INDIS16, the Third Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science, brings together the network researchers and innovators to present challenges and novel ideas that stretch SCinet and network research beyond the limits of today's technology. This workshop invites papers that propose new and novel techniques regarding capacity and functionality of networks, its control and its architecture to be demonstrated at current and future supercomputing conferences. It will be held during SC16, the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Analysis, and Storage (http://sc16.supercomputing.org) November 13-16 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Networks for data-intensive science have more extreme requirements than general-purpose networks. These requirements closely impact the design of processor interconnects in supercomputers/cluster computers, but they also impact campus networks, regional networks and national backbone networks. The ability to move large datasets in and out of supercomputing centers are an an integral and essential part of the data driven Supercomputing ecosystem. Further networks are required to connect research instruments such as photon sources, and large visualization displays. This workshop encourages research papers that address one or more of these needs that are essential in the scientific discovery process. This workshop will also serve as a platform for participants in SCinet to present experimental papers on their latest designs and solutions. Every year SCinet develops and implements the network for the SC conference. SCinet is the high-speed network engine of the SC conference. This network is state of the art, connects many demonstrators of big science data processing infrastructures at the highest line speeds, deploys the newest technologies available, and demonstrates novel functionality. The show floor network connects to many laboratories and universities worldwide using high-bandwidth connections. This workshop brings together SCinet engineers network researchers with to share challenges and potential solutions. Their novel ideas will allow future SCinets to stretch their deployed technologies and further drive new network research. We invite papers that propose new and novel techniques that increase the capacity and functionality of scientific computing and wide-area networks.

This workshop invites papers that propose new and novel techniques regarding capacity and functionality of networks, its control and its architecture to be demonstrated at current and future supercomputing conferences.