Table of Contents
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KEYNOTE:
Douglass Post,
US Department of Defense
High Performance Computing
Modernization Office
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PLENARY:
Henry Neeman,
University of Oklahoma
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PLENARY:
Ruth Pordes,
Open Science Grid &
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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PLENARY:
Bill Magro,
Intel Corp
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Daniel Andresen,
Kansas State University
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Amy Apon,
University of Arkansas
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Karthik
Arunachalam,
University of Oklahoma
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Brady Black,
QLogic Corp
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Keith Brewster,
University of Oklahoma
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Dana Brunson,
Oklahoma State University
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David Chaffin,
University of Arkansas
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Robert Ferdinand,
East Central University
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Andrew Fitz Gibbon,
Earlham College
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Dan Fraser,
University of Chicago
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Thomas Hauser,
Utah State University
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Evan Lemley,
University of Central Oklahoma
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William Lu,
Platform Computing
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John Matrow,
Wichita State University
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Amy McGovern,
University of Oklahoma
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Charlie Peck,
Earlham College
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Jeff Pummill,
University of Arkansas
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Douglas Spearot,
University of Arkansas
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Antonio Stanesic,
Croatian Meteorological &
Hydrological Service
Other speakers to be announced
KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
Chief Scientist
U.S.
Department of Defense
High
Performance Computing
Modernization Office
Plenary Topic:
"The Promise and Challenges of
Computational Engineering"
Slides:
PowerPoint2007
PowerPoint
PDF
Plenary Talk Abstract
Engineering
—
the design and production of new machines
—
is poised to enter a new world of
increased productivity and
more rapid innovation.
Current engineering workflows involve
repeated
"design-build-test" cycles.
This process is lengthy, expensive
and
often ineffective.
It requires large teams of
skilled design engineers
and
extensive testing facilities.
With today's supercomputers,
engineers can use
physics-based computational engineering tools
to quickly design, optimize, build and test
virtual prototypes.
Only the final product needs a physical test.
These tools can increase
the productivity of engineers
and testing facilities.
With them,
companies have reduced time to market,
increased the number of products,
and been able to target many specific markets.
It has given these companies
a major competitive advantage.
To exploit this paradigm,
we must meet the challenge of
developing and deploying such tools.
It usually take large teams
(20 to 40 staff)
five to ten years to develop and deploy them.
Each tool is usually
specific to the application domain.
The process for developing the tools
is still being developed.
Exploiting this new paradigm
defines both a challenge and an opportunity for
the next generation of engineers.
Among several new programs
that have started to point the way
is the
Department of Defense's
Computational
Research and Engineering
Acquisition Tools and Environments
(CREATE)
Program,
a set of three projects to develop
computational engineering tools
to design
airplanes, ships and radio frequency antennas.
Biography
Dr. Douglass Post is
the Chief Scientist of
the
U.S.
Department of Defense
High
Performance Computing
Modernization Program,
and a member of
the senior technical staff of
the
Carnegie
Mellon University
Software
Engineering Institute.
He established and leads the
Computational
Research and Engineering
Acquisition Tools and Environments
(CREATE)
Program,
a $360M 10-year DoD program
to develop and deploy
computational engineering tools for
the design of
ships, air vehicles and RF antennas.
He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of
the joint
American
Institute of Physics/Institute
of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
publication
Computing
in Science and Engineering.
Doug received a Ph.D. in Physics from
Stanford
University
in 1975.
He led the tokamak modeling group at
Princeton
University
Plasma
Physics Laboratory
from 1975 to 1993,
and served as head of
International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
(ITER)
Physics Project Unit
(1988-1990),
and head of
ITER
Joint Central Team In-vessel Physics Group
(1993-1998).
More recently,
he was
the A-X
Associate Division Leader for
Simulation
at the
Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
(1998-2000)
and the Deputy Applied Physics (X)
Division Leader for Simulation
at the
Los
Alamos National Laboratory
(2001-2003).
He is a Fellow of the
American
Physical Society,
the
American
Nuclear Society
and the
Institute
of Electrical &
Electronics Engineers.
PLENARY
SPEAKERS
Director
OU
Supercomputing Center for Education
& Research (OSCER)
Information
Technology
University
of Oklahoma
Topic:
"OSCER State of the Center Address"
Slides:
available after the Symposium
Talk Abstract
The
OU
Supercomputing Center for
Education & Research
(OSCER)
celebrated its 8th anniversary
on August 31 2009.
In this report,
we examine
what OSCER is,
what OSCER does,
and where OSCER is going.
Biography
Dr.
Henry Neeman
is the
Director of the
OU
Supercomputing Center for Education &
Research
and
an adjunct assistant professor in the
School of
Computer Science
at the
University of
Oklahoma.
He received his BS in computer science
and his BA in statistics
with a minor in mathematics
from the
State
University of New York at Buffalo
in 1987,
his MS in CS from the
University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
in 1990
and his PhD in CS from UIUC in 1996.
Prior to coming to OU,
Dr. Neeman was a postdoctoral research
associate at the
National
Center for Supercomputing Applications
at UIUC,
and before that served as
a graduate research assistant
both at NCSA
and at the
Center for
Supercomputing Research &
Development.
In addition to his own teaching and research,
Dr. Neeman collaborates with
dozens of research groups,
applying High Performance Computing techniques
in fields such as
numerical weather prediction,
bioinformatics and genomics,
data mining,
high energy physics,
astronomy,
nanotechnology,
petroleum reservoir management,
river basin modeling
and engineering optimization.
He serves as an ad hoc advisor
to student researchers
in many of these fields.
Dr. Neeman's research interests include
high performance computing,
scientific computing,
parallel and distributed computing,
structured adaptive mesh refinement
and
scientific visualization.
Director of HPC Software Solutions
Intel
Topic:
"Intel in HPC:
How We Got Here;
Where We're Heading"
Slides:
coming soon
Talk Abstract
Coming soon
Biography
Bill Magro
is Director of
High-Performance Computing Software Solutions
at
Intel.
Bill has worked in the field of HPC
for over 20 years.
He joined Intel as part of the acquisition of
KAI Software,
where he was product manager of parallel tools.
He led Intel's parallel applications team
from 2000-2006.
Prior to KAI,
Bill was on staff at the
Cornell Theory Center
and at
the
National
Center for Supercomputing Applications,
National
Science Foundation-funded
supercomputing centers.
Bill holds a PhD in
computational physics from the
University
of Illinois.
Executive Director
Open
Science Grid
Associate Head
Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory
Computing
Division
Topic:
"Collaborative Science and
Shared Campus Cyberinfrastructure:
Activities and Vision of the Open Science Grid"
Slides:
PowerPoint2007
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
The
Open
Science Grid
aims to contribute to
building a national grid-based
cyberinfrastructure
to serve scientific research at all scales.
There is a huge intellectual capital
at the Universities for this research,
both today and for the future.
The Open Science Grid currently connects
more than 80 sites,
50,000 CPUs and six petabytes of storage
to its collaborators
—
which include
the large particle and
nuclear physics collaborations
and gravitational wave search experiments.
Users of
the campus and laboratory computing and storage
thus made available include digital astronomy,
genome databases,
weather forecasting,
molecular modeling,
structural biology
and
nanoscience.
OSG core mission includes helping build,
support,
link and provide software for
campus and regional grids
to enable shared collaborative science.
In 2009,
OSG has increased its outreach
to work more closely with its peer in the US
—
TeraGrid.
A new activity to enable
small-scale parallel jobs (16-64 way)
on OSG acccessible resources
will help close the gap in capabilities
between what TeraGrid and OSG currently offer.
The OU clusters,
already OSG accessible resources,
and MPI-based applications,
will be an important component of this work.
Biography
Ruth Pordes is the Executive Director of the
Open
Science Grid,
a consortium of
more than 80 universities and laboratories
in the US that was formed in 2004
to enable diverse communities of scientists
to access a common grid infrastructure
and shared resources.
Ruth is an Associate Head of the
Fermilab
Computing
Division
with responsibility for
Grids and Communication.
She is also a member of the
CMS
Experiment
with US project responsibility for
grid interfaces and integration,
and is a member of the
Worldwide
LHC Computing Grid
Deployment Board.
She has recently become a
member of the
NEESComm
Project Advisory Group,
with responsibilities for the
Community Collaboration Sub-committee.
Ruth has worked on a number of
collaborative or "joint" computing projects
at Fermilab,
as well as been a member of the
KTeV high-energy physics experiment
and an early contributor to
the computing infrastructure for the
Sloan
Digital Sky Survey.
She has an M.A. in Physics from
Oxford
University,
England.
BREAKOUT
SPEAKERS
Associate Professor
Department of
Computing & Information Sciences
Kansas State
University
Topic:
"Roundtable: Supporting ACM Student Chapters"
(with John Matrow
and Amy McGovern)
Notes
Abstract
Various
Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM)
student chapter representatives
will share success stories
on how to attract and retain members.
Biography
Daniel
Andresen, Ph.D.
is an associate professor at
Kansas
State University.
His research includes
embedded and distributed computing,
biomedical systems,
and high performance scientific computing.
Dr. Andresen coordinates the activities of
the K-State research computing cluster,
Beocat,
and advises the local
ACM
chapter.
He is a
National
Science Foundation
CAREER
award winner,
and has been granted research funding from
the NSF,
the
Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA),
and industry.
He is a member of
the
Association
for Computing Machinery,
the
IEEE
Computer Society,
the
Electronic
Frontier Foundation,
and
the
American
Society for Engineering Education.
Director
Arkansas
High Performance Computing Center
Professor
Department of
Computer Science &
Computer Engineering
University of
Arkansas
Talk Topic:
"Writing a Supercomputer Proposal for the
National Science Foundation's
Major Research Instrumentation
Program"
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
Coming soon
Birds of a Feather Topic:
"Cyberinfrastructure Faculty Champions"
Slides:
available after the Symposium
Birds of a Feather Abstract
The purpose of this BOF is
to explore issues as
a faculty researcher
who is trying to learn
how to use and how to access
advanced cyberinfrastructure resources
from your campus.
The goal is to develop
a set of questions and topics
that could be covered in a scheduled workshop.
Examples of questions may include:
What resources do you need?
What are the roadblocks to
using advanced resources?
What resources are available
for your research area?
How can you get help?
Biography
Dr. Amy
Apon
holds a Ph.D. from
Vanderbilt
University
in
performance analysis of
parallel and distributed systems.
Her current research focuses on
cluster and grid computing,
including
scheduling in grid systems,
management of
large-scale data-intensive applications,
and
accelerator architectures.
She also teaches courses in the area of
cluster and grid computing
and
is collaborating with
Louisiana
State University
to teach a course in
high-performance computing
that explores new course delivery methods
using high-definition video broadcast
over
Access
Grid
and
new high-speed fiber optical networks
in
Louisiana
(LONI)
and
Arkansas
(AREON).
She is the Principal Investigator of
two
National
Science Foundation
Major
Research Instrumentation
grants that acquired
the supercomputer resources
at the
University
of Arkansas.
She has directed
high
performance computing
activities on the
University
of Arkansas
campus since 2004.
Information Technology Analyst
Homer L. Dodge
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of
Oklahoma
Topic:
"Grid Computing 101"
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
Grid Computing
is becoming an important tool for
scientists and individuals alike for
harnessing computing power.
Simply put,
Grid Computing
is a way to share computing resources.
Grids help to leverage
the IT infrastructure
by providing a pool of
virtual and flexible computing resources
that can be shared among
organizations/individuals
with a common set of goals.
We will discuss
the analogy of the Grid to the Internet.
We will look at the what, why, how and
the challenges involved with Grid computing.
We will discuss about the
ATLAS
Grid Computing
project.
A real time demonstration of
running a job through the grid
will be presented.
Biography
Karthik Arunachalam
received his Master of Science in
Computer
Science
at the
University of
Oklahoma
in 1998.
He also holds a MBA degree in
IT
Management/Finance,
which he finished in 2005 at OU.
He is currently working
as a IT Analyst at OU.
He is actively involved with
Grid Computing projects,
particularly with
software design/development/management for the
Open
Science Grid,
in addition to
helping with system administration of a
high performance computing cluster.
Solutions Architect
QLogic Corp
Topic:
"Next Generation InfiniBand
Clustering and Network Administration Tools"
Slides:
PowerPoint2007
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
In commodity cluster
High Performance Computing,
there are bound to be problems with
any deployment and day to day operation.
The key is
how quickly can problems be
tracked down and addressed.
This presentation will delve into
InfiniBand in general
and look at
Fabric
Suite,
which has the capability to quickly pinpoint
problems on a fabric.
Biography
As an HPC Solutions Architect with
QLogic
Corporation,
Brady Black focuses on
designing and deploying
HPC InfiniBand networks.
Brady has spent his career
in the HPC industry,
focused mainly on networking.
Senior Research Scientist and
Associate Director
Center for
Analysis & Prediction of Storms
University of
Oklahoma
Topic:
"Real-time High-Resolution
Thunderstorm Analyses and Forecasting
Experiments Using OSCER Resources"
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
Coming soon
Biography
Keith Brewster is a Senior Research Scientist
at the
Center
for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
at the
University
of Oklahoma
and an Adjunct Associate
Professor in the
OU School of
Meteorology.
His research involves
data assimilation of
advanced observing systems
for high resolution
numerical weather analysis and prediction,
including data from
Doppler
radars,
satellites,
wind profilers,
aircraft
and
surface mesonet systems.
He earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in Meteorology
from the
University
of Oklahoma
and a B.S. from the
University
of Utah.
Senior Systems Engineer
High
Performance Computing Center
Oklahoma
State University
Topic:
"Birds of a Feather Session:
Production Cluster Deployment -
Then, Now, and Future Trends"
(with
Jeff Pummill)
Slides:
PDF
BoF Abstract:
This BoF is intended as
an introduction to the many components
that comprise clustered HPC systems;
past, present,
and a brief look at future trends.
The presentation and accompanying discussion
will address topics such as:
what to look for in a vendor,
how to choose hardware type(s),
power and cooling issues,
cluster software stacks,
administrative tips and tricks,
user support advice including
scheduling policies and file management,
and hopefully a lively debate at the end.
This BoF is not intended
to define what should and
should not be deployed;
rather,
we will present a number of factors
and considerations involved in
deploying a successful cluster.
Biography
Dana Brunson
oversees the
High
Performance Computing Center
at
Oklahoma
State University
Before transitioning to
High Performance Computing
in the fall of 2007,
she taught mathematics
and served as systems administrator
for the
Mathematics department
at
OSU.
She earned her Ph.D.
in Numerical Analysis
at the
University
of Texas at Austin
in 2005 and her M.S. and B.S. in Mathematics
from
Oklahoma
State University.
Associate Director for
Operations and User Support
Arkansas
High Performance Computing Center
University
of Arkansas
Birds of a Feather #2 Topic:
"Birds of a Feather Session:
Cyberinfrastructure Staff Champions"
(with
Jeff Pummill)
Slides:
available after the Symposium
PDF
Birds of a Feather Abstract
The purpose of this BOF
is to explore issues
as a staff cyberinfrastructure enabler.
The goal is to develop
a set of questions and topics
that could be covered in scheduled workshop.
Examples of questions may include:
How important is it to have resources locally?
What resources are needed locally?
What resources are available nationally?
What is a Teragrid Campus Champion,
and how do you become one?
Biography
Dr. David Chaffin is
Associate Director for Operations and
User Support
for the
Arkansas
High Performance Computing Center
and
Research Assistant Professor of
Mechanical
Engineering.
His research interests are in
computational fluids,
finite elements,
and parallel and numerical methods.
He joined AHPCC in March 2009
after nine years in HPC at
Texas
Tech University.
Associate Professor
Department
of Mathematics
East
Central University
Topic:
"Galerkin Finite Element Solution of
Free-Boundary Groundwater"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
The author presents a coupled system of
two advection-diffusion equations
that model
the flow of contaminant in groundwater
as it flows through
a crack or fissure in a rock matrix.
As contaminated groundwater
flows through a fissure,
the contaminant gets transported along
the length of the fissure
and gets absorbed in
the surrounding rock matrix,
creating a hazardous plume of toxic contaminant
in the rock.
This model has a free boundary,
in that no restrictive boundary conditions
are specified.
A Galerkin finite element method that uses
experimental model parameters
obtained from the literature,
is used to numerically approximate
model solution
using the C++ programming language.
Computations are carried out on
(a) a regular UNIX machine at
East
Central University
(ECU),
(b) the Condor pool at
OSCER,
and
(c) the Sooner cluster at OSCER,
and the efficiency of
computations on all three is compared.
The computed solution
is illustrated graphically using
Mathematica.
Biography
Robert Ferdinand obtained his PhD
in Applied Mathematics
from the
University
of Louisiana
in 1999.
His areas of interest include
mathematical modeling of
physical and biological processes,
in which
numerical schemes are
used to computationally approximate
model solutions:
for example,
the inverse method is applied to
numerically estimate model parameters,
which
involves substantial computing.
His theoretical work involves
perturbation techniques to investigate
long-term behavior of model solutions.
Instructor
Department
of Computer Science
Earlham
College
Topic:
"Scaling GalaxSee
to Petascale Computational Resources
with MPI and OpenMP"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
Coming soon
Biography
Andrew Fitz Gibbon
is a recent graduate from the
Earlham
College
Department
of Computer Science.
Throughout his college years,
he worked as a
System and Network Administrator
for the department,
and,
over the last two years,
as an
Assistant Instructor for the
SuperComputing
Education (SCEd) Program.
Currently,
he keeps busy by
continuing to work on various projects
within the SCEd Program,
and helping out with small things
around the CS department at Earlham.
Senior Fellow
Computation
Institute
University
of Chicago
Topic:
"Turning Software Projects into
Production Solutions"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
Production quality software development
requires considerations that extend beyond
simply writing code,
fixing bugs,
and adding new features
—
and this is especially true for
software intended for use in
distributed computing environments.
In user environments,
for example,
software packages rarely stand alone,
but must be integrated and tested
alongside a suite of
software products
required to create solutions for
the scientific community.
Software release infrastructures,
support infrastructures,
integration infrastructures,
testing infrastructures,
interface design,
and
overall code design practices
play key roles in designing
production quality software.
A strong user focus
is absolutely essential.
In this talk,
Dan Fraser will explore these considerations,
in light of his recent six-month tenure as
Production Coordinator for the
Open
Science Grid.
Biography
Dan Fraser is a Senior Fellow at the
Computation
Institute
at the
University
of Chicago.
Currently he is
the Production Coordinator for the
Open
Science Grid.
Formerly he was the
Senior Architect for Grid Middleware at
Sun
Microsystems
and the creator of Sun's
Technical
Computing Portal.
He has a PhD in Physics from
Utah
State University
and over a decade of experience working with
high performance science and commercial
applications.
Director
Center
for High Performance Computing
Utah
State University
Research Associate Professor
Mechanical &
Aerospace Engineering
Utah
State University
Topic:
"Utah's Optical Research Network,
a Private/Public Partnership"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
I will discuss the efforts of
the Utah Cyberinfrastructure consortium
to create
an optical research network for Utah.
The objective of this project
—
the Research@UEN initiative
—
is to deploy
a facilities-based optical network
under
Utah
Education Network
(UEN)
provisioning and operational control
to link
Utah
State University
to
the
University
of Utah,
to the University of Utah's
off-campus data center,
and to the
Internet2
and
National
LambdaRail
(NLR)
national research networks.
I will describe our partnership with the
Utah
Department of Transportation
and private partners
to acquire
a long-term dark fiber IRU between
Salt Lake City and Logan.
Biography
Dr. Thomas Hauser
received a Doctorate in Engineering from the
Technische
Universitaet Muenchen
in Mechanical Engineering.
He is currently
a Research Associate Professor in
Mechanical &
Aerospace Engineering
and the Director of the
Center
for High Performance Computing
at
Utah
State University.
He and his team are finalists at the
Supercomputing 09
storage challenge.
His research interests are in
high performance computing and
large scale computational fluid dynamics.
Professor
Department
of Engineering & Physics
University of
Central Oklahoma
Topic:
"Collaborative Fluid Dynamics Research:
Porous Media, Microfluidics, and Bio-Flows"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
Coming soon
Biography
Evan Lemley
received his BA in Physics from
Hendrix
College
and MS and Ph.D
in Engineering (Mechanical) from the
University
of Arkansas.
His thesis
work was focused on modeling and simulation of
various neutron detectors.
Post graduation Evan worked for
the engineering consulting firm
Black &
Veatch
in a group responsible for
modeling coal power plants with
custom written software.
In August 1998,
Evan became an Assistant Professor in the
Department
of Engineering and Physics
(formerly Physics)
at the
University
of Central Oklahoma,
and has been there since,
teaching
mechanical engineering,
physics,
and
engineering computation
courses.
Early research at UCO was focused on
neutron transport in materials.
More recently,
Evan has been involved in simulation of
flow in microtubes and microjunctions
and
simulation of flow in porous networks.
HPC Industry Manager
Platform
Computing
Topic:
"Cloud Computing for HPC"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
Unlike grid computing,
cloud computing was started outside of
High Performance Computing (HPC).
The HPC community is seeking answers on
how cloud computing affects HPC.
This presentation will provide a viewpoint of
what HPC Cloud Computing is.
It will discuss challenges and solutions
for HPC cloud
using real use cases and examples.
Click
here
for more information.
Biography
William Lu
leads a team of solution architects
in helping customers optimize HPC environments
using Platform technology.
He and his team have been
working with
large organizations
in implementing solutions
to deliver and manage HPC resources.
During the past 14 years at Platform Computing,
William has worked in
product development,
professional services,
systems engineering,
and
marketing.
Prior to joining Platform,
William spent 4 years on
high performance computing at
CERN
and the
University
of Texas.
William has a Ph.D. in high energy physics.
Director
High
Performance Computing Center
Wichita
State University
Topic:
"Roundtable: Supporting ACM Student Chapters"
(with Daniel Andresen
and Amy McGovern)
Notes
Talk Abstract
Various
Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM)
student chapter representatives
will share success stories
on how to attract and retain members.
Biography
John Matrow has a
B.S. in Computer Science from the
University
of Central Missouri
and
a M.S. in Computer Science from
Iowa
State University.
He has
worked for the State of Iowa,
and spent 20 years at
LSI Logic Storage Systems,
formerly Symbios Logic,
nee NCR Microelectronics Division,
both in
IT and product development.
Since 2000,
John has been System
Administrator/Trainer and now Director of
the
High
Performance Computing Center
at
Wichita
State University,
and has been actively involved in
raising the level of research
with regard to
high performance computing
and
high performance networking
(Internet2).
John also teaches night courses in
database for the
Computer Science
and
MIS
departments.
Assistant Professor
School of
Computer Science
Adjunct Assistant Professor
School of
Meteorology
University
of Oklahoma
Topic:
"Roundtable: Supporting ACM Student Chapters"
(with Daniel Andresen
and John Matrow)
Notes
Talk Abstract
Various
Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM)
student chapter representatives
will share success stories
on how to attract and retain members.
Biography
Amy McGovern
is an Assistant Professor in the
School
of Computer Science
and
an Adjunct Assistant Professor
in the
School
of Meteorology
at the
University
of Oklahoma.
She received her PhD in
Computer
Science
from the
University
of Massachusetts Amherst
in 2002 and her BS (honors) from
Carnegie
Mellon University
in 1996.
She founded the
ACM-W
chapter at OU
and has been advising it for 3 years.
Dr. McGovern's research focus is on
machine learning and data mining,
with a specific interest in
real-world applications.
Associate Professor
Department
of Computer Science
Earlham
College
Topic:
"Scaling GalaxSee
to Petascale Computational Resources
with MPI and OpenMP"
Slides:
available after the Symposium
Talk Abstract:
coming soon
Biography
Charlie teaches computer science at
Earlham
College
in Richmond IN.
He is also the nominal leader of Earlham's
Cluster
Computing Group.
His research interests include
parallel and distributed computing,
computational science,
and
education.
Working with colleagues,
Charles is co-PI for the
LittleFe
project.
During the summer,
he often teaches
parallel and distributed computing workshops
for
undergraduate science faculty
under the auspices of the
National
Computational Science Institute
and the
SC
(Supercomputing Conference)
Education Program.
Senior HPC Administrator
Arkansas High
Performance Computing Center
University
of Arkansas
Birds of a Feather #1 Topic:
"Birds of a Feather Session:
Production Cluster Deployment -
Then, Now, and Future Trends"
(with
Dana Brunson)
BoF #1 Slides:
PDF
BoF #1 Abstract:
This BoF is intended as
an introduction to the many components
that comprise clustered HPC systems;
past, present,
and a brief look at future trends.
The presentation and accompanying discussion
will address topics such as:
what to look for in a vendor,
how to choose hardware type(s),
power and cooling issues,
cluster software stacks,
administrative tips and tricks,
user support advice including
scheduling policies and file management,
and hopefully a lively debate at the end.
This BoF is not intended
to define what should and
should not be deployed;
rather,
we will present a number of factors
and considerations involved in
deploying a successful cluster.
Birds of a Feather #2 Topic:
"Birds of a Feather Session:
Cyberinfrastructure Staff Champions"
(with
David Chaffin)
BoF #2 Abstract:
The purpose of this BOF
is to explore issues
as a staff cyberinfrastructure enabler.
The goal is to develop
a set of questions and topics
that could be covered in scheduled workshop.
Examples of questions may include:
How important is it to have resources locally?
What resources are needed locally?
What resources are available nationally?
What is a Teragrid Campus Champion,
and how do you become one?
Biography
Jeff
Pummill
is the Senior HPC Administrator for the
Arkansas
High Performance Computing Center
at the
University
of Arkansas.
Prior to his position at the
UofA,
he spent 13 years in
the fields of
mechanical design and
structural analysis,
while also maintaining
a large number of Unix workstations
and a small Linux clusters
used for Finite Element Analysis.
His current areas of interest include
hardware architectures,
resource managers,
compilers,
and benchmarking tools.
He is also the
TeraGrid
Campus
Champion
for the
University
of Arkansas.
Assistant Professor,
Department
of Mechanical Engineering
University
of Arkansas
Birds of a Feather Topic:
"Cyberinfrastructure Faculty Champions"
(with
Amy Apon)
Slides:
available after the Symposium
Birds of a Feather Abstract
The purpose of this BOF is
to explore issues as
a faculty researcher
who is trying to learn
how to use and how to access
advanced cyberinfrastructure resources
from your campus.
The goal is to develop
a set of questions and topics
that could be covered in a scheduled workshop.
Examples of questions may include:
What resources do you need?
What are the roadblocks to
using advanced resources?
What resources are available
for your research area?
How can you get help?
Biography
Douglas Spearot is
an Assistant Professor in the
Department
of Mechanical Engineering
at the
University
of Arkansas.
Dr. Spearot
also serves as
the lead Faculty Campus Champion for
Cyberinfrastructure on
the CI-TRAIN project at the
University of Arkansas.
His research focuses on
nanoscale materials science
utilizing large-scale atomistic simulations,
with particular focus on
plastic deformation in
solute-modified metallic
nanocrystalline
materials
and
mechanical behavior of
polymer-based nanocomposites.
As a result of his research efforts,
Dr. Spearot received the
Oak
Ridge Associated Universities
Ralph
E. Powe Junior Faculty
Enhancement Award.
Expert Associate - Meteorologist
Drzavni Hidrometeoroloski Zavod
(Croatian Hydrological and
Meteorological Service)
Topic:
"Supercomputing at the
Croatian Hydrological and
Meteorological Service"
Slides:
PowerPoint2007
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
In Croatia,
our supercomputing resources are not huge,
but still a great deal of
operational and research activities
are being conducted.
A description of our supercomputer,
and some examples of how we use it,
will be provided.
To modernize our institute,
we have to improve
some of our shortcomings.
The
University
of Oklahoma
(OU)
has produced a
"Feasibility Study for the
Meteorological and Hydrological Service
Modernization Project
in the Republic of Croatia;"
some of their recommendations
will be presented.
Biography
For the past three years,
Antonio Stanesic has served in
the
DHMZ's
department for
research and modeling of atmospheric processes.
His work focuses on implementation of
3DVAR
data
assimilation
using the
ALADIN
mesoscale model.
He earned his BS degree at the
University
of Zagreb
in the
Department of Geophysics.
Currently he is a PhD student at the same
University,
working on topics related to data assimilation.
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