September 15-16, 2025
Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Global Research Platform (GRP) is an international scientific collaboration to create innovative, advanced, ubiquitous services that integrate resources around the globe at speeds of gigabits and terabits per second, especially for large-scale, data-intensive, science research. Throughout the year, GRP participants collaborate to customize services, fabrics, and distributed cyberinfrastructure in support of optimal scientific workflows and to facilitate high-performance data gathering, analytics, transport, computing, and storage among science sites worldwide.
The 6th annual GRP Workshop (6GRP), co-located with the IEEE International Conference on e-Science 2025 in Chicago, Illinois, September 15-16, 2025, presented a unique opportunity for the communities served to meet, present architectural concepts, strategies, innovations, technologies, and to discuss progress, outcomes, and lessons learned.
6GRP was a big success. There were approximately 50 attendees over the two days, with 21 presentations given by speakers from 7 countries: Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Korea, Netherlands, Poland and the USA. Some speakers presented their large-scale applications and network communications requirements, while other speakers presented recent innovations and implementations. All talks were extremely well received and questions and comments were insightful.
6GRP was organized by Joe Mambretti (Northwestern University) and Maxine Brown (University of Illinois Chicago).
Organizers are already planning next year’s 7GRP Workshop in collaboration with IEEE eScience 2026, to be held in Naples, Italy, September 28-October 2, 2026.
6GRP Speakers. Top/First row: Adam Miller (CIERA, Northwestern University, USA); Frank Wuerthwein (SDSC, UC San Diego, USA); Meghna Bhattacharya (Fermilab, USA); Justas Balcas (ESnet, USA); Harvey Newman (Caltech, USA); Karin Wessel (SURF, Netherlands); Buseung Cho (KISTI/KREONET, Korea). Second Row: Joaquin Chung (Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago, USA); Ivana Golub (PSNC/GÉANT, Poland); Frank Wuerthwein (SDSC, UC San Diego, USA); Jeonghoon Moon (KISTI/KREONET, Korea); Nicola Joy Ferrier (Northwestern University, USA); Bruno Hoeft (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Shawn McKee (University of Michigan, USA). Third Row: Miloš Liška (CESNET, Czech Republic); Weijian Zheng (Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago USA); Brenna Meade (Indiana University, USA): Thomas Tam (CANARIE, Canada); Joe Mambretti (Northwestern University/iCAIR, USA); Meghna Bhattacharya (Fermilab, USA); Chris Wilkinson (Internet2, USA).
