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SC06, the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage, will convene in November 2006 in Tampa, Florida. This year the conference will take its inspiration from Albert Einstein who said "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination."
UI ITS - Research Services Sponsors an Exhibit
Every year the University of Iowa ITS - Research Services sponsors a booth at the Supercomputing Conference. Our booth represents several different fields of research throughout the University, including:
Bioinformatics
CFD
Computational Chemistry
Data Mining
Digital Art
Digital Geoscience
Gentics Research
High Performance Computing
Medical Imaging
Molecular Modeling
Nanotechnology
Statistical Science
Systems Biology
3D Modeling
Virtual Simulation
Web Applications
More Information or Participation
We invite researchers to send us their posters to be represented at the SC06 conference. To learn more about creating a poster for the booth, please contact one of the SC06 team for details.
Several people will be giving presentations at our booth this year. If you wish to learn more about this, please visit our Presenters and their discussions site. You can also visit our previous conferences site to see what we've done at the previous four conferences.
A full list of all projects and posters that were submitted for our booth during the last four years and the people who submitted them can be found at our list of posters site.
We are very excited to be a part of this year's Super Computing conference which will be held from November 12th - 18th at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle Washington. This will mark the third time the UI has participated in the annual SC Conference.
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About SC|05
SC|05, the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage, will convene November 12-18, 2005 in Seattle. Under the theme, "Gateway to Discovery," SC|05 will showcase how high performance computing, networking, storage and analytics lead to advances in research, education and commerce. Exciting technical and education programs, workshops, tutorials, an expanded exhibit area, demonstrations and many other activities await attendees. SC|05 is the one place that attendees can see tomorrow's technology being used to solve world-class challenge problems. SC|05 is sponsored by ACM and IEEE.
This year, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates will be delivering the keynote speech on Tuesday, November 15th at 8:30am.
For more information, visit the SC2005 Convention website at:
http://sc05.supercomputing.org/
Professor Jun Ni presented a talk on High Performance Computing for Nano-science and Technology. To learn more about this discussion click this link:
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Enano/HPCNano05/
Check out an Animation of our Floor Plan
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UI Supercomputing booth with an intro from
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Workshops
The First HawkGrid (The
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Campus Grid) Workshop on November 10 (Thursday), 2005
The SC|05 program will include a set of independently planned workshops to offer more interaction and in-depth discussion of timely topics than is possible in the shorter, more traditional technical sessions. The technical program committee will choose a set of workshops to complement the overall technical program. To suggest a workshop for consideration, please send email as soon as possible to the address below with the topic and proposed organization. Workshops may be proposed for either full-day (six hours) or a half-day (three hours) sessions.
Grid 2005 Workshop
The following was our newest poster approved for this year's Grid 2005 workshop:
Padmanabhan Anand, Wang Shaowen, Ghosh Sukumar, Briggs Ransom. A Self-Organized Grouping (SOG) Method for Effecient Grid Resource Discovery.
Abstract- This paper presents a self-organized grouping (SOG) method that achieves efficient Grid resource discovery by forming and maintaining autonomous resource groups. Each group dynamically aggregates a set of resources that are similar to each other in some pre-specified resource characteristic. The SOG method takes advantage of the strengths of both centralized and decentralized approaches that were previously developed for Grid/P2P resource discovery. The design of the SOG method minimizes the overhead incurred in forming and maintaining groups and maximizes resource discovery performance. The way SOG method handles resource discovery queries is metaphorically similar to searching for a word in an English dictionary by identifying its alphabetical groups at the first place. It is shown from a series of computational experiments that SOG method achieves more stable (i.e., independent of the factors such as resource densities, and Grid sizes) and efficient lookup performance than other existing approaches.
Educational Outreach
The Education Program theme this year is "Engaging and Empowering Educators: High Performance Classroom." The program introduces a new pedagogical model for High Performance Computing where focus for learning teams is to empower faculty, students and K-12 educators to apply computational science across a variety of content areas. These areas include nanotechnology, life sciences, visualization, earth and atmospheric sciences, computer science, mathematics, chemistry and physics.
Faculty, undergraduate students, and K-12 instructors participating in the SC|05 program will benefit in a number of ways:
- All participants will be exposed to tutorials that focus on how high performance computing can be applied in the classroom
- Participants on the learning teams will gain experiential knowledge based on the proposed on-site projects that will demonstrate how educators can leverage, and use, the Grid in their classrooms
- Educators and students will receive additional benefits from these proposed activities such as greater inclusion in the full SC conference and more exposure to leading vendors from industry
Multi-institutional teams of students and teachers will be selected from different geographic regions for participation in an onsite project during the SC|05 conference. They will work with scientists on project simulation employing recently gathered data. Scientists and educators will share information on applying high performance computing tools and resources across the curriculum and design ways in which to integrate modeling and visualization techniques into classroom instruction.
Questions: edu@sc05.supercomputing.org
ATRS sponsors exhibit at Supercomputing 2004 in Pittsburgh
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The IEEE/ACM Supercomputing conference is held annually in November. This conference features events surrounding state-of-the-art computing technologies including networking, storage, parallel computing, visualization and collaborative environments. The conference features a scientific/technical program with peer-reviewed presentations and keynote speakers and a technical/research exhibits featuring both academic and vendor booths.
The SC2004 conference was held in Pittsburgh and had over 8,000 people in attendance (for the technical/research exhibits). Academic Technologies Research Services (ATRS) sponsored an exhibit featuring presentations of over forty computationally-enabled research projects from around campus. This was the third year ATRS has sponsored an exhibit and this year's booth was the best attended with over 400 people visiting our booth, talking with our staff and receiving materials regarding computational research at the University of Iowa.
Six staff from ATRS were able to attend (see picture) and interacted with colleagues at peer institutions, funding agency officials and potential UI students. ATRS staff attended two meetings of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing (www.casc.org) an organization the University of Iowa joined this past summer. One computer science undergraduate student, Spencer Kuhl, attended the conference as a volunteer (receiving room and board and free conference tuition).
Next year's Supercomputing conference is in Seattle (http://sc05.supercomputing.org/) from November 12-18, 2005.
ATRS sponsors exhibit at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix
Our booth showcased research projects from laboratories throughout the University that use high performancecomputing. Featured projects included: the National Driving Simulator System (NADS), parallel computing in CFD from the Iowa Institute of Hydroscience and Engineering (IIHE) and Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER), applications from the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and imaging projects from the College of Medicine.
We also demonstrated several projects using grid computing from our Grid computing in research and education group @Iowa (GROW) , including applications in Geography, high-energy physics, and thermal-science. We also demonstrated a P2P Java-enhanced distributed computing system.
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