Globus Compute + ParslFest 2025 - Annual Community Gathering (Hybrid) August 28-29, 2025
The seventh Globus Compute + ParslFest Community Meeting will be held as a hybrid meeting on August 28–29, 2025. It will start around noon on the 28th, with talks that day, and on the morning of the 29th. The afternoon of the 29th will be an open session for hands-on work, hacking, testing, bring-your-own-code, etc. The in-person component will be hosted at the University of Chicago. This annual community event aims to bring together researchers, developers, and cyberinfrastructure experts worldwide to discuss experiences using and developing Parsl and Globus Compute (formerly known as funcX) – a federated function-as-a-service platform related to Parsl.
Registration
Registration is officially open – register here: https://ti.to/nf-projects/parslfest2025. This year, we are charging a nominal registration fee for in-person attendance to help cover event costs. Limited travel support (including for the registration fee) is available for those who need it. Travel support requests will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. Please email Sophie Bui
Location (for in-person component)
ParslFest will be held at the University of Chicago at the John Crear Library (Room 390).
📍 Address: 5730 S. Ellis Ave. Chicago, 60637
Event Program
Our program is currently under development and is subject to change. Please continue to check this page for updates.
Tentative Schedule
Thursday, August 28, 12 pm - 5 pm CDT (17:00 - 22:00 UTC)
12:00 pm – 🍴 Lunch (provided for in-person attendees)1:00 pm - Welcome! - Kyle Chard, University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory.
1:15 pm - Session 1 | Chair: Yadu Babuji
- Sicheng Zhou: WRATH: Workflow Resilience Across Task Hierarchies in Task-based Parallel Programming Frameworks
- João Gabriel Loureiro de Lima Lembo: Implementing Cold-Start Reduction Techniques on Globus Compute
- Christopher Harrop: Enhancements for Parsl and Globus Compute Integration
- Hai Duc Nguyen: Resilient Solutions for Tomographic Reconstruction
- Kelechi Annabelle Nwankwo: Parslet: Making Workflow Automation Accessible on Android and Low-Power Devices
2:45 - Session 2 | Chair: TBD
- Zhao Zhang: Training Neural Networks with Diamond
- Laura Walizer: A Multifidelity, Multiobjective Optimization Workflow With Parsl
- Will Engler: Garden: Lessons Learned from Serving AI for Science Models with Globus Compute
- Mike Tynes: Distributed on-the-fly Training of Neural Network Potentials with Parsl and Colmena
- Logan Ward: Deploying AI+Simulation Workflows for MOF Design (with Parsl)
4:00 - Session 3 | Chair: Daniel S. Katz
- Josh Bryan: Globus Compute Past and Future
- Chris Janidlo: Globus Compute Serialization Overview
- Pedro Enrique Martinez Fernandez: Globus Compute + DataLad: Provenance Tracking for Remote Workflows
- Valerie Hayot-Sasson: Facilitating Reproducibility Evaluations on HPC with Globus Compute and GitHub Actions
- Arham Khan: LSHBloom: Memory-efficient, Extreme-scale Document Deduplication
Friday, August 29, 8:30 am - 4 pm CDT (13:30 - 21:00 UTC)
8:30 am - 🥐 Breakfast (provided for in-person attendees)9:00 am - Session 4 | Chair: TBD
- James Klassen: Calculating Optimal Size of Parsl Runs for DEM Production
- Patrick Wells: OpenCosmo
- Alok Kamatar: Core Hours and Carbon: The Environmental Impact of Federated Computing
- Daniel Babnigg: Parallel Scripting in a Integral Field Unit Spectroscopy Pipeline
- Mansi Sakarvadia: Topology-Aware Knowledge Propagation in Decentralized Learning
10:15 am - Session 5 | Chair: Kyle Chard
- Tianle Wang: Integration of Globus Compute and Harvester for ATLAS Workflow at HPC
- Haochen Pan: Globus MCPs for Science and High Performance Computing
- Douglas N. Friedel: KeepItRunning: A New Tool for Migrating Running Jobs Between HPC Resources
- Greg Pauloski: Academy
- Matt Baughman: Adaptive Task Management: Enabling Multi-Site Workflows with Globus Compute
- Stefan Gary: Using parsl-perf to Evaluate Performance in a Hybrid HPC Environment
11:30 a.m. - Session 6 | Chair: Chris Janidlo
- Ben Clifford: HTEX Interchange in 3 Languages
- Dave Bunten: With Great Parsl Comes Great Portability: Using Parsl through CytoTable for Harmonizing Single-cell Data
- Yadu Babuji: Parsl Scaling on Aurora
- Dan Dietz: Globus Compute at OLCF
- Geoffrey Lentner: Enabling Science for NSF ACCESS via Globus Compute
1:30 p.m. – Hackathon/Office Hours
General Inquiries or Questions?
Contact us at parsl@googlegroups.com.
Prior ParslFest Meetings
Parsl community meetings have brought together hundreds of researchers, developers, and cyberinfrastructure experts for meetings that included presentations and discussions.
The ParslFest 2024 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides and videos) from ParslFest 2024.
The ParslFest 2023 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides and videos) from ParslFest 2023.
The Parsl & funcXFest 2022 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides and videos) from Parsl & funcXFest 2022.
The Parsl & funcXFest 2021 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides and videos) from Parsl & funcXFest 2021.
The ParslFest 2020 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides and videos) from ParslFest 2020.
The ParslFest 2019 page includes the agenda and all presentations (slides) from ParslFest 2019.
