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Summer training to the extreme
Applications are now being accepted for two noteworthy summer training programs in Chicago aimed at cultivating future computational scientists. Both opportunities offer intensive, hands-on training on multiple topics, and access to leading experts currently working in the extreme-scale computing space.
BigDataX is a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site in Chicago. The program has four mentors at two institutions, IIT and University of Chicago, with a variety of complementing expertise from theory to programming languages to distributed systems. Deadline March 17, 2015.
Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) is Argonne’s intensive two-week summer training program on extreme-scale computing. Doctoral students, postdocs, and computational scientists interested in conducting CS&E research on large-scale computers are encouraged to apply. Deadline April 3, 2015.
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Happy New Year!
New Frontiers in Leadership Computing, part two of the CiSE Special Issue on Leadership Computing, is out and features four more boundary-pushing examples of research at the high-end of scientific computing: a scalable solver for aerospace industry work, a novel method to model geological flow and transport processes, recent modeling advances in the domain of accelerator science, and a look at optimizations made to two features of a laser-plasma interaction code that enable scaling to a million or more processes.
Guest editing this special issue has been especially gratifying and was made possible by the enthusiasm and support of several individuals, including CiSE Editor-in-Chief George Thiruvathukal, who championed this topic from the start. I’m pleased to announce that Jim Hack and I will continue serving in this capacity in 2015. We will use our column space to explore topics such as training the new generation of HPC users and what’s going to be inside the next-generation of DOE leadership machines. I’m excited to be part of this editorial team and look forward to the coming year.
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Enter the parallel workflow
Experimentalists from all over the world visit Argonne each year to use the ultra-bright X-ray photon beams produced here to peer inside materials. Research teams with beamline reservations, or ‘beamtime,’ are expected to set up, calibrate the detector, and man their experiments round-the-clock for days at a stretch. Any problem with the experimental setup is revealed only during the analysis phase, often rendering the entire dataset useless. Even a seemingly minor thing like a bad cable can cause terabytes of useless data. That’s a problem.
A recent collaborative effort involving high-performance computing is giving beamline users the ability to conduct fast ‘in-beam’ analysis of their initial data so that they can find and correct problems early on. Here’s a recent story about how computational methods and infrastructure at Argonne are boosting beamline performance and accelerating discoveries in materials science.
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IEEE VIS 2015 — We have a venue!
In 2015, IEEE VIS will be held in Chicago for the first time ever. One of my first duties as general chair for VIS 2015 was to help secure the venue — and I’m delighted to announce that we now officially have one: The Palmer House Hilton.
VIS is the premier annual forum for visualization advances. Chicago is a world-class city full of cultural monuments, modern spectacles, parks and promenades. I think it is the perfect spot to host one of the largest and most important annual gatherings of researchers and industry professionals who specialize in the visual analysis of data.
I’m also extremely pleased that I will be working with Maxine Brown, director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Maxine has been engaged in the visualization community for decades and has co-chaired some of the most exciting advanced computing demonstrations and events in the world.
This November Maxine and I will attend VIS 2014 in Paris to fully immerse ourselves in as many sessions, presentations, and workshops as possible. Current general chair Jean-Daniel Fekete is overseeing what promises to be the highest attended VIS yet. I’ve had the opportunity to participate in several organizing committee meetings and can see the final program coming together in very exciting ways.
I’m pleased to announce that Jim Hack and I will be co-editing a special issue of Computing in Science & Engineering magazine on the topic of leadership computing, to be published in fall 2014. The goal of this issue is to explore how leadership computing is being effectively used to support real-world science and engineering applications. The topics of interest and submission guidelines can be found on the CiSE website.