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Atlanta, GA | Posted: November 12, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GEORGIA TECH ENTERSTHE SPOTLIGHT AT SC08
Panel discussions,workshops, technical papers and creative booth displays round out significantpresence at leading high-performance computing conference
ATLANTA - November 11, 2008 - The Georgia Institute ofTechnology, an emerging leader in high-performance computing research andeducation, willcommand a significant presence at next week's SC08, the internationalconference on high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis scheduledfor Nov. 15-21, 2008,at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.Georgia Tech will co-chair one workshop, participate in four panel (or "Birds-of-a-Feather")discussions, present three technical papers and one research poster, and host16 booth presentations and video interviews on emerging high-performancecomputing projects and application areas.
"At Georgia Tech, we believe a strong andexpansive high-performance computing research community drives the biggerscientific discoveries and better engineering capabilities at the heart ofhuman progress," said Dr. Mark Allen, senior vice provost for Research andInnovation at Georgia Tech. "Through this premier industry event, researchers,academics and industry professionals have the opportunity to discuss anddemonstrate new innovations and breakthroughs in high-impact areas such asbiomedicine, nanoscience, astrophysics and exascale computing. Georgia Techwelcomes SC08 attendees to visit our booth, meet our researchers, observe ourwork and understand our mission to positively affect quality of life through advancedcomputing capabilities."
TechnicalWorkshops/Panels/Birds-of-a-Feather
Technical workshops, panels andBirds-of-a-Feather discussions featuring research experts from Georgia Tech's College of Computing include (activities listed indate/time order):
WORKSHOP:Supercomputing, Multicore Architectures and Biomedical Informatics - Monday,Nov. 15, from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.in Room 15
GeorgiaTech's David A. Bader, professor and executive director of high-performancecomputing at Georgia Tech, is co-chairing this workshop to begin building acommunity of researchers with shared interests in understanding the impact ofemerging architectures on computationally demanding biomedical applications.
WORKSHOP:Bridging Multicore's Programmability Gap - Monday, Nov. 15, from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Room 16A/16B
GeorgiaTech's David A. Bader is a speaker in this workshop to address the emerging "Programmability Gap" between multicore-based systems and current languages,compilers and software development techniques.
PANEL:Can Developing Applications for Massively Parallel Systems with HeterogeneousProcessors Be Made Easy(er)? - Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. in Ballroom G
GeorgiaTech's David A. Bader is a speaker on this panel that will look at what needsto be done in order to make the application development for massively parallelsystems with heterogeneous processors easier.
BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER:Exascale Software Challenges - Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. in Room 19A/19B
GeorgiaTech's David A. Bader will participate in this Birds-of-a-Feather discussion tofocus on understanding challenges and developing promising approaches indeveloping robust, scalable and efficient software to run at exascale.
BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER:Unleashing the Power of the Cell BE for HPCApplications - Wednesday, Nov. 19, from 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. in Room 18A/18B/18C/18D
GeorgiaTech's David A. Bader is leading this Birds-of-a-Feather session to stimulatean open discussion on the techniques and tools that can enable HPC applications to exploit the power of theCell/B.E. multicore processor.
TechnicalPapers/Poster Sessions
Technical papers and poster sessions featuringresearchers from Georgia Tech include (activities listed in date/time order):
TECHNICALPAPER: Wide-Area Performance Profiling of 10GigE and Infiniband Technologies -presented on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 2 p.m - 2:30 p.m. in Ballroom F
GeorgiaTech's Jeffrey S. Vetter is a co-author on this paper that presents anexperimental study of two solutions to throughput challenges for wide-areahigh-performance applications.
TECHNICALPAPER: Dendro: Parallel Algorithms for Multigrid and AMRMethods on 2:1 Balanced Octrees - presented on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 2:30 p.m. - 3 p.m. in Ballroom E
GeorgiaTech's George Biros and Rahul S. Sampath are co-authors on this article thatpresents Dendro, a suite of parallel algorithms for the discretization andsolution of partial differential equations involving second-order ellipticoperators.
TECHNICALPAPER: Early Evaluation of BlueGene/P - presented on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 4 p.m - 4:30 p.m. in Ballroom E
GeorgiaTech's Jeffrey S. Vetter is a co-author on this paper that reports on thescalability and performance of the BlueGene/P - the second-generation BlueGenearchitecture from IBM.
POSTER: Modeling Assertions forPetascale Applications and Systems - presented on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 5:15 p.m. - 7 p.m in the RotundaLobby
Georgia Tech's Jeffrey S. Vetter isa co-author on this poster that addresses programming and scaling challenges toemerging Petaflops platforms at the DOE leadership computing sites.
BoothEvents and Activities
Georgia Tech researchers and staff will be onhand at Booth 2821 to demonstrate and discuss the latest innovations inhigh-performance computing research. The Georgia Tech research display willfeature live research presentations, video conversations with Georgia Tech expertsin high performance computing, and an interactive display unlike any other - a virtual field trip to theworld's largest aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium. Utilizing a high bandwidth(1Gbps) channel connecting the Aquarium to the SC08 show floor, visitors to theGeorgia Tech booth will be able to interact with researchers, fish and othermarine creatures live through this one-of-a-kind tradeshow experience. Additionalevents and activities include:
SC08 Leadership Activities
About the Georgia Instituteof Technology
The GeorgiaInstitute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities.Ranked seventh among U.S.News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech'smore than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture,Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is amongthe nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. TheInstitute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduatestudents and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the GeorgiaTech Research Institute.
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For more information, contact:
Stefany Wilson
Georgia Tech College of Computing
404.894.7253
stefany@cc.gatech.edu
