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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 proud to announce that five of our employees will receive recognition at Caltech’s 54th annual Service Awards Ceremony, to be held in Beckman Auditorium on Tuesday, June 2, 2009.
Many thanks to Chip, Sharon, Michael, Mark, and Santiago for their many years of service to the institute and to CACR!
- Charles “Chip” Chapman (30 years)
- Sharon Brunett (20 years)
- Michael Aivazis (10 years)
- Mark Bartelt (10 years)
- Santiago Lombeyda (10 years)
Chip Chapman has been employed at Caltech since 1976. After starting in the physics stockroom and lecture hall in East Bridge, he went on to build several microcomputers from scratch with Prof. Ricardo Gomez for data acquisition and analysis in the physics sophomore lab. The project ended as IBM introduced the personal computer. In 1981 Chip worked in high energy physics with Prof. Geoffrey Fox, supporting the first campus network and DEC VAX computers. Later, he managed the Educational Computing Project, delivering over $5M worth of IBM PCs to the campus. In 1990 Chip helped form the Caltech Concurrent Supercomputing Facility, which later transformed into today’s Center for Advanced Computing Research. He held the position of technical supervisor during the era when the world’s fastest supercomputer was running at Caltech. Chip had a central role as liaison to the architect, contractors, and physical plant in the renovation of the Powell-Booth Laboratory for Computational Science, where he presently serves as facilities manager. He was also a main contributor to the high performance computing (HPC) task force report that is helping to define the future of HPC on campus. Chip has worked with students and scientists on many projects and research programs including the CASA Gigabit Testbed, the Scalable I/O Initiative, the Beowulf Project, and Caltech’s Center for Simulation of Dynamic Response of Materials.
Sharon Brunett came to Caltech in 1989 as a Computing Analyst at the Caltech Concurrent Supercomputing Facility (CCSF). CCSF later transformed into today’s Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR), where Sharon is currently a senior computational scientist and manager of the CACR operations group. She determines appropriate hardware and software solutions to meet CACR’s resource needs, and serves as a liaison to research groups all over campus, including projects in astronomy, biology, high energy physics, materials science, and geophysics. Sharon played a major role in Caltech’s Center for Simulation of Dynamic Response of Materials, which provided significant funding to Caltech and CACR for ten years. That project’s success helped in the development of Caltech’s current Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program Center, in which Sharon also plays a significant role. Sharon’s dedicated nature and welcoming attitude have made her a key player in the history, and future, of computational science and engineering at Caltech.
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You are cordially invited to the lecture:
“Bayesian Networks as a Scientific Tool”
Dr. David Heckerman (Microsoft Research)
Tuesday, March 10, at 1 pm, in 100 Powell-Booth
About the speaker: Dr. Heckerman is the Manager of the eScience Research Group at Microsoft Research and a world-renowned expert in this field and applications of modern data mining techniques in biomedical
sciences in particular.
This lecture also represents the final one in this term for the “Methods of Computational Science” class (Ay/Bi 199a).
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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).
