Active Projects

My research shares a common theme of developing systems to support new computational and data-intensive approaches to accelerate scientific discovery. An updated list of active projects is available on the Globus Labs website. Selected projects include:

funcX is a new federated function-as-a-service (FaaS) platform that enables lightweight functions to be dispatched to execute on remote computing endpoints. funcX enables computing to be fluid, such that functions can be executed wherever makes the most sense (e.g., cheapest, fastest, closest to data).
Parsl is a parallel programming library for Python. Parsl provides an intuitive, pythonic way of composing and parallelizing programs by annotating "apps": Python functions or external applications that run concurrently.
Globus is a research data management platform used by more than 150K users around the world. Globus provides a range of services that make it easy to manage, transfer, share, publish, and discover research data irrespective of where data reside.
DLHub is a hosted model publication and on-demand inferenace service. It provides a web-based interface to publish, share, discover, and execute machine learning models.
ExaWorks is an ECP-funded project that aims to both address exascale workflow challenges and integrate robust workflow technologies into an easy-to-use, scalable, and performant workflows SDK.
Whole Tale is a web-based platform for reproducible research that enables the creation, publication, and execution of tales - executable research objects that capture data, code, and the complete software environment used to produce research findings.
WorkflowsRI is a community-centric effort to design a community infrastructure to democratize workflows research by providing a common basis for comparison, evaluation, and verification of workflows research results.

Funding

Active funding as PI or Co-PI

  1. ChronoLog: A High-Performance Storage Infrastructure for Activity and Log Workloads (NSF 2004894) June 2021 -- May 2025 (Co-PI)
  2. Infrastructure for Enabling Systematic Development and Research of Scientific Workflow Management Systems (NSF 2016682) Sep 2020 -- Aug 2021 (Co-PI)
  3. funcX: A Function Execution Service for Portability and Performance (NSF 2004894) May 2020 -- April 2024 (Co-PI)
  4. Creating a Robust and Scalable Framework for On-demand Analysis and AI-based Experiment Steering (ANL LDRD 2021-0152 ) Oct 2020 -- Sep 2021 (PI)
  5. ExaWorks: ExaScale Workflows Project (DOE/ECP PRJ1008564) Sep 2020 -- Sep 2022 (Co-PI)
  6. CSR: Small: Cost-Aware Cloud Profiling, Prediction, and Provisioning as a Service (NSF 1816611) Oct 2018 -- Sep 2022 (Co-PI)
  7. Globus Automate: A Distributed Research Automation Platform (NSF 1835890) Nov 2018 -- Oct 2021 (Co-PI)
  8. Establishing a Usable, Scalable, and Reproducible Computational Ecosystem for Dark Energy Science (ANL LDRD 2019-0217) Sep 2018 -- Aug 2021 (PI)
  9. BigDataX: From theory to practice in Big Data computing at eXtreme scales (NSF 1757970) May 2018 -- April 2022 (Co-PI)
  10. Merging Science and Cyberinfrastructure Pathways: The Whole Tale (NSF 1541450) Jan 2016 -- Dec 2020 (Co-PI)
  11. Swift/E: Integrating Parallel Scripted Workflow into the Scientific Software Ecosystem(NSF 1550588) Sep 2016 -- Aug 2021 (PI)

Completed funding

  1. FaceBase 2 Coordinating Center (NIH U01 DE0244494) May 2014 -- Apr 2019
  2. DLHub: Building an Open Platform to Advance and Simplify Deep Learning Adoption (ANL LDRD) Oct 2017 -- Sep 2019
  3. A Commons Platform for Promoting Continuous FAIRness (NIH OT3 OD025458) Sep 2017 -- Nov 2018
  4. Accelerating Access to Large Materials Datasets: Building, Deploying, and Operating a Materials Data Facility (NIST) May 2015 -- Apr 2018
  5. Lab-wide Research Decision Analytics (ANL LDRD 2015-135) Sep 2014 -- Aug 2015