On the second day of the conference, Thursday, March 26, Marco Aldinucci (University of Torino, Italy) will deliver a keynote address entitled “Streaming Workflows: From Scientific Applications to AI and Back”, scheduled from 13:30 to 14:30. The presentation will take place in the Nicolae Iorga Amphitheater.
Abstract. Within the Italian National Center in HPC and Quantum Computing (ISCS), the University of Turin and Pisa have co-developed two cloud-HPC development tools. The first is StreamFlow, an implementation of the open standard CWL (Common Workflow Language) that makes it possible to design scientific workflows (aka pipelines) that can be seamlessly ported to different platforms. StreamFlow fosters declarative workflows that can be executed on HPC platforms (e.g., based on SLURM), cloud platforms (e.g., based on K8S, AWS), and hybrid platforms without code modification. The second tool is CAPIO (Cross-Application Programmable I/O), which transforms files exchanged between parallel applications into streams, introducing further parallelism and helping to avoid the I/O bottleneck. StreamFlow+CAPIO has many applications, from genomics pipelines to astrophysics and materials science workflows to AI for science pipelines.