Hi Rich, I was confused about waitlisted talks, if there are talks which can of potential interest, I also prefer to give that a go first. But frankly I could not find any wait listed science talks (but I might have not looked at correct place).
Regarding this talk, the connection to ApacheCon is it is a downstream usage of Apache Airavata. I feel this will be interest to the rest of the Science Track presenters and attendees. The speaker to think, his general purpose application framework is applicable beyond science usage, but I myself have not spent time to gauge those aspects. Suresh P.S. My interactions with the presenter also included him planning to bring this talk to Apache (either as stand alone incubator or merge into Airavata). But I did not see those as a qualifier for the talk hence did not discuss them. > On Mar 17, 2015, at 3:48 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > 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 >>> >>> -- >>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >>> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >> > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
