Presenter: Scott Callaghan
University of Southern California, US
scottcal@usc.edu

Curious about scientific workflows? We'll talk about what workflows are, how they can help streamline your work, and how you've probably been using workflows already without realizing it. We'll discuss the features of commonly used workflow tools, and I'll present an example from my research group showing how workflow tools can be used to scale up calculations on a real science problem. We’ll finish with a discussion of how workflow principles can help you get your science done more easily.

About the Presenter

I’m a research programmer at the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), based in Los Angeles, though I work remotely from St. Louis, Missouri. I first got involved at SCEC as an undergraduate intern, then as a graduate student, and now as staff. I’m the project lead on a software application which performs physics-based probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for California. This software typically runs on large HPC systems such as Blue Waters at NCSA and Titan at OLCF. My research interests include scientific workflows and high throughput computing. I spend most of my time outside of work playing with my one-year-old son, but I also curl, knit, and grow vegetables.

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