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						<h2>Workflows Community Summits</h2>
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						In collaboration with <a href="https://workflowsri.org/">the workflowsRI project</a> we are
						organizing a series of Workflows Community Summits. These events gather workflows stakeholders
						(researchers, developers, users, facility representatives) to identify crucial challenges in the
						workflow community.
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						Participants span the following facilities, supercomputing centers, and large-scale computing
						providers: Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility,
						National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Pittsburgh
						Supercomputing Center, Open Science Grid, and others.
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					<h3>Third Workflows Community Summit (Nov 8, 2021)</h3>
					<p style="padding: 0">Tightening the Integration between Computing Facilities and
						Scientific Workflows</p>
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				<p>The third Workflows Community Summit will explore workflows challenges and opportunities from the
					perspective of computing centers and facilities. The summit is the third in the series organized by
					the NSF workflowsRI and DOE ExaWorks projects, and builds on two prior workshops that 1) established
					a high level vision for workflows research; and 2) explored technical approaches for
					realizing that vision.</p>

				<p>A summary of the previous workshops is available in two technical reports
					(<a href='https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4606958'>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4606958</a>
					and <a href='https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4915801'>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4915801</a>)
					and an invited paper (<a
						href='https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02168'>https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02168</a>)
					at the WORKS workshop describing the community roadmap.</p>

				<p>The third workshop will bring together a small group of facilities representatives (one per facility)
					with the aim to understand how workflows are currently being used at each facility, how facilities
					would like to interact with workflow developers and users, how workflows fit with facility roadmaps,
					and what opportunities there are for tighter integration between facilities and workflows.</p>
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					<h3>Second Workflows Community Summit (Apr 7, 2021)</h3>
					<p style="padding: 0">Advancing the State-of-the-art of Scientific Workflows
						Management Systems Research and Development</p>
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				<p>The workflowsRI and ExaWorks projects held a very productive Workflows Community Summit in
					January.
					The focus was to identify broad challenges for the workflows community and to propose a vision
					for
					community activities to address these challenges.</p>

				<p>While the first summit focused on Establishing a high level vision, this second summit will
					explore
					technical approaches
					for realizing (part of) that vision. Consequently, we hope to engage participants who are
					actively
					involved in workflow system development.</p>

				<p>Based on the outcomes of the first summit, we have identified four technical topics for
					discussion
					(some align with a single theme of the first summit, while others are cross-cutting):</p>

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					<li>Definition of common workflow patterns and benchmarks (both for determining workflow system
						functionality and for providing users with tutorial examples);</li>
					<li>Identifying paths toward interoperability of workflow systems; and</li>
					<li>Improving workflow systems' interface with legacy and emerging HPC software and hardware
						stacks
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						<h4>Agenda</h3>

							<b>Wednesday, Apr 7 2021 10:00-13:00 PST (18:00 - 21:00 UTC)</b> <br /><br />

							10:00 am - Welcome and introductions (Rafael Ferreira da Silva, USC) <a
								href='https://youtu.be/lbGCz2EgfZU'>Youtube</a><br />

							10:05 am - Workflows Community Summit Report and Key Findings (Henri Casanova,
							University of
							Hawaii at Manoa)
							<a href='https://youtu.be/lbGCz2EgfZU'>Youtube</a><br />

							10:15 am - Lightning Talk<br />

							<ul>
								<li>Theme 1: Definition of common workflow patterns and benchmarks,
									Dan Laney (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Dorran Howell (Tweag I/O)
									<a href='https://youtu.be/acK_td2Hhdc'>Youtube</a>
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								<li>Theme 2: Identifying paths toward interoperability of workflow systems,
									Ilkay Altintas (UC San Diego), Stian Soiland-Reyes (The University of
									Manchester) <a href='https://youtu.be/KTKGD1iz-hs'>Youtube</a></li>
								<li>Theme 3: Improving workflow systems' interface with legacy and emerging HPC
									software
									and
									hardware stacks,
									Douglas Thain (University of Notre Dame), Rosa Filgueira (Heriot-Watt
									University) <a href='https://youtu.be/jz6FZC48G1s'>Youtube</a></li>
							</ul>

							10:30 am - Break <br />

							10:35 am - Project Development Sessions
							<ul>
								<li>Theme 1: Definition of common workflow patterns and benchmarks</li>
								<li>Theme 2: Identifying paths toward interoperability of workflow systems</li>
								<li>Theme 3: Improving workflow systems' interface with legacy and emerging HPC
									software
									and
									hardware stacks</li>
							</ul>

							11:15 am - Break <br />


							11:30 am - Project Roadmap Write Up Sessions
							<ul>
								<li>Theme 1: Definition of common workflow patterns and benchmarks</li>
								<li>Theme 2: Identifying paths toward interoperability of workflow systems</li>
								<li>Theme 3: Improving workflow systems' interface with legacy and emerging HPC
									software
									and
									hardware stacks</li>
							</ul>

							12:10 am - Break <br />

							12:25 am - Reports: Project Roadmap Sessions <br />

							12:40 am - Final remarks and moving forward (Kyle Chard, ANL/UChicago)
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					<h3>First Workflows Community Summit (Jan 13, 2021)</h3>
					<p style="padding: 0">Bringing the Scientific Workflows Community Together</p>
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				<p>In collaboration with <a href="https://workflowsri.org/">the workflowsRI project</a> we are
					organizing
					the Workflows Community Summit.
					This unique event will gather a select group of lead researchers from distinct workflow
					management
					systems, and will
					seek to identify crucial challenges in the workflow community. This event will be the first of a
					series
					of workflows meetings,
					and will serve to bring the workflows community together.
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				<p>Videos of the summit presentations are avaialble on <a
						href='https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqCnXqWqKe9vF6cqKOj1CYw/videos'>YouTube</a></p>

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						<h3>Agenda</h3>

						<h4>Wednesday, Jan 13 2021 9:00-12:00 PST (17:00 - 20:00 UTC)</h4>

						9:00 am - Welcome and introductions <br />

						9:05 am - WorkflowsRI project overview (Rafael Ferreira da Silva, USC) <a
							href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQpdxML01i0'>Youtube</a><br />
						9:15 am - ExaWorks project overview (Dan Laney, LLNL) <a
							href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVUDzlok_RQ'>Youtube</a><br />

						9:25 am - Lightning talks
						<ul>
							<li>Theme 1: FAIR computational workflows (Carole Goble, Manchester) <a
									href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN706j9DTcw'>Youtube</a></li>
							<li>Theme 2: Training and education for workflow users (Lavanya Ramakrishnan, LBNL) <a
									href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2BiNqNezuw'>Youtube</a></li>
							<li>Theme 3: AI workflows (Luc Peterson, LLNL) <a
									href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjCEI4CfI2Y'>Youtube</a></li>
							<li>Theme 4: Exascale challenges and beyond (Bjoern Enders, LBNL) <a
									href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyLxRcSiWQ8'>Youtube</a></li>
							<li>Theme 5: APIs, interoperability, reuse, and standards (Douglas Thain, Notre Dame) <a
									href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xokqqll6HYo'>Youtube</a></li>
							<li>Theme 6: Building a workflows community (Ilkay Altintas, San Diego) <a
									href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDEiOjtGqn8'>Youtube</a></li>
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						9:55 am - Break <br />

						10:00 am - Breakout Session 1
						<ul>
							<li>Theme 1: FAIR computational workflows</li>
							<li>Theme 2: Training and education for workflow users </li>
							<li>Theme 3: AI workflows</li>
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						10:30 am - Reports: Breakout Session 1 <br />

						10:45 am - Break <br />

						10:55 am - Breakout Session 2
						<ul>
							<li>Theme 4: Exascale challenges and beyond</li>
							<li>Theme 5: APIs, interoperability, reuse, and standards</li>
							<li>Theme 6: Building a workflows community</li>
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						11:25 am - Reports: Breakout Session 2 <br />

						11:40 am - Final remarks and next steps (Kyle Chard, ANL/UChicago) <br />
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