CS&E Colloquium: The Role of Scientific Workflows in Modern Computational Science: State-of-the-art and Challenges
The computer science colloquium takes place on Mondays from 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
This week's speaker, Rafael Ferreira da Silva (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), will be giving a talk titled "The Role of Scientific Workflows in Modern Computational Science: State-of-the-art and Challenges."
Abstract
Scientific workflows have been used almost universally across scientific domains, and have underpinned some of the most significant discoveries of the past several decades. Many of these workflows have high computational, storage, and/or communication demands, and thus must execute on a wide range of large-scale platforms, from large clouds to upcoming exascale high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. In this talk, I will provide a view of the state of the art and some of my previous research and technical contributions, and identify crucial research challenges in the workflows community. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02168).
Biography
Rafael Ferreira da Silva is a Senior Research Scientist in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Prior to joining ORNL, Dr. Ferreira da Silva was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Southern California (USC), and a Research Lead at the USC Information Sciences Institute. Dr. Ferreira da Silva's research focuses on the efficient and resilient execution of large-scale scientific workflow applications on heterogeneous distributed systems, and the modeling and simulation of parallel and distributed computing systems. He has extensive experience leading/working on large-scale projects related to distributed computing platforms, cyberinfrastructure systems, and applications. He also brings substantial experience on community engagement and workshop organization. He was PI on 11 NSF-funded projects, and his scholarly work includes more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings articles, book chapters, editorials, and conference abstracts. He is currently the chair of the Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS, held in conjunction with SuperComputing). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from INSA-Lyon, France, in 2013.
