Table of Contents
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KEYNOTE:
Thom H. Dunning,
Jr.,
National Center for
Supercomputing Applications
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PLENARY:
Henry Neeman,
University of Oklahoma
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PLENARY:
Robert M. Panoff,
Shodor Education Foundation
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PLENARY:
Dan Stanzione,
Texas Advanced Computing Center,
University of Texas
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PLENARY:
Platinum Sponsor Speaker:
Stephen Wheat,
Intel Corp
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Accelerating
Science Group,
Louisiana School for
Math, Science, and the Arts
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Daniel Andresen,
Kansas State University
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Kate Adams,
Great Plains Network
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Dana Brunson,
Oklahoma State University
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Greg Clifford,
Cray Inc.
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Bob Crovella,
NVIDIA
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Dave Ellis,
NetApp, Inc.
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Larry Fisher,
Creative Consultants
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Karl Frinkle,
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
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Erin M. Hodgess,
University of Houston-Downtown
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Jan Jitze Krol,
DataDirect Networks
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Mike Morris,
Southeastern Oklahoma State U
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Jeff Pummill,
University of Arkansas
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James D. Stevens,
Tinker Air Force Base
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Dr. Daniel B. Weber,
Tinker Air Force Base
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Jun (Eva) Yi,
University of Oklahoma
Other speakers to be announced
KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
Director,
National
Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA)
Director,
Institute
for Advanced Computing Applications &
Technologies
(IACAT)
Distinguished Chair for Research Excellence
in
Chemistry
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Keynote Topic:
"Blue Waters:
Overview of
a Sustained Petascale Computing System"
Slides:
PDF
Keynote Talk Abstract
A new generation of supercomputers
–
petascale computers
–
is providing scientists and engineers with
the ability to simulate a broad range of
natural and engineered systems
with unprecedented fidelity.
Just as important
in this increasingly data-rich world,
these new computers allow researchers
to manage and analyze
unprecedented quantities of data,
seeking connections, patterns and knowledge.
The impact of this new computing capability
will be profound,
affecting science, engineering and society.
The
National
Center for Supercomputing Applications
at the
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
is deploying a computing system
that will sustain
one quadrillion calculations per second
on a broad range of
science and engineering applications,
as well as manage and analyze
petabytes of data.
This computer,
Blue
Waters,
has been configured to enable it
to solve the most
compute-, memory- and data-intensive problems
in science and engineering.
It will have tens of thousands of chips
(CPUs & GPUs),
petabytes of memory,
tens of petabytes of disk storage,
and hundreds of petabytes of archival storage.
The presentation will describe Blue Waters
and illustrate the role that
Blue Waters will play
in a few illustrative areas of research.
Biography
Thom H. Dunning, Jr.
is the director of the
National
Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA)
and its
Institute
for Advanced Computing Applications &
Technologies
(IACAT)
and Distinguished Chair for Research Excellence
in the
Department
of Chemistry
at the
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
As the director of NCSA and IACAT,
Dr. Dunning is responsible for ensuring that
Illinois and NCSA remains a world leader
in the development and deployment of
advanced cyberinfrastructure,
including one of
the world's most powerful supercomputers,
Blue Waters,
and the nation's most extensive
high performance computing infrastructure,
the
Extreme
Science and Engineering
Discovery Environment
(XSEDE).
Dr. Dunning has authored
over 150 scientific publications
on topics ranging from
computational techniques for
molecular calculations
to computational studies of
high power lasers and
the chemical reactions involved in combustion.
Six of his papers are "citation classics"
with more than 1,000 citations.
He was also the scientific leader of
the
US
Department of Energy's
first "Grand Challenge" in
computational chemistry.
Dr. Dunning
is a Fellow of the
American
Physical Society,
American
Association for the
Advancement of Science,
and the
American
Chemical Society.
He received DOE's
E. O.
Lawrence Award
in 1996 and its
Distinguished Associate Award
in 2001.
In 2011,
Dr. Dunning received the
"Computers in Chemical and
Pharmaceutical Research" award
from the
American Chemical Society.
Dr. Dunning
obtained his bachelor's degree in
Chemistry
in 1965 from the
Missouri
University of Science and Technology
and his doctorate in
Chemistry/Chemical Physics
from the
California
Institute of Technology
in 1970.
PLENARY
SPEAKERS
Director
OU
Supercomputing Center for Education
& Research (OSCER)
Information
Technology
University
of Oklahoma
Topic:
"OSCER State of the Center Address"
Slides:
PowerPoint2007
PDF
Talk Abstract
The
OU
Supercomputing Center for
Education & Research
(OSCER)
celebrates its 11th anniversary
on August 31 2012.
In this report,
we examine
what OSCER is,
what OSCER does,
what OSCER has accomplished
in its 11 years,
and where OSCER is going.
Biography
Dr.
Henry Neeman
is the
Director of the
OU
Supercomputing Center for Education &
Research
and
an adjunct assistant professor in the
School of
Computer Science
at the
University of
Oklahoma.
He received his BS in computer science
and his BA in statistics
with a minor in mathematics
from the
State
University of New York at Buffalo
in 1987,
his MS in CS from the
University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
in 1990
and his PhD in CS from UIUC in 1996.
Prior to coming to OU,
Dr. Neeman was a postdoctoral research
associate at the
National
Center for Supercomputing Applications
at UIUC,
and before that served as
a graduate research assistant
both at NCSA
and at the
Center for
Supercomputing Research &
Development.
In addition to his own teaching and research,
Dr. Neeman collaborates with
dozens of research groups,
applying High Performance Computing techniques
in fields such as
numerical weather prediction,
bioinformatics and genomics,
data mining,
high energy physics,
astronomy,
nanotechnology,
petroleum reservoir management,
river basin modeling
and engineering optimization.
He serves as an ad hoc advisor
to student researchers
in many of these fields.
Dr. Neeman's research interests include
high performance computing,
scientific computing,
parallel and distributed computing
and
computer science education.
Deputy Director
Texas
Advanced Computing Center
University
of Texas
Topic:
"The Stampede is Coming:
A New Petascale Resource for
the Open Science Community"
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
The
Stampede
system,
coming in early 2013,
is the new flagship system for the
National
Science Foundation's
Extreme
Science and Engineering
Discovery Environment
(XSEDE)
open science infrastructure.
Stampede,
which will provide up to
10 Petaflops of performance,
will be the first system
to deploy in production
Intel's
Many
Integrated Core
or "MIC" processors.
This talk will cover
the system architecture and programming models
for Stampede,
and
trace the design decisions and
technology trends
that led to the Stampede design.
Stampede will replace
Ranger,
which has run more than 3 million jobs for
thousands of users,
and like Ranger,
Stampede will be open to
all open science researchers in the US.
Biography
Dr. Dan Stanzione is the Deputy Director of the
Texas
Advanced Computing Center
(TACC)
at
The
University of Texas at Austin.
He is the Co-Director of
"The
iPlant Collaborative:
A Cyberinfrastructure-Centered Community for
a New Plant Biology,"
an ambitious endeavor to build
a multidisciplinary community of
scientists, teachers and students
who will develop cyberinfrastructure
and apply computational approaches
to make significant advances in plant science.
He is also a Co-PI for TACC's
Ranger
supercomputer,
the first of the "Path to Petascale" systems
supported by the
National
Science Foundation
(NSF).
Ranger was deployed in February 2008
(at the time,
the largest open science supercomputer
in the world).
Prior to joining TACC,
Dr. Stanzione was the founding director of the
Ira A. Fulton
High Performance Computing Institute
(HPCI)
at
Arizona
State University (ASU).
Before ASU,
he served as an AAAS Science Policy Fellow
in the NSF's
Division
of Graduate Education.
Dr. Stanzione began his career at
Clemson
University,
his alma mater,
where he directed
the supercomputing laboratory
and served as
an assistant research professor of
electrical and computer engineering.
Dr. Stanzione's research focuses on
parallel programming,
scientific computing,
bioinformatics,
and
system software for large scale systems.
President and Executive Director
Shodor
Education Foundation
National
Computational Science Institute
Topic:
"Towards a Generation of Parallel Thinkers"
Slides:
HTML
Talk Abstract:
Multi-core computing has emerged as
the infrastructure norm of all computing,
even for desktops and mobile devices.
Nearly every exploration in
the social, life, and physical sciences
requires the efficient implementation of
complex models of
increasing size and scale,
along with the application of
massively parallel computing and
the analysis of big data.
There has been a substantial lag,
however,
in understanding parallel thinking in
problem formulation and solution
in such environments.
Parallel thinking
is still foreign
to many computer science faculty,
and even more so
to faculty of math and science courses,
who have spent the last half-century
devising serial formulae and algorithms,
and ultimately overly simplified problems.
Getting back to the basics of
modeling the world around us,
our goal is to exploit
the parallelism in nature
to illuminate the nature of parallelism.
Biography
Dr. Robert M. Panoff
is founder and Executive Director of the
Shodor
Education Foundation
a non-profit education and research corporation
dedicated to reform and improvement of
mathematics and science education through
computational and communication technologies.
As PI on several
National
Science Foundation
(NSF)
and
US
Department of Education
grants that explore
interactions between technology and education,
he develops interactive simulation modules
that combine
standards, curriculum,
supercomputing resources and desktop computers.
He is a multi-year winner of the
Undergraduate
Computational Engineering and Science
award sponsored by the
US
Department of Energy.
In recognition of Dr.
Panoff's efforts in
college faculty enhancement and
curriculum development,
the
Shodor Foundation
was named as a
NSF Foundation Partner
for the revitalization of
undergraduate education.
Dr. Panoff currently directs the
National
Computational Science Institute.
along with Shodor's
Computational
Science Education Reference Desk,
a Pathway portal of the
National
Science Digital Library.
Dr. Panoff consults at
several national laboratories
and is a frequent presenter at
NSF workshops on
visualization,
supercomputing,
and
networking.
Dr. Panoff earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in
theoretical physics
from
Washington
University in St. Louis,
with both pre- and postdoctoral work at the
Courant
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
at
New
York University.
Wofford
College
awarded Dr. Panoff
an honorary Doctor of Science degree
in recognition of his leadership in
computational science education.
General Manager, High Performance Computing
Intel
Topic:
"The Power of Integration and Democratization"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
High Performance Computing (HPC)
technologies continue to be outpaced by
the demand of the HPC user community,
as answers to previously daunting questions
generate even more daunting questions.
The insatiable appetite for performance
comes from scientific discovery
and the needs to innovate ever more quickly in
engineering,
finance,
animation,
and every other domain segment.
The ongoing challenges for
more performance at lower power
demand even greater innovation.
Intel is continuing its strategies
in bringing ever increasing value
to the end user
through micro-architecture enhancements,
a new processor family,
continued software tools and
library investments,
and its ever useful playbook of integration.
In this talk,
Dr. Stephen Wheat,
General Manager for High Performance Computing,
will address the latest of these technologies
throughout a story line of
the value of integration to
the important metrics of perf/watt and perf/$$.
Dr. Wheat will also address
the challenge of resolving
the greatest impediment to
the democratization of HPC,
along with the value proposition of
resolving that challenge.
He will provide updates on several efforts
that are designed
to address this challenge at scale.
Biography
Dr. Stephen Wheat is
the General Manager for
High Performance Computing
at
Intel.
He is responsible for driving
the development of Intel's HPC strategy
and
the pursuit of that strategy through
platform architecture,
eco-system development
and
collaborations.
While in this role,
Dr. Wheat has influenced
the deployment of several Top10 systems
and
many more
Top500
HPC systems.
Dr. Wheat has a wide breadth of experience
that gives him
a unique perspective in understanding
large scale HPC deployments.
He was
the Advanced Development manager
for the Storage Components Division,
the manager of
the RAID Products Development group,
the manager of
the Workstation Products Group
software and validation groups,
and manager of
the Supercomputing Systems Division (SSD)
operating systems software group.
At SSD,
he was
a Product Line Architect
and was
the systems software architect for
the
ASCI
Red
system.
Before joining Intel in 1995,
Dr. Wheat worked at
Sandia
National Laboratories,
performing leading research in
distributed systems software,
where he created and led the
SUNMOS
and
PUMA/Cougar
programs.
Dr. Wheat is a 1994
Gordon
Bell Prize
winner
and
has been awarded Intel's prestigious
Achievement Award.
He has a patent in
Dynamic Load Balancing in HPC systems.
He has also twice been honored as one of
HPCwire's
People to Watch,
in
2006
and
2012.
Dr. Wheat holds a Ph.D. in
Computer Science
and has several publications on
the subjects of
load balancing,
inter-process communication,
and
parallel I/O in large-scale HPC systems.
Outside of Intel,
he is a commercial multi-engine pilot
and
a FAA certified multi-engine, instrument
flight instructor.
BREAKOUT
SPEAKERS
Tolu Adoun,
Eric Dilmore,
Katherine Prutz,
Austin McMichael,
William Watson
Brad Burkman,
Matthew Fults,
Chris Myles,
Ian Gonthier,
Sam Fadrigalan
Louisiana
School for Math, Science, and the Arts
Topic:
"HPC Research in High School"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
Typical high school (and undergraduate)
Computer Science courses
teach students to write serial code
on their multicore laptops.
How can a motivated group of
high school students reach further,
how can the model be replicated,
and
how can the community support it?
Biography
The
Accelerating
Science Group
studies ways to accelerate computation
to increase the pace of
scientific discovery and
technological innovation.
The nine students
come from south Louisiana,
but study at the
Louisiana
School for Math, Science, and the Arts,
adjoining the campus of
Northwestern
State University of Louisiana,
in
Natchitoches.
They have a
LittleFe
cluster
and accounts on
LONI
and
XSEDE.
Most of the members
have taken C++ and Data Structures,
and half have experience with
OpenMP
and
MPI.
Courses they are taking include
Quantum Mechanics,
Polymer Chemistry,
Calculus III,
Mathematics for Physics,
Mobile App Development,
and
Web Development.
Their mentor,
Brad
Burkman,
teaches mathematics at the
Louisiana
School,
and is the
XSEDE
Campus
Champion
for the
Louisiana
Scholars' College
of
Northwestern State University of Louisiana.
He earned a BA in English in 1993 from
Wheaton
College
in Illinois,
and an MA in mathematics in 2001 from the
State
University of New York at Buffalo.
Associate Professor
Department of
Computing & Information Sciences
Kansas State
University
Director
Institute for Computational Research
Birds-of-a-Feather Topic:
"Supporting Research Computing and Data Needs
Institutionally and Statewide"
Abstract
Research based on computation modeling/analysis
is foundational across many disciplines,
leading to increased demands on our
Cyberinfrastructure (CI)
at national and campus levels.
In this Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session,
aimed at both CI consumers
—
scientists, educators, students
—
and CI providers
—
HPC specialists,
Extreme
Science and Engineering
Discovery Environment
(XSEDE)
Campus
Champions,
HPC system administrators
—
we plan to discuss
what is working, and what isn't,
in bridging the gap between
computational resources and
using them effectively
to support
science discovery and engineering design.
How are our experiences with XSEDE?
How are we addressing Big Data?
How do we justify our funding effectively
to administrators and others
in an era of tight budgets?
Biography
Daniel
Andresen, Ph.D.
is an associate professor of
Computing
& Information Sciences
at
Kansas
State University
and Director of the
Institute for Computational Research.
His research includes
embedded and distributed computing,
biomedical systems,
and high performance scientific computing.
Dr. Andresen coordinates the activities of
the K-State research computing cluster,
Beocat,
and advises the
local
chapter
of the
Association
for Computing Machinery
(ACM).
He is a
National
Science Foundation
CAREER
award winner,
and has been granted research funding from
the NSF,
the
Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA),
and industry.
He is a member of
the
Association
for Computing Machinery,
the
IEEE
Computer Society,
the
Electronic
Frontier Foundation,
and
the
American
Society for Engineering Education.
Research Assistant
Great
Plains Network
Topic:
"Great Plains Network:
What You Have Been Up to Lately?"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
The
Great
Plains Network
(GPN)
is a community of
research and education professionals
using advanced technologies
to enhance the missions of
their institutions and the region.
GPN advances the efforts of the community by
convening, informing and
ensuring that networking resources
(both technical and people)
are available to its 23 university members.
GPN has three strategic directions:
Community, Networking and Cyberinfrastructure.
This presentation will discuss
GPN
and progress toward objectives in these areas,
including a new storage service,
upgrading the network to be 100Gb capable,
funding for a joint planning project for
federated data access to curated data,
and participation in
the XSEDE Campus Champion program.
Biography
Kate Adams
has been with GPN since November of 2009.
She is the system administrator,
helps facilitate various working groups,
helps keep the website up to date,
and is also GPN's regional XSEDE champion.
She enjoys sewing and historical reenactment
in her free time.
Director
High
Performance Computing Center
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department
of Computer Science
Oklahoma
State University
Talk Topic:
"Cowboy Up"
Talk Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
The OSU High Performance Computing Center
is deploying
Cowboy,
the largest externally funded supercomputer
in state history.
This talk will present
the highlights of the
National
Science Foundation
(NSF)
Major
Research Instrumentation
(MRI)
proposal,
data center expansion,
cluster design and deployment,
as well as how OSUHPCC is facilitating
computational and data intensive
research and education.
Biography
Dana Brunson
is Director of the
High
Performance Computing Center
and is an adjunct associate professor in the
Computer
Science Department
at
Oklahoma
State University
(OSU).
Before transitioning to
High Performance Computing
in the fall of 2007,
she taught mathematics
and served as systems administrator
for the OSU
Mathematics
Department.
She earned her Ph.D.
in Numerical Analysis
at the
University
of Texas at Austin
in 2005 and her M.S. and B.S. in Mathematics
from OSU.
In addition,
Dana is serving on the ad hoc committee for
OSU's new
Bioinformatics
Graduate Certificate
program
and is the
XSEDE
Campus
Champion
for OSU.
Segment Manager
Cray Inc.
Topic:
"Extreme Scaling in ISV Applications"
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
We have seen HPC system
dramatically scale up
in terms of the compute power
and especially compute cores.
However,
the typical commercial HPC workload
has not leveraged this increased scalability.
This presentation will examine
the requirement for extreme scalability
in leading simulations
and the status and challenge of
scaling major CAE applications to
1000s of compute cores.
Biography
Greg Clifford
has worked in
the high performance computing (HPC) field
for over 25 years,
most recently with
Cray Inc
as Manufacturing Segment Manager.
Greg's primary focus has been on
application performance on HPC architectures.
This has involved
close cooperation with
application developers
and users
to improve real performance
for production environments.
Prior to joining Cray,
Greg work for
IBM
for 10 years on the HPC team
and 16 years at
Cray Research
in the Application department.
Greg has an MS in
Structural
Engineering
from the
University
of Minnesota
and has completed the
"Executive Management Training" program
in the
Haas
School of Business,
University
of California, Berkeley.
Solutions Architect
Tesla Sales
NVIDIA
Topic:
"The GPU Computing Ecosystem"
Slides:
PDF
Abstract
A rich ecosystem exists
for scientists and developers
interested in using
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)
to accelerate their applications.
This multi-faceted ecosystem is
the result of developments
over the last 5 years
by a variety of vendors and contributors
in the areas of GPU-enabled servers,
programming languages,
applications,
compilers,
developer tools,
platform tools,
libraries,
and supporting research.
We survey this space,
with a focus on
the interplay of these areas
to create a friendly ecosystem
for those who want to accelerate their work.
Biography
Bob Crovella leads a technical team at
NVIDIA
that is responsible for
supporting the sales of our
GPU
Computing products
through our
Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
partners and systems.
Bob joined NVIDIA in 1998.
Previous to his current role at NVIDIA,
he led a technical team
that was responsible for
the design-in support of our GPU products
into OEM systems,
working directly with
the OEM engineering and technical staffs
responsible for their respective products.
Prior to joining NVIDIA,
Bob held various engineering positions at
Chromatic Research,
Honeywell,
Cincinnati
Milacron,
and
Eastman
Kodak.
Bob holds degrees from
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
(M. Eng.,
Communications and Signal Processing)
and
The
State University of NY at Buffalo
(BSEE).
He resides with his family
in the Dallas TX area.
HPC Architect
U.S. Public Sector
NetApp,
Inc.
Topic:
"HPC and Big Data: Trends to Watch"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
Big Data continues to grow ever bigger,
pushed by HPC initiatives and by
requirements to keep everything,
forever.
Dave will discuss trends driving
Big Data Analytics,
Bandwidth and Content Management today,
as well as
initiatives currently underway
to drive Big Data and HPC
to limits far beyond current capabilities.
Biography
Dave Ellis
is a
Professional Services Consultant
in the
Technical Solutions Team,
U.S. Public Sector,
NetApp, Inc.,
with over 34 years of High Tech experience.
Dave came to NetApp from
Instrumental, Inc.,
a small consulting firm providing
SETA contractor services to
several U.S. government agencies,
where he was Principal Technologist
and a member of the company's CTO staff,
where Dave was responsible for
tracking,
evaluating,
consulting on,
and implementing
High Performance Computing solutions.
Dave was Director of HPC Architecture for the
Engenio Storage Group
of
LSI Logic,
and has held
Senior Systems Engineering positions at
Xyratex,
Intransa,
Silicon Graphics,
Data General,
Computer
Sciences Corporation,
Sperry,
Applied
Information Sciences
and
Dynamac.
Dave served in the
U.S. Air Force
as an Aircraft Loadmaster
and was a Master Instructor in both
the USAF Aircraft Loadmaster and
Computer Programming schools.
His Air Force training led to
degrees in
Management
from
Vernon
College
in Texas,
and in
Traffic and Transportation Management
from the
Community
College of the Air Force.
Owner
Creative Consultants
Topic:
"Having Fun at Work is Serious Business!"
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
Humor and fun at work
can be a huge distraction.
However,
they can also be a huge productivity boost.
This session demonstrates
how to use appropriate humor and fun
in the workplace to improve productivity,
reduce turnover,
and increase morale.
Truth is,
you do not have to teach people
how to have fun at work;
you just have to give them permission.
We will discuss
appropriate and inappropriate humor,
how to tie humor to productivity,
and techniques for
using humor and fun
to increase your own productivity
when no one else will .play..
Examples will include
the dancing toll booth attendant,
the janitor who played
eighteen holes of golf every night,
and the musical escalator.
Biography
Larry Fisher is owner of
Creative Consultants,
a management training and development
consulting company.
He was formerly
Assistant Administrator for
Human Resource Development Services,
Office of Personnel Management,
State of Oklahoma,
where he administered
a statewide management training and
professional development program
for state employees.
He also worked at the
University
of Oklahoma
in administration,
management development,
and visiting lecturer for the
Michael
F. Price College of Business
and the
Department
of Political Science.
He has consulted with
many private and public organizations
including
Municipal
Electric Systems of Oklahoma,
Oklahoma
Gas and Electric,
Wichita
State University,
the states of Ohio,
Kansas,
South Dakota,
Iowa,
and Minnesota,
the
City
of Tulsa,
the
United
States Air Force,
Boeing,
a number of oil companies,
and many others.
He is known nationally through
memberships in the
American
Society for Training & Development
(ASTD),
the
National
Association for Government Training
and Development
(NAGTAD),
and the
International
Association for
Continuing Education and Training
(IACET).
He served as national president of NAGTAD,
a commissioner for IACET,
and president of the
Oklahoma
City Chapter of ASTD.
He has taught for
Oklahoma
State University,
Rose
State College,
the
University
of Phoenix,
Oklahoma
City campus;
and
DeVry
University's
Keller
Graduate School of Management.
He attained the status of
Certified Personnel Professional
for the state of Oklahoma.
Larry has a B.S. in
Chemistry
from
Oklahoma State University
and a M.A. in
Public
Administration
from the
University of Oklahoma.
He has completed all coursework for
a Ph.D. in
Political Science.
Larry is a former Commissioner on the
City
of Norman
Board
of Parks Commissioners
and is a founding member of the
Norman Parks Foundation.
He and wife Carol have three children,
seven grandchildren,
and two great-grandchildren.
Karl
Frinkle
Associate Professor
Department
of Mathematics
Southeastern
Oklahoma State U
Topic:
"Building Courses Around MPI and CUDA
with a LittleFe"
(with Mike Morris)
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Abstract
With the future of programming
leaning heavily into the parallel realm,
it is of the utmost importance
to get students in the CS fields
introduced to parallel programming
as early as possible.
Two questions quickly arise:
(1)
Can we teach parallel programming to
students with no programming experience
in the first place?
(2)
Will these students learn as well as
those who have already had programming courses?
Thanks to our involvement with
OSCER
and with assistance from the
National
Computational Science Institute
(NCSI)
programs,
we were able to acquire a
LittleFe
baby supercomputer,
and with it,
the tools to teach students
how to program in parallel.
We want to take you along on
our journey through a year-long course
that we have built
based on
LittleFe,
MPI
and
CUDA.
Biography
Karl Frinkle
is an applied mathematician
who earned his PhD from the
University
of New Mexico.
He is deeply interested in
numerical simulations,
and most recently in parallel programming.
Karl joined
the SE Mathematics department in 2005,
and thoroughly enjoys teaching
parallel programming
courses
with
Mike Morris
through the CS department.
He also can be found teaching
physics courses in the Physics department.
Associate Professor
Department
of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University
of Houston ‐ Downtown
Purdue
University
Topic:
"R with MPI and CUDA on the Little Fe Cluster"
Slides
PDF
Abstract
Coming soon
Biography
Erin M. Hodgess
is an associate professor of
Mathematical Sciences
at the
University
of Houston ‐ Downtown.
She earned her B.S. in from the
University
of Dayton,
her M.A. from the
University
of Pittsburgh,
and her Ph.D. from
Temple
University.
Her research and publication emphases include
time series and statistical computing.
She has taught
numerous undergraduate and graduate courses
for the
Department
of Computer and Mathematical Sciences,
including statistics,
time series and forecasting,
and applied regression,
and she has served as a faculty student mentor
in a
National
Science Foundation
grant program
designed to develop expertise in
supercomputing facilities.
Dr. Hodgess is a member of
the
American
Statistical Association,
the
Institute
of Mathematical Statistics,
and
the
International
Statistical Institute.
Systems Engineer
High Performance Computing and Life Sciences
DataDirect Networks
Topic:
"Object Storage in
Cloud Computing and Embedded Processing"
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
Due to the rise of machine generated data,
massive computational simulations
and the emergence of data analytics as
the "fourth pillar" of science,
traditional data ingest/storage/processing
and distribution methods
are increasingly challenged
by growing and complex data volumes.
Data management and infrastructure scalability
have now become
fundamental business imperatives
for data-driven scientific organizations.
Whereas these organizations
are also recognizing
the enabling capabilities of
implementing optimized processes and tools
to harness the power of this information and
accelerate the pace of innovation and insight.
DataDirect Networks
(DDN)
—
the global leader in
high-scale and data-intensive computing
for over a decade
—
is a provider of highly scalable and efficient
collaborative research storage infrastructure
to organizations and consortiums
that depend on unrestricted,
always-on access
to globally available data volumes.
In this talk,
DDN will cover
the state-of-the art in
Big Data and Cloud Storage
infrastructure technology,
as well as best practices
as developed in partnership with
several of the world's largest
HPC and Big Data Research organizations.
In addition,
we will address the computing problem of
getting to data faster.
Research has shown that
the link between
the compute nodes and the data on disks
is very long in terms of timing,
and the protocol overhead is often
larger than the payload.
This presentation will also provide
information about an initiative at DDN
to shorten that path.
Biography
Jan Jitze Krol
is a Systems Engineer at
Data Direct Networks
where he provides technical support for the
sales executives at DDN.
Jan Jitze joined DDN in July 2011
after holding a previous position at
Panasas
as a Systems Engineer.
Jan Jitze holds
a masters degree in electrical engineering
of the
Hogere Technische School
(HTS)
in
Groningen, The Netherlands.
He lives with his wife,
two dogs, two cats and a parrot
in scenic Oceanside CA.
Assistant Professor
Department
of Chemistry, Computer and Physical
Sciences
Southeastern
Oklahoma State U
Topic:
"Building Courses Around MPI and CUDA
with a LittleFe"
(with Karl Frinkle)
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Abstract
With the future of programming
leaning heavily into the parallel realm,
it is of the utmost importance
to get students in the CS fields
introduced to parallel programming
as early as possible.
Two questions quickly arise:
(1)
Can we teach parallel programming to
students with no programming experience
in the first place?
(2)
Will these students learn as well as
those who have already had programming courses?
Thanks to our involvement with
OSCER
and with assistance from the
National
Computational Science Institute
(NCSI)
programs,
we were able to acquire a
LittleFe
baby supercomputer,
and with it,
the tools to teach students
how to program in parallel.
We want to take you along on
our journey through a year-long course
that we have built
based on
LittleFe,
MPI
and
CUDA.
Biography
Mike Morris' degrees are in math,
but he has always said
he wound up on the business end of a computer.
He taught Computer Science (CS)
in the early 80s
after working as
an Operations Research Analyst for
Conoco
in Ponca City OK.
Mike left teaching and spent 15 years
doing various things in the CS industry
before returning to
Southeastern Oklahoma State
to once again teach CS,
where he remains today.
Manager for Cyberinfrastructure Enablement
Arkansas High
Performance Computing Center
University
of Arkansas
Talk Topic:
"Introduction to Free HPC Resources: XSEDE"
Talk Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
XSEDE
is a comprehensive set of advanced,
heterogeneous high-end digital services,
integrated into
a general-purpose infrastructure.
This presentation will provide
an overview of XSEDE with
an emphasis on
how XSEDE is working
to support the computational science needs
of campus researchers and educators.
The talk will include
a basic overview of XSEDE,
as well as information on
the allocation process,
resource selection,
and usage models.
In addition,
there are opportunities for researchers,
educators, and students to engage and benefit.
Biography
Jeff
Pummill
is the
Manager for Cyberinfrastructure Enablement
at the
University
of Arkansas.
He has supported
the high performance computing activities at
the University of Arkansas
since 2005,
serving first as
Senior Linux Cluster Administrator
before his
current role,
and has more than a decade of experience in
managing
high performance computing resources.
Jeff is also the
XSEDE
Campus
Champion
for the
University of Arkansas,
and is a very active
contributor at the national level on the
Campus Champion Leadership Team.
Computer Scientist
559th Software Maintenance Squadron
Tinker
Air Force Base, OK
Topic:
"Using a GPU to Compute
the Advection and Computational Mixing Terms of
a Numerical Weather Prediction Model"
(with
Daniel B. Weber)
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
PowerPoint
Talk Abstract
The PC gaming industry has assisted in
the development of very fast
GPU's (Graphics Processing Units)
for use in displaying graphics images
at increasing resolution and
frame refresh rates.
NVIDIA's
CUDA
(Compute Unified Device Architecture)
interface allows software developers
to perform general purpose computing using
GPUs (GPGPU)
—
to utilize
the GPU's massively parallel architecture
for applications other than graphics rendering.
Scientists and engineers
are exploring the usefulness of
this new interface
to the solution of
complex real world computationally based
applications
such as weather prediction and
molecular modeling.
In this talk,
we report on the application of
the CUDA interface,
using the
Portland
Group
Fortran
Compiler
and the
NVIDIA
Tesla
Tesla C1060
GPU,
to accelerate
the advection and
computational mixing components of
numerical weather prediction model.
Computation speedups of
up to 70x were observed for
the advection and
computational mixing calculations
—
from 3.5 GFLOPS
(billion floating-point operations per second)
on an
Intel
based single core CPU
to as fast as 250 GFLOPS on the
Tesla C1060 GPU.
An analysis,
based on a number of factors
including the ratio of
mathematical operations to
device memory references,
is presented,
to help other potential users of
this technology
decide whether
their application can
efficiently utilize a GPU.
Biography
James Stevens
earned a Bachelor's degree in
Computer
Science
at
Washington
University in St. Louis
in 2010,
and graduated with a
Master's in
Computer Science
in 2011.
His university studies focused on
developing control software for mobile robots.
James was selected for
the SMART internship program with
the
US
Department of Defense
and completed two summer internships at
Tinker
Air Force Base
where he was introduced to
High Performance Computing methods,
including
MPI,
OpenMP,
the
PAPI
hardware performance measurement tool,
and general purpose GPU programing
with
NVIDIA's
CUDA.
He applied these methods
to analyze and compare
matrix operations and
finite difference computations
on CPU and GPU type processors.
James was hired by the
559th Software Maintenance Squadron
at the
US Air Force Air
Logistics Complex
in Oklahoma,
where he completed
a GPGPU optimization project
that ported Navier-Stokes and
Maxwell's equations solvers to the GPU.
He is also part of a team developing
an open source flight simulator
with enhanced meteorological data.
Through these projects,
James has developed expertise in
general purpose GPU kernel optimization.
Computer Scientist, Technical Expert
559th Software Maintenance Squadron
Tinker
Air Force Base, OK
Topic:
"Using a GPU to Compute
the Advection and Computational Mixing Terms of
a Numerical Weather Prediction Model"
(with
James
D. Stevens)
Slides:
PowerPoint
PDF
Talk Abstract
The PC gaming industry has assisted in
the development of very fast
GPU's (Graphics Processing Units)
for use in displaying graphics images
at increasing resolution and
frame refresh rates.
NVIDIA's
CUDA
(Compute Unified Device Architecture)
interface allows software developers
to perform general purpose computing using
GPUs (GPGPU)
—
to utilize
the GPU's massively parallel architecture
for applications other than graphics rendering.
Scientists and engineers
are exploring the usefulness of
this new interface
to the solution of
complex real world computationally based
applications
such as weather prediction and
molecular modeling.
In this talk,
we report on the application of
the CUDA interface,
using the
Portland
Group
Fortran
Compiler
and the
NVIDIA
Tesla
Tesla C1060
GPU,
to accelerate
the advection and
computational mixing components of
numerical weather prediction model.
Computation speedups of
up to 70x were observed for
the advection and
computational mixing calculations
—
from 3.5 GFLOPS
(billion floating-point operations per second)
on an
Intel
based single core CPU
to as fast as 250 GFLOPS on the
Tesla C1060 GPU.
An analysis,
based on a number of factors
including the ratio of
mathematical operations to
device memory references,
is presented,
to help other potential users of
this technology
decide whether
their application can
efficiently utilize a GPU.
Biography
Dr. Dan Weber
has 26 years of experience in
the development and maintenance of
numerical weather prediction systems,
flight simulators,
and Linux clusters and supercomputers.
In addition
to performing research and writing papers on
thunderstorm dynamics,
numerical weather prediction,
and computer software optimization techniques
targeted at massively parallel computers,
he has taught courses in
weather forecasting techniques and
severe and unusual weather,
and has held positions with the
National Weather Service,
at the
University
of Oklahoma
(OU)
and in private industry.
Dr. Weber is currently employed at the
US Air Force
Air Logistics Center
in Oklahoma
and leads modeling and simulations efforts
to incorporate complex weather data into
flight simulation and weapon systems
and the optimization of
computational methods on
scalar and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
processors.
Dr. Weber graduated
with undergraduate and graduate degrees in
Meteorology
and
Geology
from the
University
of Utah
and a doctoral degree in
Meteorology
from
OU.
Dr. Weber graduated with
undergraduate and graduate degrees in
Meteorology
and
Geology
from the
University
of Utah
and a doctoral degree in
Meteorology
from the
University of Oklahoma
(OU).
His current research interests include
optimization of models on
General Purpose computation on
Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) technology
and urban weather prediction.
Dr. Weber has participated in
several forensic weather projects
and has supported
several real-time weather forecasting efforts
via the installation and optimization of
a state of the art weather prediction system
that he helped develop at OU.
Research Assistant Professor
Department
of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University
of Oklahoma
Topic:
"WebMO: A User Friendly Computational Platform
for Chemical Educators"
Slides:
PDF
Talk Abstract
The diatomic molecule "nitric oxide," NO,
is important in mammals,
as it is responsible for triggering
a target enzyme involved in
blood pressure regulation.
In addition,
NO can be oxidized to harmful NOx species
that can kill invading bacteria.
It is therefore not surprising that
bacteria have evolved specific Fe-enzymes
to detoxify this NO molecule,
by coupling two NO molecules
to generate the harmless "laughing gas," N2O.
There is no experimental data available
regarding the productive NO attack on
heme-NO species
to yield the NO coupled product.
Thus,
we employed
density functional theory (DFT) calculations
to provide molecular level insight
into this important reaction.
DFT calculations for this research
were carried out with
the DFT functional BP86
implemented in the
Gaussian-09
suite
through the
WebMO
interface.
WebMO is a user-friendly,
web-based interface to
computational chemistry packages
(e.g., Gaussian, Molpack).
It is easy to use for undergraduate research,
and is also flexible enough for
higher-level computational chemistry research.
We are grateful to the
University
of Oklahoma
for the use of the
OSCER
supercomputing facilities for this project.
Biography
Dr. Jun (Eva) Yi was born in Changsha,
a medium size town in
the Central South part of China.
After receiving her MS degree in Oceanography
from
Xiamen
University,
she joined the
Department
of Chemistry & Biochemistry
at the
University
of Oklahoma
under the supervision of
Dr. George B. Richter-Addo.
Her research interests include
the synthesis of
biologically relevant
organic S-nitroso compounds,
determination of biomarkers from
chemical and biochemical reactions,
and structure-function studies of
biologically important
nitrogen oxides with mammalian heme proteins.
Recently,
she has been using
Gaussian-09 implemented in WebMO
(a web-based computational chemistry interface)
to study
the possible mechanism of
the nitric oxide (NO)
coupling reaction mediated by iron porphyrins.
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