cloudifygateways2019: Cloudify Gateways 2019 Denver, CO, United States, November 18-21, 2019 |
Conference website | https://sciencegateways.org/cloudify2019 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudifygateways2019 |
Submission deadline | October 30, 2019 |
Introduction
The NSF-funded Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) was founded with the mission of providing resources, expertise, community support, and education to the creators of gateways serving science and engineering research and education. Through these channels, we hope to speed the development and application of more robust, less expensive, and more sustainable gateways.
The NSF-funded Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) was founded with the mission of providing resources, expertise, community support, and education to the creators of gateways serving science and engineering research and education. Through these channels, we hope to speed the development and application of more robust, less expensive, and more sustainable gateways.
Additionally, cloud computing facilitates reproducible research through improved sharing, consistent with a recent NSF Dear Colleague Letter, Encouraging Reproducibility in Computing and Communications Research. A 2018 NSF-funded conference on Enabling Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research and Education in the Cloud also highlighted the cloud computing needs of the CISE research and education community, with access to cloud computing resources being identified as an “equalizer” for a variety of institutions.
To extend the SGCI mission and continue to democratize and accelerate science, the SGCI, Google, and CloudyCluster teams have created a “Cloudify Gateways” solicitation for the SGCI community. This program invites the community to submit proposals on how they would cloudify their science gateways on the Google Cloud Platform with CloudyCluster.
Program Description
This solicitation seeks proposals from the SGCI Community to enable Science Gateways to operate in the public cloud. Participants should look to CloudyCluster and the Google Cloud Platform to provide their computation and storage requirements for this program. In addition to HPC, additional advanced cloud capabilities such as serverless, AI as a service, and massive-scale databases are encouraged to be included as part of the proposals.
The overarching goals of the solicitation are to:
- Extend the reach of gateways beyond their current scope, extending globally to other for-profit and non-profit patrons.
- Enhance gateways to include the cloud, not only for web, database, HPC and HTC, but other cutting-edge cloud technologies such as AI as a service and scalable query engines.
- Enable gateway developers to access cutting-edge cloud technologies to help envision future gateway capabilities and broaden coverage to the public cloud.
Information
A pool of $100,000 in GCP credits will be divided among the recipients along with Cloud HPC personnel time from the CloudyCluster team and gateways expertise from the SGCI that will be allocated across the selected proposals.
Eligibility Information
Who may submit Proposals
The researcher must be at a regionally accredited academic institution in the United States, or degree-granting institution in one of the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, India, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
Who May Serve as PI
There are no restrictions or limits.
Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization
There are no restrictions or limits
Limit Number of Proposals per PI or Co-PI
An individual may appear as PI, co-PI, or Senior Personnel on no more than one proposal submitted in response to this solicitation.
Submission Guidelines
Proposals should include the following information:
- A Cover Sheet summarizing the following information:
- Proposal title beginning with “Cloudify Gateways”
- The PI and any co-PIs should be indicated along with their institutional affiliations
- The budget, in GCP credits, for more information on GCP credits (https://edu.google.com/programs/credits/)
- A short abstract describing the scope / goals of the project
- A short description of how the GCP, CloudyCluster and related technologies may provide unique leverage to the project that other resources may not provide. An overview of how Gateways can leverage CloudyCluster: (http://gcp.cloudycluster.com/blog/sgci-cloudify-gateways/)
- Project Description (4-page limit including figures). The Project Description should have the following clearly labeled sections:
- A concise description of the scope of work for the entity, including how the gateway will integrate with GCP and CloudyCluster. This includes success criteria and any real scientific workflows that will be run in the project.
- Team experience aligning with scope of work.
- Project schedule of activities showing the sequence of anticipated goals and milestones. Recipients will be notified of the expiration date of the GCP credits.
- Justification for the requested amount of GCP credits required to accomplish the proposal and provide enough detail so the reviewers can have a good understanding of what is proposed and how the credits would be used.
- Intellectual Merit: Similar to National Science Foundation proposals, please describe the intellectual merit of the activity, particularly as it pertains to advancing the knowledge of how platforms such as GCP and related services may impact gateways in the future.
- Broader Impact: Similar to National Science Foundation proposals, please describe the broader impact of the activity, particularly as it pertains to advancing access to gateway platforms to wide and diverse audiences, solving important problems with high impact on society, and/or advancing the ease with which gateways can be deployed or operated.
- Biographical Sketch (2-page limit per individual). Biographical sketches are required for the PI, co-PIs, and Senior Personnel. These pages do not count against the 4-page project-description limit.
Notification
Notification and feedback will be provided via email.
Contact
SGCI
Claire Stirm, cstirm at ucsd.edu
Google Cloud Platform
Edward Doan edoan at google.com
CloudyCluster
Amy Cannon, amycannon at omnibond.com and Boyd Wilson, boydw at omnibond.com
Sponsors
Google Cloud Platform and CloudyCluster
Notes
Full solicitation can be accessed here: The SGCI Cloudify Gateways 2019 Solicitation.
* Any overage of charges beyond the credits allocated is the responsibility of the GCP account owner. The Google and CloudyCluster teams will be available to help participants learn how to track their expenditures to help prevent such overages.
** SGCI is funded by the NSF to provide free support to US-based institutions. International consortia with US-based institutions can be supported.
Account and technical support, answers to conceptual questions, and assistance will be provided by the CloudyCluster and Google teams to help with the success of each participant.