<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p>(sincere apologies for cross-posting)...</div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><img id="_x0031_D28E988-BF47-46F0-9DF1-E5B49EA20881" alt="cid:026AE1BE-FF71-4564-8816-548C5B9B9618" apple-inline="yes" src="cid:image001.png@01D5212A.F7606390" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">Dear colleague,<br class=""><br class="">We would like to encourage you to submit an abstract to the following session of the <b class="">Fall 2019 American Geophysical Union meeting</b> in <b class=""><span style="color: rgb(181, 26, 0);" class="">San Francisco, CA</span></b> (<b class="">December 9-13</b>). It will be the centennial of AGU with special events!</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">Data-Oriented and Self-Optimizing Architectures and Workflows for Earth, Space and Climate Science Applications (IN Session ID# 77921)</span></i></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/77921" style="color: purple;" class="">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/77921</a></span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">The goal of this session is to discuss innovative approaches and new ideas on data distribution platforms, architectures, and workflows themselves to support research in Earth and Space Sciences. There will also be <b class="">invited speakers</b> in this session.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><br class=""></span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class="">Achieving research</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class=""> progress depends on dealing with <b class="">increasing volumes of data</b> for <b class="">pre-processing</b>, <b class="">analyses</b>, <b class="">visualization</b> and <b class="">numerical modeling</b>. <b class="">Research infrastructures</b> must accommodate those requirements transparently, using <b class="">heterogeneous backends</b>, provided by e-infrastructure services such as <b class="">Clouds</b>. Developers need to reach across infrastructure boundaries<b class="">transparently</b>, while effectively moving data processing and analysis, but not control, away from users and closer to the data. They should deliver transparent combination and optimization of workflows over heterogeneous contexts, such as <b class="">pipelining HPC codes</b>, data transformation and analytics. <b class="">Innovative approaches are needed</b> to support the <b class="">scientific data life cycle</b> in the context of large-scale data and <b class="">diverse infrastructures</b>.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class="">Presentations are encouraged on, but are not limited to:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class="">• Novel research architectures;</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class="">• Workflows and intelligent optimization;</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class="">• HPC integration and data-driven approaches, including HPC on the Cloud;</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class="">• Provenance;</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: white;" class="">• Front-ends and services designed for large-scale data-oriented solutions.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><br class="">We look forward to a stimulating set of talks and discussions, and hope that you will consider participating. Please note that the strict <b class="">deadline for abstract submission is Wednesday, 31 July at 23:59 EDT</b>.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">To submit an abstract to this session:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(65, 156, 255);" class=""><a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/in/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=77921" style="color: purple;" class="">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/in/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=77921</a></span></u><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">and general information about abstract submissions:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(65, 156, 255);" class=""><a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Home/0" style="color: purple;" class="">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Home/0</a></span></u><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">Please circulate this to your colleagues who may have interest in this session. We look forward to receiving your contribution.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Christian Pagé</b></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">CERFACS, France</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">Rosa Filgueira</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">University of Edinburghm, EPCC, UK</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">Iraklis Klampanos</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Greece</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">Alessandro Spinuso</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div></div></div></body></html>