National Center for Computational Sciences

When: April 11-12, 2008
Where: American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE), Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Conference Overview

Students will submit abstracts, papers, and/or posters in a manner similar to any peer reviewed conference. Individual students will then present those papers at a conference hosted by the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The presentations will be appraised by volunteers and made available to the students. The conference and appraisals are intended to provide an educational experience to the students. All student papers will be accepted and reviewed to provide feedback to the students.

Note, student papers are encouraged but not strictly required. A presentation based on a student’s abstract would be sufficient for this conference. However, students will receive the maximum education benefit through paper submission.

A workshop on parallel programming models will be held on April 11 in conjunction with this workshop.

Presentations and Posters

• DSRG Poster
• High-Performance Computing for Sensory Data Analysis in Disaster Management: A Simulated Approach
• Data-Mining of Medline Abstracts Revisited
• Privacy Policy Model for Sharing of Provenance Information in a Query Based System
• Network Parameter Tuning
• Network Embedded Sensor Testbed
• Robust and Load Balanced Computing in Heterogeneous Environment
• Parallel Automatic Galaxy Collision: Distributed Modeling and Analysis with Genetic Algorithms
• A Crash Course in Supercomputing
• GLHRP: Generalized Latency Hiding by Redundant Processing

Agenda

Subject to change.

April 11: Tutorial Session

8:00 Breakfast - Open discussion forum with students
8:30 Welcome address
9:00 Overview of Parallel Concepts & Architecture, Rebecca Hartman-Baker
9:45 Break
10:00 MPI
10:45 Break
11:00 Makefiles and Batch Scripts
12:00 Lunch - Working lunch to discuss role of high performance computing in education
1:30 OpenMP
2:15 Break
2:30 Debugging and Performance Evalutation
3:15 Break
3:30 Coding Example
4:30 Questions & Answers
5:00 Adjourn

April 12: Student Presentations
8:00 Working breakfast to discuss education opportunities with students

8:30 “Secret Cities and Supercomputers: Oak Ridge Then and Now”, Robert Whitten Jr.

9:15 “An Overview of Provenance Collection in Workflow Systems and a Privacy Policy Model to Share the Information”, Meiyappan Nagappan

9:45 “Generalized Latency Hiding by Redundant Processing”, Jeremy Villalobos

10:15 “Parallel Automatic Galaxy Collision: Distributed Modelling and Analysis with Genetic Algorithms”, Derrick Southerland & Dinakar Manchikalapudi & Chris Carver

10:45 Tour of NCCS

12:30 Lunch - Working lunch to discuss role of high performance computing in education

1:30 “Data-mining of medicine abstracts”, Stanley Iriele

2:00 “High-Performance Computing for Sensory Data Analysis in Disaster Management: A Simulated Approach”, Antwi Bobbie & Willis Clonts

2:30 {Awaiting title}, Shamant Sampth

3:00 Break

3:30 Poster - NePTune: Network Parameter Tuning

3:50 Poster - NESTbed: Network Embedded Sensor Testbed

4:10 Poster - DSRG: Dependable Systems Research Group

4:30 Careers in High Performance Computing: Q&A Session with NCCS staff

5:00 Adjourn

Audience

The intended audience is undergraduate, graduate, and post doctorial students from southeastern universities. Students with backgrounds in computer science, computational science, engineering, or computational engineering are encouraged to participate. Faculty members are encouraged to attend as well.

The intent of the tutorial session is to provide an introduction to current parallel programming models for faculty and students. MPI and OpenMP are two of the more popular paradigms seen in applications at the NCCS. The goal of the tutorial session is to provide information that educators can incorporate into their curricula as well as provide students with a foundation in the basics of parallel programming.

Advantages of Conference

• Students will learn how to prepare and present research at conferences
• Published works will boost resume appeal
• Students get exposure to the HPC environment
• Students can learn from others’ presentations/works
• Students will be exposed to internship/employment opportunities

HPCACon Steering Committee

Volunteers from area universities are needed to participate in the HPCACon Steering Committee. It is intended that HPCACon will be a recurring event and the steering committee will be responsible for outlining the organization and future directions of HPCACon. Interested parties should contact Robert Whitten at whittenrm1@ornl.gov.