AI@Edge and Software-Defined Sensors

April 29: Plenary (TCS Conference Rooms 1404-1405)

• 09:00 Introduction: Welcome, Workshop Outcomes
• 09:10 SAGE Vision: AI@Edge as an Enabling Architecture (Rick Stevens)
• 09:45 Plenary 1: Convergent Science Driving Measurement Capabilities
  • Moderator: Jim Olds, GMU
  • Purpose: Begin to Form a set of science questions that will drive SAGE, with testable hypotheses that require SAGE research infrastructure to measure.
  • Format: Each panelist will address the following:
  • What science does today’s instruments support (for me)
  • What unique new measurements will AI@Edge enable
  • What testable hypothesis might we investigate with these new measurements
  • Describe the national-scale experiment that could leverage AI@Edge in NEON, AoT, ARM, HPWREN, LPZoo, etc. to test this hypothesis.
  • Panelists: Jim Olds, GMU; Christina Negri, UChicago; Scott Collis, ANL; Dan Work, Vanderbilt; Ilkay Altintas, SDSC; Kathleen Cagney, UChicago;
  • Panel Discussion: What Convergent Questions Cut Across Many Scales? Disciplines?

• 11:15 Break

• 11:30 Plenary 2: Architecture of a National Infrastructure
  • Moderator: Pete Beckman, NU
  • Purpose: Establish a common vision for exactly what SAGE will look like and how it will provide measurements to examine the convergent science questions.

  • Format: Short talks each outlining vision for some facet of SAGE

  • Vision: An Integrated Research Infrastructure (Beckman, 30 min)
  • Resilient Edge Computing Hardware and New Sensors (Sankaran, 10 min)
  • Programming Environment and Data Pipeline (Altintas, 10 min)
  • ML Inference at the Edge and Training in the Cloud (Ferrier, 10 min)

• 12:30 Lunch

• 13:00 Vendor Lunch Round Table: NVIDIA, ARM, HPE
  • Moderator: Nicola Ferrier, Northwestern
  • Purpose: Overview of AI@Edge Benchmarks and Use Cases possible with emerging (2019) and forecasted (2022) AI@Edge hardware technologies
  • Format: 6-minute talks describing AI@Edge use cases, followed by round table Q&A: ARM, HPE, NVIDIA
• 14:00 Plenary 3: SAGE Partner Instruments: How Will AI@Edge Be Integrated
  • Moderator: Charlie Catlett, UChicago
  • Purpose: Preliminary descriptions of what new measurements, sensors, AI@Edge capabilities, will be required for each instrument (e.g., what will the Waggle configuration look like for each instrument?).
  • Format: 8-minute talks describing how AI@Edge/Waggle will be integrated to augment each instrument
  • NEON (Eugene Kelly, CSU)
  • AoT (Charlie Catlett , UChicago)
  • HPWREN (Ilkay Altintas, SDSC)
  • ARM (Scott Collis, NU)
  • LPZoo (Seth Magle, LPZoo)
• 15:00 Plenary Session 4: Round Table on Bringing the Vision & Science Together
  • Moderator: Dan Work, Vanderbilt
  • Purpose: Review the science discussions, instrument architecture, and vision - What are the key challenges? How do our science challenges relate to NSF Big Ideas? Convergent Science? What are we missing?.

  • Format: Panel Discussion and Round Table

  • Panelists: Dan Work (Vanderbilt), Jim Olds (GMU), Valerie Taylor (UChicago), Nicki Hickmon (ANL), Pete Beckman (NU)

• 16:00 (adjourn for those not leading working groups or serving as scribes)

• 16:00 Working Group Leaders and Scribes Planning Session

  • Purpose: Proposal Outline Review and Working Group plans

  • Convergent Science Questions (Jim Olds, GMU; Dan Work, Vanderbilt; Marc Berman, UChicago) Charter: Outline multiple convergent science questions and their testable hypotheses.
  • B. Cyberinfrastructure (Pete Beckman, NU; Nicola Ferrier, UChicago) Charter: Outline hardware and software development required to build and operate SAGE.
  • C. Broader Impacts (Valerie Taylor, UChicago; Stacie Williams, UChicago; Michael Papka, NIU)) Charter: Outline broadening participation, training, and education efforts including data dissemination to diverse scientific and other communities to provide a persistent national data resource.
  • D. Project Management, Construction, Operation (Charlie Catlett, UChicago; Brenna Berman, City Tech) Charter: Outline project work plans, operational requirements, and sustainable support plan.

April 30: Working Group Breakout Sessions (TCS Conference Center, and rooms to be announced)

• 09:00 Working Groups Session 1: Survey, Inventory, Outline
  • Purpose: Refine and finalize outline of assigned proposal sections, lay out big questions, plans, etc. for each. What are the “big take-away” messages for these sections?

• 10:45 Break

• 11:00 Working Groups Session 2: Initial Drafts
  • Purpose: Create a draft of each proposal section in bullet form highlighting the major points to be covered and the structure (subsections) of each section.
• 12:30 Lunch

(adjourn for those not leading working groups or serving as scribes)

• 13:30 Working Group Leads and Scribes Convene
  • Purpose: Create a draft of the proposal, identify holes and outline changes needed, review proposal completion schedule (proposal is due May 20, 2019)
• 15:30 Adjourn