Joint Institute for Computational Science (JICS) and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Sciences Seminar Series – University of Tennessee
Fall 2011
This fall, staff from many parts of the University will participate in a series co-hosted by the Joint Institute for Computational Science (JICS) and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Sciences program. These organizations will offer a series of tutorials and seminars designed to provide UTK students, faculty and staff with practical information about using its resources, as well as other associated opportunities for participation and collaboration. JICS is the joint UTK/Oak Ridge National Lab organization, which is the home of the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS). NICS is a key resource provider in the National Science Foundation’s XSEDE system, hosting Kraken (a Cray XT5) and serving scientific users around the country. NICS is also home to the Remote Data Analysis and Visualization Center (RDAV), a separate NSF award in the XSEDE program. UTK faculty projects have already received over 27 Million hours of computing allocation on NICS computing resources so far and the demand for them is expected to increase.
All the seminars and tutorials in the series will be given by NICS and RDAV personnel and will be held on Thursdays starting at 2pm, in Claxton 233. A more detailed list of session topics is below. All interested students, faculty and staff are welcome and encouraged to attend. For more information, contact Jim Ferguson.
September 8, 2011 - UTK's NICS and the NSF's High-Performance Computing Program
Learn how to get time on NSF major computing resources, and learn something about the NSF's programs in HPC thru the years
Speaker: Jim Ferguson
September 15, 2011 - The Analytics RRRevolution
A comprehensive talk about the current landscape in “analytics” and how R is challenging the status quo.
Speaker: Bob Meunchen
September 22, 2011 - Eden--Managing Your Analysis on Nautilus
This talk will describe the design, development and deployment of Eden, a tool that aids users in managing atypical large parallel runs.
Speaker: Scott Simmerman
October 6, 2011 - Computing on UTK's Newton Cluster
Learn how to access and use this significant computing resource on the UTK campus.
Speaker: Geri Ragghianti
October 13, 2011 - Scientific Computing Using Up to 112,000 Cores on Kraken
A tutorial on scaling your application on Kraken.
Speaker: Christian Halloy
October 20, 2011 - Parallel Computing and 'R'
This talk will cover implicit parallelism and explicit parallelism in R, byte code compilation in R and also some examples of R-GPU.
Speaker: Pragnesh Patel
October 27, 2011 - Maximizing Performance of Scientific Computing Codes on HPCSystems
A tutorial on optimizing your application on the latest high-performance computing platforms.
Speaker: Christian Halloy
November 3, 2011 - Computational Science on NICS computational resources
Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Engineering, and everything in between done on UTK's NICS computing resources.
Speaker: Mark Fahey
November 10, 2011 - Cloud Computing at FutureGrid
Speaker: Shirley Moore
