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On January 6, 2009, Caltech’s Center for Simulation of Dynamic Response of Materials was recognized by the National Nuclear Security Administration for its decade-long contribution to computational science and engineering. The Caltech center was one of five university centers in the Academic Strategic Alliance Program of the NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing program (ASC).
The ASC program has provided significant funding for Caltech and CACR since 1998. Dan Meiron, ASC center director, accepted a Certificate of Service from Dmitry Kusnezov from the NNSA, “for your steadfast dedication and leadership in advancing the field of computational science and engineering by using high-performance computing … to elevate the state of technology of materials design through the Virtual Test Facility’s capability to simulate the dynamic response of materials under intense loading conditions.” The Caltech center’s work included constructing a proof of concept for a Virtual shock physics Test Facility in which the full three-dimensional response of a variety of target materials could be simulated for a wide range of compressive, tensional, and shear loadings, including those produced by detonation of energetic materials.
Caltech’s ASC ASAP center’s success was key in securing a role in the Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP).
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Chip Chapman, CACR Facilities Manager, has joined the Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Working Group. This group, founded at SC08 in Austin, TX also includes participation from several national labs and other major HPC manufacturers and users.
The activities of this committee include:
- Market pull strategies (collectively influencing vendors)
- HPC/SC energy performance metrics and benchmarking
- Computer center (infrastructure) energy performance metrics and benchmarking
- Best practices, case studies, and lessons learned in design and operation of super computer centers
- Energy efficient design guidelines and specifications for super computer centers
- Improving software for energy efficiency
- Integrating energy efficiency into SC09’s technical program and HPCC (energy challenge) – subject to organizer’s approval
CACR’s goals in participating in this initiative are to keep our infrastructure as efficient as possible and to help Caltech’s Facility department make informed choices when preparing upgrades or modifications to the existing and future HPC computer rooms on campus.
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Methods of Computational Science: a New Interdisciplinary Class (open to students from all options) (Ay/Bi199ab, Winter & Spring 2009)
Tue & Thu, 1-2:30 pm, in 153 Noyes, starting January 8, 2009. (Class Website)
The goal of this class is to introduce students to a number of increasingly important tools and concepts in computationally enabled and data intensive science and engineering. The class is aimed at upper division undergrads and graduate students, who wish to learn the tools that are becoming increasingly important in research in all disciplines. The grading will be P/F only. Postdocs (and anyone else interested) are welcome to attend. Prerequisites: some familiarity with computational science or engineering, programming; a working knowledge of unix; or a consent of the instructors. The class will be in form of topical lectures, and practical exercises associated with them. Lecturers for both terms include CACR Staff members M. Aivazis, J. Bunn, A. Cunha, M. Graham, S. Lombeyda, S. Pepke, M. Stalzer, E. Upchurch, R. Williams. Read more »
On January 6, 2009, Caltech’s Center for Simulation of Dynamic Response of Materials was recognized by the National Nuclear Security Administration for its decade-long contribution to computational science and engineering. The Caltech center was one of five university centers in the Academic Strategic Alliance Program of the NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing program (ASC).