The 2nd Global Research Platform Workshop

September 20 - 24, 2021
Virtual Online Meeting

ABOUT

THE 2nd GLOBAL RESEARCH PLATFORM WORKSHOP


September 20 - 24, 2021
Virtual Online Meeting

The Global Research Platform (GRP) is an international scientific collaboration to create innovative advanced ubiquitous services that integrate resources around the globe at speeds of gigabits and terabits per second, especially for large-scale data-intensive science research. GRP focuses on design, implementation, and operation strategies for next-generation distributed services and infrastructure to facilitate high-performance data gathering, analytics, transport, computing, and storage among multiple science sites at 100 Gbps or higher. GRP community partners are in North America, Asia, Europe, and South America and work together to customize international fabrics and distributed cyberinfrastructure to support optimal data-intensive scientific workflows.

The 2nd GRP Workshop (2GRP) focused on recent and emerging advances in architectures, services, technologies, and infrastructures. Speakers explain how their innovations can directly support global science research. The 2GRP Workshop agenda had seven themes: (a) Next-Generation Research Platforms; (b) Orchestration Among Multiple Domains; (c) Large-Scale Data Transport; (d) High-Fidelity Data Flow Monitoring, Visualization, Analytics, Diagnostics, Event Correlation, AI/ML/DL; (e) Data-Intensive Science and Programmable Networking; (f) Network and Communication Service Automation; and, (g) International Testbeds for Data-Intensive Science.

Because the 2GRP Workshop was held virtually, it was restructured to accommodate global time zones to ensure participation from its research communities. There were two sessions, as described below. Many of the same presentations were given in both sessions; presentations are now posted on the Presentations page.

• North/South America, Europe, September 20-22, 2021

Times listed are CDT (Chicago Daylight Time) and GMT+2 (Innsbruck, Austria)
• Monday, September 20: 8:00am - 1:00pm CDT; 3:00pm - 8:00pm GMT+2
• Tuesday, September 21: 8:00am - 12:30pm CDT; 3:00pm - 7:30pm GMT+2
• Wednesday, September 22: 8:00am - 10:20am CDT; 3:00pm - 5:20pm GMT+2

• North/South America, Asia Pacific, Southeast Asia, September 22-23, 2021 (North/South America) and September 23-24, 2021 (Asia Pacific and Southeast Asia)

Days/times listed are CDT (Chicago Daylight Time) and GMT+9 (Tokyo, Japan)
• Wednesday, Sept 22: 6:00pm - 10:20pm CDT; Thursday, Sept 23: 8:00am - 12:20pm GMT+9
• Thursday, Sept 23: 6:00pm-11-15pm CDT; Friday, Sept 24: 8:00am-1:15pm GMT+9

The Americas’ Research Platform (AmRP) Workshop was held September 24, 8:30am - 1:00pm CDT. AmRP consists of North, Central and South America GRP participants and their key international partners and had its own agenda, distinct from the GRP Workshop.

ORGANIZERS
Chair
Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University

Coordinator
Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago

Website and Media Specialist
Charles Erwin, University of California - San Diego

Meeting Technical Support
Jim Chen, Northwestern University / iCAIR
Fei Yeh, Northwestern University / iCAIR
Se-young Yu, Northwestern University / iCAIR

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Maxine Brown, UIC (chair)
Ilkay Altintas, SDSC
Sana Bellamine, CENIC
Vasilka Chergarova, CIARA/FIU
John Graham, Calit2-QI/UCSD
Paola Grosso, University of Amsterdam
Joe Mambretti, StarLight/iCAIR/Northwestern University
Yves Poppe, NSCC

PROGRAM
The 2GRP Workshop Program is available for both sessions.
• North/South America, Europe, September 20-22, 2021
• North/South America, Asia Pacific, Southeast Asia, Sept 22-23, 2021 (North/South America) and Sept 23-24, 2021 (Asia Pacific and Southeast Asia)
The AmRP Program is posted on the AmRP website 
RELATED MEETING
2GRP virtually collaborated with the 17th IEEE eScience 2021 Conference , which was held online.
RELATED INFORMATION
GRP website
First GRP Workshop website and presentations
First GRP Workshop Report, 2019
Pacific Research Platform
Toward the National Research Platform
Asia Pacific Research Platform
Americas' Research Platform (AmRP)



The Global Research Platform (GRP) is an international scientific collaboration led by the International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR) at Northwestern University, the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Qualcomm Institute–Calit2 at UC San Diego, and its partners worldwide. Contact GRP organizers for further information.