{"51145":{"#nid":"51145","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Enters the Spotlight at Supercomputing Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGEORGIA TECH ENTERS\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTHE SPOTLIGHT AT SC08\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EPanel discussions,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nworkshops, technical papers and creative booth displays round out significant\u003Cbr \/\u003E\npresence at leading high-performance computing conference\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EATLANTA \u2013 November\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n 11, 2008 \u2013 The Georgia Institute of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTechnology, an emerging leader in high-performance computing research and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\neducation, will\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncommand a significant presence at next week\u0027s SC08, the international\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nconference on high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis scheduled\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nfor Nov. 15-21, 2008,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nat the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Tech will co-chair one workshop, participate in four panel (or \u0022Birds-of-a-Feather\u0022)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ndiscussions, present three technical papers and one research poster, and host\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n16 booth presentations and video interviews on emerging high-performance\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncomputing projects and application areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022At Georgia Tech, we believe a strong and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nexpansive high-performance computing research community drives the bigger\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nscientific discoveries and better engineering capabilities at the heart of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nhuman progress,\u0022 said Dr. Mark Allen, senior vice provost for Research and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInnovation at Georgia Tech. \u0022Through this premier industry event, researchers,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nacademics and industry professionals have the opportunity to discuss and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ndemonstrate new innovations and breakthroughs in high-impact areas such as\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nbiomedicine, nanoscience, astrophysics and exascale computing. Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nwelcomes SC08 attendees to visit our booth, meet our researchers, observe our\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nwork and understand our mission to positively affect quality of life through advanced\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncomputing capabilities.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETechnical\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWorkshops\/Panels\/Birds-of-a-Feather\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETechnical workshops, panels and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBirds-of-a-Feather discussions featuring research experts from Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing include (activities listed in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ndate\/time order):\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWORKSHOP:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSupercomputing, Multicore Architectures and Biomedical Informatics \u2013 Monday,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNov. 15, from 8:30 a.m. \u2013 5 p.m.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nin Room 15\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech\u0027s David A. Bader, professor and executive director of high-performance\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncomputing at Georgia Tech, is co-chairing this workshop to begin building a\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncommunity of researchers with shared interests in understanding the impact of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nemerging architectures on computationally demanding biomedical applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWORKSHOP:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBridging Multicore\u0027s Programmability Gap \u2013 Monday, Nov. 15, from 8:30 a.m. \u2013 5 p.m. in Room 16A\/16B\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech\u0027s David A. Bader is a speaker in this workshop to address the emerging \u0022Programmability Gap\u0022 between multicore-based systems and current languages,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncompilers and software development techniques.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPANEL:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCan Developing Applications for Massively Parallel Systems with Heterogeneous\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProcessors Be Made Easy(er)? \u2013 Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 3:30 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m. in Ballroom G\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech\u0027s David A. Bader is a speaker on this panel that will look at what needs\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nto be done in order to make the application development for massively parallel\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nsystems with heterogeneous processors easier.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nExascale Software Challenges - Tuesday,\u00a0Nov. 18, from 5:30 p.m. \u2013 7 p.m. in Room 19A\/19B\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech\u0027s David A. Bader will participate in this Birds-of-a-Feather discussion to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nfocus on understanding challenges and developing promising approaches in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ndeveloping robust, scalable and efficient software to run at exascale.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUnleashing the Power of the Cell BE for HPC\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nApplications \u2013 Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 12:15\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n p.m. \u2013 1:15 p.m. in Room 18A\/18B\/18C\/18D\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech\u0027s David A. Bader is leading this Birds-of-a-Feather session to stimulate\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nan open discussion on the techniques and tools that can enable HPC applications to exploit the power of the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCell\/B.E. multicore processor.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETechnical\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPapers\/Poster Sessions\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETechnical papers and poster sessions featuring\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nresearchers from Georgia Tech include (activities listed in date\/time order):\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETECHNICAL\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPAPER: Wide-Area Performance Profiling of 10GigE and Infiniband Technologies \u2013\u003Cbr \/\u003E\npresented on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 2 p.m\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n \u2013 2:30 p.m. in Ballroom F\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech\u0027s Jeffrey S. Vetter is a co-author on this paper that presents an\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nexperimental study of two solutions to throughput challenges for wide-area\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nhigh-performance applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETECHNICAL\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPAPER: Dendro: Parallel Algorithms for Multigrid and AMR\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMethods on 2:1 Balanced Octrees \u2013 presented on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 2:30 p.m. \u2013 3 p.m. in Ballroom E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech\u0027s George Biros and Rahul S. Sampath are co-authors on this article that\u003Cbr \/\u003E\npresents Dendro, a suite of parallel algorithms for the discretization and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nsolution of partial differential equations involving second-order elliptic\u003Cbr \/\u003E\noperators.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETECHNICAL\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPAPER: Early Evaluation of BlueGene\/P \u2013 presented on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 4 p.m \u2013 4:30 p.m. in Ballroom E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech\u0027s Jeffrey S. Vetter is a co-author on this paper that reports on the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nscalability and performance of the BlueGene\/P \u2013 the second-generation BlueGene\u003Cbr \/\u003E\narchitecture from IBM.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPOSTER: Modeling Assertions for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPetascale Applications and Systems \u2013 presented on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 5:15 p.m. \u2013 7 p.m in the Rotunda\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLobby\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Jeffrey S. Vetter is\u003Cbr \/\u003E\na co-author on this poster that addresses programming and scaling challenges to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nemerging Petaflops platforms at the DOE leadership computing sites.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBooth\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEvents and Activities\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers and staff will be on\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nhand at Booth 2821 to demonstrate and discuss the latest innovations in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nhigh-performance computing research. The Georgia Tech research display will\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nfeature live research presentations, video conversations with Georgia Tech experts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nin high performance computing, and an interactive display unlike any other \u2013 a virtual field trip to the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nworld\u2019s largest aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium. Utilizing a high bandwidth\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(1Gbps) channel connecting the Aquarium to the SC08 show floor, visitors to the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Tech booth will be able to interact with researchers, fish and other\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nmarine creatures live through this one-of-a-kind tradeshow experience. Additional\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nevents and activities include:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EPRESENTATION: Sony-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Broadband\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEngine Processor \u2013 presented by David A. Bader on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 1 p.m.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u2013 2 p.m. at Booth 2821\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nPRESENTATION: High Performance\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nComputing and Grid Computing for Large Scale Data Analysis and Integration \u2013\u003Cbr \/\u003E\npresented by Joel Saltz, Tony Pan, Tashin Kurc and Ashish Sharma on Tuesday,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNov. 18, from 2 p.m. \u2013 3 p.m.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nat Booth 2821\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nPRESENTATION: Financial Modeling on\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nthe Cell Broadband Engine \u2013 presented by Virat Agarwal on Tuesday, Nov. 18,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nfrom 3 p.m. \u2013 4 p.m. at\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBooth 2821\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nPRESENTATION: Concurrent\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCollections: A Model for Parallel Programming \u2013 presented by Aparna Chandramowlishwaran on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 4 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m. at Booth 2821\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nPRESENTATION: Dynamics of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInextensible Vesicles Suspended in a Two-Dimensional Stokes Flow \u2013 presented by\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAbtin\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRahimian on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 5 p.m. \u2013 6\u003Cbr \/\u003E\np.m. at Booth 2821\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nPRESENTATION: On the Design of Fast\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPseudo-Random Number Generators for the Cell Broadband Engine and an\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nApplication to Risk Analysis \u2013 presented by Aparna Chandramowlishwaran on Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 10 a.m. \u2013 11 a.m. at Booth 2821\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nPRESENTATION: Dendro: Parallel\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAlgorithms for Multigrid and AMR\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMethods on 2:1 Balanced Octrees \u2013 presented by Rahul Sampath on Wednesday, Nov.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n19, from 11 a.m. \u2013 12 p.m. at Booth 2821\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nPRESENTATION:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOptimizing Discrete Wavelet Transform on the Cell Broadband Engine \u2013 presented\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nby Seunghwa Kang on Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 12 p.m. \u2013 1 p.m. at Booth 2821\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nPRESENTATION:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKernel-Independent Fast Multipole Method with Scalable Octree Construction \u2013\u003Cbr \/\u003E\npresented by Ilya Lashuk on Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 1 p.m. \u2013 2 p.m. at Booth\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n2821\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nPRESENTATION:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNumerical Relativity and XiRel: One SC Application \u2013 presented by Deirdre Shoemaker\u003Cbr \/\u003E\non Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 2 p.m. \u2013 3\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n p.m. at Booth 2821\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nPRESENTATION: Large-Scale Graph\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProblems on the Cray XMT \u2013 presented by David Ediger on Wednesday, Nov. 19,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nfrom 3 p.m. \u2013 4 p.m. at\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBooth 2821\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nPRESENTATION: Multi-Threaded Maximum\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFlow Algorithm on Shared-Memory Platforms \u2013 presented by Bo Hong on Wednesday,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNov. 19, from 4 p.m. \u2013 5 p.m. at Booth 2821\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nVIDEO INTERVIEW: Jeffrey Skolnick,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nprofessor and director, Center for the Study of Systems Biology talks about his\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nteam\u0027s development of tools for the prediction of protein structure and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nfunction from sequence, functional genomics, automatic assignment of enzymes to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nmetabolic pathways, and prediction of protein structure and folding pathways.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\nVIDEO INTERVIEW: Haesun Park,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nprofessor and associate chair, Division of Computational Science and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEngineering, discusses her work in massive data analytics as part of the $3\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nmillion Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics (FODAVA) award Dr. Park and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nher team won from the National Science Foundation and the Department of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHomeland Security.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EVIDEO INTERVIEW: Uzi Landman, Regents\u0027\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nprofessor and Fuller E. Callaway Chair in Computational Materials Science, will\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ntalk about his work at the nanoscale.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EVIDEO INTERVIEW: Pablo Laguna,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nprofessor and director, Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, shares the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nimportance and impact of supercomputing on the study of black holes in order to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nprove Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity. \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EVIDEO INTERVIEW: Karsten Schwan,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nprofessor and director, Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nwill talk about the emergence and impact of exascale computing both directly\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nand indirectly on everyday life.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESC08 Leadership Activities\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EGeorgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech\u0027s David A. Bader is co-chairing the SC08\u0027s Biomedical Informatics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTechnology Thrust with Joel Saltz of Emory\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n University.\u00a0 \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EDavid\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA. Bader, Kalyan Perumulla (Adjunct of the Computation Science and Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(CSE) division), Ada Gavrilovska, and Karsten Schwan, serve on the SC08\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTechnical Program Committee. \u00a0\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EJeffrey\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nVetter is a member of the SC08 Tutorials Committee and Disruptive Technologies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCommittee.\u00a0 \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThomas\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nZacharia is the Invited Speakers chair. \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EFour\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Tech CSE graduate students are serving as SC08 Student Volunteers:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSwathi Bhat, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Manisha Gajbe, and Seunghwa Kang.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u00a0\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ECSE\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nVisiting Professor Zhihui Du (Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China),\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nawarded a conference participation grant through the SC08 Broader Engagements\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(BE) Program\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nof Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInstitute of Technology is one of the nation\u0027s premier research universities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRanked seventh among \u003Cem\u003EU.S.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNews \u0026amp; World Report\u0027s\u003C\/em\u003E top public universities, Georgia Tech\u0027s\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nmore than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nComputing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nthe nation\u0027s top producers of women and African-American engineers. The\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInstitute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nstudents and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTech Research Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E###\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFor more information, contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStefany Wilson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n College of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n404.894.7253\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stefany@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Estefany@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EATLANTA (November\n11, 2008)\u2014The Georgia Institute of Technology will command a significant presence at\nnext week\u2019s SC08, the international conference on high-performance computing,\nnetworking, storage and analysis being held Nov. 15-21 at the Austin Convention\nCenter in Austin, Texas. 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