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GEORGIA TECH ENTERSTHE SPOTLIGHT AT SC08

Panel discussions,workshops, technical papers and creative booth displays round out significantpresence at leading high-performance computing conference

ATLANTA - November 11, 2008 - The Georgia Institute ofTechnology, an emerging leader in high-performance computing research andeducation, willcommand a significant presence at next week's SC08, the internationalconference on high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis scheduledfor Nov. 15-21, 2008,at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.Georgia Tech will co-chair one workshop, participate in four panel (or "Birds-of-a-Feather")discussions, present three technical papers and one research poster, and host16 booth presentations and video interviews on emerging high-performancecomputing projects and application areas.

"At Georgia Tech, we believe a strong andexpansive high-performance computing research community drives the biggerscientific discoveries and better engineering capabilities at the heart ofhuman progress," said Dr. Mark Allen, senior vice provost for Research andInnovation at Georgia Tech. "Through this premier industry event, researchers,academics and industry professionals have the opportunity to discuss anddemonstrate new innovations and breakthroughs in high-impact areas such asbiomedicine, nanoscience, astrophysics and exascale computing. Georgia Techwelcomes SC08 attendees to visit our booth, meet our researchers, observe ourwork and understand our mission to positively affect quality of life through advancedcomputing capabilities."

TechnicalWorkshops/Panels/Birds-of-a-Feather

Technical workshops, panels andBirds-of-a-Feather discussions featuring research experts from Georgia Tech's College of Computing include (activities listed indate/time order):

• WORKSHOP:Supercomputing, Multicore Architectures and Biomedical Informatics - Monday,Nov. 15, from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.in Room 15
  GeorgiaTech's David A. Bader, professor and executive director of high-performancecomputing at Georgia Tech, is co-chairing this workshop to begin building acommunity of researchers with shared interests in understanding the impact ofemerging architectures on computationally demanding biomedical applications.

• WORKSHOP:Bridging Multicore's Programmability Gap - Monday, Nov. 15, from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Room 16A/16B
  GeorgiaTech's David A. Bader is a speaker in this workshop to address the emerging "Programmability Gap" between multicore-based systems and current languages,compilers and software development techniques.

• PANEL:Can Developing Applications for Massively Parallel Systems with HeterogeneousProcessors Be Made Easy(er)? - Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. in Ballroom G
  GeorgiaTech's David A. Bader is a speaker on this panel that will look at what needsto be done in order to make the application development for massively parallelsystems with heterogeneous processors easier.

• BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER:Exascale Software Challenges - Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. in Room 19A/19B
  GeorgiaTech's David A. Bader will participate in this Birds-of-a-Feather discussion tofocus on understanding challenges and developing promising approaches indeveloping robust, scalable and efficient software to run at exascale.

• BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER:Unleashing the Power of the Cell BE for HPCApplications - Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. in Room 18A/18B/18C/18D
  GeorgiaTech's David A. Bader is leading this Birds-of-a-Feather session to stimulatean open discussion on the techniques and tools that can enable HPC applications to exploit the power of theCell/B.E. multicore processor.

TechnicalPapers/Poster Sessions

Technical papers and poster sessions featuringresearchers from Georgia Tech include (activities listed in date/time order):

• TECHNICALPAPER: Wide-Area Performance Profiling of 10GigE and Infiniband Technologies -presented on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 2 p.m - 2:30 p.m. in Ballroom F
  GeorgiaTech's Jeffrey S. Vetter is a co-author on this paper that presents anexperimental study of two solutions to throughput challenges for wide-areahigh-performance applications.

• TECHNICALPAPER: Dendro: Parallel Algorithms for Multigrid and AMRMethods on 2:1 Balanced Octrees - presented on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 2:30 p.m. - 3 p.m. in Ballroom E
  GeorgiaTech's George Biros and Rahul S. Sampath are co-authors on this article thatpresents Dendro, a suite of parallel algorithms for the discretization andsolution of partial differential equations involving second-order ellipticoperators.

• TECHNICALPAPER: Early Evaluation of BlueGene/P - presented on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 4 p.m - 4:30 p.m. in Ballroom E
  GeorgiaTech's Jeffrey S. Vetter is a co-author on this paper that reports on thescalability and performance of the BlueGene/P - the second-generation BlueGenearchitecture from IBM.

• POSTER: Modeling Assertions forPetascale Applications and Systems - presented on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m in the RotundaLobby
  Georgia Tech's Jeffrey S. Vetter isa co-author on this poster that addresses programming and scaling challenges toemerging Petaflops platforms at the DOE leadership computing sites.

BoothEvents and Activities

Georgia Tech researchers and staff will be onhand at Booth 2821 to demonstrate and discuss the latest innovations inhigh-performance computing research. The Georgia Tech research display willfeature live research presentations, video conversations with Georgia Tech expertsin high performance computing, and an interactive display unlike any other - a virtual field trip to theworld's largest aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium. Utilizing a high bandwidth(1Gbps) channel connecting the Aquarium to the SC08 show floor, visitors to theGeorgia Tech booth will be able to interact with researchers, fish and othermarine creatures live through this one-of-a-kind tradeshow experience. Additionalevents and activities include:

• PRESENTATION: Sony-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence for the Cell BroadbandEngine Processor - presented by David A. Bader on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 1 p.m.- 2 p.m. at Booth 2821
• PRESENTATION: High PerformanceComputing and Grid Computing for Large Scale Data Analysis and Integration -presented by Joel Saltz, Tony Pan, Tashin Kurc and Ashish Sharma on Tuesday,Nov. 18, from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.at Booth 2821
• PRESENTATION: Financial Modeling onthe Cell Broadband Engine - presented by Virat Agarwal on Tuesday, Nov. 18,from 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. atBooth 2821
• PRESENTATION: ConcurrentCollections: A Model for Parallel Programming - presented by Aparna Chandramowlishwaran on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. at Booth 2821
• PRESENTATION: Dynamics ofInextensible Vesicles Suspended in a Two-Dimensional Stokes Flow - presented byAbtinRahimian on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 5 p.m. - 6p.m. at Booth 2821
• PRESENTATION: On the Design of FastPseudo-Random Number Generators for the Cell Broadband Engine and anApplication to Risk Analysis - presented by Aparna Chandramowlishwaran on Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. at Booth 2821
• PRESENTATION: Dendro: ParallelAlgorithms for Multigrid and AMRMethods on 2:1 Balanced Octrees - presented by Rahul Sampath on Wednesday, Nov.19, from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. at Booth 2821
• PRESENTATION:Optimizing Discrete Wavelet Transform on the Cell Broadband Engine - presentedby Seunghwa Kang on Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. at Booth 2821
• PRESENTATION:Kernel-Independent Fast Multipole Method with Scalable Octree Construction -presented by Ilya Lashuk on Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. at Booth2821
• PRESENTATION:Numerical Relativity and XiRel: One SC Application - presented by Deirdre Shoemakeron Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. at Booth 2821
• PRESENTATION: Large-Scale GraphProblems on the Cray XMT - presented by David Ediger on Wednesday, Nov. 19,from 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. atBooth 2821
• PRESENTATION: Multi-Threaded MaximumFlow Algorithm on Shared-Memory Platforms - presented by Bo Hong on Wednesday,Nov. 19, from 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. at Booth 2821
• VIDEO INTERVIEW: Jeffrey Skolnick,professor and director, Center for the Study of Systems Biology talks about histeam's development of tools for the prediction of protein structure andfunction from sequence, functional genomics, automatic assignment of enzymes tometabolic pathways, and prediction of protein structure and folding pathways.
• VIDEO INTERVIEW: Haesun Park,professor and associate chair, Division of Computational Science andEngineering, discusses her work in massive data analytics as part of the $3million Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics (FODAVA) award Dr. Park andher team won from the National Science Foundation and the Department ofHomeland Security.
• VIDEO INTERVIEW: Uzi Landman, Regents'professor and Fuller E. Callaway Chair in Computational Materials Science, willtalk about his work at the nanoscale.
• VIDEO INTERVIEW: Pablo Laguna,professor and director, Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, shares theimportance and impact of supercomputing on the study of black holes in order toprove Einstein's theory of relativity.
• VIDEO INTERVIEW: Karsten Schwan,professor and director, Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems,will talk about the emergence and impact of exascale computing both directlyand indirectly on everyday life.

SC08 Leadership Activities

• GeorgiaTech's David A. Bader is co-chairing the SC08's Biomedical InformaticsTechnology Thrust with Joel Saltz of Emory University.
• DavidA. Bader, Kalyan Perumulla (Adjunct of the Computation Science and Engineering(CSE) division), Ada Gavrilovska, and Karsten Schwan, serve on the SC08Technical Program Committee.
• JeffreyVetter is a member of the SC08 Tutorials Committee and Disruptive TechnologiesCommittee.
• ThomasZacharia is the Invited Speakers chair.
• FourGeorgia Tech CSE graduate students are serving as SC08 Student Volunteers:Swathi Bhat, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Manisha Gajbe, and Seunghwa Kang.
• CSEVisiting Professor Zhihui Du (Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China),awarded a conference participation grant through the SC08 Broader Engagements(BE) Program

About the Georgia Instituteof Technology

The GeorgiaInstitute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities.Ranked seventh among U.S.News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech'smore than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture,Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is amongthe nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. TheInstitute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduatestudents and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the GeorgiaTech Research Institute.

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For more information, contact:
Stefany Wilson
Georgia Tech College of Computing
404.894.7253
stefany@cc.gatech.edu