanting to learn how to use these automated assessment tools to minimize security flaws in the software they develop or manage.
  • Audience: This tutorial is targeted at developers wishing to minimize the security flaws in the software that they develop. The target audience for this tutorial is anyone involved with the development, deployment, assessment, or management of critical software.
  • Skill level: 50% beginner, 25% intermediate, 25% advanced
  • Prerequisites: To gain maximum benefit from this tutorial, attendees should be familiar with the process of developing software and at least one of the Java, C, C++ or scripting programming languages. This tutorial does not assume any prior knowledge of security assessment or vulnerabilities.
  • Advance Setup: This tutorial includes hands-on exercises, and a few steps can help you prepare for it. In https://www.cs.wisc.edu/mist/tutorial-instructions.pdf, you can find the instructions for downloading the virtual machine image we'll use for the hands-on exercises. Please follow those instructions, and feel free to contact elisa@cs.wisc.edu if you have any questions or issues. 
Presenters
EH
BM

Wednesday October 14, 2020 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Tutorial Rooms
  Tutorial/Workshop, Tutorial

1:00pm EDT

Securing Science Gateways with Custos Services
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The authors present Custos, a cybersecurity service based on open source software that helps science gateways manage user identities, integrate with federated authentication systems, manage secrets such as OAuth2 access tokens and SSH keys needed to connect to remote resources, and manage groups and access permissions to digital objects. This tutorial will provide an overview of Custos’s capabilities, provide hands-on exercises on using its features, demonstrate to gateway providers how to integrate the services into their gateways with software development kits for the Custos API, introduce developers to the code and how to review and contribute to it, supply gateway providers with information on how Custos services are deployed for high availability and fault tolerance, and how Custos operations handle incidence response.

Additional documentation for this tutorial is available at: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CUSTOS/Custos+Gateways+2020+Tutorial

  • Audience: All interested attendees are welcome. The hands-on portions are intended for developers and gateway operators, but the tutorial can also be followed by any interested observers. Participants should have familiarity with science gateway and Web development concepts. The hands-on tutorial segments will assume familiarity with science gateway concepts and require intermediate skill-level familiarity with the Python programming language.
  • Skill Level: Intermediate for hands-on.
  • Prerequisites: All interested participants are welcome but for the hands-on portion should have familiarity with Python, basics of running scientific applications on clusters, basics of web application and REST API development.
  • Technology Requirements: A commonly used Web browser and Terminal application.
Presenters
SM
EA
IR
MP
EA
JB

Wednesday October 14, 2020 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Tutorial Rooms
  Tutorial/Workshop, Tutorial

2:30pm EDT

Tutorial Break
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Wednesday October 14, 2020 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
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  Break
 
Thursday, October 15
 

12:00pm EDT

Welcome/Help Desk open -- Please check in!
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Before you attend your first session, please stop by the Welcome/Help Desk to check in with the conference organizers. We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!

Having trouble logging into the QiqoChat website? You can also call the Help Desk Zoom meeting during Help Desk hours. Look up your local telephone number (or dial 646-558-8656), enter Meeting ID 858 1833 1992 with passcode 6384.
Thursday October 15, 2020 12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome

1:00pm EDT

A Deep Dive into Constructing Containers for Scientific Computing and Gateways (Part 1 of 2)
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NOTE: This is a 2-part tutorial on Thursday and Friday.

In recent years, using containers has been rapidly gaining traction as a solution to lower the barriers to using more software on HPC and cloud resources. However, significant barriers still exist to actually doing this in practice, particularly for well-established community codes which expect to run on a particular operating system version or resource. Additional barriers exist for researchers unfamiliar with containerization technologies. While many beginner tutorials are available for building containers, they often stop short of covering the complexities that can arise when containerizing scientific computing software. The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate and work through building and running non-trivial containers with users. We will containerize community scientific software, exhibit how to share with the larger community via a container registry, and then run on a completely separate HPC resource, with and without the use of a Science Gateway. The subject matter will be approachable for intermediate to advanced users, and is expected to be of interest to a diverse audience including researchers, support staff, and teams building science gateways.
  • Audience: Gateway developers, Researchers (grad students, faculty, etc.), XSEDE Campus Champions/ACI-Ref Facilitators, Campus research computing staff. Participants do not need to be experts, but a basic comfort level with opening, editing, and saving files in a command-line environment is expected.
  • Skill level: Intermediate and Advanced users. The tutorial will be about 60-70% hands-on content. It will make use of several virtual machines (instances) on the Jetstream cloud; participants registered for the tutorial WITH the training account will have access to a development/build machine for creating new container images, a separate instance running a container registry to store the images, and a virtual HPC cluster for actually running jobs using their containerized software.
  • Prerequisites: Basic Linux knowledge (especially command-line), text editor skills (vi/vim, emacs, or nano), basic HPC concepts knowledge a plus.
  • Technology Requirements: Computer with browser, Terminal application with ssh and ability to copy-paste, and knowledge of a command-line text editor such as vi/vim, emacs, or nano.
Presenters
SM
JF
EC
PV
SS
SB

Thursday October 15, 2020 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Tutorial Rooms
  Tutorial/Workshop, Tutorial

1:00pm EDT

Simplifying Science Gateway Data Management with Globus
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Globus is a service for transferring and sharing data in the research community. Globus is designed to manage data at the scales seen in data-intensive research and in scenarios involving multiple institutions. Globus has been continuously managing data transfers for the research community for more than ten years. This scenario-driven, 180-minute tutorial introduces intermediate to advanced researchers and science gateway developers to a series of web applications that use Globus to overcome data management challenges. Attendees will leave the tutorial with a clear understanding of the kinds of challenges Globus can help them with, online resources they can use to reproduce the solutions presented in the tutorial, and new peer contacts they will benefit from throughout their research careers.
  • Audience: Intermediate to advanced science gateway developers and researchers. Throughout the tutorial, we will invite attendees to share their own science gateway challenges and experiences, encouraging interactions between individuals with similar gateways, research interests, and professional environments.

Presenters
avatar for Lee Liming

Lee Liming

Subscriber Engagement Manager, Globus, University of Chicago
I can tell you all about Globus, our services, and our subscriptions for campuses and other research organizations. I am also part of the XSEDE team, focused on user requirements management and integrating other services with XSEDE.
VV

Thursday October 15, 2020 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Tutorial Rooms
  Tutorial/Workshop, Tutorial

2:30pm EDT

Tutorial Break
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Thursday October 15, 2020 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Social Spaces
  Break
 
Friday, October 16
 

12:00pm EDT

Welcome/Help Desk open -- Please check in!
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Before you attend your first session, please stop by the Welcome/Help Desk to check in with the conference organizers. We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!

Having trouble logging into the QiqoChat website? You can also call the Help Desk Zoom meeting during Help Desk hours. Look up your local telephone number (or dial 646-558-8656), enter Meeting ID 858 1833 1992 with passcode 6384.
Friday October 16, 2020 12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome

1:00pm EDT

A Deep Dive into Constructing Containers for Scientific Computing and Gateways (Part 2 of 2)
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NOTE: This is a 2-part tutorial which began on Thursday.

In recent years, using containers has been rapidly gaining traction as a solution to lower the barriers to using more software on HPC and cloud resources. However, significant barriers still exist to actually doing this in practice, particularly for well-established community codes which expect to run on a particular operating system version or resource. Additional barriers exist for researchers unfamiliar with containerization technologies. While many beginner tutorials are available for building containers, they often stop short of covering the complexities that can arise when containerizing scientific computing software. The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate and work through building and running non-trivial containers with users. We will containerize community scientific software, exhibit how to share with the larger community via a container registry, and then run on a completely separate HPC resource, with and without the use of a Science Gateway. The subject matter will be approachable for intermediate to advanced users, and is expected to be of interest to a diverse audience including researchers, support staff, and teams building science gateways.
  • Audience: Gateway developers, Researchers (grad students, faculty, etc.), XSEDE Campus Champions/ACI-Ref Facilitators, Campus research computing staff. Participants do not need to be experts, but a basic comfort level with opening, editing, and saving files in a command-line environment is expected.
  • Skill level: Intermediate and Advanced users. The tutorial will be about 60-70% hands-on content. It will make use of several virtual machines (instances) on the Jetstream cloud; participants registered for the tutorial WITH the training account will have access to a development/build machine for creating new container images, a separate instance running a container registry to store the images, and a virtual HPC cluster for actually running jobs using their containerized software.
  • Prerequisites: Basic Linux knowledge (especially command-line), text editor skills (vi/vim, emacs, or nano), basic HPC concepts knowledge a plus.
  • Technology Requirements: Computer with browser, Terminal application with ssh and ability to copy-paste, and knowledge of a command-line text editor such as vi/vim, emacs, or nano.

Presenters
SM
JF
EC
PV
SS
SB

Friday October 16, 2020 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Tutorial Rooms
  Tutorial/Workshop, Tutorial

2:30pm EDT

Tutorial Break
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Friday October 16, 2020 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Social Spaces
  Break
 
Monday, October 19
 

12:00pm EDT

Welcome/Help Desk open -- Please check in or just visit us!
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Before you attend your first session, please stop by the Welcome/Help Desk to check in with the conference organizers. We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!

Having trouble logging into the QiqoChat website? You can also call the Help Desk Zoom meeting during Help Desk hours. Look up your local telephone number (or dial 646-558-8656), enter Meeting ID 858 1833 1992 with passcode 6384.
Monday October 19, 2020 12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome

1:00pm EDT

Starting off on the right foot: Welcoming you to a community conversation (including Cloudify Gateways and Young Professional of the Year awards)
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Yes, every conference has to start somewhere, but why not start with hearing the voices of the participants? In this low-key but energizing kick-off to the main conference track, we'll begin a larger conversation about the impact that your gateways can have on discovery across disciplines and why we're here. We'll also recognize some of the young professionals who are already making a difference in the world of gateways and announce the awardees of the Cloudify Gateways 2020 solicitation, supported by CloudyCluster and Google Cloud Platform.
Presenters
avatar for Katherine Lawrence

Katherine Lawrence

Associate Director, Community Engagement & Exchange, U of Michigan/Science Gateways Community Institute
I help people creating advanced digital resources for research and education connect their projects with helpful services, expertise, and information. Ask me how the Science Gateways Community Institute can support your projects--at no cost--to better leverage the people and money... Read More →
LH

Monday October 19, 2020 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Plenary Room
  Plenary

2:00pm EDT

Break
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Monday October 19, 2020 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
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2:30pm EDT

Concurrent A: Modeling in the Earth Sciences (3 presentations)
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This Concurrent Session includes three presentations (each 10-12 minutes) sharing a common theme. These presentations start every 15 minutes, with general discussion and Q&A for the final 15 minutes. We encourage you to stay for the entire session, though you'll have a few minutes to switch between online rooms after each presentation if you wish. See the details/times of these presentations in their individual Sched listings.
Monday October 19, 2020 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Modeling in the Earth Sciences

2:30pm EDT

Concurrent B: Integrating Functionality Across Domains and Tools (3 presentations)
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This Concurrent Session includes three presentations (each 10-12 minutes) sharing a common theme. These presentations start every 15 minutes, with general discussion and Q&A for the final 15 minutes. We encourage you to stay for the entire session, though you'll have a few minutes to switch between online rooms after each presentation if you wish. See the details/times of these presentations in their individual Sched listings.
Monday October 19, 2020 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Integrating Functionality Across Domains and Tools

2:31pm EDT

A1: SWATShare: A Collaborative Cyberinfrastructure for Hydrologic Research and Education Using SWAT Model
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The complexity of studying hydrological processes using Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) has led to the development of SWATShare, a SWAT model sharing, execution, and visualization platform aiming at addressing the challenges of time-consuming SWAT model data collection and computation intensive modeling runs. SWATShare is an interactive web-based environment for research and education using SWAT. Scientists can share their models online or reuse SWAT models shared by others. Through SWATShare three types of SWAT simulations (regular simulation, sensitivity analysis, and auto-calibration) can run using high performance computing resources at SDSC and Purdue. Spatial and temporal plots may be dynamically generated using model outputs. SWATShare has been used to teach students how to apply SWAT models for simulating watershed hydrology to study the impact of land use and climate in several classroom settings. In this demo, we will demonstrate the key features of the SWATShare system including discovering and sharing models, submitting and analyzing simulations, and creating spatial and temporal visualization.
Presenters
LZ

Lan Zhao

Research Scientist, Purdue University
IL
AR
XC
VM

Monday October 19, 2020 2:31pm - 2:45pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Modeling in the Earth Sciences

2:31pm EDT

B1: net.science: A Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Innovation in Network Science and Engineering
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Networks have entered the mainstream lexicon over the last ten years. This coincides with the pervasive use of networks in a host of disciplines of interest to industry and academia, including biology, neurology, genomics, psychology, social sciences, economics, psychology, and cyber-physical systems and infrastructure. Several dozen journals and conferences regularly contain articles related to networks. Yet, there are no general-purpose cyberinfrastructures (CI) that can be used across these varied disciplines and domains. Furthermore, while there are scientific gateways that include some network science capabilities for particular domains (e.g., biochemistry, genetics), there are no general-purpose network-based scientific gateways. In this work, we introduce net.science, a CI for Network Science and Engineering, that is designed to be a community resource. This paper provides an overview of net.science, addressing key requirements and concepts, CI components, the types of applications that our CI will support, and various dimensions of our evaluation process.
Presenters
NA
RA
CA
YY
AC
KC
AE
EF
GF
AH
RK
CK
JL
DM
MM
NM
YM
JQ
NR
SS
RR
RS
GV

Monday October 19, 2020 2:31pm - 2:45pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Integrating Functionality Across Domains and Tools

2:45pm EDT

A2: Land Model Testbed: Accelerating Development, Benchmarking and Analysis of Land Surface Models
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A Land Model Testbed (LMT), designed to provide a computational framework for systematically assessing model fidelity and supporting rapid development of complex multiscale models, offers a general-purpose workflow for conducting large ensemble simulations of multiple land surface models, post-processing large volumes of model output, and evaluating model results. It leverages existing tools for launching model simulations and the International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) package for assessing model fidelity through comparison with best-available observational datasets. Increased complexity and proliferation of uncertain parameters in process representations in land surface models has driven the need for frequent and intensive testing and evaluating of models to quantify uncertainties and optimize parameters such that results are consistent with observations. The LMT described here meets these needs by providing tools to run thousands of ensemble simulations simultaneously and post-process their output files, by automating execution of an enhanced version of ILAMB with site-specific benchmarks and multivariate functional relationships, and by offering ensemble diagnostics and a customizable dashboard for displaying model performance metrics and associated graphics. We envision the LMT capabilities will serve as a foundational computational resource for a proposed user facility focused on terrestrial multiscale model-data integration.
Presenters
SS
MX
NC
JK
JM
FM

Monday October 19, 2020 2:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Modeling in the Earth Sciences

2:45pm EDT

B2: "Bring-your-own” Plug-in Management Middleware for Programmable Science Gateways
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There is a growing need for next-generation science gateways to increase the accessibility of data sets and cloud computing resources using latest technologies. Most science gateways today are built for specific purposes with pre-defined workflows, user interfaces, and fixed computing resources. There is a need to modernize them with middleware that can provide `plug in' support to programmatically increase their extensibility and scalability to meet users' growing needs. In this paper, we propose a novel middleware that can be integrated into science gateways using a ``bring-your-own'' plug-in management approach. This approach features microservice architectures to decouple applications, and allows users to customize and incorporate domain-specific components to an existing science gateway. We detail the application programming interfaces in our middleware for creation of end-to-end pipelines with diverse infrastructure, customized processes, detailed monitoring and flexible programmability for a scientific domain. We also demonstrate via a OnTimeRecommend case study on how our ``bring-your-own'' approach can be seamlessly integrated by a science gateway administrator/developer using a web application.
Presenters
KV
PC
RO
YZ
SW

Monday October 19, 2020 2:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Integrating Functionality Across Domains and Tools

3:00pm EDT

A3: IsoMAP - A Science Gateway for Isotopic Landscape Modeling
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Stable isotopic landscape (aka isoscape [1]) modeling brings new insights into the study of a wide array of research questions in multiple disciplines. However, the adoption of isoscape modeling has been hindered by the obstacles individual researchers face in collecting, compiling, and integrating heterogeneous environmental and isotopic data over large spatial and temporal scales and in developing and interpreting geostatistical models. To help address these challenges, we developed IsoMAP (http://isomap.org/), a science gateway for online isoscape modeling, analysis and prediction. IsoMAP accesses and integrates a number of diverse datasets and enable users to develop isoscape models over selected spatial and temporal domains using geostatistical algorithms, predict maps for the stable isotopic ratios of water and plants, and associate a sample’s isotope value with its most likely geographic origin. Up until now, there are more than 2400 registered users who have run around 14,000 simulations in the IsoMAP gateway. In this demo, we will demonstrate how researchers can use the IsoMAP gateway to develop isoscape models, run the developed models to generate map predictions for H and O isotopes in precipitation water and plant water, and map a sample’s origin.
Presenters
LZ

Lan Zhao

Research Scientist, Purdue University
JW
GB

Monday October 19, 2020 3:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Modeling in the Earth Sciences

3:00pm EDT

B3: Improving Science Gateway Monitoring, Caveats and Goals
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The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has invested heavily in research computing, including funding the eXtreme Digital (XD) program, to make computing infrastructure available to researchers, and sponsoring the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI), to support the integration of supercomputers with science gateways. XD Metrics on Demand (XDMoD), an NSF-funded tool that collects and presents detailed data about computing resources, was developed to manage just such varied computational resources. XDMoD metrics describe accounting and performance data for computational jobs, including resources consumed (computation, memory, disk, network, etc.), wait times, and quality of service. XDMoD is used to provide the NSF innovative HPC resources (XSEDE) with this information. In recent years, XDMoD has been enhanced to provide monitoring for cloud computing and storage, and metrics such as power consumption and GPU support. As the use of science gateways becomes more prominent in research computing, the influence of these user-friendly portals grows.New features under development now in XDMoD will serve the gateways community. In this short paper, we outline our plans to introduce new gateways monitoring functionality that integrates with existing monitoring and metrics.
Presenters
JS
JP
BP
RL
MD
TR

Monday October 19, 2020 3:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Integrating Functionality Across Domains and Tools

3:30pm EDT

Break
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Monday October 19, 2020 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
Social Spaces
  Break

4:00pm EDT

Poster Showcase with Sponsor Booths
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Join our new twist on a poster session. Poster presenters may upload their posters as early as Monday, October 12, in anticipation of the official Poster Showcase hour on Monday, October 19, starting at 4:00pm Eastern/1:00pm Pacific. Arrive on time because we'll kick off the hour with a brief welcome and explanation of how to browse the event.
Monday October 19, 2020 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Poster Showcase Event Room
  Plenary, Poster Showcase
 
Tuesday, October 20
 

12:00pm EDT

Welcome/Help Desk open -- Please check in or just visit us!
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Before you attend your first session, please stop by the Welcome/Help Desk to check in with the conference organizers. We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!

Having trouble logging into the QiqoChat website? You can also call the Help Desk Zoom meeting during Help Desk hours. Look up your local telephone number (or dial 646-558-8656), enter Meeting ID 858 1833 1992 with passcode 6384.
Tuesday October 20, 2020 12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome

1:00pm EDT

Interactive Keynote on Championing Science with Dr. Roger Aines and Amy Aines
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What does it take to convince a funder or a user of the value of your gateway? Co-authors Dr. Roger and Amy Aines will shed light on how to tailor your communication to overcome barriers to adoption. Bringing their combined perspective and insights from her four decades as a communications strategist and his as a geochemist and climate technologist, the Aines duo will illuminate the theory and practice of situational communication and why it takes more than the right words to influence others to act. During this keynote interview, they will share practical advice based on 11 principles from their instructive book Championing Science – Communicating Your Ideas to Decision Makers.
Presenters
avatar for Dr. Roger Aines

Dr. Roger Aines

Chief Scientist of the Energy Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Roger Aines develops climate and energy technologies for a more livable planet. As chief scientist of the energy program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he takes an integrated view of the energy, climate, and environmental aspects of carbon-based fuel production and use... Read More →
avatar for Amy Aines

Amy Aines

CEO, Damianakes Communications
Amy Aines has a knack for translating complex technical concepts to make sure they are understood. For 40 years, she has helped scientists, technologists and business leaders communicate to get results. Amy is CEO of Damianakes Communications and co-author of Championing Science... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2020 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Plenary Room
  Plenary, Interactive Keynote

2:00pm EDT

Break
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Tuesday October 20, 2020 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Social Spaces
  Break

2:30pm EDT

Concurrent C: Enhancing Earth Science Research (3 presentations)
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This Concurrent Session includes three presentations (each 10-12 minutes) sharing a common theme. These presentations start every 15 minutes, with general discussion and Q&A for the final 15 minutes. We encourage you to stay for the entire session, though you'll have a few minutes to switch between online rooms after each presentation if you wish. See the details/times of these presentations in their individual Sched listings.
Tuesday October 20, 2020 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Enhancing Earth Science Research

2:30pm EDT

Concurrent D: Managing Data and Research Products Effectively (3 presentations)
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This Concurrent Session includes three presentations (each 10-12 minutes) sharing a common theme. These presentations start every 15 minutes, with general discussion and Q&A for the final 15 minutes. We encourage you to stay for the entire session, though you'll have a few minutes to switch between online rooms after each presentation if you wish. See the details/times of these presentations in their individual Sched listings.
Tuesday October 20, 2020 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Managing Data and Research Products Effectively

2:31pm EDT

C1: GeoEDF: A Plug-and-play Workflow Framework for Earth Science Research
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Typical earth science research often involves a complex workflow of data acquisition from various remote data sources, followed by preprocessing, data preparation and fusion, and finally, simulation or analysis and validation. Several science gateways now provide dedicated data management, visualization, and processing capabilities for the kinds of geospatial data that is utilized in most earth science research. Despite the transformative impact that such gateways have had in these domains, in practice earth science research workflows still involve a mix of custom-built, non-reusable code, desktop tools, and intermediate data transfers to and from the gateway. Researchers consequently end up spending inordinate amounts of time on data wrangling rather than focusing on actual science. GeoEDF is designed to address these inefficiencies by making remote datasets directly usable in computational code and facilitating earth science workflows that are based entirely in a science gateway. In this demo we will demonstrate the key elements of GeoEDF that enable declarative, end-to-end, “plug-and-play” workflows in the earth sciences as well as the integration of GeoEDF with an existing, production, geospatial science gateway.
Presenters
LZ

Lan Zhao

Research Scientist, Purdue University
RK
XC

Tuesday October 20, 2020 2:31pm - 2:45pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Enhancing Earth Science Research

2:31pm EDT

D1: HUBzero® Hubdrive Prototype for Projects and Publications
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The HUBzero® Hubdrive prototype is a research into the viability of decentralized and peer-to-peer (p2p) network systems for collaboration and the sharing of scientific research online. Decentralized systems do not solely rely on a central authority or client-server architecture tied to proprietary, governmental or institutional organizations but instead allow the community itself to share research, papers, data, and results freely. Such systems ensure that relevant cited research remains online and in control by the researchers.
Presenters
avatar for Claire Stirm

Claire Stirm

Project Coordinator, UC San Diego | SDSC
Claire Stirm is the Deputy Director of the Incubator and Project Coordinator for the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI). 
JB
MZ

Tuesday October 20, 2020 2:31pm - 2:45pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Managing Data and Research Products Effectively

2:45pm EDT

C2: Geoweaver as a Gateway to Manage Distributed Geoscientific Workflows
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Web-based computing techniques have come into favor as a necessary tool in studying our interacting geosystems. Modern geoscientific workflows require complex management of processing steps, disparate data formats, and distributed high performance computing resources. This complexity poses a huge challenge when it comes to full-stack workflow management, as researchers often use an assortment of time-intensive manual operations to manage their projects. Geoweaver aims to enable management of data, processes, resources, and workflows, in a single intuitive web interface. We propose a demonstration of the key features of this system as a powerful alternative for people to manage their distributed workflows that integrates scripts and datasets on multiple platforms.
Presenters
AM
ZS

Tuesday October 20, 2020 2:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Enhancing Earth Science Research

2:45pm EDT

D2: An Open Source Managed File Transfer Framework for Science Gateways
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Managed File Transfer (MFT) systems are cyberinfrastructure that provide higher level functionalities on top of basic point-to-point data transfer protocols such as FTP, HTTP, and SCP. This paper presents an open source MFT system that incorporates science gateway requirements. We describe the system requirements, system architecture and core capabilities.
Presenters
DW
SM
EA
IR
AB
MP

Tuesday October 20, 2020 2:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Managing Data and Research Products Effectively

3:00pm EDT

C3: Hawai‘i Rainfall Analysis and Mapping Application (HI-RAMA): Decision Support Tool
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This demonstration discusses the Hawai‘i Rainfall Analysis and Mapping Application (HI-RAMA) decision support tool. HI-RAMA provides researchers and community stakeholders interactive access to and visualization of hosted historical and near-real-time monthly rainfall maps and aggregated rainfall station observational data for the State of Hawai‘i. The University of Hawai‘i Information Technology Services Cyberinfrastructure team in partnership with members of the Hawai‘i Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) ‘Ike Wai project team developed this application as part of the ‘Ike Wai Gateway to support water sustainability research for the state of Hawai‘i. This tool is designed to provide user-friendly access to information that can reveal the impacts of climate changes related to precipitation so users can make data-driven decisions.
Presenters
JM
SC
ML
RL
TW
JL
GJ

Tuesday October 20, 2020 3:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Enhancing Earth Science Research

3:00pm EDT

D3: FAIR Data and SEAGrid Gateway a Research Data Alliance Adoption Project
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The Science and Engineering Grid (SEAGrid) Gateway has been an active resource for the computational community since 2016. During this time the utility of persistent identifiers for research data products has become prevalent in research communities as defined in the FAIR principles for open data. At the beginning of 2020, the Research Data Alliance funded an adoption project to integrate RDA outputs and recommendations focused on PID issuance to data and software components that make up a science workflow within the SEAGrid environment. This short paper summarizes this project and describes the gateway and data infrastructure components required for integration along with the details of the integration process. The work done in this adoption project can be used to inform future gateway projects that adopt the technical components of FAIR which are reliant on a persistent identifier resolution infrastructure.
Presenters
RQ
SP
YL
GR

Tuesday October 20, 2020 3:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Managing Data and Research Products Effectively

3:30pm EDT

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Tuesday October 20, 2020 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
Social Spaces
  Break

4:00pm EDT

About Learning Labs
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“Learning Labs” may be one of several styles of impromptu learning:
  • Pop-up BOFs (Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions): Discuss a topic that you care about or propose a topic that is not covered by pre-scheduled sessions. This is a great way to find the other people at the conference who want to talk about a shared interest. 
  • Mini Hacks: Teach or help others to use specific software, understand development techniques, or tackle other technical topics.
  • Coffee-Break Conversations: Carry on the energy from a post-presentation discussion or elaborate on a topic that comes up in a session.

We will have three, 50–minute periods devoted to your ideas. Each day, multiple online meeting rooms (through QiqoChat) will be set up for you to meet with others and discuss the topics of your choice. Here are the ways you can get involved:
  1. Propose a topic that you’d be willing to host. (You don’t have to be an expert, just interested!)
  2. Find a topic that interests you, and join a "room"!

You'll be able to submit your topics from now through the conference until 3pm Eastern on Thursday, October 22 (1 hour before the last Learning Lab time slot). Topics can be added to meeting rooms each day as long as they're submitted here at least an hour in advance of the Learning Lab time slot.

There is no review/selection process, just the willingness to convene a group.Submit your topic with this Google Form no later than 1 hour before the start of the Learning Lab you wish to host.

We’ll announce the topics in the QiqoChat space and in this Sched program.
Tuesday October 20, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

4:00pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 1: Keys to Effective Mentoring for the Science Gateway Community
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 1, accessible from Tuesday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.

This Learning Lab is designed to develop mentoring skills for SGCI community members (mentors) and students (mentees). Mentoring is an activity that can have a life and career changing impact on students. Students learn Tips For Being a Good Mentee while mentors learn practical tools for facilitating the experience. Facilitating this session will be Donna J. Charlevoix, PhD, Director of Education and Community Engagement at UNAVCO.

Host: Linda Bailey Hayden
Presenters
LH

Tuesday October 20, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

4:00pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 2 - Campfire stories: "The best thing I ever did" / "I wish I’d done that differently"
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 2, accessible from Tuesday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.

Host: Claire Stirm

Description: Have you said to yourself, “Wow, I’ll never do that again” or “That was the best thing I did!” Join us for a community discussion about lessons learned while operating and managing science gateways.
 
Tuesday October 20, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

4:00pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 3: Hosting MATLAB on Gateways: Tools and Examples
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 3, accessible from Tuesday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.

Host: Pradeep Ramamoorthy & Lisa Kempler

Description: View examples and demos of gateways hosting MATLAB. Learn about tools and supported implementations.
Tuesday October 20, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

4:00pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 4: Open OnDemand
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 4, accessible from Tuesday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.

Host: Alan Chalker

Description: The Open OnDemand developers will be available to discuss anything and everything Open OnDemand related
 
Tuesday October 20, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

4:00pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 5 - Championing Gateways: Ask Me Anything!
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 5, accessible from Tuesday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.

Host: Amy Aines

Description: This is your opportunity to bring your questions or most challenging communication situations and get advice from keynote speaker Amy Aines, coauthor of Championing Science.
 
Tuesday October 20, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs
 
Wednesday, October 21
 

12:00pm EDT

Welcome/Help Desk open -- Please check in or just visit us!
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Before you attend your first session, please stop by the Welcome/Help Desk to check in with the conference organizers. We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!

Having trouble logging into the QiqoChat website? You can also call the Help Desk Zoom meeting during Help Desk hours. Look up your local telephone number (or dial 646-558-8656), enter Meeting ID 858 1833 1992 with passcode 6384.
Wednesday October 21, 2020 12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome

1:00pm EDT

The Challenge of Gateway Interoperability: The SGCI Tech Summit
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The Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) helps solve common challenges faced by the science gateways developer community. The SGCI Tech Summit, launched after the Gateways 2019 conference, consisting of individuals from a number of different institutions and gateway projects, identified gateway interoperability as one of the key challenges facing the community. The SGCI Tech Summit team began work on a project to provide uniform descriptions of cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources and applications. In this plenary session, the SGCI Tech Summit team will describe the high-level vision and goals for the Tech Summit, and the project members will update the community on the progress made so far. The session will conclude with a panel consisting of Tech Summit members and leaders from the science gateways community to share their experiences and challenges with gateway interoperability and ensure that the effort is successful.

A Learning Lab session will accompany this plenary presentation. We encourage those who are interested in this subject to consider joining the Learning Lab for further discussion of future steps and ways to participate. The Learning Lab will also be on Wednesday, October 21, starting after the break.
Moderators
MD

Presenters
SM
JS
SB
EF
TK
DM
JN
MP
MZ

Wednesday October 21, 2020 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Plenary Room
  Plenary, Interactive Panel

2:00pm EDT

Break
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Wednesday October 21, 2020 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Social Spaces
  Break

2:30pm EDT

About Learning Labs
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“Learning Labs” may be one of several styles of impromptu learning:
  • Pop-up BOFs (Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions): Discuss a topic that you care about or propose a topic that is not covered by pre-scheduled sessions. This is a great way to find the other people at the conference who want to talk about a shared interest. 
  • Mini Hacks: Teach or help others to use specific software, understand development techniques, or tackle other technical topics.
  • Coffee-Break Conversations: Carry on the energy from a post-presentation discussion or elaborate on a topic that comes up in a session.

We will have three, 50–minute periods devoted to your ideas. Each day, multiple online meeting rooms (through QiqoChat) will be set up for you to meet with others and discuss the topics of your choice. Here are the ways you can get involved:
  1. Propose a topic that you’d be willing to host. (You don’t have to be an expert, just interested!)
  2. Find a topic that interests you, and join a "room"!

You'll be able to submit your topics from now through the conference until 3pm Eastern on Thursday, October 22 (1 hour before the last Learning Lab time slot). Topics can be added to meeting rooms each day as long as they're submitted here at least an hour in advance of the Learning Lab time slot.

There is no review/selection process, just the willingness to convene a group.Submit your topic with this Google Form no later than 1 hour before the start of the Learning Lab you wish to host.

We’ll announce the topics in the QiqoChat space and in this Sched program.
Wednesday October 21, 2020 2:30pm - 3:20pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

2:30pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 1: Brain Trust - How can SGCI track scientific impact?
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 1, accessible from Wednesday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.

Host: Claire Stirm

Description: How SGCI tracks scientific impact has been a topic that the Institute has explored over the last four years. We would love to have a conversation with the Gateways attendees through the structure of a Brain Trust to brainstorm on different approaches the Institute might take for future impact tracking.
Wednesday October 21, 2020 2:30pm - 3:20pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

2:30pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 2: SGCI Tech Summit
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 2, accessible from Wednesday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.

Host: Joe Stubbs

Description: In this learning lab, we will continue the discussion started in the plenary around the SGCI's Tech Summit activities for gateway interoperability. If you are interested in hearing more about the Tech Summit's efforts, or if you would like to discuss other common challenges faced by the science gateways community that could be opportunities for future Tech Summit projects, please come by! We will cater the interests of the attendees, but some possible options include: demos of the Common Resources API reference architecture or discussions around integrating the Common Resources API reference architecture into your projects.
Wednesday October 21, 2020 2:30pm - 3:20pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

2:30pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 3: Gateways and the Open Science Grid
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 3, accessible from Wednesday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.

Host: Mats Rynge / Christina Koch

Description: The Open Science Grid is a national network of computing resources ideally suited for large scale high throughput computing workflows, including those submitted by user-facing gateways. Come to this session to learn more about the OSG features that can support gateways, examples of gateways using the OSG, and general discussion about high throughput computing workflows.
Wednesday October 21, 2020 2:30pm - 3:20pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

2:30pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 4 - SGCI - The Ambassador Programs
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 4, accessible from Wednesday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.


Host: Sandra Gesing

Description: SGCI offers the programs Gateway Ambassadors and Science Ambassadors. Gateway Ambassadors meet monthly to exchange experience, ideas and knowledge with any level of knowledge about science gateways welcome as well as being an observer. Science Ambassadors are selected for funding for a year to spread the word about their science and the science gateways they use. The session will go into detail how to join or apply and for exchanging ideas how to extend the community of community builders.
Wednesday October 21, 2020 2:30pm - 3:20pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

3:20pm EDT

Break
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Wednesday October 21, 2020 3:20pm - 3:50pm EDT
Social Spaces
  Break

3:50pm EDT

Concurrent E: Improving Data Use for Biomedical Research (3 presentations)
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This Concurrent Session includes three presentations (each 10-12 minutes) sharing a common theme. These presentations start every 15 minutes, with general discussion and Q&A for the final 15 minutes. We encourage you to stay for the entire session, though you'll have a few minutes to switch between online rooms after each presentation if you wish. See the details/times of these presentations in their individual Sched listings.
Wednesday October 21, 2020 3:50pm - 4:50pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Improving Data Use for Biomedical Research

3:50pm EDT

Concurrent F: Supporting Education and Communication (3 presentations)
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This Concurrent Session includes three presentations (each 10-12 minutes) sharing a common theme. These presentations start every 15 minutes, with general discussion and Q&A for the final 15 minutes. We encourage you to stay for the entire session, though you'll have a few minutes to switch between online rooms after each presentation if you wish. See the details/times of these presentations in their individual Sched listings.
Wednesday October 21, 2020 3:50pm - 4:50pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Supporting Education and Communication

3:51pm EDT

E1: Alzheimer's Disease Drug Discovery Center Data Sharing Platform
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The Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Discovery Center (AD3C) will not only provide cutting edge research in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) it will also consist of a Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) Core. This Core is being developed and will provide a gateway environment for AD researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine and worldwide. The BCB gateway consists of many heterogeneous research projects and integrates the data (and its related data policy), diverse computational resources, multiple visualization tools, and researcher interfaces for each of these projects. Combining these projects into a single uniform operational interface will require a robust approach to data management, resource provisioning, application porting, and user design. The following short paper describes the components and the integration challenges of providing a single gateway to address multiple research needs of a large National Institute of Health center focused on AD drug discovery.
Presenters
SM
EA
MP
RQ
YZ
SC
XL
HW
JL
LC
CZ

Wednesday October 21, 2020 3:51pm - 4:05pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Improving Data Use for Biomedical Research

3:51pm EDT

F1: Intercultural Learning Hub (HubICL)
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The Intercultural Learning Hub (HubICL) is the first intercultural learning platform that serves as a “one-stop-shop” for networking, collaboration, and resource exchange. The development of the HubICL required a joint effort from the HUBzero® team and the HubICL team. This paper describes the creation of the HubICL gateway, the development process of the HubICL Toolbox, and focuses on the audiences using the platform to date.
Presenters
avatar for Claire Stirm

Claire Stirm

Project Coordinator, UC San Diego | SDSC
Claire Stirm is the Deputy Director of the Incubator and Project Coordinator for the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI). 
AB
LM
AF

Wednesday October 21, 2020 3:51pm - 4:05pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Supporting Education and Communication

4:05pm EDT

E2: Accelerating Neuroimaging Research with BrainForge
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BrainForge is a cloud-enabled, web-based analysis platform for neuroimaging research. This platform allows users to upload and archive data from a study, customize and queue analyses they want to run on individual scans across subjects, and process data easily on a high-performance computing luster using SLURM. After analyses are completed, results can be easily shared with colleagues. BrainForge solves multiple problems for researchers who want to analyze neuroimaging data, including issues related to software, reproducibility, computational resources, and data sharing. BrainForge works across structural, functional, and diffusion modalities and is BIDS compliant. Analyses are conducted completely inside of Singularity containers and utilize widely used software packages such as nipype, Statistical Parametric Mapping, the Group ICA for fMRI Toolbox, and Freesurfer.
Presenters
EV
BB
JB
JF
HP
RR
RK
VC

Wednesday October 21, 2020 4:05pm - 4:20pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Improving Data Use for Biomedical Research

4:05pm EDT

F2: Interactive C++ code development using C++Explorer and GitHub Classroom for educational purposes
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Teaching C++ programming to non-computer science majors comes with the burden of setting up an integrated development environment, a struggle for most students. Therefore, we present the open source tool, C++Explorer, a Jupyterhub deployment for interactively developing C++ code. Students can connect to the server without installing anything, and, almost instantly, they can begin to play with code using the notebooks. Another aspect of code development is remote communication with co-workers or the community. To develop this skill, we use GitHub classroom to provide feedback on the assignments and practice remote communication. C++Explorer was used in the fall of 2019 to teach parallel computation to mathematics students. At the end of the class, these students provided feedback through a survey. This data will be used to improve the next iteration of the course.
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PD
SR

Wednesday October 21, 2020 4:05pm - 4:20pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Supporting Education and Communication

4:20pm EDT

E3: Enabling Secure and Effective Biomedical Data Sharing through Cyberinfrastructure Gateways
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Scientific cyberinfrastructures promise solutions to computational challenges with rich resources; they embrace collaborative workflows in which users can access and share scientific data and computing resources to perform research and education tasks, which catalyze scientific discovery. The Dynaswap project reports on developing a coherently integrated and trustworthy holistic secure workflow protection architecture for cyberinfrastructures which can be used on virtual machines deployed through cyberinfrastructure (CI) services such as JetStream. This service creates a user-friendly cloud environment designed to give researchers access to interactive computing and data analysis resources on demand. The Dynaswap cybersecurity architecture supports roles, role hierarchies, and data hierarchies, as well as dynamic changes of roles and hierarchical relations within the scientific infrastructure. Dynaswap combines existing cutting-edge security frameworks (including an Authentication Authorization-Accounting framework, Multi-Factor Authentication, Secure Digital Provenance, and Blockchain) with advanced security tools (e.g., Biometric-Capsule, Cryptography-based Hierarchical Access Control, and Dual-level Key Management). These are integrated to deliver a secure scientific infrastructure, which allows researchers, educators, practitioners, and students to remotely access and share sensitive data, computing resources, and workflows with flexibility and convenience while also having the highest security and privacy protection. The CI is being validated in life-science research environments and in the education settings of Health Informatics.
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SG
SP
TP
RQ
AB

Wednesday October 21, 2020 4:20pm - 4:35pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Improving Data Use for Biomedical Research

4:20pm EDT

F3: SimpleB.io: An online tool and community for communicating biology and biomedical science in plain language
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Biological and biomedical sciences, including latest breaking research, are closely followed by non-experts and the general public owing to their direct impact on health and wellbeing. However, scientific papers and other technical discourses that describe this scientific research are couched in jargon that is inaccessible to non-experts. Similar challenges arise for healthcare professionals in light of their need to regularly communicate medical situations and concepts to patients and their families. We are developing SimpleB.io – http://simpleb.io – an online tool to break down these barriers in making biological/biomedical science and research findings broadly-accessible by: 1) providing a feature-rich text-editor that enables experts to simplify dense technical/scientific text, and 2) building a community of researchers, instructors, students, and the general public around science communication and learning.
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JS
MA
CY
DG
AY
NH
JZ
AK

Wednesday October 21, 2020 4:20pm - 4:35pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Supporting Education and Communication
 
Thursday, October 22
 

12:00pm EDT

Welcome/Help Desk open -- Please check in or just visit us!
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Before you attend your first session, please stop by the Welcome/Help Desk to check in with the conference organizers. We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!

Having trouble logging into the QiqoChat website? You can also call the Help Desk Zoom meeting during Help Desk hours. Look up your local telephone number (or dial 646-558-8656), enter Meeting ID 858 1833 1992 with passcode 6384.
Thursday October 22, 2020 12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome

1:00pm EDT

Attracting and Retaining Gateway Users by Applying Usability and Accessibility Solutions
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Not only do you need to attract users to your gateway, you need to make sure they stick around. Overlooking usability and accessibility is like building a storefront with a moat and no signage. Enter at your peril!

This presentation brings to life the importance and key concepts of usability and accessibility. SGCI's resident usability expert Paul Parsons will share a set of common usability problems identified from helping more than 30 gateways improve their usability. In parallel, Hiram Kuykendall, Chief Technology Officer of MicroAssist, will reveal top accessibility violations that should matter to every federally funded gateway. Together, they show how you can take steps towards making your gateway meet both best practices and standards. You'll walk away knowing how to get started with bridging the moat and hoisting the welcome banners!

Participants will leave with new tools. For their own projects, participants can use Paul's paper "Common Usability Problems and Solutions for Science Gateways" to apply usability solutions that are easy for non-experts to implement. They'll also receive an accessibility checklist from Hiram, featuring concepts and resources that can help a gateway address top accessibility issues.

Two hours after the end of this session, Hiram will offer a Learning Lab going more deeply into the accessibility evaluation resources available to gateways. Mark your calendar also for SGCI's November 11 webinar featuring Hiram's review of the ways that gateways should be adapting to accessibility standards, with a specific focus on the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) as a model.
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PP

Paul Parsons

Assistant Professor, Purdue University and SGCI
Paul Parsons is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University. He received his Bachelor degree in computing and cognitive science from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In 2013, Paul received his Ph.D. from the University of Western... Read More →
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Hiram Kuykendall

Chief Technology Officer, MicroAssist
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Claire Stirm

Project Coordinator, UC San Diego | SDSC
Claire Stirm is the Deputy Director of the Incubator and Project Coordinator for the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI). 
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YH
KG
BD
SG
MZ

Thursday October 22, 2020 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Plenary Room
  Plenary, Interactive Panel

2:00pm EDT

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Thursday October 22, 2020 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Social Spaces
  Break

2:30pm EDT

Concurrent G: Using the Cloud for Analysis Pipelines (3 presentations)
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This Concurrent Session includes three presentations (each 10-12 minutes) sharing a common theme. These presentations start every 15 minutes, with general discussion and Q&A for the final 15 minutes. We encourage you to stay for the entire session, though you'll have a few minutes to switch between online rooms after each presentation if you wish. See the details/times of these presentations in their individual Sched listings.
Thursday October 22, 2020 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Using the Cloud for Analysis Pipelines

2:30pm EDT

Concurrent H: Containers for Better Science (3 presentations)
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This Concurrent Session includes three presentations (each 10-12 minutes) sharing a common theme. These presentations start every 15 minutes, with general discussion and Q&A for the final 15 minutes. We encourage you to stay for the entire session, though you'll have a few minutes to switch between online rooms after each presentation if you wish. See the details/times of these presentations in their individual Sched listings.
Thursday October 22, 2020 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Containers for Better Science

2:31pm EDT

G1: SACI - A Cloud Based Real Time Sensor Data Management and Analysis Platform
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In this demo we will present SACI, a scalable and flexible sensor data collection and analysis platform. The main goal of this system is to aid sensor data researchers to easily collect, process, store, and access large volumes of heterogeneous sensor data collected in the field. It supports real time data ingestion and processing pipelines using an open source software stack including RabbitMQ, Docker, Node.js, MongoDB, and HUBzero. Data producers can easily register a new data source and automatically set up the data ingestion pipelines at the backend. The SACI system has been used to help plant phenotype researchers at Purdue to collect and process plant health sensor data. We will demo the main sensor workflow pipelines supported by SACI and how it has been applied to collect, manage, and visualize the plant health sensor data.
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Lan Zhao

Research Scientist, Purdue University
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XC
JS
JJ

Thursday October 22, 2020 2:31pm - 2:45pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Using the Cloud for Analysis Pipelines

2:31pm EDT

H1: A Serverless Gateway for the Execution of Open Machine Learning Models on AWS
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Serverless computing has become a paradigm for the implementation and development of a wide range of applications based on events in the cloud. Today, with the rise of machine learning models and artificial intelligence applications, both cloud providers and large companies are focusing their efforts on offering these services to their customers. This article proposes a serverless computing platform to facilitate running tasks for inference using machine learning models on the AWS Cloud provider. The back-end grows elastically based on execution needs and features scale-to-zero features to minimize costs, while the front-end provides a simplified user experience to trigger the inference phase for machine learning models. The results demonstrate that the proposed solution constitutes a step forward on simplifying the Cloud-based execution of machine learning and artificial intelligence models.
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DM
SR
GM
IB

Thursday October 22, 2020 2:31pm - 2:45pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Containers for Better Science

2:45pm EDT

G2: A Scalable Cloud-Based Analysis Platform for Survey Astronomy
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Research in astronomy is undergoing a major paradigm shift, transformed by the advent of large, automated, sky-surveys into a data-rich field where multi-TB to PB-sized spatio-temporal data sets are commonplace. For example the Legacy Survey of Space and Time; LSST) is about to begin delivering observations of >10^10 objects, including a database with >4 x 10^13 rows of time series data. This volume presents a challenge: how should a domain-scientist with little experience in data management or distributed computing access data and perform analyses at PB-scale?

We present a possible solution to this problem built on (adapted) industry standard tools and made accessible through web gateways. We have i) developed Astronomy eXtensions for Spark, AXS, a series of astronomy-specific modifications to Apache Spark allowing astronomers to tap into its computational scalability ii) deployed datasets in AXS-queriable format in Amazon S3, leveraging its I/O scalability, iii) developed a deployment of Spark on Kubernetes with auto-scaling configurations requiring no end-user interaction, and iv) provided a Jupyter notebook, web-accessible, front-end via JupyterHub including a rich library of pre-installed common astronomical software (accessible at http://hub.dirac.institute).

We use this system to enable the analysis of data from the Zwicky Transient Facility, presently the closest precursor survey to the LSST, and discuss initial results. To our knowledge, this is a first application of cloud-based scalable analytics to astronomical datasets approaching LSST-scale. The code is available at https://github.com/astronomy-commons.
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SS
CS
PZ
MJ

Thursday October 22, 2020 2:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Using the Cloud for Analysis Pipelines

2:45pm EDT

H2: Deploy Kubernetes and JupyterHub on XSEDE Jetstream
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JupyterHub is a production-grade system delivered by the Jupyter team to provide Jupyter Notebooks to multiple users through a single web application. It handles authentication, spawns the Jupyter Notebook application for each users and takes care of proxying it back to the user.
JupyterHub provides access to remote computing resources and a custom software environment with the only requirement of a web browser and an internet connection.
It can be deployed for users of a Science Gateway, attendees of workshops or tutorials, students in classes or scientists in scientific collaborations.

Supplying enough computational resources for any non-trivial number of users requires a distributed setup, which quickly becomes a hurdle to configure and manage. The Jupyter team relies on Kubernetes to deploy JupyterHub at scale and provides a recipe to simplify the deployment on cloud providers named Zero-to-Jupyterhub.
The most suitable resource within XSEDE for this task is Jetstream, the Openstack deployment at Indiana University and Texas Advanced Computing Center, which offers many of the features that public cloud providers like Amazon and Google do.

In this paper we will present two different strategies to deploy Kubernetes on Jetstream, either using the kubespray tool or using the dedicated Openstack facility, Magnum.
Then we will show how to leverage the Zero-to-JupyterHub recipe to install JupyterHub, configure it and customize it further.
Presenters
AZ
RS
JC
JF
JM
RS

Thursday October 22, 2020 2:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Containers for Better Science

3:00pm EDT

G3: A Gateway to Astronomical Image Processing: Rubin Observatory Science Pipelines on AWS
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The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST, www.lsst.org), operated by the Rubin Observatory, is a 10-year astronomical survey due to start operations in 2022 that will image half the sky every three nights. LSST will produce ~20TB of raw data per night which will be calibrated and analyzed in almost real time. Given the volume of LSST data, the traditional subset-download-process paradigm of data reprocessing faces significant challenges. We describe here a gateway for astronomical science that would enable astronomers to analyze images and catalogs at scale. In this first step we focus on executing the LSST's Science Pipelines, a collection of image and catalog processing algorithms, on Amazon Web Services (AWS) accessed through a Jupyter interface. We describe the performance, scalability and cost of deploying such a system in the cloud.
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DB
AC
HC
TJ
JB
AS

Thursday October 22, 2020 3:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Concurrent Room 1
  Concurrent Session Room 1, Using the Cloud for Analysis Pipelines

3:00pm EDT

H3: Enabling Science with Functions-as-a-Service: New Features and Usage of the Abaco Platform
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The Abaco Platform is an NSF funded project enabling researchers and developers to run containerized functions on infrastructure at the Texas Advanced Computing Center by making simple API calls over HTTP. Sometimes referred to as a “serverless” platform, Abaco reduces the administrative cost of research projects by eliminating the need to maintain infrastructure to run these workloads. Since its initial production release in January 2018, several major new features driven by feedback from the community have been released, including: an autoscaler capability for automatically managing the pool of workers for an actor; actor aliases, events and additional features designed to support building complex actor networks; synchronous executions for very low latency actors; and a global search capability. During this time, a number of new projects across a wide range of domains of science and engineering have adopted Abaco in interesting ways. In this paper, we describe the major new capabilities of Abaco since its initial production release and we discuss some of the innovative ways projects have been leveraging them to enable research.
Presenters
JS
CG
JL
AJ
MP

Thursday October 22, 2020 3:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Concurrent Room 2
  Concurrent Session Room 2, Containers for Better Science

3:30pm EDT

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Thursday October 22, 2020 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
Social Spaces
  Break

4:00pm EDT

About Learning Labs
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“Learning Labs” may be one of several styles of impromptu learning:
  • Pop-up BOFs (Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions): Discuss a topic that you care about or propose a topic that is not covered by pre-scheduled sessions. This is a great way to find the other people at the conference who want to talk about a shared interest. 
  • Mini Hacks: Teach or help others to use specific software, understand development techniques, or tackle other technical topics.
  • Coffee-Break Conversations: Carry on the energy from a post-presentation discussion or elaborate on a topic that comes up in a session.

We will have three, 50–minute periods devoted to your ideas. Each day, multiple online meeting rooms (through QiqoChat) will be set up for you to meet with others and discuss the topics of your choice. Here are the ways you can get involved:
  1. Propose a topic that you’d be willing to host. (You don’t have to be an expert, just interested!)
  2. Find a topic that interests you, and join a "room"!

You'll be able to submit your topics from now through the conference until 3pm Eastern on Thursday, October 22 (1 hour before the last Learning Lab time slot). Topics can be added to meeting rooms each day as long as they're submitted here at least an hour in advance of the Learning Lab time slot.

There is no review/selection process, just the willingness to convene a group.Submit your topic with this Google Form no later than 1 hour before the start of the Learning Lab you wish to host.

We’ll announce the topics in the QiqoChat space and in this Sched program.
Thursday October 22, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

4:00pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 1: Formal Methods for Verifying Research Computing Infrastructure
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 1, accessible from Thursday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.

Host: Joe Stubbs

Description: Formal methods, and TLA+ in particular, are gaining traction in industry as a way to verify properties of a software system. At TACC, we have recently started using TLA+ to verify aspects of our Abaco API, a "functions-as-a-service" platform. While still in the early stages of this endeavor, we have been encouraged by the results so far. We're interested to see if anyone else is using (or thinking about using, or just interested in talking about the potential use of) formal methods for their projects.  
Thursday October 22, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

4:00pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 2: Educational Gateways - Discussion on best practices and gaps
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 2, accessible from Thursday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.


Host: Claire Stirm

Description: Discussion on best practices and gaps in providing online tools/resources for classrooms (k-12 and college) and MSIs. We welcome community members who are hosting educational materials on their science gateway to come and share their experiences, challenges, and lessons learned.
Thursday October 22, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

4:00pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 3: Elasticsearch for Gateway Developers
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 3, accessible from Thursday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.


Host: Jake Rosenberg

Description: Elasticsearch is a powerful tool for enhancing the discoverability of data and metadata. We will discuss deployment, indexing strategies, and integration with science gateway frontends.
Thursday October 22, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

4:00pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 4: How do you know you've succeeded? KPIs, metrics, and assessment
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 4, accessible from Thursday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.

Host: East Main Evaluation & Consulting - Barbara Heath & Stephanie Simmons

Description: This learning lab will be a discussion surrounding gateway assessment including KPIs, metrics, and other forms used to measure success. We hope to learn how this process can get more exciting?
Thursday October 22, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

4:00pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 5: Exploring the novel capabilities of the Tapis v3 platform
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 5, accessible from Thursday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.


Host: Anagha Jamthe

Description: Tapis is an NSF-funded web-based API framework for securely managing computational workloads across infrastructures and institutions, so that experts can focus on their research instead of the technology needed to accomplish it. As part of work funded by the National Science Foundation since 2019, Tapis is delivering a version 3 of its platform with several new capabilities, including a multi-site Security Kernel, Streaming Data APIs, and first-class support for containerized applications. With Tapis v3 you can:
* Store and retrieve streaming/sensor data for real-time and batch job processing, with support for temporal and spatial indexes and queries.
* Securely execute workflows that span geographically distributed providers.
* Leverage containerized codes to enable portability, and reduce the overall time-to-solution by utilizing data locality and other smart scheduling techniques.
* Improve repeatability and reproducibility of computations with history and provenance tracking built into the API.
* Manage access to data and results through a fine-grained permissions model, so that digital assets can be securely shared with colleagues or the community at large.
With this learning lab, we aim to reach out to the gateways community members and discuss how users are currently adopting Tapis for variety of scientific use cases and discuss ways in which they can contribute to Tapis.  
Thursday October 22, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs

4:00pm EDT

Learning Lab Room 6 - A Deep Dive into Accessibility with the Checklist from the 'Attracting and Retaining Gateway Users' plenary
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Join this Learning Lab in Room 6, accessible from Thursday's QiqoChat Event Space. Scroll down the sidebar, just past the Sponsor booths, to find the Learning Lab sessions.

Host: Hiram Kuykendall

Description: Want to learn how online tools can bolster your ability to provide an accessible gateway that better complies with federal requirements? Join Hiram Kuykendall of MicroAssist as he goes more deeply into the accessibility evaluation resources available to gateways. He will explain the resources provided in the checklist from his earlier plenary session.
Thursday October 22, 2020 4:00pm - 4:50pm EDT
Learning Lab Rooms
  Learning Labs
 
Friday, October 23
 

12:00pm EDT

Welcome/Help Desk open -- Please check in or just visit us!
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Before you attend your first session, please stop by the Welcome/Help Desk to check in with the conference organizers. We want to make sure you are all set to enjoy Gateways 2020 to the fullest!

Having trouble logging into the QiqoChat website? You can also call the Help Desk Zoom meeting during Help Desk hours. Look up your local telephone number (or dial 646-558-8656), enter Meeting ID 858 1833 1992 with passcode 6384.
Friday October 23, 2020 12:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
QiqoChat
  Welcome

1:00pm EDT

GitHub's Archive Program -- Cooler than you can imagine!
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The GitHub Archive Program https://archiveprogram.github.com/ has the goal of preserving open source software for future generations, storing code safely in an Arctic vault. This amplifies the meaning of "code preservation" to a new level. In this closing interactive keynote, we will learn from Thomas Dohmke, VP of Strategic Programs at GitHub, about the Archive Program and explore what this fascinating program might imply for the future responsibilities and opportunities of gateways.
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TD

Thomas Dohmke

VP of Strategic Programs, GitHub
Thomas joined GitHub in 2018 and manages special projects, the partnership between GitHub & Microsoft, and the One Engineering System team that establishes a standard toolkit across all of GitHub’s engineering teams. Prior to joining GitHub he worked as a Director of PM at Microsoft... Read More →
AC

Friday October 23, 2020 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Plenary Room
  Plenary, Interactive Keynote

2:00pm EDT

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Friday October 23, 2020 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Social Spaces
  Break

2:30pm EDT

Closing Session: Shape the future of the gateway community
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Join us for a conference wrap-up, including a discussion of takeaways, next steps, and how to make Gateways 2021 even better! This is an opportunity to reconnect with each other, consider the future of the gateway community, and share your feedback. All in 30 minutes!
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Katherine Lawrence

Associate Director, Community Engagement & Exchange, U of Michigan/Science Gateways Community Institute
I help people creating advanced digital resources for research and education connect their projects with helpful services, expertise, and information. Ask me how the Science Gateways Community Institute can support your projects--at no cost--to better leverage the people and money... Read More →

Friday October 23, 2020 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Plenary Room
  Plenary, Closing Session

3:00pm EDT

Closing Celebration: Last chance to hang out, have fun, and make connections!
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Wrap up the conference with a little relaxation time. We'll meet in the Networking Lounge, where you can also play games. We'll have suggestions of low-tech online games you can play, or just hang out.
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Katherine Lawrence

Associate Director, Community Engagement & Exchange, U of Michigan/Science Gateways Community Institute
I help people creating advanced digital resources for research and education connect their projects with helpful services, expertise, and information. Ask me how the Science Gateways Community Institute can support your projects--at no cost--to better leverage the people and money... Read More →

Friday October 23, 2020 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
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  Plenary, Closing Session
 
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