Research Computing Week 2017

Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing hosted a week-long series of events June 5-9, 2017 at the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB) at Texas A&M University to introduce the A&M research community to computing and data resources and expertise available to support research, and, for advanced users, to provide additional training.

The week started with morning and afternoon workshops on a variety of topics on using local and national research computing resources, and ended with a Symposium on Thursday and Friday presenting talks and posters about best practices in computing and data intensive research, and national perspectives on building cyberinfrastructure capacity in the U.S. A Reception and Poster Session was held on late Thursday afternoon.

Talks

Keynote Talks

• NSF’s Computing and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) Research and Cyberinfrastructure Priorities
  Irene Qualters (Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CISE/ACI), National Science Foundation)
• From Engineer to SVP, The Long and Winding Road
  Florence Hudson (Internet2)

Research Talks

• Secure Data Infrastructure on the Cloud for Population Informatics
  Professor Hye-Chung Kum (TAMU)
• Enhancing Roadway Safety Using HPRC: Recent Case Studies
  Dr. Akram Abu-Odeh (TTI)
• Simulating the Space Radiation Environment for more Accurate Ground-Based Radiobiology Outcomes
  Jeff Chancellor (TAMU)
• Computational Insights into the Inhibition or Exploitation of Biomolecular Self-Assembly
  Professor Phanourios Tamamis (TAMU)
• Collaborative Research with SIMULOCEAN Science Gateway
  Dr. Jian Tao (TAMU)
• Population Annealing: An Efficient Sampling and Optimization Algorithm
  Dr. Wenlong Wang (TAMU)

Vendor Talks

• NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Lecture:  Deep Learning Demystified
  Dr. Josh Park and Dr. Rohit Taneja (NVIDIA)
• IBM Servers Technology and High Performance data analytics
  Terry Leatherland and Chris Mann (IBM)
• Deep Learning with IBM Power 8/9 and NVIDIA P100 GPUs
  Terry Leatherland (IBM) and Rojit Taneja (NVIDIA)
• IBM Storage Technologies and the Meta-ocean project
  Dr. Frank Lee (IBM)
• IBM Research - Bluemix and Watson API for Text Analytics and Native language processing
  Daniel Toczala (IBM)
• Deep Learning Lifecycle
  Bhavesh Patel, Server Advanced Engineering (Dell EMC)
• Code Modernization and Software Defined Visualization
  Jeff Amstutz, Software Engineer (Intel Corporation)

Tutorials

• Introduction to Linux for Scientific Computing
  Derek Rodriguez (TAMU HPRC)
• Introduction to HPRC Clusters Ada and Terra
  Mark Huang (TAMU HPRC)
• Introduction to Parallel Computing using MPI and OpenMP on Ada and Terra.
  Marinus Pennings (TAMU HPRC)
• Introduction to Python
  Yang Liu (TAMU HPRC)
• Introduction to Python for Scientific Programming
  Yang Liu (TAMU HPRC)
• Data Literacy and Data Management
  Rick McMullen (TAMU HPRC)

Workshops

• Using Abaqus CAE to build and simulate models using finite element methods
  DI Yuan (SIMULIA)
• Using TOSCA to optimize a part’s physical shape and material properties
  DI Yuan (SIMULIA)
• Introduction to Data Analytics and Machine Learning using MATLAB
  Saket Kharsikar (MathWorks)
• MATLAB Code Optimization
  Saket Kharsikar (MathWorks)