CNF HPC Workshop
Contents
Overview
The CNF HPC Workshop expected to be highly interactive as participants will transfer know-how from the high performance computing community to basic physics in this case nuclear femtography.
Schedule (Draft)
Thursday, October 10th:
- 9:00AM: Welcome and Introduction (Nikos)
- 9:15AM: TBD on: JLAB's CNF and HPC Activities
- 9:45AM: Cara/Ed/Eric on: NASA's HPC and related activities eg. CM 2040 and CFD Vision 2030
- 10:15AM: Valerie (TBD: eg. power aware next generation HPC computing)
- 11:00AM: Pete (TBD: eg. Edge- and Exascale- computing)
- 11:45AM: break 15 min. (prep for lunch:$15 lunch upon request can be made available)
- Please bring $15 cash if ordering lunch. Lunch will be delivered to the workshop location and will be ordered from Jason’s Deli
- 12:00PM: Dimitris (VATech activities in Edge-Computing)
- 12:45PM: CRTC HPC activities in CNF, CFD 2030 and RTS by leveraging DoE's ANL Argo OS for exascale computing.
- 1:15PM: Next Generation Imaging for CNF (Christian/Gagik)
- 1:45PM Closing Remarks (Nikos)
- 2:00PM ANL Visitors depart for Airport.
Presenters
- Upload presentations here : https://bit.ly/2OspoiN
- Presentation Files
External Visitors from ANL
Valerie Taylor
Valerie Taylor is the director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991. She then joined the faculty in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwestern University, where she was a member of the faculty for 11 years. In 2003, Valerie Taylor joined Texas A&M, where she served as head of the computer science and engineering department and senior associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Engineering and a Regents Professor and the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Some of her research interests are high-performance computing, performance analysis and modeling, and power analysis. Currently, she is focused on the areas of performance analysis, power analysis and resiliency. Valerie Taylor is also a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Pete Beckman
Pete Beckman is the co-director of the Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering. Dr. Beckman has a Ph.D. in computer science from Indiana University (1993) and a BA in Computer Science, Physics, and Math from Anderson University (1985). He is a recognized global expert in high-end computing systems and has designed and built software and architectures for large-scale parallel and distributed computing systems during the past 25 years. Beckman helped found Indiana University’s Extreme Computing Laboratory. He also founded the Linux cluster team at the Advanced Computing Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Turbolinux-sponsored research laboratory that developed the world’s first dynamic provisioning system for cloud computing and HPC clusters. Furthermore, Pete Beckman became vice president of Turbolinux's worldwide engineering efforts, managing development offices in the US, Japan, China, Korea, and Slovenia. He joined Argonne National Laboratory in 2002. As director of engineering and chief architect for the TeraGrid, he designed and deployed the world’s most powerful Grid computing system for linking production high performance computing centers for the National Science Foundation. He served as director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility from 2008 to 2010. He is currently a Senior Computer Scientist and Co-Director of the Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering. Pete is also a co-founder of the International Exascale Software Project (IESP).
VA (ODU/JLAB/NASA/LaRC/VaTech)
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos is a Professor of Engineering and he was recently named the John W. Hancock Professor of Engineering by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. He received his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. from the University of Patras. He spent the past 10 years in Europe, most recently as a professor of high performance and distributed computing and director of the Institute on Electronics, Communications, and Information Technology at Queen's University Belfast. He brings to Virginia Tech a world-class record of scholarship, teaching, service, and outreach. Through fundamental scholarship on computer systems, Nikolopoulos has made contributions to the global computing systems research community. He has published 55 peer-reviewed journal articles and 122 peer-reviewed papers in highly regarded archival conference proceedings. Nikolopoulos has advised or co-advised 22 Ph.D. students through completion and continues to advise six Ph.D. students. He has also advised 16 postdoctoral research fellows. He is a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and is a recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Department of Energy CAREER Award, and an IBM Faculty Award.
Eric Nielsen
Eric Nielsen is a Senior Research Scientist with the Computational AeroSciences Branch at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. He received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech and has worked at Langley for the past 25 years. Dr. Nielsen specializes in the development of computational aerodynamics software for the world's most powerful computer systems. The software has been distributed to thousands of organizations around the country and supports major national research and engineering efforts at NASA, in industry, academia, the Department of Defense, and other government agencies. He has published extensively on the subject and has given presentations around the world on his work. Dr. Nielsen is a recipient of NASA's Exceptional Achievement and Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medals as well as NASA Langley's HJE Reid Award for best research publication.
Cara Leckey
Dr. Cara Leckey currently leads the NASA Langley High Performance Computing Incubator Project and serves as the Assistant Branch Head in the Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch. Since joining NASA in 2010, her research has focused on computational nondestructive evaluation. She also serves as an Associate Technical Editor for the journals Materials Evaluation and Research in NDE. Cara received her Ph.D. in physics from the College of William and Mary in 2011.
Amber Boehnlein
Amber Boehnlein is Jefferson Lab’s Chief Information Officer, responsible for the lab’s Information Technology Division, and the lab’s IT systems, including scientific data analysis, high-performance computing, IT infrastructure and cyber security. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1984 at Miami University followed by a Doctorate in Physics in 1990 at Florida State University. Boehnlein arrived at Jefferson Lab in June 2015 with extensive knowledge, skills and experience from her years at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a Department of Energy appointment, and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. She led the Computing Division at SLAC ,from 2011 until accepting her current assignment, where she gained expertise in computational physics relevant to light sources and large scale databases for astrophysics, as well as overseeing the hardware computing systems for the High-Energy Physics (HEP) program. Boehnlein has a particular interest in issues concerning the management and use of research data. She serves on national and international advisory boards in areas related to research computing and particle physics.
