Sorry, Suresh, I dropped this thread entirely last week.
We would, of course, want to take waitlisted talks from the CFP first
before we go out to solicit other talks.
From the abstract you share here - it's unclear to me how this talk
fits at ApacheCon - not that we're completely uninterested in external
projects, but if there's a connection, that would give it more weight.
Can you elaborate on that?
--Rich
On 03/13/2015 10:27 AM, Suresh Marru wrote:
On Mar 11, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
Craig has mentioned me that we have several slots that have opened up due to
cancellations.
Looks to me that we have two in Science, one in "Big Data; Big Picture", two in
"Content". and one in “Mobile"
Hi Rich,
Are you still looking to fill the two science talks? I have reached out to
academic colleagues in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston area to consider
attending the conference. One of them expressed interest to give a talk. This
might appeal to the science track attendees. Here are the details for
consideration:
Abstract:
This talk will discuss the GenApp framework, a new open framework generating
code on a set of scientific modules that is easily extensible to new
environments. For example, one can take a set of module definitions and
generate a complete HTML5/PHP science gateway and a Qt4/GUI application on the
identical set of modules. If a new technology comes along, the framework can
easily be extended to new “target languages” by including appropriate code
fragments without effecting the underlying modules. One motivation for the
development was based upon observation of the life cycle of scientific lab
generated code, which frequently is underfunded and developed by overburdened
researchers. Many times useful code and routines are lost with the retirement
or redirected interest of the scientists. One goal for this framework is to
insure good scientific software be preserved in an ever evolving software
landscape without the expense of a full time CS staff. This framework is
currently
being used to wrap scientific code performing small angle scattering computations, but is not restricted to any one discipline. A successful GSoC 2014 project integrated GenApp with Apache Airavata for execution of modules on variously managed cluster resources in the HTML5/PHP, Qt3/GUI and Qt4/GUI “target languages”. In this presentation, Emre Brookes will explain the framework, demonstrate its application and discuss his plans for growing the community.
Bio:
Emre is an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Ant To provide the
scientific community access to these methods, he created the first UltraScan
Science Gateway, which has since migrated to Apache Airavata. These methods
annually use millions of cpu hours of parallel resources supporting scientific
research world wide. His work concentrates on developing tools for analysis of
scientific experimental data. He is the primary developer of the US-SOMO
hydrodynamic modeling suite http://somo.uthscsa.edu and is actively involved
with the hydrodynamic modeling, small-angle scattering and high-performance
computational communities. He has given over 30 talks at conferences in these
areas and has, as of this writing, contributed to 29 peer reviewed
publications. His most recent work, GenApp, focuses on developing an open
framework to ease deployment of new and legacy scientific codes.
Let me know if this if of interest and I can follow up.
Suresh
If you have any insight into any of these areas, please let me know what
talk(s) you think we should swap in for those missing talks. Just get in touch
with me and I'll send you what remains of the track, so that you know what
we're working with.
Thanks.
--Rich
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