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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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Matthew Graham, CACR
1pm Friday March 13, 2009
Powell-Booth Room 100
The second Practical Semantic Astronomy Workshop took place last week at the University of Glasgow. The workshop brought together experts from a broad range of disciplines using semantic technologies, alongside practitioners experimenting with these technologies to address current problems in astroinformatics. The workshop’s aims were to:
* inform how semantic technologies are being used successfully in other sciences
* reveal what semantic activities are emerging in astronomy
* foster greater communication between groups working in this exciting area
For further information about the workshop and semantic astronomy, see the website at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/workshops/semast09/
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Second International Workshop on Practical Semantic Astronomy
2-5 March 2009
Glasgow, UK.
Semantic astronomy promises to expand the scientific discovery potential of exponentially growing data collections by enabling natural language querying, content-based searching, rich metadata markup and retrieval, rapid integration of diverse data collections, and machine-assisted scientific discovery.
Practical Semantic Astronomy 2009 is the second in a series of workshops first held at Caltech in February 2008. The workshop brings together experts from a broad range of disciplines using semantic technologies, alongside practitioners experimenting with these techniques to address current problems in astroinformatics. Read more »
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At the 2008 SC Conference being held in Austin, Texas, November 15-21, 2008, CACR will be demonstrating globally distributed data analysis for CERN/LHC using advanced international networks, near real-time seismological computations, simulations from Caltech’s PSAAP Center, and time-domain astronomy including contributions to Google Sky and the WorldWide Telescope.
The SC Conference is the premier international conference for high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis. SC08 marks the 20th anniversary of the first SC Conference, then called Supercomputing, held in Orlando, Florida in 1988. It is also the 20th anniversary of the participation of the group that evolved into CACR. Visit us at Booth 751!
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This conference provides a unique opportunity to learn and affect what is happening in the realm of scientific computing with Python. Attendees will have the opportunity to review the available tools and how they apply to specific problems. By providing a forum for developers to share their Python expertise with the wider commercial, academic, and research communities, this conference fosters collaboration and facilitates the sharing of software components, techniques and a vision for high level language use in scientific computing.
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