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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:
Platinum Sponsor Speaker:
Spiros Liolis,
HPE
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Kent Altena,
Microsoft
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Daniel Andresen,
Kansas State University
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Dana Brunson,
Oklahoma State University
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James Deaton,
OneNet
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Jeremy Evert,
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
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James Ferguson,
University of Oklahoma
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Franklin Fondjo Fotou,
Langston University
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Karl Frinkle,
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
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Kyle Hutson,
Kansas State University
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Garima Kochhar,
Dell EMC
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Diamond Lauffin,
Storbyte, Inc.
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Evan Lemley,
University of Central Oklahoma
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George Louthan,
Oklahoma Innovation Institute
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Mike Morris,
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
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Richard Reif,
Northeastern State University
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Horst Severini,
University of Oklahoma
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Neal N. Xiong,
Northeastern State University
PLENARY
SPEAKERS
Executive Director
Texas
Advanced Computing Center
The University
of Texas
Topic:
"How Not to Get Trampled by a Stampede
in a Cloudy Season"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
This talk will provide updates from the
Texas
Advanced Computing Center
(TACC)
on the
Stampede2
system
(previewed at last year's meeting!),
some of the trends TACC is seeing in
the research computing services space,
and
a discussion of business models
that make sense for
university research computing groups
large and small in this fast-evolving space.
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 16th anniversary
on August 31 2017.
In this report,
we examine
what OSCER is,
what OSCER does,
what OSCER has accomplished
in its 16 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.
HPCaaS Service Provider Partnership Manager
Hewlett-Packard
Enterprise
Topic:
"Emerging HPC Use Cases and Deployment Models"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
The High Performance Computing (HPC) segment
is very much alive and well;
indeed, it is thriving.
With increased performance being
a mainstay focus area,
the rate at which
new use cases are brought to bear
has become just as relevant.
Additionally,
the desire by end-users
to have easier access to
HPC platforms and/or
greater HPC platform capabilities
has driven innovation in
system deployment and provisioning.
This talk will cover three primary areas:
advances in HPC for Life Sciences,
a deep learning solution for
the Financial Service community,
and the architecture behind
provisioning HPC As A Service,
facilitating Hybrid IT approaches to
HPC provisioning.
Biography
Spiros Liolis is a Technology consultant,
having 18+ years of experience in
providing strategic guidance to
clients and Fortune 100 organizations
regarding High Performance Computing (HPC)
solutions,
Business to IT Transformation,
Data Centers,
Workload Portability,
and
Information Security.
He is currently
the HPCaaS Service Provider Partnership Manager
at
Hewlett-Packard
Enterprise.
He manages the
Product/Services/Solution (PSS)
Life Cycle of
High Performance Computing based
Hybrid IT solutions
by providing
initial product/service/solution design,
value proposition,
messaging
and/or
whole product strategies
(packaging,
warranty,
service,
support),
as well as
forecasting through product introduction.
His primary objectives are
to establish strong and broad relationships
with T2/T3 Service Providers,
recruiting them as the GTM agents
for our eventual
virtual HPCaaS worldwide offering.
Spiros has been with HPE for 18 years,
and joins us from
Pointnext,
where he has been the
Worldwide Global Enablement Lead
for the
Hybrid Cloud Services Portfolio
for almost 2 years,
based in the US.
Prior to that,
Spiros was based in
Europe, the Middle East and Africa
(EMEA),
where he was EMEA's
DC and Cloud Growth Initiatives lead,
where he supported EMEA
on demand generation,
business development
and
pursuit activities
in the key growth areas.
He started his career in HPE
as consultant in Greece,
before quickly jumping to
EMEA's International Experts Team
as Senior Architect and Strategy Consultant.
He has
a Master of Science in
Engineering Management
and
a Bachelor of Science in
Mechanical Engineering,
both from the
University
of Tennessee.
Spiros is a father of two,
and with his wife Georgina,
lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
BREAKOUT
SPEAKERS
Global Black Belt Technical Professional (SME)
Americas, Big Compute
Microsoft
Topic:
"Microsoft Azure:
Using the Public Cloud to Solve
the Big Questions"
BoF Slides:
PDF
Abstract
Microsoft
has seen the cloud as
a huge enabler for researchers
to solve the big questions
without the limits faced by
on-premises computing infrastructures.
We will cover the capabilities within
Azure
geared towards HPC infrastructure
—
both
Infrastructure As a Service (IAAS)
and
Software As a Service (SAAS),
and touch upon
how to integrate the cloud
without being experts
—
whether
R,
Python,
or another language.
We will demo
R integration
and feature a case study
where a researcher
had a process
that would have taken
9 months to solve
but
took 3 days with Azure.
Biography
Kent Altena
is a member of
the global team of experts within Microsoft,
specializing in
HPC
and
Microsoft Big Compute solutions
across many verticals.
His background prior to joining Microsoft
was designing and managing
grid environments
for the financial services industry.
Within Microsoft,
he has helped many organizations
upgrade on-premises grids to
Microsoft HPC Pack
and enable burst scenarios
using the cloud (Azure)
featuring tens of thousands of cores
in each environment
to solve some of
the biggest mission critical questions.
He holds a Masters degree
and has over 25 IT certifications,
helping develop
many vendor certification exams.
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:
available after the Symposium
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.
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:
available after the Symposium
Talk Topic:
"Coalition for Advancing Digital Research
and Education (CADRE)"
Talk 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!
Talk Abstract
The
Coalition for Advancing Digital
Research and Education
(CADRE)
is a new collaborative initiative at
Oklahoma
State University
that brings together
research computing professionals,
librarians,
researchers,
and
educators.
CADRE's mission is
to make it easier
to find and use research technology resources,
to connect with people
who can help with these resources,
and
to broaden the possibilities of
the technology and people available,
to make for more successful research.
In this session,
Brunson will describe
CADRE's progress at OSU
and invite a discussion on
the benefits of collaborating
within and across institutions
as well as approaches for
building communities to foster
digital research and education.
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 2017.
She and
Henry
Neeman
have been appointed
joint co-leads of the
XSEDE
Campus Engagement
program,
which includes the
Campus
Champions.
Incoming Executive Director
Great
Plains Network
Outgoing 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:
available after the Symposium
Roundtable Abstract
Biography
James Deaton
is about to begin as
Executive Director
of the
Great
Plains Network
and is outgoing
Chief Technology Officer
for
OneNet,
Oklahoma's
statewide research and education network.
In this capacity,
he has been a key decision-maker
in terms of
technology oversight,
engineering
and
long-term research and development.
In addition to his responsibilities at OneNet,
Deaton has been accountable for
maintaining close involvement with
researchers and engineers of
state,
regional
and
national
network initiatives.
Deaton has served 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.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Department
of Business & Computer Science
Southwestern
Oklahoma State University
Panel #1 Topic:
"Implementation Update for the
Oklahoma Friction Free Network"
Panelists:
Jeremy Evert,
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Robert Nordmark,
OneNet
Matt Younkins,
University of Oklahoma
Panel #1 Slides:
available after the Symposium
Panel #1 Abstract:
A discussion of
the hardware status
for each school for both grants,
how to measure performance of the system,
and what equipment we need to start looking at
to ensure proper function of the system.
Panel #2 Topic:
"Administration and Application of the
Oklahoma Friction Free Network"
Panelists:
James
Deaton,
OneNet/Great
Plains Network
Jeremy
Evert,
Southwestern
Oklahoma State University
Henry
Neeman,
University
of Oklahoma
Richard
Reif,
Northeastern
State University
Panel #2 Slides:
available after the Symposium
Panel #2 Abstract:
A discussion of the non-hardware parts of
the OFFN and MORE_OFFN grants.
The panel will discuss
what reporting is required,
meetings and trainings available,
and
who needs to be using the equipment
for researchers and network administrator
collaborators.
The panel will discuss budget periods,
spending goals,
and usage tracking.
Biography
Dr. Jeremy Evert
is an assistant professor for the
Department
of Business & Computer Science
at
Southwestern
Oklahoma State University.
Jeremy teaches
introductory programming
and
source code management.
He works closely with his students on
undergraduate research projects.
Jeremy has been successful in
securing funding for
equipment and student travel from
Oklahoma NASA EPSCoR
and the
National
Science Foundation.
Jeremy has been a mentor for a
Blue Waters Student Intern,
and has also coached teams for
the 2017 and 2017
Oklahoma
High Performance Computing Competition.
Jeremy was selected by the SWOSU students as
the 2017 Faculty of the Year.
Research Computing Facilitator
OU
Supercomputing Center for Education &
Research
University
of Oklahoma
Roundtable Topic:
"Roundtable:
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Research & Education Facilitators
Virtual Residency"
(with
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.
Slides:
available after the Symposium
Biography
Jim Ferguson
is a Research Computing Facilitator for
OU
Supercomputing Center for Education &
Research
(OSCER)
at the
University
of Oklahoma.
Jim has served on
many workshop and conference
organizing committees,
with current efforts including
the upcoming
SCxy
Conferences
and the
International
HPC Summer School
series.
Before coming to OSCER,
Jim served as the Director of
Education, Outreach & Training
for the
National
Institute for Computational Sciences
(NICS)
at the
University
of Tennessee Knoxville.
Before joining NICS,
Jim's focus was programming for,
training,
and educating
users of
high performance computers and networks.
Jim's previous experience includes
positions at
Pratt
& Whitney Aircraft
and the
National
Center for Supercomputing Applications,
including significant roles in
NSF-funded projects
like the
National
Laboratory for Applied Network Research
and
Web100.
Jim is an alumnus of
Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology.
Assistant Professor
Department Chair
Langston
University
Panel Topic:
"Panel: Fostering a Culture of
Cyberinfrastructure Grant Proposals
Across Oklahoma"
Panel Abstract
Coming soon
Biography
Franklin Fondjo Fotou
received his B.S. degree in Physics,
M.Sc. degrees in Physics
(with a minor in Electronics),
M.Sc. Degree in Physics
(with a minor in Heat Transfer)
from the
University of Yaoundé I,
Yaoundé Cameroon,
in 1996, 1998, and 2000
respectively.
He received the Doctor's degree in
Computer Science and Communication Engineering
at the
Graduate School of
Information Science and Electrical Engineering,
Kyushu University,
Japan in March 2006.
Dr. Fondjo
was recipient of
the Japanese government
scholarship for excellence,
the Munbukagakusho,
from April 2003 - March 2006,
and has received several the
Young Scientist Research Fund
of the 21st Century
COE Program of Japan
in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
He is Co-PI and key personnel on
several NSF funded grants.
His current research includes
Computational Electromagnetics and SAR,
Internet of Thing (IoT),
and big Data analysis and Data Science.
He is currently the Chair of the
Department of Technology,
Langston University,
in Langston OK.
The Co-Director of the
Langston Computing Center for
Research and Education
(LU-CCRE),
the Director of the
Langston Center for
Interdisciplinary Research and Education
(LU-CIRE),
and the Co-Director of the
Langston Math Science and Technology (MST)
Summer Program at Langston University.
Dr. Fondjo Fotou
is an XSEDE Campus Champion for
Langston University
and an active member of the
OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative
(OneOCII).
He served as member of the
Student Engagement program
for
XSEDE 16.
He is also member of both the
IEEE
(Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers)
in US and the
IEICE
(The Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers)
in Japan.
Professor
Department
of Mathematics
Southeastern
Oklahoma State University
Topic:
"Undergraduates in HPC Courses
Facilitate Research into
an Open Problem in Algebra"
(with Mike Morris)
Slides:
available after the Symposium
Abstract
In this presentation,
we will discuss two HPC courses
offered last academic year
which solely focused on
undergraduate students writing parallel code
to help researchers generate and analyze
data regarding an open problem in
abstract algebra.
At the start of the Fall 2017 semester,
all that the researchers had was
very slow code to generate data,
and no code to analyze it.
By the end of the Spring 2017 semester,
large data sets could be generated
in a fraction of the time originally required,
and conjectures could now be tested
against this data set.
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.
Senior Principal Systems Engineer, HPC
Dell
Topic:
"Simplifying HPC with the HPC Innovation Lab"
Slides:
available after the Symposium
Talk Abstract:
Did you know that you can access a
Top500
super computer today?
The goals of the
Dell EMC
HPC
Innovation Lab
are
to vet new technologies,
evaluate different options for
HPC system design
and then
simplify these design choices,
analyze performance across
a range of applications
and to share this information with
the HPC research community.
This talk explains why
we built this top500 system,
what we do to design and tune HPC systems,
and how you can influence and take advantage of
all of this.
Biography:
Garima Kochhar
is a lead engineer at
the Dell EMC
HPC
Innovation Lab.
She is interested in
CPU architectures and tuning systems
for compute performance.
She has experience across
different areas of HPC
including
storage solutions,
networks
and
applications
in her 13 years at Dell.
Garima received her MS in
Computer
Science
from the
Ohio
State University.
Principal / Senior Solution Architect
Engineering / Development
StorByte,
Inc.
Topic:
"Are all NAND / NVMe / 3D Flash drives
Created the Same? Does Drive Design
Make a Difference?"
Slides:
available after the Symposium
Abstract
With the advent of
the mass utilization of
Flash Based storage,
for many users the following question
has not been addressed:
"Does Drive Design Make a Difference?"
With conventional hard drives,
we have years of empirical evidence
providing us with extensive information
documenting every operational characteristic of
spinning disk.
For many,
we take for granted
how this information allows us
to predictably and accurately determine
the effect of conditions like
end of life,
fragmentation,
parity scrubbing
and
how different file systems
impact our spinning disk storage systems.
Today,
the majority of Flash Based system providers
do not address any of
the operational characteristics
that impact
the life expectancy and performance of
the actual Flash media.
It could appear these suppliers
expect us to accept
that Flash is just fast enough,
but,
as with spinning disk,
there are active conditions
within all Non-Volatile media
that are affecting
the life expectancy and performance of
these systems.
In our talk,
we will address
a variety of conditions
unique to Non-Volatile memory,
such as,
Program
Erase Cycling,
Write
Cliff,
NAND Die's
and their relationship to
the memory cells Logical Unit Number (LUN),
Block and Page makeup,
and how these relate to
the Flash Translation Layer (FTL)
and
its relationship to
the actual
Logical to Physical Address Translation (LPT),
and ultimately the process of
Garbage Collection (GC) and
Page re-allocation.
These are known conditions
that directly affect
performance and life.
We will illustrate how,
through modern algorithmic abstraction,
you can achieve enterprise class performance
utilizing commodity based memory modules,
and by incorporating this approach,
you can reduce power and heat,
and how,
compared to conventional approaches,
you can extend the life of your media
and ultimately your systems up to 16 times.
Biography
In the early 1980's,
Diamond Lauffin was part of the team
that introduced one of
the first commercially available
software based music recording
software programs in the world.
In the 1990's,
Diamond launched a worldwide program for
Qualstar
Corporation,
developing a combined effort with
Sony
Corporation
delivering some of the first
tape based systems
providing direct, file system access
transparently to standard applications.
Based on this program,
Qualstar completed
a successful and profitable
Initial Public Offering (IPO) on Wall Street.
In January 2001,
based on the premise of
utilizing an intelligent abstraction layer
to deliver Enterprise Class capabilities with
Commodity Based hardware,
Diamond launched
Nexsan
Technologies,
with a focus of delivering
both extreme density capabilities
and the foundation for
one of the first affordable
Disk to Disk (D2D) Backup solutions
in the industry.
In 2009,
Diamond launched
a worldwide program introducing
a Multi-Site,
Distributed Software Application Layer
providing the capability
to co-locate
multi-billion object based file systems
transparently
abstracting disk and tape,
allowing seamless access to
any file located
anywhere in the world
from any device,
regardless of the media type.
With this technology approach,
Diamond deployed,
extreme petabyte
installations with the,
National
Institutes of Health
(NIH),
Deluxe Films,
The National Health System
(United Kingdom),
Der Spiegel (Germany)
and many of the most prestigious
Bio IT/Life Sciences companies
in our industry.
In the 2013 time frame,
Diamond was one
of the key contributors to
the launch of
Amplidata
corporation,
successfully introducing
one of the leading Object Based Storage systems
in the market.
Amplidata was then successfully sold to
HGST.
Over his career,
Diamond has successfully focused on
the concept of
creating intelligent abstraction layers
to provide enterprise class capabilities
utilizing commodity based components
to specifically address
the multi-petabyte,
multi-billion object based initiatives
presented by our industry today.
Professor
Department
of Engineering & Physics
University of
Central Oklahoma
Panel Topic:
"Implementation Update for the
Oklahoma Friction Free Network"
Panel Abstract
A discussion of
the hardware status
for each school for both grants,
how to measure performance of the system,
and what equipment we need to start looking at
to ensure proper function of the system.
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.
Computer Scientist & Director
Tandy
Supercomputing Center
Oklahoma
Innovation Institute
Topic:
"Panel:
Fostering a Culture of
Cyberinfrastructure Grant Proposals
in Oklahoma"
Talk Abstract
Coming soon
Biography
George Louthan
serves as the Director of the
Tandy
Supercomputing Center,
an initiative of the
Oklahoma
Innovation Institute
in Tulsa OK.
He joined the institute
as a volunteer computer scientist
helping to develop the supercomputing center
and procure its systems in 2011,
before becoming OII's
first full time employee in late 2012.
He holds a MS in Computer Science and
undergraduate degrees in
Computer Science and Mathematics from the
University
of Tulsa.
Before moving to high performance computing,
his background included work in
information security,
research software development
and
informatics.
Assistant Professor Emeritus
Department
of Chemistry, Computer and Physical
Sciences
Southeastern
Oklahoma State U
Topic:
"Undergraduates in HPC Courses
Facilitate Research into
an Open Problem in Algebra"
(with Karl Frinkle)
Slides:
available after the Symposium
PowerPoint
PDF
Abstract
In this presentation,
we will discuss two HPC courses
offered last academic year
which solely focused on
undergraduate students writing parallel code
to help researchers generate and analyze
data regarding an open problem in
abstract algebra.
At the start of the Fall 2017 semester,
all that the researchers had was
very slow code to generate data,
and no code to analyze it.
By the end of the Spring 2017 semester,
large data sets could be generated
in a fraction of the time originally required,
and conjectures could now be tested
against this data set.
Biography
Early in life,
Mike Morris was torn between
mathematics and motorcycles,
and luckily for him,
the academic side prevailed.
After a stint at CONOCO in Ponca City OK
in the early 80s,
he took a CS teaching job at
Southeastern
Oklahoma State U
in Durant.
A couple of years later,
he went into industry
and spent 15 years
doing various IT jobs,
until returning to SOSU to once again teach CS.
In 2017,
he retired from teaching
and resumed motorcycling.
He remains active with Karl Frinkle in
the HPC education arena.
Chief Information Officer
Information Technology Services
Northeastern
State University
Panel Topic:
"Implementation Update for the
Oklahoma Friction Free Network"
(with
Jeremy Evert
and others)
Panel Slides:
available after the Symposium
Abstract
A discussion of
the hardware status
for each school for both grants,
how to measure performance of the system,
and what equipment we need to start looking at
to ensure proper function of the system.
Biography
While Dr. Richard Reif
may be new to
the exciting world of
supercomputing,
he has been involved in technology
since the days of
transistor theory,
component level troubleshooting
and
the introduction of
the 8088/8086 microprocessors.
He started
his career in Higher Education
in 1989 as a faculty member
teaching
programming,
networking
and
computer applications.
He started
his career in Higher Education administration
in 1996
after he was voluntold by the President
to take over campus technology operations.
The first course of action was
to build out the campus network
and bring the newfangled Internet to campus.
Dr. Reif now leads
the very talented technology teams at
Northeastern State University.
The teams are responsible for
the Service desk,
Computers,
Network infrastructure,
Security,
Datacenter,
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
and third party systems
too numerous to mention in polite company.
Dr. Reif is also an active member of
the
Council
on Information Technology
(COIT)
as well as a new member to
its executive council.
Associate Director for
Remote & Heterogeneous Computing
and
Research Computing Facilitator
OU
Supercomputing Center for Education &
Research
Research Scientist
Homer
L. Dodge Department
of Physics & Astronomy
University
of Oklahoma
Roundtable Topic:
"Roundtable:
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Research & Education Facilitators
Virtual Residency"
(with
James
Ferguson)
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
and a Research Computing Facilitator
at
OU
Supercomputing Center for
Education & Research
(OSCER).
Associate Professor
Department
of Mathematics and Computer Science
Northeastern
State University
Topic:
"Artificial Intelligence Technology
for Cloud Service"
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies
are very important
to deal with cloud computing.
These include:
learning and adaptation;
sensory understanding and interaction;
reasoning and planning;
optimisation of procedures and parameters;
autonomy;
creativity;
and
extracting knowledge and predictions from large,
diverse digital data.
The applications of AI systems
are very diverse,
ranging from
understanding healthcare data
to
autonomous and adaptive robotic systems,
to
smart supply chains,
video game design
and
content creation.
In this report,
we focus on
high resolution rainfall estimation,
which is
one of the most significant inputs
for numerous meteorological applications,
such as
agricultural irrigation,
water power generation,
and
flood warnings.
However,
rainfall estimation is a challenging task,
because it is subject to
various sources of error.
In this paper,
an effective
high resolution rainfall estimation system
is presented
that employs
a spatiotemporal model named RANLIST.
The merits of this system
are listed as follows:
-
RANLIST,
which exploits both
spatial structure of
multiple radar reflectivity factors
and
time-series information of rain processes,
is superior to other methods for
rainfall estimation.
-
RANLIST is used for
rainfall estimation with
temporal resolution of six minutes,
while this system
can estimate rainfall
every minute
which will do more help for
coping with emergencies such as flood.
Experiments have been implemented over
radar-covered areas of
two large cities in China
in June and July, 2014.
Results show that
the presented rainfall estimation system
can obtain good performance
with spatial resolution of 1km×1km,
temporal resolution of
six minutes or one minutes.
Biography
Neal N. Xiong
is an Associate Professor in the
Department
of Mathematics and Computer Science
at
Northeastern
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 NSU,
he worked at
Colorado
Technical University,
Wentworth
Institute of Technology,
Georgia
State University
and
Southwestern
Oklahoma State University.
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.