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High
Performance Computing Symposium Now Two Days
The traditional “legs” of scientific research are “theory”
and “experimentation, ” with “computation” gaining
recognition as an important new leg for supporting modern
scientific research. Computational modeling is vital to
scientific advancements, providing crucial added insight
and rigor unavailable through direct experimental
observation.
For the past five years, the
University’s Library and Technology Services (LTS) and High
Performance Computing Steering Committee (HPC-SC) have
hosted a one-day program
(see archives) to advance the understanding of
scientific computing and train new researchers on available
resources on and off-campus.
Due to the success of
previous HPC Days and an interest in exploring what it would
take to create an inter-departmental Center for
Computational Engineering and Sciences, the HPC-SC has
expanded the
2011 HPC Symposium to two full days, April 14 - 15,
2011.
The overall goal of the revamped two-day event is to develop
a network of researchers who explore high-end computational
developments and methodologies for those who rely upon
high-performance technologies to accomplish critical tasks.
On the Symposium’s first
day, Thursday, we will host
Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center (PSC) instructors who will provide
a full day, hands-on
Message Passing Interface (MPI) Programming tutorial,
currently the dominant programmatic interface to taking
advantage of distributed multi-processor/multi-core cluster
technology.
By extending the
instructional time from three to six hours, participants
will be exposed to a more detailed introduction involving
real world examples, demonstrating the use of the basic MPI
software library calls.
Participants are also
encouraged to bring their own code and seek advice from the
instructors. We hope they will walk away with the tools
necessary to take advantage of the parallel computing
facilities available to them at Lehigh.
On the second day, Friday, the Symposium will be devoted to
regional speakers invited from outside Lehigh with a keynote
speaker after lunch. The focus is to foster a gathering of
preeminent researchers from all disciplines of science and
engineering, where they can broaden their appreciation of
the pervasiveness of computational methods in science and
engineering research, and explore related challenges and
opportunities.
This year’s Symposium
Keynote Speaker will be Russ Miller, who maintains
appointments as Distinguished Professor of
Computer Science and Engineering at
SUNY-Buffalo, senior scientist at the
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, and
adjunct professor in the departments of Structural Biology
and
Electrical Engineering at SUNY-Buffalo. Professor
Miller's research interests include
cyberinfrastructure,
parallel algorithms, image analysis, and
computational crystallography.
For more information, please contact Brandon Leeds (byl405@lehigh.edu).
Registration is free but will be required for planning
purposes.
-- Brandon Leeds
Article posted March,
2011
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