2009 Events:

Distinguished Lecture - High Performance Computers and Compilers: A Personal Perspective
Date: Friday, September 11, 2009
Time: 11:15am-12:30pm
Location: Squires Haymarket Theatre
This talk is open to the general public.

Dr. Frank Baetke, Global Director, High Performance Computing, The Hewlett-Packard Company
Date: 1 September 2009
Time: 1-2pm
Location: Research Building XV Upstairs Lecture Room

This hands-on summer track (May 26, 27, 28) will introduce participants to the systems and resources available for High-Performance Computing at Virginia Tech. Attendees will learn skills for including computational science in their research. Topics will include shared and distributed memory systems, the VT and TeraGrid allocation process, compilers and flags for VT HPC, submitting jobs to the queuing systems, OpenMP and OpenMPI programming basics, debuggers, and visualization tools. This course will give faculty the practical skills for scaling research to VT's HPC infrastructure. Academic support staff and graduate teaching assistants may participate with faculty as a 2-person project team.

This summer intensive course is the third year running of VT and U VA June 8-12. If you are interested in future correspondence about HPC and Computational Science training by VT/ UVa, please enter your name and email at: https://survey.vt.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1215097343761

FDI course: seven sessions introducing faculty and grad students to the production and deployment of Deep Media. “Deep Media” refers to interactive, 3D virtual spaces that may include “rich media” types such as images, sound, video, and animation. See the course description

Bootcamp: High Performance Parallel Computing -- Sponsored by Virginia Tech and University of Virginia. This course will introduce the attendee to the basics of high-performance parallel computing and the national cyber-infrastructure. The course is targeted at graduate students, staff, and faculty with computational science and engineering problems that demand high performance.

This summer-only track is designed to assist faculty in understanding how to develop parallel computing applications for use on large scale resources...

Spring Track W - Visualization and Research Computing: Deep Media for Research and Education

co-located with SIGGRAPH

International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Stoarge and Analysis. Poster submissions due July 31, 2008

Relevance of HPC in Today's Challenging Economic Environment -- Robert Graybill will visit Virginia Tech on Thursday 12 June and will share his perspective regarding the status and future of High Performance Computing. In addition to this presentation Robert has agreed to meet with small groups and individuals. If you are interested in meeting with him prior to 2:00 p.m. on the 12th, please contact Terry Herdman (terry.herdman@vt.edu or 231 7667)

Spring Track W - Visualization and Research Computing: Deep Media for Research and Education (Seven short Courses)

Common Solutions Group

International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Stoarge and Analysis.

An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future
In this talk we examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 10-year and look toward the future in terms of trends.

SAS Day at Virginia Tech for all Faculty and Graduate Students featuring demonstrations by SAS Institute personnel of SAS Enterprise Guide and JMP plus a presentation about SAS/JMP availability and support at Virginia Tech.

High Performance Parallel Computing Bootcamp -- Sponsored by Virginia Tech and University of Virginia.

Purpose: The purpose of this course is to introduce the attendees to the basics of high-performance parallel computing and the national cyber-infrastructure. The course is targeted at graduate students, staff, and faculty with computational science and engineering problems that demand high performance. When successfully completed the attendee will know how to:

1. Optimize sequential applications
2. Exploit high throughput computing opportunities
3. Use queuing systems such as PBS
4. Use existing high-end resources at UVA, Virginia Tech, and San Diego SuperComputing Center (SDSC)
5. Write basic MPI and OpenMP applications
6. Understand the opportunities and challenges of data visualization tools and display technologies

Details: see http://www.arc.vt.edu/pdf/VT_UVA_bootcamp.pdf
See also article in Grid Today http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1701126.html

Who Should Attend: Faculty, graduate students, and research staff with computational science and engineering problems that need high performance and those who want their programs to run faster, complete sooner, or tackle problems previously thought too computationally difficult.

SIGN UP by visiting: http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/vt-uva-hpc/bootcamp.html

The premier international graphics conference

Dr. Nicholas Polys presented VT's Visual Computing work at number of events throughout the week. He presented VT's latest contributions to the open source toolkit DIVERSE (www.diverse-vr.org) including a new cross-platform build system, which enables VR clients on Win, Mac, and Linux.

He also attended as a key contributor to the following meetings: X3D Working Group, X3D Medical Working Group, and the X3D Earth Working Group.

June 4th: 11 a.m. 3 p.m. in Torgersen Hall 3050 (CAVE Lab)
June 5th: 11 a.m. 2 p.m. in Andrews Information Systems Building Room 119

International Symposium about 3D and Multimedia. Included paper presentation by Dr. Nicholas Polys (Program Co-chair) entitled 'IRVE-Serve: A Visualization Gateway for Spatially-Registered Time Series Data'

Presentation about SGI's Carlsbad (a Next Generation Cluster Based Supercomputer) and SGI's f1200.  Unlike individual computers externally linked together, Carlsbad is designed from the ground up, from the internal node boards to the rack cooling design, for serious cluster computing. The f1200 offers the largest single SMP system using Intel's new Core® architecture and processors; it also includes the ability to address 192GB RAM (with expansion, 1.5TB)

International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Stoarge and Analysis. Sponsored by ACM and IEEE.

• Tue, Nov 14 at 10:30AM - 11:00AM
  Session: Biology, Location: 22-23.
  "PBPI: A High Performance Implementation of Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference"
  X. Feng*, K. Cameron*, D. Buell
  *Best Student Paper Finalist*
  http://sc06.supercomputing.org/schedule/pdf/pap292.pdf
  
  
• Wed, Nov 15 at 1:30PM - 2:00PM
  Session: Grid Applications, Location: 20-21.
  "Parallel Genomic Sequence-Searching on an Ad-Hoc Grid: Experiences, Lessons Learned, and Implications"
  M. Gardner*, W. Feng*, J. Archuleta, H. Lin, X. Ma
  *Best Paper Finalist*
  http://sc06.supercomputing.org/schedule/pdf/pap346.pdf
  
  
Thu, Nov 16 at 11:00AM - 11:30AM
Session: Grid Networks and Portals, Location: 20-21.
"End-System Aware, Rate-Adaptive Protocol for Network Transport in LambdaGrid Environments"
P. Datta, W. Feng*, S. Sharma*
http://sc06.supercomputing.org/schedule/pdf/pap229.pdf

Members of the Advanced Research Computing Community met to discuss the current status of research computers (System X, SGI, Sun machines), Storage, and Visualization at Virginia Tech.

Dan Reed paid a visit to CHECS and the Computer Science Department -- Dr. Reed is Chancellor's Eminent Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of RENCI -- the Renaissance Computing Institute. During his visit he gave a distinguished lecture titled "The Future: Release 2016".

were presented by the Virginia Tech Center for High-End Computing Systems (CHECS)

2005 Computational Science & Engineering (CSE) Lecture Series

International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Stoarge and Analysis, sponsored by ACM and IEEE.

Perspectives on the Success of System X: Lessons in Project Management, Creativity, and Persistence

The central theme of the conference is the future of high-performance computing as seen by the leading manufacturers and independent hardware vendors (IHV). Invited speakers from Apple, Intel, SGI and others will provide a broad perspective on development in HPC hardware and software.