Open Cyberinfrastructure for an Open Society
Channel: UQ Research Computing Centre
Date: 15/03/2024

ABSTRACT:
Our vision is to build an Open Cyberinfrastructure that integrates resources at thousands of institutions worldwide.

In this talk we will present this vision, the resulting architecture we have deployed presently, and the present state of deployment.

We focus on how this architecture addresses three challenges:
 1. the widening gap between the haves and have-nots
 2. bridging the gap between classroom and research scale of any concept we teach
 3. the proliferation of “architectures” in light of the end of Moore’s law, and the resulting challenges in domain science adoption of new technologies.

SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHY:
Professor Frank Würthwein (pictured above) is the Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Executive Director of the Open Science Grid, a national cyberinfrastructure to advance the sharing of resources, software and knowledge.

He holds faculty appointments in physics and at the Halicioglu Data Science Institute at the University of California San Diego. 

He received his PhD from Cornell in 1995, and joined the UC San Diego faculty in 2003, after holding appointments at Caltech and MIT.

His research interests span cyberinfrastructure and analysis of data from the Large Hadron Collider.