For those interested in networking topics, you will want to check out the Network-aware Data Management workshop @SC13. This all day workshop on Sunday November 17th includes a number of talks related to high-speed networking, including a talk by ESnet’s Brian Tierney on the ESnet 100G Network Testbed. Other talks include “Supporting Climate Modeling Over Named Data Networking” from Christos Papadopoulos, Colorado State University, “Challenges and Solutions in Large Scale Data Movement” by Martin Swany, Indiana University, and many more. 

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and engineers from academia, government, and industry to discuss emerging trends and new technological developments in dynamic resource provisioning, intelligent data-flow and resource coordination, network-aware application design issues, and 100Gbps network performance problems.

For more information see:  http://2013.ndm-meeting.com/