In collaboration with Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing project, UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is happy to host the following workshop on workflows.

Free Workflows Workshop:

Registration is now open for a free Workflows Workshop to be held August 9-10, 2016 at multiple institutions across the country including UCLA-IDRE. Sponsored by the Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing project, this workshop will provide an overview of workflows and how they can enhance research productivity.

A general session on the value of workflows will be followed by presentations and hands-on sessions with six different workflows. The objective is to assist the community in understanding the capabilities of these various workflows and to get people started with their usage. These include:

• General overview of workflows; Why use them?, presented by Scott Callaghan, University of Southern California
• Copernicus, presented by Peter Kasson, University of Virginia
• Galaxy, presented by Dave Clements, Johns Hopkins University
• Makeflow/WorkQueue, presented by Nicholas Hazekamp, University of Notre Dame
• Pegasus, presented by Karan Vahi and Mats Rynge, Information Sciences Institute
• RADICAL Cybertools, presented by Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University
• Swift, presented by Mike Wilde, Argonne National Laboratory

The presentations will be followed by a question and answer period to address questions from the community. Additional information on the workshop is available at https://sites.google.com/a/illinois.edu/workflows-workshop/home

The sites hosting this workshop include:

• UCLA-IDRE
• Georgia State University
• NCSA – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Michigan State University
• Oklahoma State University
• Purdue University
• Stanford University
• Texas Tech University
• University of Kentucky
• University of Houston
• University of Utah
• University of Wyoming

You may register for this workshop through the XSEDE User Portal at: https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar by August 2, 2016. There is a registration button for each site, be sure you select UCLA site in order to attend at UCLA-IDRE.

The Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing project is supported by the National Science Foundation (awards OCI-0725070 and ACI-1238993) and the state of Illinois. Blue Waters is a joint effort of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications.