University of Michigan researchers and professional research IT staff will participate in the SC16 conference in Salt Lake City from Nov. 13-17 in a number of ways, including demonstrations, presentations and tutorials. Please join us at booth 1543 if you’re at the conference, or at one of the following events:
Sunday, Nov. 13
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Quentin Stout (EECS) and Christiane Jablonowski (CLASP) will teach the “Parallel Computing 101” tutorial.
Monday, Nov. 14 through Thursday, Nov. 17
U-M will exhibit at booth #1543 alongside Michigan State University. The booth will include an ongoing demonstration of the OSiRIS networking and storage project; information on the Yottabyte Research Cloud; and a presentation on ConFlux.
Tuesday, Nov. 15
10:30 a.m.: Todd Raeker, Research Technology Consultant, ARC-TS, will give a talk on ConFlux at the NVIDIA booth (#2231).
11 a.m.: Project PI Shawn McKee (Physics) will give a presentation on OSiRIS at the U-M booth (#1543).
2:15 p.m.: Nilmini Abeyratne, a Ph.D student in computer science, will present “Low Design-Risk Checkpointing Storage Solution for Exascale Supercomputers” at the Doctoral Showcase.
1 – 5 p.m.: Todd Raeker, Research Technology Consultant, ARC-TS, will participate in the IBM Power8 University Group Meeting.
3 p.m.: Representatives from Yottabyte and ARC-TS will give a presentation on the Yottabyte Research Cloud.
3:30 – 5 p.m., Sharon Broude Geva, Director of Advanced Research Computing, will participate in a panel titled “HPC Workforce Development: How Do We Find Them, Recruit Them, and Teach Them to Be Today’s Practitioners and Tomorrow’s Leaders?”
Wednesday, Nov. 16
10 a.m.: Representatives from Yottabyte and ARC-TS will give a presentation on the Yottabyte Research Cloud.
11 a.m.: Ben Meekhof, HPC Storage Administrator, ARC-TS, will give a presentation on OSiRIS at the U-M booth (#1543).
1 p.m.: Todd Raeker, Research Technology Consultant, ARC-TS, will give a talk on ConFlux at the U-M booth (#1543).
5:15 – 7 p.m.: Ben Meekhof, HPC Storage Administrator, ARC-TS, will present at a “Birds of a Feather” meeting on “Ceph in HPC Environments.”
Thursday, Nov. 17
11 a.m.: Project PI Shawn McKee (Physics) will give a presentation on OSiRIS at the U-M booth (#1543).
1 p.m.: Todd Raeker, Research Technology Consultant, ARC-TS, will give a talk on ConFlux at the U-M booth (#1543).