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Visit us at Booth 2135!
At the 2009 Supercomputing (SC) Conference being held in Portland, Oregon November 14-20, CACR will be highlighting our research in computational biology, computing and networking for high-energy physics, data analysis for neutron scattering experiments, hypervelocity impact simulations, and time-domain astronomy. The SC Conference is the premier international conference for high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis.
Among the demonstrations at the CACR exhibit will be the Caltech entry in SC’s Bandwidth Challenge. The Bandwidth Challenge is an annual competition for leading-edge network applications developed by teams of researchers from around the globe. The Caltech entry for this year’s challenge is entitled Moving towards Terabit/sec Scientific Dataset Transfers: the LHC Challenge. This entry will demonstrate Storage to Storage physics dataset transfers of up to 100 Gbps sustained in one direction, and well above 100 Gbps in total bidirectionally, using a total of fifteen 10Gbps drops at the Caltech Booth.
Caltech’s PSAAP center will be represented in the NNSA exhibit as one of five centers of excellence focusing on predictive science. A talk entitled, “UQ Pipeline Ballistic Impact Simulations – Methods and Experiences”, will be given by Sharon Brunett in the NNSA exhibit (Booth 735) on Tuesday, November 17 at 5:15PM.
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Below is a list of recent publications and presentations added to CACR’s publications list. See the full list here. You can subscribe to get notifications of new publications either via our RSS feed or the CACR Twitter feed.
Enabling Computational Plant Development: From Confocal Images to Finite Element Simulations
In Computational Methods in Image Analysis, 10th US National Congress of Computational Mechanics, Columbus, Ohio, USA, July 16 – 19 2009
Alexandre Cunha
Computation for Chip-seq and RNA-seq studies
Nature Methods, to appear.
Shirley Pepke, Barbara Wold, and Ali Mortazavi
Whole-volume integrated gyrokinetic simulation of plasma turbulence in realistic diverted-tokamak geometry
SciDAC 2009, Journal of Physics: Conference Series. J Phys: Conf Ser 180 (2009) 012057.
C S Chang, S Ku, P Diamond, M Adams, R Barreto, Y Chen, J Cummings, E D’Azevedo, G Dif-Pradalier, S Ethier, L Greengard, T S Hahm, F Hinton, D Keyes, S Klasky, Z Lin, J Lofstead, G Park, S Parker, N Podhorszki, K Schwan, A Shoshani, D Silver, M Wolf, P Worley, H Weitzner, E Yoon and D Zorin
Engineering Computational Science and Engineering
Presentation/Lecture (given at Lousiana State University, Caltech, and the Institute for Defense Analysis, MD)
Mark Stalzer
First results from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey
2009, ApJ, in press (arXiv:0809.1394)
Drake A.J., Djorgovski S.G., Mahabal A., Beshore E., Larson S., Graham M.J., Williams R., Christensen R., Catelan M., Boattini A., Gibbs A., Hill R., Kowalski R.
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CACR is pleased to announce an award of $479,100 from the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure for the Skyalert project. Skyalert is an event-driven system to understand and disseminate events that are created from real-time sensors, such as astronomical telescopes that repeatedly scan the sky for change. The number of these astronomical transient detections will grow enormously over the next few years, and rapid follow-up observation will be the key to discovery. This will come from big observatories, small college observatories, and amateur astronomers. Skyalert delivers events from the Catalina Real Time Survey and the NASA SWIFT and Fermi observatories, as well as a dozen other projects that detect astronomical transients. Examples of such transients include supernovae, cataclysmic variables, gamma-ray bursts, blazar eruption, planetary microlensing, and other exciting astrophysics.
Skyalert delivers events in real time via email, Twitter, instant message, and other protocols to observatories that can do rapid follow-up — some completely automatically with no human in the loop. Other event-driven actions can include fetching data to build a data portfolio, and running machine-learning algorithms and classification rules to make better automatic decisions. The intention is for automated systems to make real-time intelligent decisions. Skyalert uses an international standard, VOEvent, enabling participation in the global event infrastructure, exchanging events with other event brokers, such as NASA’s GCN.
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Important Information for SHC Users
As of Sept 8, 2009, SHC has been transitioned to the new sw stack (RHEL+OpenIB). There are currently 115 core4 nodes and 65 core8 nodes, in production. For more information, please visit the SHC Getting Started / System Guide.
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Wednesday, Sept 9, 2009
11:00 AM in 120 Powell Booth
Melaine Stefan
Computational Neurobiology Group
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
Cambridge UK
