<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><b class="">Computation Institute Presentation - Data Lunch Seminar (DLS)</b></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><b style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class="">Speaker: </b>Raffaele Montella, Department of Science and Technology, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy</font></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><b class="">Hosts:</b> Kyle Chard and Alison Brizius</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><b class="">Date:</b> March 31, 2017</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><b class="">Time:</b> 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM </div></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><b class="">Location:</b> The University of Chicago, Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Ave.</div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">Title:</span></font></b><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""> </font><b style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;" class=""> </b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><b class="">Applications of the FACE-IT portal and workflow engine for operational food quality prediction and assessment: Mussel farm monitoring in the Bay of Napoli, Italy</b></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">Abstract:</b> Mussel farm product quality remains a challenging problem for operational marine science. In an operational scenario, the model chain, orchestrated in a workflow fashion, produces a huge amount of predicted spatially-referenced (big) data. These workflow components have been integrated into the Framework to Advance Climate, Economic, and Impact Investigations with Information Technology (FACE- IT), a workflow engine and data science portal based on Galaxy and Globus technologies. We describe how FACE-IT workflows can be used to couple many simulation/prediction models, leveraging high-performance and cloud computing resources to enable fast full system modeling in order to produce operational predictions about the impact of pollutants spilled out from both natural and anthropic sources in mussels farming high density areas.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">Bio:</b><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Raffaele Montella works as assistant professor, with tenure, in Computer Science at Department of Science and Technology, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy since 2005. He got his degree (MSc equivalent) in (Marine) Environmental Science at the University of Naples “Parthenope” in 1998 defending a thesis about the “Development of a GIS system for marine applications” scoring with laude and an award mention to his study career. He defended his PhD thesis about “Environmental modeling and Grid Computing techniques” earning the PhD in Marine Science and Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II.<br class=""><br class="">The research main topics and the scientific production are focused on tools for high performance computing, such as grid, cloud and GPUs with applications in the field of computational environmental science (multidimensional big data/distributed computing for modeling and scientific workflows and science gateways) leveraging on his previous (and still ongoing) experiences in embedded/mobile/wearable/pervasive computing and internet of things. He joined the CI/RDCEP of the University of Chicago as Visiting Scholar and as Visiting Assistant Professor working on the FACE-IT project.</div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">Information:</b><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""> </font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">Lunch will be provided</span></font></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>