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KEYNOTE:
Dan Stanzione,
Texas Advanced Computing Center,
University of Texas
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PLENARY:
Henry Neeman,
University of Oklahoma
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PLENARY:
Vas Vasiliadis,
University of Chicago
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PLENARY:
Platinum Sponsor Speaker:
Stephen Wheat,
HPE
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Daniel Andresen,
Kansas State University
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Marcus A. Bond,
Southeast Missouri State University
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Dana Brunson,
Oklahoma State University
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Shane
Corder,
Children's Mercy Kansas City
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Nishanth
Dandapanthula,
Dell Technologies
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James Deaton,
OneNet
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Brady Deetz,
Laureate Institute for Brain Research
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Karl Frinkle,
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
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Kyle Hutson,
Kansas State University
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Mark Laufersweiler,
University of Oklahoma
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Evan Lemley,
University of Central Oklahoma
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Suresh Marru,
Indiana University
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Perdeep K. Mehta,
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
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Mike Morris,
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
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Horst Severini,
University of Oklahoma
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Nathan Sloat,
University of Oklahoma
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Neal N. Xiong,
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
PLENARY
SPEAKERS
Executive Director
Texas
Advanced Computing Center
The University
of Texas
Topic:
"Stampede 2:
The Migration to Many Core
Other Burning Issues for HPC Providers"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
Stampede 2
was awarded in June 2016
to become the new flagship system of
the
US
National
Science Foundation
XSEDE
Cyberinfrastructure ecosystem,
beginning in 2017.
Stampede 2
will continue the transition towards
massively parallel computing
at the
node level,
and represents
a significant architectural shift
with a focus on
many core processors
as the primary computing elements.
This talk will
recap the
Stampede 1
project,
describe the Stampede 2 project,
and describe
progress in
the ongoing enormous challenge of
the transition to many core.
The talk will also cover
where Stampede 2
is not the whole or the right
solution,
and talk about
other elements necessary
beyond a big computer to
support modern research computing.
Biography
Dan Stanzione is the Executive Director of the
Texas
Advanced Computing Center
(TACC)
at
The
University of Texas at Austin
and the Principal Investigator for
Wrangler.
He is also the PI for TACC's 10 PetaFlop
Stampede
supercomputer,
and has previously been involved in
the deployment and operation of the
Ranger
and
Lonestar
supercomputers at TACC.
He served as the Co-Director of
The
iPlant Collaborative,
an ambitious endeavor to build
cyberinfrastructure to address
the grand challenges of plant science.
Prior to joining TACC,
Dr. Stanzione was the founding director of the
Ira A. Fulton
High Performance Computing Institute
(HPCI)
at
Arizona
State University (ASU).
Before ASU,
he served as an AAAS Science Policy Fellow
in the
National
Science Foundation
and as a research professor at
Clemson
University,
his alma mater.
Assistant Vice President
–
Research Strategy Advisor
Information
Technology
Director
OU
Supercomputing Center for Education
& Research (OSCER)
Information
Technology
Associate Professor
College
of Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor
School
of Computer Science
University
of Oklahoma
Joint Co-manager
(with
Dana
Brunson)
XSEDE
Campus Engagement
program
Topic:
"OSCER State of the Center Address"
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
The
OU
Supercomputing Center for
Education & Research
(OSCER)
celebrated its 15th anniversary
on August 31 2016.
In this report,
we examine
what OSCER is,
what OSCER does,
what OSCER has accomplished
in its 15 years,
and where OSCER is going.
Biography
Dr.
Henry Neeman
is the
Director of the
OU
Supercomputing Center for Education &
Research,
Assistant Vice President
Information Techology
–
Research Strategy Advisor,
Associate Professor in the
College
of Engineering
and
Adjunct Associate Professor in the
School
of Computer Science
at the
University of
Oklahoma.
He and
Dana
Brunson
have been appointed
joint co-leads of the
XSEDE
Campus Engagement
program,
which includes the
Campus
Champions.
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 has collaborated 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
and
computer science education.
Director,
Products, Communication and Development
Computation
Institute
University
of Chicago
Topic:
"Globus: Making It Easy
to Move, Share and Publish Your Data"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
Globus
is software-as-a-service for
research data management.
Our goal is to make it easy
for researchers to manage their data
throughout its lifecycle,
using just a web browser to move,
share,
and publish data,
directly from your own storage systems.
Globus provides secure,
reliable,
high-performance file transfer,
the ability to share files with
collaborators,
and flexible workflows for identifying,
describing,
curating,
and publishing data sets.
Since its launch at SC10,
the service has been
deployed at
hundreds of research institutions
across the US and abroad.
In this talk,
we will provide
an introductory overview and demonstration of
Globus,
and describe recent enhancements
that bring additional capabilities
to both researchers
and
research application developers.
Biography
Vas Vasiliadis
is Director,
Products, Communication and Development
at the
Computation
Institute
(CI).
Vas focuses on Globus,
an innovative software-as-a-service for research data management.
His responsibilities include communications,
outreach,
training,
and generally working with current and prospective users to grow adoption of the service and make it self-sustaining.
Vas also assists in defining overall strategy for the CI,
and communicating the CI's vision,
projects,
and products to stakeholders and funding organizations.
Vas has over 25 years of experience in operational and consulting roles,
spanning strategy,
marketing and technology.
An experienced software product marketing professional with a passion for shaping emerging technologies to bring innovative products to market,
Vas has nurtured early stage companies into successful businesses,
and consulted to companies on a wide range of strategic issues.
Most recently,
Vas was a principal at Strategos,
the innovation consulting firm founded by Gary Hamel,
where he led Fortune 100 management teams in defining their growth agenda.
Prior to Strategos,
Vas led marketing efforts at Univa,
a leading provider of grid and cloud computing solutions.
Vas joined Univa's founding team shortly after inception and was instrumental in defining the product vision,
raising venture capital and launching the company's initial products.
In the late 1990's Vas served as vice president of product management and corporate strategy at CrossWorlds Software,
the enterprise application integration pioneer,
and was part of the executive team that grew CrossWorlds from a start-up to a successful public company that was subsequently acquired by IBM.
Vas was chief technology officer at Cimnet Systems,
a company specializing in software for electronics manufacturing,
which was acquired by Consona in 2005.
At Cimnet he led product strategy and development of the company's supplier management and business intelligence solutions.
Vas was also vice president of strategy and product management at Promeria,
a supplier relationship management company which was acquired by Ariba.
Vas' management consulting experience includes Booz & Company (now Strategy&),
where he focused on supply chain strategy and customer service level optimization,
and Accenture,
where he helped clients in the financial services industry automate trading and back office operations.
He has a deep technical understanding of system development for real-time applications,
including data distibution,
analytics,
and trading platforms for derivatives and fixed income securities.
Vas holds an MBA with High Distinction from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
He remains a network partner with Strategos and is an advisor to early-stage technology companies on all aspects of strategy,
marketing, and product development.
Director, HPC Pursuits
Hewlett-Packard
Enterprise
Topic:
"The Living Heart Project:
Going Beyond Traditional ModSim Use Cases"
Slides:
Parts 1 & 3
PDF
Part 2
PDF
Talk Abstract
The utilization of HPC solutions
for extremely complex
modeling and simulation (ModSim)
in the areas of
car and truck design,
aircraft design,
consumer
product design,
and even
sporting goods design,
among many others,
has matured to the extent it seems that
ModSim has been the way
these designs have always been accomplished.
As important as HPC ModSim is
to everyday efforts,
the sheen of its newness seems to have faded.
Even so,
we see the democratization of HPC continuing,
especially in
the Small and Medium Business domain.
Additionally,
we see innovation happening
beyond the traditional use cases.
One such example is
the
Living
Heart Project
(LHP)
which is comprised of
dozens of participating entities
around the world.
Initiated and led by
Dassault's
Simulia,
the LHP has solved
the initial issues regarding
coupling the electrical impulses of
the heart with
the mechanical actions of the heart muscle.
In this talk,
we will review
the basis of ModSim technology
that has improved our quality of life,
which has subsequently led to
the means to improve
our quality of health and health services.
The talk will focus on
the objectives and barriers that
the Living Heart Project faces
in bringing about
real-time ModSim-based health services
at the clinical level.
In no way is the Living Heart Project
the last frontier for ModSim;
but it is a frontier worth understanding
to inspire further innovation
for years to come.
Biography
Dr. Stephen Wheat is the Director of the
HPC Pursuits team
within
Hewlett-Packard
Enterprise's
HPC Global Business Unit.
In this role,
he is responsible for driving
higher-end HPC world-wide business strategies
to meet the challenges
of leadership-class institutions.
Having joined HPE's HPC GBU in June 2015,
Dr. Wheat brings his 36-year HPC career
to bear on his new role.
He started in
the Oil and Gas applications domain in Houston,
then going to
AT&T
Bell Labs,
where the majority of his tenure was on
parallel HPC systems software
for sonar processing,
then going to
Sandia
National Labs,
where his
research was in
massively parallel systems software.
It was during his
tenure at Sandia that
he won the 1994
Gordon
Bell Prize
for performance.
Subsequently,
he spent 20 years at
Intel,
where he served in many leadership
HPC roles,
including being
Worldwide General Manager of HPC.
Dr. Wheat's Ph.D. is in Computer Science,
with a focus on
massively parallel
systems software.
His M.S. and B.S.
were also in Computer Science.
Dr. Wheat's extracurricular activities include
photography,
recreational
bicycling,
and flying,
where he is
a commercial multi-engine pilot
and
certified flight instructor
for instrument/multi-engine aircraft.
He is the father of four and
grandfather of nine.
He and his wife of 36 years,
Charlene,
live in Houston, Texas.
BREAKOUT
SPEAKERS
Professor
Department of
Computer Science
Kansas State
University
Director
Institute for Computational Research
Topic:
"Birds-of-a-Feather Session:
XSEDE Region 4 Campus Champions"
(with
Dana
Brunson)
BoF Slides:
PDF
Abstract
The
XSEDE
Campus
Champions
program supports campus representatives
as a local source of knowledge about
local, regional and national
High Performance Computing and
Cyberinfrastructure information,
including XSEDE resources.
We would like to invite everyone
—
any current Campus Champions,
possible Campus Champions,
and those who are just curious
—
to a
"Meeting of the Champions."
During our Birds-of-a-Feather session,
join your fellow
Region 4
Campus Champions
(from AR, KS, LA, MO, NE, OK and TX)
to discuss the program,
what you can expect to gain from participating,
what we hope to achieve
in the way of
both short term and long term goals,
future visions for the program,
etc.
Dr. Dan Andresen
(Kansas State
University)
and
Dr. Dana Brunson
(Oklahoma
State University)
will act as the emcees
for this meeting,
which is expected to draw attendance from
both current and prospective Campus Champions
from around the Region.
Response to these regional meetings
in other parts of the US
have been
very favorable,
so we're anxious to offer the opportunity
to all of you!
Biography
Daniel
Andresen, Ph.D.
is a professor of
Computing
& Information Sciences
at
Kansas
State University
and Director of the
Institute for Computational Research.
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
chapter
of the
Association
for Computing Machinery
(ACM).
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,
the
American
Society for Engineering Education,
and has been an
XSEDE
Campus
Champion
since 2011.
Professor
Department
of Chemistry
Southeast
Missouri State University
Roundtable Topic:
"Roundtable:
Experiences in the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Research & Education Facilitators
Virtual Residency Program"
(with
Marcus
Bond,
Dana
Brunson,
James
Deaton,
Perdeep
Mehta)
and
Horst
Severini)
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Roundtable Abstract
An Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Research and Education Facilitator (ACI-REF)
works directly with researchers
to advance
the computing- and data-intensive aspects of
their research,
helping them
to make effective use of
Cyberinfrastructure (CI).
The University of Oklahoma (OU)
is leading a national
"virtual residency"
program
to prepare ACI-REFs
to provide CI facilitation
to the diverse populations of
Science,
Technology,
Engineering and
Mathematics
(STEM)
researchers that they serve.
Until recently,
CI
Facilitators have had
no education or training program;
the Virtual
Residency
program addresses this national need
by providing:
(1) training,
specifically
(a) summer workshops
and
(b) third party
training opportunity alerts;
(2) a community of CI Facilitators,
enabled by
(c) a biweekly conference call
and
(d) a mailing list.
In this roundtable,
participants from the virtual residency
will share their experiences about the program.
Biography
B.S. (Chemistry),
Brigham Young University,
1983;
Ph.D (Chemical Physics),
Washington State University,
1990;
postdoctoral research at
Texas
A&M University
(1990-92)
and
Texas
State University
(1992-1994)
before assuming a faculty position at
Southeast
Missouri State University
in 1994.
Fulbright Scholar
2007-2008
in the
Department of Chemical Engineering
at
Copperbelt
University
(Kitwe, Zambia).
Over sixty publications in referred journals on
chemical crystallography,
molecular magnetism,
and
solid state phase transitions,
and including two feature cover articles
since 2011.
A Linux user since 1994,
I have been extensively involved in
implementing computing and Internet technology
within the chemistry curriculum.
I established one of the first
course web servers on our campus in 1996
serving static and active content
for freshman chemistry.
Developed and administered
the Chemistry Department web server
from 1998-2008,
set up and aided the administration of
the physical Chemistry Lab wiki,
and administered an early Moodle installation
for freshman chemistry.
Led the effort for internal funding in 2013 for
the first commercially built HPC cluster
in the sciences on our campus,
and have continued as the administrator.
Participated in the
2016
ACI-REF Virtual Residency
and currently act as
a cyberinfrastructure facilitator
across our campus.
Assistant Vice President for
Research Cyberinfrastructure
Director
High
Performance Computing Center
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department
of Mathematics
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department
of Computer Science
Oklahoma
State University
Joint Co-manager
(with
Henry
Neeman)
XSEDE
Campus Engagement
program
BoF Topic:
"Birds-of-a-Feather Session:
XSEDE Region 4 Campus Champions"
(with
Dan
Andresen)
BoF Slides:
PDF
Roundtable Topic:
"Roundtable:
Experiences in the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Research & Education Facilitators
Virtual Residency Program"
(with
Marcus
Bond,
James
Deaton,
Perdeep
Mehta
and
Horst
Severini)
Roundtable Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
BoF Abstract
The
XSEDE
Campus
Champions
program supports campus representatives
as a local source of knowledge about
local, regional and national
High Performance Computing and
Cyberinfrastructure information,
including XSEDE resources.
We would like to invite everyone
—
any current Campus Champions,
possible Campus Champions,
and those who are just curious
—
to a
"Meeting of the Champions."
During our Birds-of-a-Feather session,
join your fellow
Region 4
Campus Champions
(from AR, KS, LA, MO, NE, OK and TX)
to discuss the program,
what you can expect to gain from participating,
what we hope to achieve
in the way of
both short term and long term goals,
future visions for the program,
etc.
Dr. Dan Andresen
(Kansas State
University)
and
Dr. Dana Brunson
(Oklahoma
State University)
will act as the emcees
for this meeting,
which is expected to draw attendance from
both current and prospective Campus Champions
from around the Region.
Response to these regional meetings
in other parts of the US
have been
very favorable,
so we're anxious to offer the opportunity
to all of you!
Roundtable Abstract
An Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Research and Education Facilitator (ACI-REF)
works directly with researchers
to advance
the computing- and data-intensive aspects of
their research,
helping them
to make effective use of
Cyberinfrastructure (CI).
The University of Oklahoma (OU)
is leading a national
"virtual residency"
program
to prepare ACI-REFs
to provide CI facilitation
to the diverse populations of
Science,
Technology,
Engineering and
Mathematics
(STEM)
researchers that they serve.
Until recently,
CI
Facilitators have had
no education or training program;
the Virtual
Residency
program addresses this national need
by providing:
(1) training,
specifically
(a) summer workshops
and
(b) third party
training opportunity alerts;
(2) a community of CI Facilitators,
enabled by
(c) a biweekly conference call
and
(d) a mailing list.
In this roundtable,
participants from the virtual residency
will share their experiences about the program.
Biography
Dana Brunson is
Assistant Vice President for
Research Cyberinfrastructure,
Director of the
Oklahoma
State University
High
Performance Computing Center
(OSUHPCC),
Adjunct Associate Professor in the
Department
of Mathematics
and in the
Department
of Computer Science,
and co-leads the
OneOklahoma
Cyberinfrastructure Initiative
(OneOCII).
She earned her Ph.D. in
Mathematics
at the
University
of Texas at Austin
in 2005 and her M.S. and
B.S. in Mathematics from
OSU.
She is PI on OSU's 2011 and 2015
National
Science Foundation
(NSF)
Major
Research Instrumentation
(MRI)
grants for High Performance Compute clusters
for multidisciplinary
computational and data-intensive research.
She is also co-PI on Oklahoma's
NSF
Campus
Cyberinfrastructure -
Network Infrastructure and Engineering
CC-NIE
grant,
"OneOklahoma
Friction Free Network"
(OFFN),
a collaboration among OSU,
OU,
Langston
University
and the
Tandy
Supercomputing Center
of the
Oklahoma
Innovation Institute.
Brunson became an
XSEDE
(initially
Teragrid)
Campus
Champion
in 2009.
She joined the CC leadership team in 2012.
OSUHPCC joined the
XSEDE
Federation
as a Level 3 Service Provider in 2014,
and Brunson was
elected chair of the
XSEDE Level 3 Service Providers
in 2015 and 2016.
She and
Henry
Neeman
have been appointed
joint co-leads of the
XSEDE
Campus Engagement
program,
which includes the
Campus
Champions.
HPC Systems Engineer
Center
for Pediatric Genomic Medicine/Children's
Mercy Research Institute
Children's
Mercy Kansas City
Topic:
"Advancements in Genomics at
Children's Mercy Kansas City"
Slides:
PDF
Abstract
HPC has been critical for
the
Center
for Pediatric Genomic Medicine
(CPGM)
at
Children's
Mercy Hospital
to make great progress in
the search for rare childhood diseases.
With our
advanced next-gen sequencing technologies,
compute cluster,
DataDirect Networks
storage cluster,
and now with
Field-Programmable
Gate Array
(FPGA)
technology from
Edico
Genome,
the center is trying to
push the envelope even further
for our research and clinical work.
This FPGA technology
has allowed us
not only to drastically speed up
our analysis and reduce compute time,
but also to free our primary compute cluster
for new and innovative work.
FPGAs are definitely not new,
but are being used in exciting new ways
to aid researchers and clinicians
to find answers
that children and their families
so desperately need.
Biography
Shane Corder
is the HPC Systems Engineer for the
Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine
(CPGM)
and
the Children's Mercy Research Institute
at
Children's Mercy Kansas City.
He has been in his current position
for over 5 years.
His responsibilities include:
administration,
support
and growth of
the center's
compute, storage and Disaster Recovery
infrastructure.
Before coming to CPGM at Children's Mercy,
Shane held the position of
"Linux Cluster Engineer" at
Advanced
Clustering Inc.
in Kansas City KS for nearly 7 years.
In addition to his core responsibility of
supporting
The Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine's
clinical and research goals,
Shane has also been involved with
computational support of
other departmental research programs at
the hospital,
including
the Genetics and Radiology departments,
as well as genetic statistical analysis.
Shane's new role in the
Children's Mercy Research Institute
will further the hospital's
HPC footprint and computational abilities,
which will support
many new types of computational research.
Senior Engineer
High
Performance Computing
Dell
Technologies
Topic:
"HPC Innovation Lab:
Enabling HPC Community Success
with Dell Technologies"
Slides:
available after the Symposium
Abstract
At the HPC Innovation Lab,
we work towards meeting real life,
workload-specific challenges
through collaboration with
the global HPC research community.
During the course of this research,
we work on evaluating
several proof of concepts on
new and upcoming technologies,
to quantify their use in
the high performance computing domain.
Along the same lines,
we also undertake
performance optimizations and tuning of
various established HPC technologies as well.
The broad focus areas include
Compute,
Storage,
Networking
and
Software stacks.
This talk outlines
some of these latest projects
being undertaken at
the HPC Innovation lab at Dell Technologies.
Biography
Nishanth Dandapanthula
has been a part of the
High
Performance Computing
Engineering team for 5 years.
His current focus is on
Interconnects,
MPI Stacks,
Performance Analysis,
Benchmarking
and
Profiling.
His interests also include
Accelerators,
Virtualization technologies
and
Dev Ops.
He received
his B. Tech. in
Information
Technology
from
Vellore
Institute of Technology
in 2009
and
his Master's degree in
Computer
Science
from
The
Ohio State University
in 2011,
where he did research in
D. K. Panda's
MVAPICH
group.
Chief Technology Officer
OneNet
Oklahoma
State Revents for Higher Education
Roundtable Topic:
"Roundtable:
Experiences in the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Research & Education Facilitators
Virtual Residency Program"
(with
Marcus
Bond,
Dana
Brunson,
Perdeep
Mehta
and
Horst
Severini)
Roundtable Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Roundtable Abstract
An Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Research and Education Facilitator (ACI-REF)
works directly with researchers
to advance
the computing- and data-intensive aspects of
their research,
helping them
to make effective use of
Cyberinfrastructure (CI).
The University of Oklahoma (OU)
is leading a national
"virtual residency"
program
to prepare ACI-REFs
to provide CI facilitation
to the diverse populations of
Science,
Technology,
Engineering and
Mathematics
(STEM)
researchers that they serve.
Until recently,
CI
Facilitators have had
no education or training program;
the Virtual
Residency
program addresses this national need
by providing:
(1) training,
specifically
(a) summer workshops
and
(b) third party
training opportunity alerts;
(2) a community of CI Facilitators,
enabled by
(c) a biweekly conference call
and
(d) a mailing list.
In this roundtable,
participants from the virtual residency
will share their experiences about the program.
Biography
James Deaton
serves as Chief Technology Officer for
OneNet,
Oklahoma's
statewide research and education network.
In this capacity,
he is a key decision-maker
in terms of
technology oversight,
engineering
and
long-term research and development.
In addition to his responsibilities at OneNet,
Deaton is accountable for
maintaining close involvement with
researchers and engineers of
state,
regional
and
national
network initiatives.
Deaton serves as a board member of
the Quilt
(National Consortium of Research Networks),
on the Executive Council of the
Great Plains Network,
Vice-Chair of the
Network Technology Advisory Council
for
Internet2,
and is appointed to Internet2's
Network Architecture, Operations and Policy
Program Advisory Group.
Deaton's involvement with the
OneOklahoma
Cyberinfrastructure Initiative
(OneOCII)
has facilitated
a number of successful programs
leveraging state networking facilities
to serve the needs of
researchers and faculty
at numerous institutions in the region.
Senior Systems Administrator
and
Head of IT
Information Technology
Laureate
Institute for Brain Research
Topic:
"Another Year, Another Petabyte:
A Look into
the Laureate Institute for Brain Research's
CephFS Deployment"
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Abstract
On the brink of a storage disaster,
the
Laureate
Institute for Brain Research
hired
me
to develop a storage solution
that would replace
its slow 7 year old Oracle ZFS appliance
that was 80% full.
After exploring expensive options with
a variety of major vendors,
sights were set on
Lustre,
OrangeFS,
and
Ceph.
In the end,
Ceph's
ability to provide
scale-out
block,
object,
and file system
storage
was perfect for LIBR's mixed needs.
In this presentation,
a successful architecture for
a balanced cost/performance/reliability
Ceph deployment will be presented.
Details such as
choices in
disk size/count,
CPU model,
RAM size,
and
Ethernet vs Infiniband
will be covered.
Biography
Brady
Deetz
is the head of IT for the
Laureate Institute for Brain Research,
a clinical neuroscience research institute in
Tulsa OK.
At LIBR,
he is responsible for
research computing and data storage
in support of
multidisciplinary research programs in
neuroimaging,
behavioral health,
and
biochemical measures.
Key cyberinfrastructure resources include
petascale tape storage;
an upcoming petascale disk (Ceph) resource,
and local compute servers.
Prior to his arrival at LIBR,
Brady worked as a system administrator for
the
Oklahoma
Innovation Institute's
Tandy
Supercomputing Center,
where he was
the principal hands-on technical resource for
the deployment of
a 100-node compute cluster
and supported research from
several institutions of higher education
in Northeast Oklahoma.
His background also includes
information security expertise,
having filled roles as
a penetration tester and
co-founding technical lead for
a payment card security startup.
Professor
Department
of Mathematics
Southeastern
Oklahoma State University
Topic:
"Sustaining HPC Curricula at
a Regional Institution"
(with Mike Morris)
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Abstract
There is an obvious lack of
standardized HPC curricula available
for small universities.
This is partly due to
the "old school" accreditation guidelines
being used by most schools.
With little guidance and few resources,
Mike Morris and Karl Frinkle
have been successfully teaching HPC
at
Southeastern
Oklahoma State University
for the last 6 years
without a rigid structure,
and in some cases quite experimentally.
The courses that have been offered
have given many students
considerable exposure to
the parallel paradigm and
cluster architecture in general.
This talk will report on
successes and failures,
and will hopefully provide help
that Morris and Frinkle sorely missed
to others with a desire
to get HPC into their classrooms.
Biography
Karl Frinkle
is an applied mathematician
who earned his PhD from the
University
of New Mexico.
He is deeply interested in
numerical simulations,
and most recently in parallel programming.
Karl joined
the SE Mathematics department in 2005,
and thoroughly enjoys teaching
parallel programming
courses
with
Mike Morris
through the CS department.
System Administrator
Department of
Computer Science
Kansas State
University
Topic:
"Birds-of-a-Feather Session:
HPC System Administrators"
Slides:
none
Abstract
We recently observed that
system administrators
are often leary of advice
(even from their direct supervisors)
unless it has been given from
somebody else who
(a) has signficant relevant experience,
(b) they know and trust,
and
(c) can point out the "gotchas."
This Birds-of-a-Feather session
is for system administrators
to talk among themselves about
current pain-points,
things we've done that have turned out well,
and
things we've done that have flopped.
Biography
Kyle Hutson has been involved with
Linux system administration since 1994.
He received his bachelor's degree from
Kansas State
University
in
computer
engineering
in 1995.
He has worked in
non-profit,
public sector,
and
private sector IT services,
including several years as
a small business IT consultant.
Kyle joined
Kansas State University's
HPC team in 2012.
Research Data Specialist
University
Libraries
University
of Oklahoma
Topic:
"One Year Later at OU:
Are We Wrangling, Managing or Maximizing
Our Organizations' Research Data?"
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Abstract
Following up to
last
year's panel discussion,
an overview of the activities and services
that have been made available to
researchers at the University of Oklahoma
will be presented.
From last year,
challenges facing
institutional libraries
discussed include how to:
(a) inventory the datasets,
(b) describe them with relevant metadata;
(c) enable and promote
access and enable discoverability;
(d) enable dataset reusability;
(e) develop citation and curation
guidelines/policies.
New and existing services
helping to address
the issues discussed last year include:
Also to be presented will be
the charter and roadmap for
the newly formed
Research Computing and Data Advisory Group.
This group was formed to help
review,
comment and advise
OU IT and OU Libraries on research needs,
including
software,
data management,
storage and archiving of research data.
Biography
Dr. Mark Laufersweiler
has always had a strong interest in
computers,
computing,
data
and
data visualization.
Upon completing his post-doc
work for
the
Atmospheric
Radiation Measurement
(ARM)
program,
he was the lead computer systems administrator
for 3.5 years
serving the
Florida
State University
Department
of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science.
He was then
the Computer Systems Coordinator for
the
University
of Oklahoma
School
of Meteorology
from 1999-2013.
Part of his duties included
managing the real time data feed
and maintaining the departmental data archive.
He assisted with faculty
in their courses
to help foster computing skills
needed for the classroom
and instruction based on
current best practices regarding
research data and code development.
Since the Fall of 2013,
he has served as the
Research Data Specialist
for the
University
of Oklahoma Libraries.
He is currently assisting
the educational mission of the Libraries
by developing and offering
workshops,
seminars
and
short
courses,
helping to inform
the university community
on best practices
for
data management and data management planning.
He is also working on
the formation of a data repository
to host research data generated by
the university community.
He is a strong advocate of
open source software
and
open access to data.
In 2008,
Dr. Laufersweiler was
awarded
the
Russell
L. DeSouza Award.
This award,
sponsored by
Unidata
is for individuals whose
energy,
expertise,
and active involvement
enable the Unidata program
to better serve geoscience.
Honorees personify Unidata's ideal of
a community that shares
data,
software,
and
ideas
through computing and networking technologies.
Professor
Department
of Engineering & Physics
University of
Central Oklahoma
Topic:
"Update on Computational Efforts at the
University of Central Oklahoma"
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.
Bioinformatics & Research Support Manager
Computing Services Division
The
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
Roundtable Topic:
"Roundtable:
Experiences in the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Research & Education Facilitators
Virtual Residency Program"
(with
Marcus
Bond,
Dana
Brunson,
James
Deaton
and
Horst
Severini)
Roundtable Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Roundtable Abstract
An Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Research and Education Facilitator (ACI-REF)
works directly with researchers
to advance
the computing- and data-intensive aspects of
their research,
helping them
to make effective use of
Cyberinfrastructure (CI).
The University of Oklahoma (OU)
is leading a national
"virtual residency"
program
to prepare ACI-REFs
to provide CI facilitation
to the diverse populations of
Science,
Technology,
Engineering and
Mathematics
(STEM)
researchers that they serve.
Until recently,
CI
Facilitators have had
no education or training program;
the Virtual
Residency
program addresses this national need
by providing:
(1) training,
specifically
(a) summer workshops
and
(b) third party
training opportunity alerts;
(2) a community of CI Facilitators,
enabled by
(c) a biweekly conference call
and
(d) a mailing list.
In this roundtable,
participants from the virtual residency
will share their experiences about the program.
Biography
Dr. Perdeep Mehta
has an MS in Biochemistry
and a Ph.D. in
Biotechnology
from
Indian
Institute of Technology – Delhi.
He joined the group of Prof.
Philipp
Christen
in the
Department
of Biochemistry,
University
of Zurich,
Switzerland
as a postdoctoral fellow in 1988,
and worked for a year
as wet bench biologist
before switching to
the emerging area of Bio-computing.
He got his second postdoctoral fellowship
in 1992 in the
European
Molecular Biology Laboratory
at Heidelberg Germany,
to receive formal training in
Bioinformatics,
where he developed and published
an algorithm on prediction of
protein secondary structures.
He continued the bioinformatics work
after returning to
University of Zurich, Switzerland
in 1994 as Research Scientist,
and developed an algorithm to detect
very distant evolutionary relationships
among protein families,
and published several other articles
on unknown homologies.
In 1999,
he was recruited to the
St.
Jude Children's Research Hospital
in Memphis, Tennessee,
to start a bioinformatics core facility
in the
Hartwell
Center of Bioinformatics &
Biotechnology
to support the research activities of
the basic sciences departments,
and he served as the group leader
from 2001-2006.
He later opted out to try his luck with
the emerging area of clinical sequencing
and founded
Digital Genomics, LLC
in 2013 with a former colleague.
With no fruitful success,
he decided to return to academia again,
and joined the
Samuel
Roberts Noble Foundation
in Ardmore, OK in early 2015
to manage the
Bioinformatics
and Research Support
core group.
Principal Architect
Apache
Airavata
Pervasive Technologies Institute
Indiana
University
Plenary Lightning Talk Topic:
"Science Gateways:
Democratizing Use of Cyberinfrastructure"
Plenary Lightning Talk Slides:
available after the Symposium
Plenary Lightning Talk Abstract
Science gateways,
also known as web portals,
virtual research environments,
virtual laboratories,
are
a fundamental part of
today's research landscape.
This talk will provide
an overview of the Science Gateways
and will highlight
freely available help
for research communities
to develop such infrastructure.
These support services are funded by
the
National
Science Foundation
through the
XSEDE
Science
Gateways
program
and the newly funded
Science Gateways Community Institute.
The talk will provide guidance for seeking help
and will also briefly introduce plans for
development of Oklahoma Cyber Gateways.
Breakout Talk Topic:
"Status and Plans to Build
Oklahoma Cyber Gateways"
Breakout Talk Slides:
available after the Symposium
Breakout Talk Abstract
This talk will present
the current status and future plans for
Oklahoma Cybergateway,
to facilitate easy access to
campus,
regional,
national,
and
commercial
computing resources by
faculty,
staff,
and
students.
The cybergateway is a clone of
SEAGrid.org,
a computational chemistry,
material science,
and engineering
gateway
serving these communities over a decade.
These gateways are powered by
Apache Airavata,
an open source software suite
for managing
the complex execution patterns of
scientific applications on
distributed computing resources.
In this session,
we would like to engage with
end users,
system administrators
and
decision makers
in examining motivating use cases
of facilitating execution and data movement of
scientific applications running on
OU resources such as Schooner.
The gateway will enable federation as needed
to national-scale computing grids
such as XSEDE and
Amazon's
Elastic
Computing Cloud.
The talk will be interactive,
using brief slides and demos
to guide the discussions.
Biography
Suresh Marru
is a principal architect of the
Science Gateway Research Center,
Indiana
University
and is vice-president of the
Apache
Airavata
project.
He is an avid advocate of
applying meritocratic governance principles
to open source communities
and is a nominated Member of
the
Apache
Software Foundation.
Suresh previously directed the
XSEDE
Science
Gateways
program from 2011 to 2015.
He is an active investigator on
several
National
Science Foundation
grants,
with a keen research interest
to advance the deep and wide boundaries of
computational and data sciences
empowered by Science Gateways.
Assistant Professor
Department
of Chemistry, Computer and Physical
Sciences
Southeastern
Oklahoma State U
Topic:
"Sustaining HPC Curricula at
a Regional Institution"
(with Karl Frinkle)
Slides:
available after the Symposium
PowerPoint
PDF
Abstract
There is an obvious lack of
standardized HPC curricula available
for small universities.
This is partly due to
the "old school" accreditation guidelines
being used by most schools.
With little guidance and few resources,
Mike Morris and Karl Frinkle
have been successfully teaching HPC
at
Southeastern
Oklahoma State University
for the last 6 years
without a rigid structure,
and in some cases quite experimentally.
The courses that have been offered
have given many students
considerable exposure to
the parallel paradigm and
cluster architecture in general.
This talk will report on
successes and failures,
and will hopefully provide help
that Morris and Frinkle sorely missed
to others with a desire
to get HPC into their classrooms.
Biography
Mike Morris' degrees are in math,
but he has always said
he wound up on the business end of a computer.
He taught Computer Science (CS)
in the early 80s
after working as
an Operations Research Analyst for
Conoco
in Ponca City OK.
Mike left teaching and spent 15 years
doing various things in the CS industry
before returning to
Southeastern Oklahoma State
to once again teach CS,
where he remains today.
Research Scientist
Department
of Physics & Astronomy
University
of Oklahoma
Roundtable Topic:
"Roundtable:
Experiences in the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Research & Education Facilitators
Virtual Residency Program"
(with
Marcus
Bond,
Dana
Brunson,
James
Deaton
and
Perdeep
Mehta)
Roundtable Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Roundtable Abstract
An Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Research and Education Facilitator (ACI-REF)
works directly with researchers
to advance
the computing- and data-intensive aspects of
their research,
helping them
to make effective use of
Cyberinfrastructure (CI).
The University of Oklahoma (OU)
is leading a national
"virtual residency"
program
to prepare ACI-REFs
to provide CI facilitation
to the diverse populations of
Science,
Technology,
Engineering and
Mathematics
(STEM)
researchers that they serve.
Until recently,
CI
Facilitators have had
no education or training program;
the Virtual
Residency
program addresses this national need
by providing:
(1) training,
specifically
(a) summer workshops
and
(b) third party
training opportunity alerts;
(2) a community of CI Facilitators,
enabled by
(c) a biweekly conference call
and
(d) a mailing list.
In this roundtable,
participants from the virtual residency
will share their experiences about the program.
Biography
Horst
Severini
got his Vordiplom (BS equivalent) in Physics at
the
University
of Wuerzburg
in Germany in 1988,
then went on to earn a Master of Science
in Physics in 1990
and
a Ph.D. in Particle Physics in 1997,
both at the
State
University of New York at Albany.
He is currently a Research Scientist in
the
High
Energy Physics group
at the
University
of Oklahoma,
where he is in charge of computing at the
US
ATLAS
SouthWest
Tier2
facility at OU.
He is also the Grid Computing Coordinator at
the
Oklahoma
Center for High Energy Physics
(OCHEP),
and the Associate Director for
Remote and Heterogeneous Computing at
OU
Supercomputing Center for
Education & Research
(OSCER).
Teaching Assistant
Blue Waters Student Intern
School
of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University
of Oklahoma
Topic:
"Adventures In Parallelization on
One of The Largest Supercomputers
in The Country"
Slides:
PDF
Abstract
Ribonucleic
acid
(RNA)
is one of the most important molecules
in the world of biology.
From protein synthesis to viruses,
there are many problems in the study
of RNA which are greatly aided by computing.
Multiple algorithms have been
developed in the past
to facilitate such computations,
but they are often
inefficient,
too problem-specific,
or both.
To answer our lab's questions about
the
Satellite
Tobacco Mosaic Virus
(STMV),
these algorithms were insufficient
and so the
Swellix
algorithm was developed.
Swellix uses a combinatorics
approach
to evaluate an RNA sequence
subject to optional constraints.
Swellix
has performed well
in our tests
without being confined to any one purpose.
I
will be discussing
the Swellix program
and my development experiences on
the
Blue
Waters
supercomputer.
Biography
Nathan Sloat
is an undergraduate at the
University
of Oklahoma
studying
Computer
Engineering
with a
Physics
minor.
He learned of and joined the
Sooner
Supercomputing Club
in 2015.
Through the club,
he gained an undergraduate research position
with
Dr.
Susan Schroeder
in the
Department
of Chemistry & Biochemistry.
With Dr. Schroeder,
Nathan has continued development of code
used to predict RNA secondary structure.
Through this project,
Nathan and Dr. Schroeder,
as his mentor,
were accepted into the
Blue
Waters Student Internship Program
with the
National
Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Resulting from this program,
Nathan gained parallel programming skills
and has subsequently begun
parallelization of his research code.
Assistant Professor
Department
of Business and Computer Science
Southwestern
Oklahoma State University
Topic:
"Cloud-based Service"
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
HPC is very important
to deal with intelligent computing,
and in this report,
we try to use HPC technology to
implement intelligent medical applications.
Specifically,
we present a novel depression disorder
classification algorithm
named
Weighted Discriminative Dictionary Learning
(WDDL),
based on
functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(fMRI)
data.
The underlying relationship
between samples and dictionary atoms
is exploited
by introducing
an adaptive weighting scheme.
Tested on fMRI data of
29 patients with depression
and
29 healthy controls,
our algorithm
outperforms
all other classification methods
compared in this work.
Furthermore,
we detect the discriminative brain regions
of patients,
which can reveal
the pathogenesis of depression disorder.
Biography
Neal N. Xiong
is faculty in the
Department
of Business and Computer Science
at
Southwestern
Oklahoma State University.
He received his PhD degrees from
Wuhan
University
(about software engineering),
and the
Japan
Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology
(about dependable networks),
respectively.
Before coming to SWOSU,
he worked at
Colorado
Technical University,
Wentworth
Institute of Technology,
and
Georgia
State University
for many years.
His research interests include
Cloud Computing,
Business Networks,
Security and Dependability,
Parallel and Distributed Computing,
and
Optimization Theory.
Dr. Xiong has published
over 200 international journal papers.
He served as an Editor-in-Chief,
Associate editor or Editor member for
over 10 international journals,
including as
Associate Editor for
IEEE
Transactions
on Systems, Man & Cybernetics: Systems,
Associate Editor for
Information
Sciences,
Editor-in-Chief for the
Journal
of Internet Technology,
and Editor-in-Chief for the
Journal
of Parallel & Cloud Computing.
Dr. Xiong is the Chair of the
"Trusted
Cloud Computing" Task Force,
IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society,
and the
Industry
System Applications Technical Committee,
He is a Senior member of the
IEEE
Computer
Society.