As you know, XSEDE is an NSF-funded digital services project that helps researchers and scientists do their work more effectively and efficiently. XSEDE allows for free access to some of the nation’s fastest supercomputers and most knowledgeable help staff.

Last summer’s XSEDE’13 saw more than 700 attendees from all 50 states and 14 countries attend the conference in San Diego. We expect more in Atlanta, especially with so many great area universities, colleges and institutions. With our theme “Engaging Communities,” we encourage both traditional users of digital resources (researchers, students, post-docs in traditional sciences)  and those who haven’t historically used these resources (humanities, economics, art). Students are strongly encouraged to participate and can find various ways to engage with the conference.

The Call for Participation is out and the first deadline is fast approaching: March 15 papers and abstracts are due. Visit here for more deadlines: https://conferences.xsede.org/xsede14/call-for-participation#Key%20dates

Greetings all,

XSEDE14 is coming up soon, and has issued their call for participation.  Please note that this conference is being held in Atlanta!

Selected papers from all tracks will be invited to extend the manuscripts to be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal of Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience.  Papers accepted for the “Education, Outreach, and Training” track will be invited to extend the manuscripts for publication in the Journal of Computational Science Education.

Abstracts are due March 15.  Please see https://www.xsede.org/xsede14 for further information.

Speaker:         Peter Wang, co-Founder of Continuum Analytics

Date:                 Friday, October 18, 2013

Location:        Klaus 1447

Time:                 2-3pm

 

Abstract:
While Python has been a popular and powerful language for scientific computing for a while now, its future in the broader data analytics realm is less clear, especially as market forces and technological innovation are rapidly transforming the field.

In this talk, Peter will introduce some new perspectives on “Big Data” and the evolution of programming languages, and present his thesis that Python has a central role to play in the future of not just scientific computing, but in analytics and even computing in general. As part of the discussion, many new libraries, tools, and technologies will be discussed (both Python and non-Python), both to understand why they exist and where they are driving technical evolution.

Bio:
Peter holds a B.A. in Physics from Cornell University and has been developing applications professionally using Python since 2001. Before co-founding Continuum Analytics in 2011, Peter spent seven years at Enthought designing and developing applications for a variety of companies, including investment bankers, high-frequency trading firms, oil companies, and others. In 2007, Peter was named Director of Technical Architecture and served as client liaison on high-profile projects. Peter also developed Chaco, an open-source, Python-based toolkit for interactive data visualization. Peter’s roles at Continuum Analytics include product design and development, software management, business strategy, and training.

Here’a note from Siva Hariharan, COMSOL Inc., which we thought you might be interested in:

You’re invited to a free workshop focusing on the simulation capabilities of COMSOL Multiphysics. Two identical workshops will take place on Tuesday, September 10th in Atlanta, GA. There will be one AM session and one PM session. All attendees will receive a free two-week trial of the software.

During the workshop you will:

– Learn the fundamental modeling steps in COMSOL Multiphysics

– Experience a live multiphysics simulation example

– Set up and solve a simulation through a hands-on exercise

– Learn about the capabilities of COMSOL within your application area

 

Programs:

AM Session

9:30am – 10:45am An Overview of the Software

10:45am – 11:00am Coffee Break

11:00am – 12:30pm Hands-on Tutorial

 

PM Session

1:30pm – 2:45pm An Overview of the Software

2:45pm – 3:00pm Coffee Break

3:00pm – 4:30pm Hands-on Tutorial

 

Event details and registration: http://comsol.com/c/tt1

 

Seating is limited, so advance registration is recommended. 

Feel free to contact me with any questions.

 

Best regards,

Siva Hariharan

COMSOL, Inc.

1 New England Executive Park

Suite 350

Burlington, MA 01803

781-273-3322

siva@comsol.com

PACE sponsoring HPC Townhall

What could you do with over 25,000 computer cores? Join faculty and students at the April 30 High Performance Computing Town Hall to find out. The event will be held in the MaRC auditorium and is sponsored by PACE, Georgia Tech’s Advanced Computing Environment program.

When: April 30, 3-5pm
Where: MaRC Auditorium (Map to location)

Overview

PACE provides researchers with a robust computing platform that enables faculty and students to carry out research initiatives without the burden of maintaining infrastructure, software, and dedicated technicians. The program’s services are managed by OIT’s Academic & Research Technologies department and include physical hosting, system management infrastructure, high-speed scratch storage, home directory space, commodity networking, and common HPC software such as RedHat Enterprise Linux, VASP, LAMMPS, BLAST, Matlab, Mathematica, and Ansys Fluent. Various compilers, math libraries and other middleware is available for those who author their own codes.  All of these resources are designed and offered with the specific intention of combining intellect with efficiency, in order to advance the research presence here at Tech to the peak of its abilities.

There are many ways to participate with PACE.  With a common infrastructure, we support clusters dedicated to individual PIs or research groups, clusters that are shared amongst participants and our FoRCE Research Computing Environment (aka “The FoRCE”).  The FoRCE is available to all campus users via a merit-based proposal mechanism.

The April 30 HPC Town Hall is open to members of the Tech research community and will feature presentations on the successes and challenges that PACE is currently experiencing, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.

For more information on the PACE program, visit the official website at www.pace.gatech.edu, and also the program’s blog at blog.pace.gatech.edu.

Agenda (To Be Finalized Soon)

• Message from Georgia Tech’s CTO Ron Hutchins
• Message from PACE’s director Neil Bright
• Lightning Talks By Faculty
• Discussion around technologies and capabilities currently under investigation by PACE
• Panel Discussion regarding future directions for PACE
• Question and Answer Session

Dear PACE community,

We are happy to announce the first of the Debugging and Profiling Workshop that will take place on 03/21/2013 1pm-5pm, in the Old Rich Building Conference Room (ITDC 242).

If your code is crashing, hanging, producing inaccurate results, or running unbearably slow, you *do* want to be there. We will go over text and GUI based tools that are available on the PACE clusters, including gdb, valgrind, DDT, gprof, PAPI and TAU. There will be hands-on examples, so bring your laptop if you can, although it is not mandatory.

If you bring a laptop to follow the hands-on examples, please make sure that you have:

• An active PACE account with access to one of the RHEL6 queues
• Access to “GTwifi”
• A terminal client to login (PuTTy for windows, Terminal for Mac)
• A text editor that you are comfortable with (Vim, Emacs, nano, …)

Don’t worry if your laptop is not configured to access the PACE clusters. I will be in the conference room half an hour early to help you prepare for the session. Just show up a bit early with your laptop, and we will take care of the rest together 🙂

Please RSVP (to mehmet.belgin@oit.gatech.edu) by 03/19/2003 and include your GT username. Your RSVP will guarantee a seat and printed out copies of the course material. You will also be able to fetch an electronic copy (including all the slides and codes) anytime by running a simple command on the cluster (we will do that during the class).

Here’s the full schedule:

• 12:30pm -> 1:00pm : (Optional) Help session to make sure your laptop is ready for the workshop
•  1:00pm -> 2:45pm : Debugging session (gdb, valgrind, DDT)
•  2:45pm -> 3:15pm : Break
•  3:15pm -> 5:00pm : Profiling session (gprof, PAPI, TAU )

The location is the Old Rich Building, ATDC conference room, #242. The google knows us as “258 4th Street“. We are right across the Clough Commons Building.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Mathworks is offering us a very interesting webinar:

“Parallel Computing with MATLAB on Multicore Desktops and GPUs ”

Friday, March 30, 2012

2:00 PM EDT

REGISTER NOW

In this webinar we introduce how using Parallel Computing Toolbox you can fully leverage the computing power available on your desktop through multicore processors and GPUs.

Through demonstrations you will learn how with minimal changes to your code you can speed up your MATLAB based data analysis, design and simulation work.

The webinar will last approximately 60 minutes. A Q&A session will follow the presentation and demos.

Register here

Mathworks contact:

Jamie Winter

508-647-7463

jamie.winter@mathworks.com