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<i><b>This is the second installment of the SC15 Awards recap. To read the first article, <a href="http://sc15blog.blogspot.com/2015/12/sc15-awards-recap-part-1.html" target="_blank">click here</a>.</b></i></h3>
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This article will recap the following from the SC15 Awards Ceremony:<br />
<ul>
<li>Best Posters</li>
<li>The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Early Career Researchers</li>
<li>Scientific Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase </li>
<li>George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship</li>
<li>ACM Student Research Competition </li>
<li>ACM Gordon Bell Prize</li>
</ul>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>SC Posters encourage collaboration and conversations.</b></i></td></tr>
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The first awards segment to highlight is the robust posters competition, which includes the ACM Student Research Competition. Research posters showcase some of the most cutting-edge research in high performance computing (HPC), storage, networking and data analytics. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Posters are always a great area for positive discourse.</b></i></td></tr>
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This year, SC received 254 detailed submissions that went through a rigorous review process. In the end, 114 posters were accepted and seven finalists were selected for the Best Poster Award.<br />
<br />
As part of its research poster activities, SC15 also hosted the ACM Student Research Competition. It enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share results and exchange ideas. They also have a chance to rub shoulders with academic and industry leaders and gain an understanding of the applications of their research.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>The Student Research Competition encourages research excellence.</b></i></td></tr>
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This year, SC received 64 submissions that went through a rigorous review process. In the end, 25 Student Research Competition posters were accepted. The Student Research Competition includes travel support for all SC15 participating students as well as cash awards to the finalists. This award is co-sponsored by Microsoft Research. <br />
<br />
The first place winners will move on to the Student Research Competition grand finals next year. According to SC15 Posters Chair, Manish Parashar, "The poster session is a very important activity where the poster authors and audiences enjoy face-to-face discussion on their technologies for a broader audience and great exposure for their work." <br />
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<b>Best SC15 Poster</b> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>SC's Manish Parashar congratulates Timothy I. Mattox who was part of the team that won for Best Poster.</b></i></td></tr>
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Parashar then introduced the overall winner of the SC15 Best Poster Award as "Parallelization,
Acceleration, and Advancement of Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD)
Methods".<br />
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Authors are as follows:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Timothy I. Mattox - Engility Corporation</li>
<li>James P. Larentzos -
Engility Corporation </li>
<li>Christopher P. Stone - Computational Science and
Engineering, LLC.</li>
<li>Sean Ziegeler - Engility Corporation; John K. Brennan -
U.S. Army Research Laboratory</li>
<li>Martin Lísal - Institute of Chemical
Process Fundamentals of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
and J. E. Purkyne University.</li>
</ul>
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The other SC15 Poster finalists:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>Performance, Power, and Energy of In-Situ and Post-Processing Visualization: A Case Study in Climate Simulation - with Vignesh Adhinarayanan - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University as lead author.</li>
<li>Development of Explicit Moving Particle Simulation Framework and Zoom-Up Tsunami Analysis System - with Kohei Murotani - University of Tokyo as lead author.</li>
<li>Efficient Large-Scale Sparse Eigenvalue Computations on Heterogeneous Hardware - with Moritz Kreutzer - Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg as lead author.</li>
<li>Memory Hotplug for Energy Savings of HPC systems - with Shinobu Miwa - Hiroki Honda University of Electro-Communications as lead author.</li>
<li>Benchmark Simulation and Experimental Testbed Studies of AWGR-Based, Multi-Layer Photonic Interconnects for Low- Latency, Energy-Efficient Computing Architectures - with Paolo Grani - University of California Davis as lead author.</li>
<li>Large-Scale and Massively Parallel Phase-Field Simulations of Pattern Formation in Ternary Eutectic Alloys - with Johannes Hötzer - Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences as lead author. </li>
</ul>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>SC15 Student Research Awards.</b></i></td></tr>
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<b>ACM Student Research Winners</b><br />
ACM CEO, Bobby Schnabel and ACM President, Alex Wolf presented the winners of the ACM Student Research Competition and took part in also introducing both the 2015 Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research Award finalists:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>The SC15 Undergraduate Student Research Award Finalists on stage </b></i><i><b><i><b>with members of the Awards Committee</b></i>.</b></i></td></tr>
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<li>Third Place: ”Modeling the Impact of Thread Configuration on Power and Performance of GPUs” by Tiffany A. Connors from Texas State University.</li>
<li>Second Place: ”Optimization Strategies for Materials Science Applications on Cori: An Intel Knights Landing, Many Integrated Core Architecture” by Luther D. Martin from National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. </li>
<li>First Place: ”Lessons from Post-Processing Climate Data on Modern Flash-Based HPC Systems” by Adnan Haider from the Illinois Institute of Technology.</li>
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Then the 2015 Graduate Student Research Award finalists were presented:<br />
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<li>Third Place: “High Performance Model Based Image Reconstruction” by Xiao Wang from Purdue University.</li>
<li>Second Place: “Efficient Multiscale Platelets Modeling Using Supercomputers” by Na Zhang from Stony Brook University.</li>
<li>First Place:<i><b> "</b></i>AccFFT: A New Parallel FFT Library for CPU and GPU Architectures” by Amir Gholami from the University of Texas at Austin. </li>
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<b>Scientific Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase</b><br />
This is the second year of the new format for the Scientific Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase. Six finalists competed for the Award and presented their movie during a dedicated session. <br />
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Movies were judged based on the following:<br />
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<li>Quality</li>
<li>Creativity</li>
<li>Innovation</li>
<li>How each enables scientific discovery </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Members of the winning team accept their award.</b></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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The Scientific Visualization and Data Analytics Award went to “Visualization of Ocean Currents and Eddies in a High-Resolution Ocean Model," authored by: Francesca Samsel, Mark Petersen, Terece Turton. Gregory Abram, James Ahrens, and David Rogers. <br />
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The other finalists were as follows:<br />
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<li>"Gasoline Compression Ignition: Optimizing Start of Injection Time" with Joseph Insley as the lead author.</li>
<li>"Visualization Of Airflow Through The Human Respiratory System: The Sniff" with Fernando Cucchietti as the lead author.</li>
<li>"Visualization of a Tornado-Producing Thunderstorm: A Study of Visual Representation" with David Bock as the lead author.</li>
<li>"Extreme Multi-Resolution Visualization: A Challenge On Many Levels" with Joanna Balme as the lead author.</li>
<li>"Chemical Visualization of Human Pathogens: The Retroviral Capsids" with Juan Perilla as the lead author.</li>
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<b>IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Early Career Researchers</b><br />
The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Early Career Researchers recognizes individuals who have made outstanding and potentially long-lasting contributions to the field within five years of receiving their PhD.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>The winners of the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Early Career Researchers with members of the SC Awards Committee.</b></i></td></tr>
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The following were the winners as announced by Manish Parashar who is also the SC15 Chair of the Award selection committee:<br />
• Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego<br />
• Aydin Buluç, Computational Research Division, Berkeley Lab (LBNL)<br />
• Kurt B. Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories <br />
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<b>ACM/IEEE George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship</b><br />
The George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship honors exceptional PhD students in our field. These Fellowships are sponsored by ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and the SC Conference, and include a $5,000 honorarium. The George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship Chair is Barbara Horner-Miller.<br />
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The 2015 George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship winners are:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Maciej Besta (on the left) and Dhairya Malhotra accept their
certificates as winners of the 2015 George Michael Memorial HPC
Fellowship from </b></i><i><b><i><b>Barbara Horner-Miller, t</b></i>he George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship Chair.</b></i> </td></tr>
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<li>Maciej Besta from ETH Zurich for his project "Accelerating Large-Scale Distributed Graph Computations."</li>
<li>Dhairya Malhotra from the University of Texas at Austin, for his project "Scalable Algorithms for Evaluating Volume Potentials."</li>
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<b>ACM Gordon Bell Prize</b><br />
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The ACM Gordon Bell Prize is awarded for outstanding team achievement in HPC. The purpose of the award is to track the progress of parallel computing. Particular emphasis is placed on rewarding innovation in HPC to advance science, engineering and large-scale data analytics.<br />
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According to Cherri Pancake, ACM Awards Chair, "Solving a scientific or engineering problem is important, but performance as well as scientific outcomes are needed to win this prize." She continued, "Finalists were chosen on the basis of performance measurements already achieved when the papers were submitted. Teams present their work in two sessions during the conference. The winning team receives a $10,000 stipend."<br />
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The winning selection was “An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth’s Mantle” in the category Scalabilty and was authored by:<br />
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<li>Johann Rudi - The University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>A. Cristiano I. Malossi - IBM Corporation</li>
<li>Tobin Isaac - The University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li>Georg Stadler - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences</li>
<li>Michael Gurnis - California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Peter W. J. Staar - IBM Corporation</li>
<li>Yves Ineichen - IBM Corporation</li>
<li>Costas Bekas - IBM Corporation</li>
<li>Alessandro Curioni - IBM Corporation</li>
<li>Omar Ghattas - The University of Texas at Austin </li>
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Listed below are the other finalists who also deserve congratulations:<br />
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<li>“Massively Parallel Models of the Human Circulatory System” with research led by Amanda Randles - Duke University.</li>
<li>“An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex -PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth’s Mantle” with research led by Johann Rudi - The University of Texas at Austin.</li>
<li>“The In-Silico Lab-on-a-Chip: Petascale and High-Throughput Simulations of Microfluidics at Cell Resolution - with research led by Diego Rossinelli - ETH Zurich.</li>
<li>“Pushing Back the Limit of Ab-initio Quantum Transport Simulations on Hybrid Supercomputers" - with research led by Mauro Calderara - ETH Zurich.</li>
<li>“Implicit Nonlinear Wave Simulation with 1.08T DOF and 0.270T Unstructured Finite Elements to Enhance Comprehensive Earthquake Simulation” - with research led by Tsuyoshi Ichimura - University of Tokyo.</li>
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This completes the summary of the SC15 Awards Ceremony. Congratulations to all finalists and winners. Check back here for more conference updates or click here to view the <a href="http://sc16.supercomputing.org/" target="_blank">SC16 website</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com89tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-7960498537281110772015-12-01T18:43:00.000-08:002015-12-02T02:57:23.471-08:00SC15 Awards Recap: Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Once again, the SC Awards Ceremony was an entertaining event and one of the many highlights of conference week. This year, the SC15 Award Co-Chairs were Padma Raghavan and Franck Cappello who helped open the SC15 Awards Ceremony<br />
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According to Cappello, “The awards are very important for the SC conference series. They celebrate the best and the brightest of High Performance Computing [HPC]. The selection of the finalists and winners follow a very strict and codified process, involving many members of the program committee.”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>SC15 Award Co-Chairs were Padma Raghavan and Franck Cappello.</b></i> </td></tr>
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He continued, “Awards are not just plaques or certificates. They define excellence. They set the bar for the years to come. They are a very powerful inspiration for young and senior researchers.”<br />
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Raghavan added that even being an award finalist at SC15 is already an achievement in itself. Following is a brief summary of some of the SC15 award winners.<br />
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<b>SC15 Student Cluster Competition</b><br />
The Student Cluster Competition is comprised of two awards: the first for the Highest LINPACK and the 2nd for the Overall Winner. These awards showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. It’s a non-stop, real-time, 48-hour challenge where students race to assemble a small cluster at SC15 to demonstrate the greatest sustained performance across a series of applications. <br />
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The students partner with vendors to design and build a cutting-edge cluster from commercially available components, not to exceed a 3120-watt power limit and work with application experts to tune and run the competition codes. The Student Cluster competition is supported by Allinea and Schlumberger.<br />
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The first Student Cluster Competition award - Highest LINPACK Benchmark - went to Team TUMuch Phun, Technische Universität from München, Germany. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Team TUMuch Phun, Technische Universität from München, Germany, receive
the Highest LINPACK Benchmark award from SC15 Student Cluster
Competition Chair, Hai-Ah Nam (far right). </b></i></td></tr>
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The Overall Student Cluster Competition winner was determined based on a combined score for correctly completed workload, benchmark performance, demonstrated understanding of architecture and performance through profiling and analysis, and interviews. This year’s winner was Team Diablo from Tsinghua University in China.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Team Diablo, Tsinghua University in China, celebrate winning the SC15 Student Cluster Competition.</b></i></td></tr>
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<b>Technical Papers Program</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Jeffrey S. Vetter, SC15 Technical Program Chair, presents interesting data from this year’s submissions during the SC15 awards ceremony in Austin, Texas.</b></i></td></tr>
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The Technical Papers Program is one of SC’s most valued components. Each year SC receives submissions of original research that introduce new ideas to the field and stimulate future trends in HPC. As in previous years, it was a tough competition, with 361 paper submissions covering a wide range of research interests and topics.<br />
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The committee met for two days in June to review the Papers. At the conclusion of the meeting, the committee had accepted 78 papers, which is a 22 percent acceptance rate. Of the 78 papers, nine have been selected as finalists for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards.<br />
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<b>Please note, all technical papers are available at the ACM Digital Library and can be accessed by <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2807591" target="_blank">clicking here</a></b>.<br />
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<b>Best Student Paper</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>"Parallel Distributed Memory Construction of Suffix and Longest Common
Prefix Arrays” by Patrick Flick and Srinivas Aluru was selected as the
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Patrick Flick’s and Srinivas Aluru’s winning paper proposes a novel algorithm for the suffix array problem. The performance results are very impressive and demonstrate a hundred fold improvement over existing methods. The algorithm itself has a potential broad impact on the field of genomics.<br />
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The three other finalists were: <br />
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<li>Adaptive and Transparent Cache Bypassing for GPUs - with Ang Li from Eindhoven University of Technology as the lead author.</li>
<li>A Case for Application-Oblivious Energy - Efficient MPI Runtime- with Akshay Venkatesh - Ohio State University as the lead author.</li>
<li>GraphReduce: Processing Large-Scale Graphs on Accelerator - Based Systems - with Dipanjan Sengupta - Georgia Institute of Technology as the lead author</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>The SC15 Best Paper, ”ScaAnalyzer — A Tool to Identify Memory Scalability Bottlenecks in Parallel Programs” by Xu Liu and Bo Wu.</b></i></td></tr>
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Xu Liu’s and Bo Wu’s winning paper proposes methods and tools that isolate the causes of memory bottlenecks in both hardware and software in advanced computing systems. The committee felt the fundamental contributions address the memory wall problem and could have wide applicability in software development at Exascale.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>The Best Paper authors (with certificates from left) Bo Wu and Xu Liu receive their awards from members of the SC15
Awards Committee who are (from left) Padma Raghavan, Eva Deelman and
José Moreira, co-chairs of the SC15 Technical Papers Committee, and
Franck Cappello.</b></i></td></tr>
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The other finalists were:<br />
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<li>Massively Parallel Phase-Field Simulations for Ternary Eutectic Directional Solidification - with Martin Bauer - FAU Erlangen Nuremberg as the lead author.</li>
<li>Efficient Implementation of Quantum Materials Simulations on Distributed CPU-GPU Systems - with Raffaele Solcà - ETH Zurich as the lead author.</li>
<li>Adaptive and Transparent Cache Bypassing for GPU's - with Ang Li - Eindhoven University of Technology as lead author.</li>
<li>Exploiting Asynchrony from Exact Forward Recovery for DUE in Iterative Solvers - with Luc Jaulmes - Barcelona Supercomputing Center as the lead author.</li>
<li>PGX.D: A Fast Distributed Graph Processing System - with Sungpack Hong - Oracle Corporation as the lead author. </li>
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<b><i>Check back here for additional coverage of other SC15 award winners in the near future.</i></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-85724914656697253972015-11-24T12:18:00.001-08:002015-11-24T12:18:31.700-08:00Australian Teens Pick Up Supercomputing Knowledge, Souvenirs on Trip to SC15<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>The Australian group visits the U.S. Department of Energy booth at SC15.</b></i></td></tr>
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Eight students from three specialized science schools in eastern Australia spent a week at the SC15 conference in Austin, Texas, with the goal of bringing home more than the usual conference swag -- they came looking for information that will help them with computing projects at their schools and experiences that will spur their classmates’ interest in high performance computing.<br /><br />The students were selected from the Queensland Academy of Science, Mathematics and Technology (QASMT), and the Faith Lutheran College, both in Brisbane, and the John Monash Science School in Melbourne. The students, all but one are in their 10th school year, were part of a program created several years ago by Prof. David Abramson of the University of Queensland.<br /><br />“A big highlight for me was a panel presentation on post-Moore’s Law looking at digital, quantum and neuromorphic computing from the perspectives of different scientists,” said Dylan Sanusi-Goh of the John Monash Science School (JMSS). “I also went to a Microsoft talk on quantum programming and then they walked me through how to do it. Here you get to do something you couldn’t do otherwise.”<br /><br />Paro Mitchell of JMSS said she was interested in how computers are getting much faster, but also wanted to know what will happen after Moore’s Law no longer applies, and the doubling of computing power per processor every 18 months which has driven the industry for decades comes to an end. “Supercomputers are such a great technology and I wanted to know what we are using it for.”<br /><br />One area of research benefiting from supercomputing -- the merging of black holes, their interactions and the gravitational waves that are generated caught the imagination of Olivia MacKenzie of the Queensland Academy.<br /><br />Jess Woolley of JMSS said that although she hasn’t done any programming, she was learning a lot as the week progressed. At a visit to the nearby Texas Advanced Computing Center, she was excited to see an actual supercomputer and “how big and how loud they are, and see what’s inside of them.” <br /><br />And learning about a wide range of science disciplines, possibilities and tools was one of the goals of the trip, said teacher Robyn Simpson of QASMT. <br /><br />Linda McIver, a teacher at JMSS, said the students were selected partly for what they would bring back to get their schools excited about computing. <br /><br />And the student have clear projects at their home institutions. At each of the three schools, they are installing sensors to measure different conditions in the buildings to make them both more efficient and more comfortable.<br /><br />Jack Stubbs of the Queensland Academy said his group is rolling out eight sensors to help detect when and where the lights, air conditioning and heating should be on or off, “so we can be more eco-friendly.”<br /><br />Sanusi-Goh said his group is installing sensors to measure light, sound, temperature and humidity in their school to improve future classroom design. His school consists of one building with three levels, and often the lower one is too cold while the top floor is too warm.<br /><br />Woolley added that her group is interested in developing a system to better regulate classroom temperatures, which are set to 23 degrees Celsius, but the current system doesn’t take into account the effects of room occupancy. <br /><br />Travis Jacob, the lone 11th year student in the group, and schoolmate Harrison Cook are using a few sensors to measure carbon dioxide levels to see how they rise and fall during the day at the Faith Lutheran College. They want to see if CO2 levels can be used to indicate room occupancy.<br /><br />Teacher Stephen Blair of Faith Lutheran College said the projects help show the students the value to solid data when making their cases about classroom conditions to school administrators and pointing out ways to improve their environments.<br /><br />The students received travel support from Monash University, the University of Queensland, their schools and they have corporate sponsorship from SGI and ScaleMP.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-67870172282596803732015-11-23T13:07:00.002-08:002015-11-23T13:08:21.247-08:00On Evolving Network Security for a Research and Enterprise Network<br />
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With more than 12,000 researchers, students, professionals,
and vendors attending the conference on high performance computing, networking,
storage and analysis conference, better known as SC, SC’s internet, SCinet, has
to be at the forefront of network security research and implementations to stay
ahead of the game on viruses, trojans, denial of service and other forms of
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As the backbone of data communications for SC, SCinet
supports high-bandwidth demos, HPC workshops, classrooms, and thousands of conference
attendees accessing the network at any given point. With network traffic from
the exhibit floor, wireless and external network traffic, there are many
opportunities for the network to be compromised. SCinet’s Network Security team
works to develop novel strategies to protect the integrity of the network.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Network Security team has transitioned from using
signatures to detect single instances of malicious activity in the network to
performing behavioral analytics, which track the overall patterns of security
threats,” says Jeff Boote, Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and
co-lead for the SCinet Network Security team. “We started using these security
algorithms to detect malicious hosts on the network about 2-3 years ago to be
more proactive and evolve with the security trends.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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One reason for major changes in the current security
strategy is the dramatic increase in network traffic at the conference. Carrie
Gates, Chief Security Scientist at Dell Research and Co-lead for the Network
Security team, estimates that the amount of traffic that they monitor is two to
three orders of magnitude greater than the monitored traffic three years ago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We went from 2 10-gigabit taps (20-gigabit aggregate) in
2011, to 31 taps with 580-gigabit aggregate in 2015. With an expected 5000 simultaneous
hosts on the Wi-Fi alone, on an open network that is only up for one to two
weeks, the Network Security team must find novel ways to prevent malicious
activity on the network,” says Gates.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Working with vendors and partners, the SCinet team
integrates the technologies to monitor for harmful network traffic, detect and
prevent compromised systems, and mitigate the effects of compromised systems.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over the last three years, SCinet has used Gigamon to help
monitor and secure its network operation centers and Internet access gateway.
Gigamon acts as a type of mirror, allowing the Network Security team to peer
into network traffic and observe a copy of the activity going through the
gateway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This traffic is being analyzed
by technologies such as the Dell Firewall Sandwich, which provides high-speed
deep packet inspection for malicious security events.<o:p></o:p></div>
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SCinet also serves as a research testbed for the network
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“Back in 2000, the intrusion detection system, Bro, was
being developed by Berkeley Lab and ICSI. SCinet was used as a place to test
their technology on a network that is both production and research oriented,”
says Gates. “It’s a balance here. SCinet provides the protection grade security
of a full production network, while at same time working with technology
experts who want to test new features. We’re able to provide both on SCinet. We
provide production level network security while allowing for research
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One SCinet partner, Reservoir Labs, began as a SCinet
Sandbox (now called Network Research Exhibition) project and is now an integral
part of security architecture. Reservoir uses Bro technology under the covers to
both log and analyze activity on the network.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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of their product while also providing production-level stability and results.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While SCinet has done behavior-based analysis of security
data within a research context for more than a decade, these techniques are
becoming ever more popular in day-to-day network operations. To fulfill that
role in 2015, SCinet is using Splunk to aggregate the security events from
Gigamon, Reservoir, and Dell SonicWALL, along with intelligence data from
Verisign’s iDefense, to look for suspicious behaviors in network traffic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This year, SCinet has over $5,000,000 in vendor loaned technology for network
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The SC15 SCinet Network Operating Center brining in 1.62 Terabits per second <br />
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Claims Third Cluster Competition Title this Year</i></b>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Team Diablo from Tsinghua University, the overall winners of the SC15 Student Cluster Competition.</span></span></b></i></td></tr>
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Team Diablo, a team of undergraduate students from Tsinghua
University in China, won the top prize in the Student Cluster Competition at
the SC15 conference in Austin, Texas. A team from Germany, Team TUMuch Phun
from the Technical University of Munich, won the award for achieving highest
performance for the Linpack benchmark.</div>
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For the Tsinghua University team, this was their third win,
coming on the heels of victories at the International Supercomputing Conference
in Germany and the Asia Supercomputing Community Student Supercomputer
Challenge.</div>
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When they were announced as SC15 winners at the Thursday,
Nov. 19, awards session, the team let out a whoop and went to the stage to
collect their certificates.</div>
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“After they announced it, we were really excited,” said
Youwei Zhou, a senior undergraduate student and team spokesman. “Our secret is
teamwork and each member is capable of understanding the hardware and software.
When we get stuck on a problem and cannot progress, we always figure it out
with more people working on it. We also find potential performance increases
this way.”</div>
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Zhou also said the each of this year’s winning teams from
his university consisted of different students.</div>
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The Student Cluster Competition, which debuted at SC07 in
Reno and has since been replicated in Europe, Asia and Africa, is a real-time,
non-stop, 48-hour challenge in which teams of six undergraduates assemble a
small cluster at SC15 and race to complete a real-world workload across a
series of scientific applications, demonstrate knowledge of system architecture
and application performance, and impress HPC industry judges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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The students partner with vendors to design
and build a cutting-edge cluster from commercially available components, not to
exceed a 3120-watt power limit and work with application experts to tune and
run the competition codes.</div>
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The award for Student Cluster Competition Overall Winner is
based on the combined score for correctly completed workload, benchmark
performance, demonstrated understanding of architecture and performance through
profiling and analysis, and interviews. </div>
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In addition to the teams from China and Germany, the SC15
Student Cluster Competition line-up included:</div>
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The Student Cluster Competition is part of the Students@SC
Program. Funding for the SC15 Student Cluster Competition was provided by
IEEE/ACM SC15 and supported by Allinea and Schlumberger.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Noted science communicator and award-winning actor Alan Alda gives the SC15 Keynote Address in Austin, TX, where record-breaking attendance reached approximately 13,000 people. </b></i></td></tr>
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Austin, TX - SC15, the 27th anniversary conference of high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis, celebrated the contributions of researchers and scientists - from those just starting their careers to those whose contributions have made lasting impacts.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>The SC15 Exhibit Hall broke records in Austin, TX. (Click photo to enlarge.)</b></i></td></tr>
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The conference drew a record-breaking 12,914+ registered attendees (as of data collected on 11/20) and featured a technical program spanning six days. The exhibit hall featured 343 exhibitors from industry, academia and research organizations from around the world.<br />
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“In a world of ever-growing, complex problems, high performance computing has a plethora of opportunities to impact lives across multiple fields,” said Jackie Kern, SC15 General Chair from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.<br />
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She continued, “No longer is high performance computing reserved for only the biggest corporations in the world. It is now trickling down to smaller, medium-sized firms, which is only increasing its impact. This conference brings together the best research and industry minds in the world for one packed week of sharing ideas, networking, and education.”<br />
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According to Kern, the SC15 Exhibition was sold out and the industry-focused exhibit space was the largest to date in the history of the conference. The 217 industry-focused exhibits also marks a new SC15 record. In addition to record-breaking exhibit space, there were a total of 43 first-time exhibitors and 113 international exhibitors from 23 countries (outside the US). In all, there was a total of approx. 137,000 net square feet of exhibit space and 343 industry and research organizations<br />
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During the conference, Austin also became the hub for the world’s fastest conference computer network - SCinet (SC15’s custom network) which made 1.62 (16 100G + 2 10G) Terabits of bandwidth available to exhibitors and attendees. The network featured 84 miles of fiber deployed throughout the convention center and $18 million in loaned equipment. It was all made possible by 130 volunteers representing global organizations spanning academia, government and industry.<br />
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Noted science communicator and award-winning actor Alan Alda opened the SC15 Technical Program with a keynote speech focusing on the role of science in our society and the intersection of science and computing to a full house of approximately 3,000 people in Austin, Texas on November 17th.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Jeffrey S. Vetter, the SC15 Technical Program Chair, takes the stage.</b></i> </td></tr>
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The Technical Program again offered the highest quality in original HPC research. The SC workshops set a new record with more than 2,000 attendees. There were 10 Best Paper Finalists and 5 Gordon Bell Finalists. These submissions represent the best of the best in a wide variety of research topics in HPC. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><i><b>Congrats to the 2015 Gordon Bell Prize Award winners. The team received their award at SC15 for using innovative algorithms & implicit solvers to realistically simulate current conditions of the Earth’s interior for the first time. Their work could herald a major step toward more accurately predicting earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.</b></i></span></span></td></tr>
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Overall Stats on Tech Program Tracks:<br />
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• 75 Birds-of-a-Feathers<br />
• 78 Papers<br />
• 12 Panels<br />
• 135 Posters <br />
• 41 Tutorials<br />
• 42 Workshops<br />
• 14 Invited Speakers<br />
• 14 Doctoral Showcase Presentations<br />
• 10 Emerging Technology Presentations<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Intel executive Diane Bryant addresses the crowd at the HPC Matters Plenary.</b></i></td></tr>
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For the second year, SC featured an opening “HPC Matters” plenary that this year was led by Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, who discussed how next-generation supercomputers are transforming HPC. She further identified exciting opportunities for advancing scientific research and discovery to deliver far-reaching impacts on society.<br />
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As part of this Plenary, Intel announced a $300,000 scholarship per-year for five years for women/minorities with STEM undergraduate degrees to fund fellowships for those pursuing PhD's degrees in computational and data science. This commitment is in honor of Intel's third CEO Andrew Grove. <br />
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The entire Plenary is available online and available by <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuh5qzZI2HM" target="_blank">clicking here</a></b>. <br />
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SC16 will be held next November 13th-18th in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more details, <b><a href="http://sc16.supercomputing.org/" target="_blank">click here</a></b>.<br />
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<b>About SC15</b><br />
SC15, sponsored by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and IEEE Computer Society offers a complete technical education program and exhibition to showcase the many ways high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis lead to advances in scientific discovery, research, education and commerce. This premier international conference includes a globally attended technical program, workshops, tutorials, a world class exhibit area, demonstrations and opportunities for hands-on learning. For more information on SC15, please visit http://www.sc15.supercomputing.org/, or contact communications@info.supercomputing.org for more information.<br />
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<b>About ACM</b><br />
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery www.acm.org, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges. ACM strengthens the computing profession’s collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-52410580512400122472015-11-18T11:19:00.000-08:002015-11-18T11:29:33.627-08:00Hear from NSF's Aaron Dubrow as He Lists 10 Ways Advanced Computing Catalyzes Science<br />
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When researchers need to compare complex new genomes; or map new regions of the Arctic in high-resolution detail; or detect signs of dark matter; or make sense of massive amounts of fMRI data, they turn to the high-performance computing and data analysis systems supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).<br />
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High-performance computing (HPC) enables discoveries in practically every field of science - not just those typically associated with supercomputers like chemistry and physics - but also in the social sciences, life sciences and humanities.<br />
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By combining superfast and secure networks, cutting-edge parallel computing and analytics software, and advanced scientific instruments and critical datasets across the U.S., NSF's cyber-ecosystem lets researchers investigate questions that can't otherwise be explored.<br />
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NSF has supported advanced computing since its beginning and is constantly expanding access to these resources to help tens of thousands of researchers each year - from high school students to Nobel Prize winners -- at institutions large and small, regardless of geographic locality, expand the frontiers of science and engineering.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-dubrow/12-ways-advanced-computin_b_8558402.html" target="_blank">Click here for 10 examples of research</a></b> -- enabled by advanced computing resources -- from across all of science.<br />
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<i>Excerpted with permission from Aaron Dubrow, the National Science Foundation</i> <br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-15924941157133233262015-11-17T10:32:00.000-08:002015-11-17T12:11:50.263-08:00Alan Alda Gives Inspiring Keynote to Open SC15 in Austin Today<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Noted science communicator and award-winning actor Alan Alda opened SC15 with keynote speech focusing on the role of science in our society and the intersection of science and computing to a full house of more than 3,000 people in Austin, Texas on Nov. 17.<br />
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“High performance computing has a transformational impact on science in our society,” comments <span id="goog_812777632"></span><span id="goog_812777633"></span>SC15 general chair Jackie Kern, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. “For decades scientists and engineers have relied on high performance computing to advance the state of the art in diverse fields ranging from healthcare and automotive safety to renewable energy. Computing is now fully integrated into the scientific discovery process, an equal partner with theory and experiment in improving the quality of life for all members of our global society.<br />
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She continues, "Mr. Alda’s focus on communicating the benefits of science to the public—and how we can all do this more effectively—makes him uniquely positioned to help SC continue to bridge the gaps in science understanding and highlight our role in the discovery process.”<br />
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To view the write up in the Austin Business Journal, <b><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/techflash/2015/11/alan-alda-to-scientists-cut-the-jargon-improve.html" target="_blank">click here</a></b>.<br />
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Mr. Alda--actor, writer, science advocate, and Visiting Professor at Stony Brook University—shared his passion for science communication and its importance, drawing on his personal experiences including his 11 years as host of the TV series Scientific American Frontiers.<br />
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Throughout his 40-year career, he has won seven Emmys, six Golden Globes, and three Directors Guild of America awards for directing. Alda also hosted the 2010 PBS mini-series The Human Spark and wrote Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, a play about the personal life of the great scientist who discovered radium. He teamed up with PBS again in 2013 for Brains on Trial, a neurological look at brains in the court room.<br />
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A recipient of the National Science Board’s Public Service Award, Alda is a visiting professor at and founding member of Stony Brook University’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, where he helps develop innovative programs on how scientists communicate with the public. He is also on the Board of Directors of the World Science Festival.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-29667040789628382162015-11-16T18:47:00.000-08:002015-11-16T18:57:20.880-08:00SC15 HPC Matters Plenary Session Available Now OnlineSC15 just released the full HPC Matters Plenary on YouTube for all to access. Watch as Jackie Kern, SC15 General Chair from the University of Illinois, introduces Diane Bryant who then discusses how next-generation supercomputers are
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As part of this Plenary, Intel announced a $300,000 scholarship per year for five years for women/minorities with STEM undergraduate degrees to fund fellowships for those pursuing PhD's degrees in computational and data science. This commitment is in honor of Intel's third CEO Andrew Grove.<br />
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Making special appearances were Intel Fellows Mark Bohr, Matt Adiletta, Al Gara, Mark Seager, Bill Magro, and Pradeep Dubey.<br />
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Closing out the HPC Matters Plenary was Wilf Pinfold, HPC Matters Chair from Concurrent Systems. Wilf encouraged future engagement by the audience in the HPC Matters theme for the coming year. To learn more about the HPC Matters Program, <b><a href="http://www.sc15.supercomputing.org/hpc-matters" target="_blank">click here</a></b> or to view the HPC Matters short, compelling videos, <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/media/video-gallery" target="_blank">click here</a></b>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-78212676604378866962015-11-15T08:31:00.001-08:002015-11-17T08:00:15.081-08:00Connecting Live in Austin with One of the Mosts Powerful Networks in the World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The SCinet network, SC’s Supercomputing Internet, is now live! On November 14, the Austin Convention Center became home to the fastest and most innovative computer network in the world built by volunteers, delivering more than 1.6 terabits per second of network bandwidth to the SC conference (SC15). <br />
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SCinet gives the SC conference attendees a unique chance to showcase and discover the latest research in HPC. By building the fastest, most innovative operational network possible every year, SCinet enables data-intensive research and live-use of high performing hardware to run multi-gigabit demonstrations, requiring a fast and robust infrastructure.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>SC15 SCinet Contributors (click to enlarge).</b></i></td></tr>
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“This network is unrivaled with regards to its capabilities and the broad-reaching influence, both nationally and internationally, to support demonstrations and experiments that could not be done easily in any other place. It’s a one-of-a-kind environment where research meets production,” says Davey Wheeler, SCinet Chair and Senior Network Engineer from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). “As the SCinet Chair leading the development of this network, this year is a culmination of 17 years of experience working on SCinet from year to year. It is humbling and honoring to be able to work aside these colleagues and see the tremendous talent, dedication, and creativity of the volunteers.”<br />
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SCinet is built by a team of expert volunteers from around the world, taking one year to design the network, three weeks to set it up, four days to operate it, and twenty-four hours to tear it down. Over 100 engineers from industry, academia and government institutions came together to build this network, using over $22 million in loaned equipment and over 89 miles of newly installed fiber optic cables.<br />
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“Having been the SCinet Chair for SC07 in Reno, I am intimately familiar with the incredible amount of planning and work that goes into creating what will be the most powerful network. Over 130 SCinet volunteers from more than 15 countries have worked energetically for the past year to provide wired and wireless access to our conference attendees, and the platform for our exhibitors to showcase bandwidth-driven HPC and cloud computing applications. SCinet continues to be a crucial part of SC and I am extremely grateful for their hard work,” says Jackie Kern, Director of IT Shared Services at UIUC and SC15 Conference Chair.<br />
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For SC15, SCinet has connected multiple 100 gigabit circuits, bringing an unprecedented 1.62 terabits per second of bandwidth to the Austin Convention Center. Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN) leads this effort in collaboration with leading national and international research networks and commodity providers. LEARN and SCinet supports the HPC community by providing multiple 100 gigabit waves and complementary capabilities throughout the SC15 conference events. <br />
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In addition to the massive external capacity SCinet brings to the convention center, the network is also supporting research initiatives through a half-day workshop, Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS); and the Network Research Exhibition (NRE). SCinet organizes the INDIS workshop to discuss technical papers and show floor demonstrations dedicated to high performance networking technologies, innovations, protocols, hardware, and much more.<br />
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Further, SCinet is providing the wireless connectivity for more than 11,000 expected conference attendees throughout the conference areas. The SCinet team built the SC15 wireless network using 339 wireless access points to support more than 4,000 simultaneous users on the conference wifi. The wireless network will include support for eduroam (education roaming) service, which allows users (researchers, teachers, students, and staff) from participating institutions to securely access the protected wireless network using their home organization’s login credentials.<br />
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SCinet is the result of the hard work and significant contributions of many government, research, education and corporate collaborators who have volunteered time, equipment and expertise to ensure SC15’s success. This year, SCinet continued the Contributors Program and we would like to give a special thank you to all SCinet contributors and volunteers!<br />
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<b>Platinum contributors:</b> CenturyLink, Ciena, ESnet, Infinera, Internet2, Juniper Networks, and Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN).<br />
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<b>Gold contributors:</b> Brocade, Cisco, and Gigamon.<br />
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<b>Silver contributors:</b> Alcatel-Lucent, Arista, Austin Convention Center, Dell, Greater Austin Area Telecommunications Network (GAATN), inMon, IXIA, Reservoir Labs, Spirent, and The University of Texas System.<br />
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<b>Bronze contributors:</b> CABLExpress, Commscope, Splunk, Verisign, and Viavi Solutions.<br />
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<b>Volunteers from the following organizations supporting the development and deployment of SCinet: </b>Alcatel-Lucent, Army Research Laboratory, CABLExpress Corporation, CENIC, CenturyLink, Ciena, Cisco, Clemson University, DFN-Verein, DataDirect Networks, Dell Research, Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Florida LambdaRail (FLR), Freelance, Georgia Institute of Technology, Idaho State University, InMon Corporation, Indiana University, Indiana University GlobalNOC, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Infinera, Internet Consulting of Vermont, Internet2, JDSU, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN), Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI), Louisiana State University, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, REANNZ, Radware, Reservoir Labs, SURFnet, Sandia National Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, University of Amsterdam, University of California, San Diego, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Heidelberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan, University of Oklahoma, University of Pittsburgh, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Utah Education Network, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.<br />
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If you’re interested in volunteering for SCinet or participating in the Contributor’s Program for SC16, please email <a href="mailto:scinet@info.supercomputing.org">scinet@info.supercomputing.org</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-79818359686471189982015-11-15T07:11:00.000-08:002015-11-15T07:11:00.385-08:00HPCwire Interviews Diane Bryant On Eve of HPC Matters Plenary<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>HPC Matters Plenary Speaker Diane Bryant</i></b></td></tr>
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<i>Thomas Ayres and Tiffany Trader for HPCwire</i><br />
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Back in September, the news broke that Intel’s Senior Vice President Diane Bryant was named the HPC Matters plenary speaker for the SC15 conference taking place in Austin, Texas.<br />
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The theme for this year’s HPC Matters program is “Fueling the Transformation” and Bryant, along with multiple industry luminaries, will be taking the stage before the SC15 opening gala on November 16 to discuss the myriad of ways that HPC is transforming lives.<br />
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Bryant leads Intel’s datacenter business unit, one of the chipmaker’s strongest segments. This year, FORTUNE magazine named Bryant to its Most Powerful Women in Business list. Criteria for selection to this prominent listing includes the importance of the woman’s business in the global economy, health and direction of the business, career arc, and cultural influence.<br />
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This dovetails well with Bryant’s role as speaker for this year’s HPC Matters plenary. The HPC Matters program, launched by the SC program committee two years ago, rests on four pillars: influencing daily lives, science and engineering, economic impact, and education.<br />
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Bryant speaks frequently on all of these issues and has been especially prominent in promoting the benefits of diversity in the workplace. For the upcoming HPC Matters plenary, Bryant will draw on her experience running Intel’s datacenter group, which includes the HPC business segment and products ranging from high-end coprocessors for supercomputers, to big data analytics solutions, to high-density systems for the cloud. In the exclusive interview to follow, she shares her thoughts on where she sees HPC heading in the upcoming years, why it’s an important topic in our world, and how her career at Intel has shaped her views on HPC. Following is the interview:<br />
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<b>HPCwire: What key points are you going to touch on in your presentation?</b><br />
<b>Diane Bryant:</b> We are in the midst of an unprecedented change in High Performance Computing. Everything about how HPC systems are used and built is going to change over the next decade. HPC must support more complex models with more and more data, and enable new usages as industries realize the benefits of very powerful real-time analytics. To meet these needs, HPC must achieve exascale performance and beyond, while expanding access to more users. This will require a transformation of not only the systems, but the entire solution stack.<br />
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<b>How does HPC matter to you?</b><br /><b>Diane Bryant:</b> As an engineer, what excites me is seeing how information technology is used to solve real world problems. HPC is a transformational capability helping solve society’s most pressing challenges. Look at the improvements in life science and precision medicine that have really been enabled by researchers and physicians gaining access to more powerful supercomputers. Seeing industry after industry take these tools with Intel technology as their foundation and use them to improve lives and drive economic growth is tremendously gratifying and exciting to all of us who work to push IT forward.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.hpcwire.com/2015/11/13/diane-bryant-comments-on-upcoming-sc15-hpc-matters-plenary/" target="_blank">Click here</a></b> to go to the full HPCwire article.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-16408362108169345862015-11-14T12:11:00.001-08:002015-11-14T12:18:30.014-08:00An Elite Group: the SC Perennials<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Do you know the SC Perennials?<br />
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Do you know how to recognize them at SC15?<br />
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Well, here's a hint. <br />
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You can recognize that select group of 18 individuals who will be making their 28th consecutive appearance at the SC conference, by the unique lapel pin bestowed upon each of them (listed below).<br />
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If you see someone wearing this lapel pin, you don't have to salute. No need to buy them a drink (unless of course you feel strongly about it). And most of all, you should not refer to them as, "old timers".<br />
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The SC Perennials are very young at heart, and we stand tall with our motto, "We Keep Coming Back." <br />
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(listed in alphabetical order)<br />
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<li>Mike Bernhardt / Intel</li>
<li>Bill Boas / System Fabric Works</li>
<li>Vito Bongiorno / Cray Inc.</li>
<li>Jim Bottum / Clemson Univ. / Internet2</li>
<li>Maxine Brown / Univ. of Illinois at Chicago</li>
<li>Jack Dongarra / Univ. of Tennessee and ORNL</li>
<li>John L. Gustafson</li>
<li>Fred Johnson</li>
<li>Anne Marie Kelly / IEEE Computer Society</li>
<li>John M. Levesque / Cray Inc.</li>
<li>Allen D. Malony / Univ. of Oregon</li>
<li>Kenichi Miura / NII / LBNL</li>
<li>Steve Poole</li>
<li>Ralph Roskies / Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center</li>
<li>Horst Simon / LBNL</li>
<li>Burton Smith</li>
<li>Quentin F. Stout / Univ. of Michigan</li>
<li>Steve Wallach</li>
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<i>Article by Mike Bernhardt.</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-35343731842914336842015-11-12T19:56:00.001-08:002015-11-13T05:22:56.674-08:00SC15 Releases Exclusive Podcast with Science Advocate and Emmy Award Winning Actor Alan Alda<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Listen to Alan Alda, SC15 Keynote Speaker and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stonybrook University, as he talks about the urgency for clear, engaging and accurate communication in high performance computing (and the importance of supercomputers in general) in this short, but enlightening conversation with SC’s Jorge Salazar.</span></span></span><br />
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<b>Alan Alda Excerpt:</b><br />
“I think the kind of transformation that's already been brought about by high performance computing is extraordinary. And for it to go further and fully realize its potential requires another kind of transformation… Powerful computing affects all our lives and can hopefully save our lives. <br />
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It can eventually help us survive some of our unfortunate efforts that have affected climate, for instance. To model climate change is one of the great benefits we're going to get from supercomputing. The trouble is, to really help the public understand all the benefits that they can get from supercomputing, it has to be communicated with clarity so that they get it and they get excited by it… (thus) I think we have to transform the scientists who are explaining this to the public before the public will allow them and participate with them in transforming their own lives with this amazing ability to model things on supercomputers.”<br />
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Listen to the full podcast by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/usetacc/sc15-science-advocate-and-emmy-award-winning-actor-alan-alda-to-open-sc15" target="_blank"><b>clicking here. </b></a><br />
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<b>Background:</b><br />
Alan Alda, actor, director and writer, has had a lifelong interest in science. He hosted the PBS program Scientific American Frontiers from 1993 to 2005, an experience he called "the best thing I ever did in front of a camera." Perhaps best known as surgeon 'Hawkeye' Pierce on the TV series MASH, Alda has won seven Emmys, six Golden Globes, and three Directors Guild of America awards for directing. His two memoires are both New York Times bestsellers. <br />
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A recipient of the National Science Board’s Public Service Award, Alda is a visiting professor at and founding member of Stony Brook University’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, where he helps develop innovative programs on how scientists communicate with the public. He is also on the Board of Directors of the World Science Festival.<br />
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For more details on the SC15 Keynote Address, <b><a href="http://www.sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/keynote-address" target="_blank">click here</a></b>. To view the SC15 videos Alan Alda references in this discussion, <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/media/video-gallery" target="_blank">click here</a></b>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-49147538782852543402015-11-11T18:31:00.000-08:002015-11-11T18:37:37.034-08:00SC15: Start the Countdown<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>SC15 welcome banners are up today in downtown Austin.</i></b></td></tr>
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<b>Preparing for SC15</b><br />
SC15 will be a rich and exciting experience for both new and old attendees. To start planning your agenda, begin at the <b><a href="http://www.sc15.supercomputing.org/" target="_blank">SC15 website</a></b>. Here you will find descriptions of the activities and a detailed <b><a href="http://www.sc15.supercomputing.org/schedule" target="_blank">Technical Program Schedule</a></b> that can be used to build your own personalized agenda.<br />
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When viewing the online Technical Program Schedule, once you select an event and want to add it to your personal schedule, just click on one of the calendar icons (Outlook, iCal or Google calendar) and that event will be stored there.<br />
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<b>Get the SC15 Mobile App Now Available!</b><br />
The SC15 App is now available. You can download it from the Apple and Android app stores by searching for SC15 or click here for all the details.. An HTML5 version is <b><a href="http://ddut.ch/sc15" target="_blank">available here</a></b>. <br />
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The SC15 app will include the standard components from years past, but with new features for improved attendee experience. Features in the new app include:<br />
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<li> Searchable event schedule for easy-to-find sessions and events</li>
<li> Attendee personalization, scheduling and notes within the app</li>
<li> SC15 updates to keep attendees informed and involved</li>
<li> Exhibitor directory with map</li>
<li> Ability for attendees to easily share their SC experience through Live Activity Feed and Social Media</li>
<li> QR Code reader to quickly find SC15 information</li>
<li> In-app access to session surveys for sessions you’ve bookmarked in your schedule</li>
<li> Integration with ACM Digital Library so that finding session speaker papers and abstracts during the conference is a cinch</li>
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You will need to log in to the app and establish an account with your email address. This account will allow you to access your calendar, notes, and other in-app data to sync across multiple devices.<br />
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<b>Safety Notes</b> <br />
We value the safety of all SC attendees and want you to focus on enjoying your stay and experience at the conference. To assist you, here are a few common conference reminders and safety pointers to help make sure you have a safe and productive trip.<br />
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<li> Please make sure to use the buddy system, multiple persons are better--don’t ever walk alone at night.</li>
<li> Make sure you have a phone on you in case of emergencies and you have at least one other attendee’s contact information.</li>
<li> Please DO NOT WEAR YOUR CONFERENCE BADGE outside of the convention center. This is often a targeting mechanism for scammers and criminals.</li>
<li> Ask your hotel staff if certain areas are safe/not safe before going out.</li>
<li> Don’t leave your belongings unattended.</li>
<li> If you are driving, take a second to double check that your car doors are locked.</li>
<li> Stay on well lit or major streets at night.</li>
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<b>Registration</b><br />
Upon arrival at the Austin Convention Center, please proceed to the registration in the Atrium to register and pick up your badge, which you need to wear at all times. We strongly encourage Workshop and Tutorials participants to register the day before the event to avoid long registration lines, or you can register online.<br />
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The registration desk will be open as follows:<br />
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<li>Saturday - Nov 14: 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.</li>
<li>Sunday - Nov 15: 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.</li>
<li>Monday - Nov 16: 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.</li>
<li>Tuesday - Nov 17: 7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.</li>
<li>Wednesday - Nov 18: 7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.</li>
<li>Thursday - Nov 19: 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.</li>
<li>Friday - Nov 20: 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.</li>
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<i>Please note: anyone attending the HPC Matters Plenary will need to have a badge, but there is no fee to get one in order to attend the Plenary.</i><br />
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<b>How SC is Organized</b><br />
There are four main components of the SC Conference: Technical Program, Exhibits, Students@SC, and SCinet:<br />
<br />
Technical Program: the heart of the conference, the technical program provides multiple forums for sharing research, development, and applications in high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis:<br />
<ul>
<li> HPC Matters Plenary</li>
<li> Invited Talks</li>
<li> Technical Papers</li>
<li> Tutorials</li>
<li> Panels</li>
<li> Workshops</li>
<li> Posters</li>
<li> Emerging Technologies</li>
<li> Scientific Visualization Showcase</li>
<li> Birds of a Feather</li>
<li> Awards</li>
</ul>
Technical Program registration and badge are needed for attending most of these sessions, while tutorials and workshops require separate registrations.<br />
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The 2015 edition of SC15’s SCinet Network Research Exhibition, a forum to showcase new and cutting-edge networking technologies, will host the Second Annual Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science (INDIS) on Monday, November 18. <br />
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This year’s workshop will feature new emerging technologies, such as Software Defined Networking (SDN), Science DMZs, network function virtualization (NFV), software-defined exchanges (SDX), Openflow, and many more services used in computing and storage.<br />
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These technologies are changing how SCinet, universities, supercomputing centers, data centers, networks and clouds operate. During this workshop further discussions will ensue on more exotic technologies around the corner with wide-area Infiniband, Named Data Networking and Intent-based Networking.<br />
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“The influence of these technologies on the scientific process has been tremendous,” says Brian Tierney, Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab and co-chair of NRE. “Using Science DMZs gives scientists access to a wealth of data unconstrained by geography and time to transfer the data. Supercomputing centers are now optimized around massive data pipes and storage. The worldwide high-speed optical networks and exchanges are specifically architected to support this new paradigm of data intensive science.”<br />
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SCinet is deeply interested and involved in working with these technologies, which work to support and meet various supercomputer and data application requirements. Therefore SCinet looks to demonstrate the newest developments at SC every year. The INDIS workshop will host a panel session on the influence of these developments on SCinet’s core technology, thus demonstrating the proof of concepts for inclusion in future production networks.<br />
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“Technologies like SDN, NFV and Science DMZs will make their way into SCinet as these are adopted by the HPC community. SCinet is ideally positioned to endeavor and dry-run the new emerging technologies while supporting cutting-edge high performance computing and data processing applications on the SC exhibition floor,” said Professor Dr. Cees de Laat, this year’s co-chair of NRE.<br />
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The goal of NRE 2015 is to highlight network innovations from the experiments running over SCinet, the SC conference’s dedicated high performance research and production network. SCinet serves as the platform for exhibitors to demonstrate the advanced computing resources of their home institutions and elsewhere by supporting a wide variety of bandwidth-driven applications, including supercomputing and cloud computing.<br />
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At the same time, the SCinet team is working to improve the platform and drive innovation in the arena of interconnecting networks. The INDIS workshop, organized by the SCinet team, brings together those developments from the different booths and the show floor network.<br />
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The program for INDIS can be found by <a href="https://scinet.supercomputing.org/workshop/node/8" target="_blank">clicking here</a>.<br />
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Descriptions of the NRE demos are <a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/research-scinet/nre-demos-2015" target="_blank">available here</a>.<br />
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<i>Editorial Note: Mary Hester was instrumental in this article. </i><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-52648452794084859342015-11-10T06:59:00.000-08:002015-11-11T09:48:29.153-08:00SC15 General Chair Jackie Kern Previews the Conference and Exhibition<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<i>Following is a brief conversation with Jackie Kern, SC15 General Chair from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 2003, she has served as a member of the SC planning committee and in 2007 she also served as SCinet Chair. </i><br />
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<i>At the University of Illinois, she is the Director of IT Shared Services where she represents her department on various campus IT initiatives and committees including leading the community in a consolidation of service effort and being the operations chair of the Data Center Shared Services co-location efforts on campus. </i><br />
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<i>In these efforts she oversees the development of standards, procedures and policies related to data centers, identifies IT resources needed for current and future projects, and markets the services to campus. </i><br />
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<i><b>Describe how the “HPC Transforms” conference theme came to be this year?</b></i><br />
Over the last three decades, HPC has become increasingly important in manufacturing, weather forecasting, medicine, entertainment and many other facets of everyday life. You would be hard pressed to experience a “normal” day for the average citizen without encountering something that wasn’t impacted by HPC. <br />
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Starting last year, the SC conference team launched a program called “HPC Matters” to highlight this impact. The program supports the creation of short videos that explore the use of HPC in improving daily life. <br />
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These videos are available at the <a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/media/video-gallery" target="_blank">SC15 video library</a>. The program also supports public talks by industry luminaries, such as the SC HPC Matters Plenary. <br />
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For this year, we wanted to dive deeper into why it is important, and to do that we wanted to demonstrate how it transforms lives and the world around us. We have put together these videos that demonstrate why it matters and how it transforms lives. <br />
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<i><b>SC15 is returning to Austin, Texas for the first time since 2008 – what is it about Austin that makes it a good fit for the SC community?</b></i><br />
Austin is fantastic because of the technology-centric community as well as the culture, food, people and music. We feel this is a really good fit for our attendees and exhibitors. It gives them the right balance of fun and technical aptitude to spark the creativity, and offers a wide variety of opportunities to network and collaborate. And the city itself is also very warm and welcoming to our group.<br />
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<i><b>For someone new to the community, what tips can you offer for tackling the immense Tech Program and the massive exhibition hall?</b></i><br />
Plan ahead! Quite frankly there is too much to see and do at an SC conference so you need to budget your time based on your areas of interests and priorities. Your best bet is to get plugged into everything now – the website, blog, schedule, conference app, etc.<br />
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Start with the <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/schedule" target="_blank">conference schedule</a></b> on the website and go from there. Put a priority on not only learning, but also networking. Some of the people you meet at an SC conference will impact your career for years to come. The more people you meet the more opportunities you have to collaborate and get involved. If you are new, go to one of the Information Booths – they are staffed by veteran attendees who are there to help you.<br />
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Also, you will want to download our <b><a href="http://doubledutch.me/download.aspx?appId=d6117d59-2005-44e1-875e-d03002175249&region=us" target="_blank">enhanced mobile app</a></b> and started getting organized for a very packed week in Austin. <br />
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<i><b>What are some of the top things you are looking forward to experiencing/attending at SC15? </b></i><br />
Very difficult question since there are so many great things to experience or participate in at an SC conference! Some of the things that I’m looking forward to are the rich and dynamic <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/program/invited-talks" target="_blank">Invited Talks</a></b>, the <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/hpc-matters-plenary" target="_blank">HPC Matters Plenary</a></b> with Intel’s Diane Bryant, and the <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/keynote-address" target="_blank">Alan Alda Keynote</a></b>. In addition we have an international <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/student-programs/sc15-student-cluster-competition" target="_blank">Student Cluster Competition</a></b> that is sure to be exciting. <br />
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Plus the show floor has more than 300 cutting-edge exhibitors and I love checking in with <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/scinet" target="_blank">SCinet</a></b> – the world’s fastest, custom-built computer network. Then there is the incredibly robust <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/technical-program" target="_blank">Technical Program</a></b>. Quite honestly, there is too much to list here. <br />
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<i><b>The student program went thru some modifications this year. Can you explain what those were and how the changes have been received?</b></i><br />
This year we merged every student program under one umbrella called <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/student-program" target="_blank">Students@SC</a></b>. This is an effort to make sure that we are encouraging the next generation of HPC professionals to be engaged in the community. It provides more opportunities for all the students that apply to be a part of SC. We encourage them to participate in many of the events, such as the <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/studentssc/mentor-prot%C3%A9g%C3%A9-program" target="_blank">Mentor-Protégé Program</a></b> and <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/student-programs/experiencing-hpc-undergraduates" target="_blank">Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates</a></b>. <br />
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We have arranged to bring in key people from across the community to speak about their experiences and encouraged the use of the community to continue to move HPC forward into a new and exciting era. We are also focusing on diversity and making certain that all students are treated equal and offered the same opportunities for success. <br />
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True success won’t be measured until after the conference once we see how it goes, but we are encouraged by those students who have applied to the program and their engagement thus far. We are also working with an evaluation team to measure our success and will have those data points after SC15 is over.<br />
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<i><b>Anything else knew this year that people should know about?</b></i><br />
This year we have added an all-day track for <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/program/birds-feather-sessions-bofs" target="_blank">Birds-of-a-Feather</a></b> sessions. There is so much demand for them and with the high volume of submissions, we are excited to introduce this all-day track. Other exciting things are a much more robust <b><a href="http://doubledutch.me/download.aspx?appId=d6117d59-2005-44e1-875e-d03002175249&region=us" target="_blank">mobile app</a></b> and networking opportunities like the addition of <b><a href="http://sc15blog.blogspot.com/2015/10/make-new-friends-at-sc15-with-this-free.html" target="_blank">Duckling</a></b> – a new networking tool for conference attendees.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Intel's Diane Bryant - HPC Matters Plenary Speaker</b></i></td></tr>
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<i><b>What can people expect this year from the HPC Matters Plenary?</b></i><br />
It will be amazing. This year will feature Diane Bryant of Intel who was recently named by <i>Fortune </i>as one of the 51 most powerful women. She will describe how next generation supercomputers are not only transforming HPC and the future of computing, but also society. Plus, there is no fee to attend the session although a badge is required. It is shaping up to be an entertaining session that is a must attend event for everyone - from novice to expert.<br />
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<i><b>Describe the process and time involved for putting on such a big event.</b></i><br />
Planning a conference of this quality and magnitude couldn't happen without a fantastic team behind me. Three years ago I was selected to be the SC15 General Chair and at that time I made a conscious choice to select the best of breed to make sure this event was spectacular. <br />
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Over the course of the last three years we have spent many phone calls, face-to-face meetings, site visits, and countless hours working towards providing the best possible experience for our attendees. One group in particular spends a considerable amount of time working towards providing the best and fastest computer network in the world for one week in November. <br />
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The SCinet team spends an enormous amount of volunteer time designing the custom network, gathering equipment donations from vendors, connecting equipment, working with providers to get connected to the right networks, and then sustaining the network for everyone at the conference. <br />
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In addition, our Technical Program team has worked diligently to evaluate the submissions and create a program that is second to none. Truly it has been the most exciting, challenging, and rewarding three-year project of my career. I am honored to be a part of it. <br />
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<i><b>What advice would you give someone looking to get involved in the SC volunteer community?</b></i><br />
The SC community is always looking for dedicated volunteers. The best way to get involved is to come to one of the Information Booths at SC15. We strive to have new faces as volunteers who are able to provide new perspectives and ideas to keep SC fresh and diverse. <br />
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<i><b>What needs to happen for you to judge SC15 as a successful event?</b></i><br />
To me, the most important thing would be walking around the Austin Convention Center and witnessing the engagement in the collaboration that we expect to see at an SC Conference. I hope attendees leave feeling that there is simply nowhere else on the planet that offers as much education, collaboration and networking as an SC Conference. After all, we are attendees ourselves and that remains the ultimate goal! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-47443896302107903542015-11-09T07:47:00.001-08:002015-11-09T07:47:44.311-08:00SC15 Releases Short Video on Why High Performance Computing Matters to PayPal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As one of the world's largest internet payment companies, PayPal handles massive amounts of sensitive data. Hear from Ryan Quick, principal architect for advanced technologies from PayPal, on how they strive to use high performance computing to make every day online transactions something you don't even have to think twice about.<br />
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According to Quick, handling such massive amounts of data is like drinking from a fire hose. He stresses how they aim to make every transaction a smooth and safe process whether dealing with regulations from country to country, state to state, or transaction to transaction. In 2014, PayPal moved $228 billion in 26 currencies across more than 190 nations, generating a total revenue of $7.9 billion.<br />
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This is another chapter in a series of short videos focusing on why HPC is important and of critical value to society. It is part of a three-year SC "HPC Matters" campaign. <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/media/video-gallery" target="_blank">Click here</a></b> to view the entire HPC Matters video library. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-88436592344733556162015-11-06T10:26:00.000-08:002015-11-14T09:31:57.104-08:00HPC Matters Plenary Session with Diane Bryant to be Webcast<div style="text-align: right;">
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Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center Group at Intel, will speak at the upcoming SC15 conference <b><a href="http://www.sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/hpc-matters-plenary" target="_blank">HPC Matters Plenary Session</a></b> to discuss how next-generation supercomputers are transforming HPC and presenting exciting opportunities to advance scientific research and discovery to deliver far-reaching impacts on society.<br />
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Based on the interest in this session we are pleased to announce that Intel will sponsor a live webcast of the <b><a href="http://www.sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/hpc-matters-plenary" target="_blank">HPC Matters Plenary</a></b> for those who are not able to attend in Austin. Please join us on Monday, November 16th, at 5:30 p.m central standard time at <b><a href="http://supercomputing_intel.tri-digital.com/" target="_blank">this website</a></b>.<br />
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In Austin the session will be open to all SC attendees and located in Ballroom DEFG. A badge is required, but there is no fee to attend this Plenary. You can pick-up a complimentary badge in registration if needed. Seats are on a first-come basis.<br />
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To view the digital library containing short videos telling compelling stories of how HPC Matters, <b><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/media/video-gallery" target="_blank">click here</a></b>. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-20956919852507829552015-11-06T06:42:00.000-08:002015-11-06T06:59:25.253-08:00Previewing SC15 Diversity Committee Focused Events<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The SC15 Diversity Committee is passionate about gaining insight from the SC community on how we can increase the diversity of our community by increasing the representation of under-represented groups. Please join the conversation at any or all of the following events at SC15 where we will be having an open dialog and collaborating on potential solutions.<br />
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<b>Diversity and Innovation in HPC</b><br />
12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, November 17<br />
Panel discussion featuring various community experts and collaborative engagement with SC attendees offering insight into historical diversity efforts and collectively identifying future opportunities.<br />
Location: Intel Booth #1333<br />
Organizers: Hosted by Intel Corporation<br />
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<b>Women in HPC: Pathways and Roadblocks</b><br />
10:30 a m. – 12 p.m. Wednesday, November 18<br />
Birds-of-a-Feather discussion to understand what makes the STEM subfields so successful in attracting women, and how other subfields might emulate their success.<br />
Location: Room 13B.<br />
Organizers: Rebecca Hartman-Baker, Toni Collis<br />
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<b>Women Impacting HPC Tech Session</b><br />
<b> </b>11:15 a.m. – 12 p.m. Thursday, November 19<br />
Panel discussion featuring various woman within the HPC community who have positively impacted society with their discoveries. Panelist will share their technical career paths and actively engage with the audience.<br />
Location: Intel Booth #1333<br />
Organizers: Hosted by Intel Corporation<br />
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<b>Women in HPC: Changing the Face of HPC</b><br />
8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m Friday, November 20<br />
Workshop and panel discussions bringing together leading women working in HPC and female early career researchers. Showcase HPC research on a broad range of topics, and discuss the importance of gender equality.<br />
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The SC15 App, developed by DoubleDutch, is now available. You can download it from the Apple and Android app stores by searching for SC15 or by <b><a href="http://doubledutch.me/download.aspx?appId=d6117d59-2005-44e1-875e-d03002175249&region=us" target="_blank">clicking here</a></b>. An HTML version of the app is also available from this <b><a href="http://doubledutch.me/download.aspx?appId=d6117d59-2005-44e1-875e-d03002175249&region=us" target="_blank">website</a></b>.<br />
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The SC15 app will include the standard components from years past, but with new features for improved attendee experience. Features in the new app include:<br />
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<li> Ability for attendees to easily share their SC experience through Live Activity Feed and Social Media</li>
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You will need to log in to the app and establish an account with your email address. This account will allow you to access your calendar, notes, and other in-app data to sync across multiple devices.<br />
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The SC15 Emerging Technologies track has an exciting range of exhibits in store for Austin! Ten successful applications were accepted from over thirty submissions after a rigorous peer review process, with every submission receiving three independent reviews.<br />
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This year’s theme “SoC for HPC”, is particularly appropriate for Austin as the city is home to several of the major semiconductor companies working on future SoC (based products optimized for HPC.<br />
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SC15 ET submissions fall into three main categories this year: HPC-optimized SoCs, new memory and interconnect architectures, and advanced cooling technologies. Advances in all of these areas are set to revolutionize HPC, and the exhibits chosen for SC15 should offer an insight into the kinds of technologies that should emerge onto the market over the next 5-10 years.<br />
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Four exhibits present future HPC-optimized SoCs. These include: advanced tools provided by the Co-Design for Exascale (CoDEx) project running on a cloud-based FPGA system (LBNL); GoblinCore-64: An Emerging, Open Architecture for Data Intensive High Performance Computing (Texas Tech University); Automata Processing: A Massively Parallel Computing Solution (Micron Technology); and ExaNoDe: European Exascale Processor and Memory Node Design (CEA-Leti).<br />
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Two exhibits present new memory or interconnect technologies: Emerging Technology for Persistent Challenges in Optical Interconnects and Photonics Packaging (nanoPrecision Products); and openHMC - A Configurable Open-Source Hybrid Memory Cube Controller (Heidelberg University).<br />
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Finally, four exhibits showcase emerging cooling technologies. These include: DOME Hot-Water Cooled Multinode 64 Bit Microserver Cluster (IBM Research Zurich); a Mineral Oil-Based Direct Liquid Cooling System (Seoul National University and ManyCoreSoft Co.); Liquid Cooling for Exascale Computing (Iceotope); and LiquidCool Solutions Project Clamshell: Novel Cooling Technology (LiquidCool Solutions and McMahon Consulting).<br />
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The SC15 Emerging Technology exhibit area is located near the main entrance to the exhibit hall, make sure you include time in your schedule to take a peek into the future!<br />
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<a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/program/emerging-technologies" target="_blank">Click here </a>for the complete listing of the Emerging Technologies track.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-44598686291349440192015-11-03T09:49:00.000-08:002015-11-03T09:56:02.970-08:00SC15 Releases HPC Impact Showcase Line-up - from Battling Ebola to Designing at Rolls-RoyceThe HPC Impact Showcase highlights real-world applications of high performance computing (HPC) at companies who are currently employing HPC to advance their competitiveness and innovation in the global marketplace.<br />
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The Showcase is designed to introduce attendees to the many ways that HPC matters in our world, through testimonials from companies large and small. Rather than a technical deep dive of how they are using or managing their HPC environments, their stories are meant to tell how their companies are adopting and embracing HPC as well as how it is improving their businesses.<br />
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Whether you are new to HPC or a long-time professional, you are sure to learn something new and exciting in the HPC Impact Showcase. Presentations will be framed for a non-expert audience interested in technology, and will discuss how the use of HPC has resulted in design, engineering, or manufacturing innovations.<br />
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The Showcase runs Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons and consists of invited presentations from leading HPC practitioners from industry. The Showcase is open to all SC15 attendees with any type of badge.<br />
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The HPC Impact Showcase is brought to you by John Deere.<br />
<b><br />System Level Large Eddy Simulation of a Large Gas Turbine Combustor</b><br />
Date: Tuesday, November 17th<br />
Time: 1:00-1:50PM<br />
Presenter(s): Dheeraj Kapilavai (General Electric)<br />
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Abstract: Combustion in large industry gas turbine consists of complicated physics such as turbulence, multi-specie mixing, chemical reaction, and heat transfer. The combustion process is highly turbulent and unsteady due to the interaction between the turbulence and the combustion. The better understanding of the unsteady combustion will help to reduce the emission and enhance the durability of the gas turbine. At the exit of the combustor, the first stage nozzle is critical for the durability of the turbine.<br />
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The cooling and hence the heat transfer in the first stage nozzle is of great importance. In order to predict the heat transfer correctly, the upstream conditions form the combustor is needed. In the traditional approach, the 2D exit temperature profile is derived from combustor model and used as inlet condition for the nozzle simulation. However, the combustor exit flow is unsteady and 3 dimensional. <br />
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It is desired to model the combustor and first stage nozzle together. In this study, a complete combustor can and nozzles of GE 9HA gas turbine are modeled using large eddy simulation (LES) method. The model reveals the intricate details of the turbulent flame structures. The unsteady flow field and the upstream conditions of the nozzles are studied too.<br />
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<b>Realizing Actionable Computer Security Results Through HPC-Powered Analysis</b><br />
Date: Tuesday, November 17th<br />
Time: 1:50-2:40PM<br />
Presenter(s): Eric Dull (Deloitte and Touche, LLP)<br />
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Abstract: Deloitte is realizing significant, actionable results in cyber analysis for clients by utilizing a cyber analytics infrastructure built on High-Performance and commodity computing architectures. This infrastructure is allowing Deloitte to rapidly develop “big-data” analytic workflows by combining many large data sets that address clients’ analytic challenges in the areas of cyber reconnaissance, cyber hunt, and supply chain analysis.<br />
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These workflows can then be executed efficiently enough to delivery actionable results to clients. This presentation will include Deloitte’s cyber analytic architecture, outline data flows, highlight useful algorithms and data transforms, and discuss two case studies, highlighting analytic successes and client outcomes.<br />
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<b>Use of HPC Throughout the Product Cycle</b><br />
Date: Tuesday, November 17th<br />
Time: 2:40-3:30PM<br />
Presenter(s): Mohamad S. El-Zein (John Deere)<br />
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Abstract: HPC has the reputation of solving problems related to climate prediction, aerospace and defense, oil discovery, etc. However, the use of HPC in everyday product design from inception through the supply chain is rarely highlighted due to its scarcity in terms of “HPC”. A scan through areas of use of HPC through the supply chain of product design will be highlighted and discussed.<br />
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<b>Establishing an Enterprise HPC Service at Boeing</b><br />
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Date: Wednesday, November 18th<br />
Time: 1:00-1:50PM<br />
Presenter(s): Joerg Gablonsky (Boeing)<br />
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Abstract: Joerg Gablonsky, Chai of the Enterprise HPC Council, will present on establishing an enterprise HPC service at the Boeing company.<br />
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<b>Discrete Element Method (DEM) Modeling on HPC Machines at Procter & Gamble</b><br />
Date: Wednesday, November 18th<br />
Time: 1:50-2:40PM<br />
Presenter(s): Chris Stoltz (Procter & Gamble)<br />
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Abstract: This talk will focus on the use of Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations at P&G for the simulation of granular materials, and how we have moved towards the use of open-source software in an HPC environment. We will present a broad overview of DEM, including a discussion of some of the capabilities and limitations inherent in conducting DEM simulations, and then discuss how we have taken advantage of our HPC environment to dramatically improve our capability for simulation in this area. We also include some benchmark studies we have carried out to evaluate the performance and scalability of a variety of simulation types.<br />
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<b>An HPC-Based Computational Epidemiology Infrastructure for Ebola Response</b><br />
Date: Wednesday, November 18th<br />
Time: 2:40-3:30PM<br />
Presenter(s): Keith Bisset (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute)<br />
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Abstract: The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in Western Africa has illuminated the significant threat posed by infectious diseases to human lives and society. As of September 2015, over 12,000 individuals have been confirmed infected, with another 5,000 suspected cases, and almost 6,500 deaths. Applying interventions in a resource-poor area during an ongoing epidemic is not easily done and the level of success is uncertain.<br />
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Modeling disease outbreaks can therefore be helpful by providing epidemic forecasts that explain the complex dynamics of infectious diseases. Simulation and modeling can predict the likely impact of possible interventions before they are implemented. As a result, policy makers and health care workers are provided with guidance and support.<br />
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High performance computing, big-data analytics, algorithms, visualizations and distributed systems are all important while developing scalable tools and decision support systems. Real-time computational epidemiology incorporating currently available ground information is critical to support decisions in the field. A state-of-the-art environment can deliver detailed situational awareness and decision support for an epidemic such as Ebola. NDSSL is supporting several federal agencies, including the DoD and NIH, by supplying them analytic results, enabling government decision makers to make more informed scientifically backed decisions and policies.<br />
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The Infectious Disease Modeling Environment was quickly retargeted to Ebola, enabling us to: infer disease parameters in the very early phase of the epidemic, produce weekly forecasts of disease incidence and mortality, understand the chances of Ebola spreading in continental US, provide input on the location of Ebola.<br />
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<b>High Performance Computing and Gas Turbine Design</b><br />
Date: Thursday, November 19th<br />
Time: 1:00-1:50PM<br />
Presenter(s): Todd Simons (Rolls-Royce plc)<br />
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Abstract: Todd Simons will discuss some of the design challenges that are being tackled with High Performance Computing at Rolls-Royce, and talk about the challenges of addressing computational demands for modeling computational fluid and structural mechanics in an industrial setting.<br />
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<b>HPC at BP: Enabling Seismic Imaging and Rock Physics Research</b><br />
Date: Thursday, November 19th<br />
Time: 1:50-2:40PM<br />
Presenter(s): Keith Gray (BP)<br />
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Abstract: Seismic Imaging and rock physics are key research focus areas for BP’s Upstream Business and high-performance computing (HPC) is critical to enable the research breakthroughs required for our successful exploration and development programs. Since 2013, our team has completed construction and moved into a new computing facility. We have delivered a 3.8-petaflop system. We have been able to strengthen our Software Development and Computational Science Team. The presentation will review the strategy for our HPC team, our history, current capabilities, and near-term plans. Also discussed will be the business value delivered by our seismic imaging research.<br />
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<b>HPC Transforming Approaches to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s</b><br />
Date: Thursday, November 19th<br />
Time: 2:40-3:30PM<br />
Presenter(s): Joseph Lombardo (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)<br />
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Abstract: The University of Nevada Las Vegas and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health have been awarded an $11.1 million federal grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of General Medical Sciences to advance the understanding of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.<br />
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In this session, we will present how UNLV’s National Supercomputing Center will be a critical component to this research which will combine brain imaging with neuropsychological and behavioral studies to increase our knowledge of dementia-related and age-associated degenerative disorders.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665950784514981616.post-81852365094755105062015-11-02T12:22:00.000-08:002015-11-02T15:29:02.833-08:00SC15 Releases Short Video on How HPC is Impacting Climate Change as Explained by Leading World Experts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hear from the experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who explain how high performance computing is the most important component in analyzing future climate change scenarios or models and developing strategies to help circumvent rapid climate change.<br />
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According to Dr. Alexander “Sandy” MacDonald, Chief Science Advisor, NOAA’s Office of Oceanic Research Director of the Earth System Research, “Climate change is one of the greatest, if not the greatest issue of the 21st century.”<br />
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For the first time, SC’s research and production network (SCinet) will be using the emerging technology software defined networking (SDN) to manage and simplify the operations for a portion of the SC conference’s show floor network. <br />
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SCinet is the research and production network that serves as the backbone of data communications for the annual SC Conference. By using SDN in the SCinet network, the group of network engineers deploying SCinet will be able to transfer the task of configuring individual network switching devices to a single piece of software, removing human error from the process of setting up connections within the network. <br />
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“Take the last three problems or errors that have occurred on a network of any notable size,” says Nick Buraglio, network engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and lead of SCinet’s SDN project, “it’s almost always a configuration problem—some kind of human error that caused those issues.”<br />
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As the pilot year for this SDN project, half of SCinet’s circa one hundred, one-gigabit booth connections will be SDN configured. This technology will simplify managing these network connections and will hopefully reduce the time engineers spend troubleshooting configuration and provisioning errors.<br />
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“Previously SCinet had to create its own configurations for devices which required a unique configuration template for each device along a path. Using SDN, we can take all the idiosyncrasies of various devices into account and configure these devices using a single piece of software,” said J.P. Velders, a network engineer from the University of Amsterdam and co-chair of SCinet’s routing team.<br />
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Although still an emerging technology, SCinet anticipates that SDN will increase efficiencies. This network provides a unique platform for running high performance computing (HPC) applications and demonstrations at the SC conference, which is in its 27th year. SCinet, built by more than 100 volunteers from academia, industry and government, has been providing the network connectivity and platform for HPC research at SC since 1991. <br />
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“SDN allows the participating vendors to showcase the programmability of their equipment in a production environment. In addition to the enhancements to the SCinet architecture itself, the use of SDN helps promote the practical usability of the technology to conference participants and the network industry as a whole, “ says Conan Moore, a network engineer from the University of Colorado Boulder and co-chair of SCinet’s routing team. <br />
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To implement SDN, SCinet is partnering with Brocade, a network technology company. Brocade is providing both the routing and switching equipment, and the Controller software, which uses OpenFlow, the feature that enables SCinet to deploy SDN across multiple devices.<br />
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The SCinet team used OpenFlow in 2014 with Big Switch Networks technology for cybersecurity applications. “Last year we monitored network traffic for security events using SDN to control the security monitoring infrastructure,” Buraglio said. <br />
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While SDN will be isolated to part of the SCinet network this year, Velders anticipates that the technology will span the entire network by 2016. <br />
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“Our goal is to scale up the use of SDN to the entire network which will save time when having to configure several hundreds of booth connections and their associated circuits. It will allow us to become more agile and more flexible to accommodate changes and requests,” Velders said.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01535897758840355349noreply@blogger.com3