[LA-SiGMA] 2nd Annual High Performance Computing Week

[Alexander Pacheco]

Dear All,

LSU Information Technology Services, LSU Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) and the Louisiana Alliance for Simulation-Guided Materials Applications (LA-SiGMA) are pleased to announce the 2nd Annual High Performance Computing Week from June 10'th through June 15'th, 2013.

REGISTER NOW if you plan on attending any of the following events and need support for travel. Please upload your abstracts and travel proposals by May 27, 2013.  

2nd Annual LONI Parallel Programming Workshop
Date : June 10 - 12, 2013
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Venue: 307 Frey CSC
Website: http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/workshop.php or http://goo.gl/fksJn
Registration Fee: None
Registration Deadline: May 27, 2013 (No seats available)
Description:
This workshop will first introduce users to the concepts of Parallel Programming, then cover how those concepts apply to solving problems frequently encountered in numerical studies such as matrix-matrix multiplication, using various parallel programming techniques such as OpenMP, OpenACC and MPI. It will target both the CPU and GPU architecture. This workshop will be hands-on oriented, so the attendants should have prior knowledge on programming, C/C++ or Fortran is preferred.

2nd Annual High Performance Computing User Symposium
Date and Times: 6PM - 8PM on June 12, 2013 and 8:00AM - 5:00PM on June 13, 2013
Venue: LSU Energy, Coast & Environment Bldg Rotunda and Dalton J. Woods Auditorium
Website: http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/users/symposium/index.php
Registration Fee: None
Registration Deadline: May 27, 2013 (if presenting), on-site registration if not presenting.
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 7, 2013
Description:
The Symposium will consists of a series of invited talks and a poster session discussing research using HPC systems. The symposium is open to all, with the hope of engendering cross-discipline communication and exchange of methods and experiences.

This is an opportunity for the user community to come together and share experiences and methods. Anyone interested in HPC is more than welcome to come by and find out how HPC systems are utilized in research at LONI member institutions.

All participants are encouraged to present a poster displaying your recent work using HPC resources. Participants who are not HPC users or are prospective HPC users are encouraged to present work that can benefit using HPC resources. This is an opportunity to meet our user community and foster collaborations.

Please upload a one-page abstract in pdf or doc format at the symposium website. Please consider using the templates (tex and word) provided to ensure uniformity in the Book of Abstracts. Poster Board size is 4ft x 4ft. A few undergraduate, graduate students and postdocs will be selected by the Scientific Advisory Committee to present a short, 15-30 talks in lieu of poster presentation.

Scientific Visualization with VisIt, Mathematica, and ImageJ
Date: June 14 - 15, 2013
Venue: 307 Frey CSC
Instructors: Les Butler (LSU Chemistry) and Dr. Jinghua Ge (LSU CCT)
Website: http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/workshop.php or http://goo.gl/CiPOg
Registration Fee: $50
Registration Deadline: May 27, 2013
Description:
The objective is an understanding of the procedure for converting a series of 2D images into 3D images, movies, and fly-throughs.  This is the basis of the medical CT scan, industrial non-destructive testing, and much of scientific visualization.  The second objective is introduction to two software packages---ImageJ and VisIt---that are both extremely powerful, will run on your laptop, and are free.  When finished with this course, you should be able to perform visualizations of 3D data sets when provided with data in open access formats such as raw binary, stacked TIFF, and HDF5.  You will run Mathematica notebooks in class as we discuss: (a) 2D image sequences into 3D volumes, (b) histograms and binarization, (c) image transformations such as Gaussian filtering, distance transform, and watershed transform, (d) connected component analysis, and (e) simple movie making.

Using the VisIt visualization software, we’ll teach students visualize large scale datasets in distributed mode so that the expensive computation runs on high performance computing clusters. Students will have take-away visit-python scripts to do: pseudo-color, histogram, volume rendering, isosurface, orthoslices, volume re-sample, sub-volume selection, and movie making. These visit-python scripts can be submitted to HPC resources for batch processing and the result images will be saved and retrieved back for user inspection.

Participants from outside Baton Rouge:
There are limited travel funds available for attending the Symposium and Workshops. All participants traveling to Baton Rouge for attending the Symposium and Workshops will be considered for travel awards provided:
Register for the Symposium and Workshop by May 27, 2013
To be considered for a travel award, please upload a one or two paragraph proposal (in pdf/doc format) describing why a travel award is beneficial to your research for attending the workshop and
submit an abstract for poster or oral presentation (if attending Symposium) by May 27th, 2013.
Priority will be given first to participants who are presenting (poster or oral) at the Symposium and then to participants who are attending the workshops held preceding and following the symposium. Travel awards include lodging for the duration of events that you have registered for. Please register now so that we can block rooms in hotels close to LSU campus. Participants who are awarded travel will be put up at Staybridge Suites, about 20 mins walk from both event locations.

HPC Week 2013 has been made possible due to generous support from
Board of Regents, State of Louisiana
Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI)
Xavier University of Louisiana
School of the Coast & Environment, Louisiana State University
Information Technology Services, Louisiana State University
Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University
Louisiana Alliance for Simulation-Guided Materials Applications (LA-SiGMA)
Please distribute to your colleagues who may benefit from the 2013 HPC Week events.

On behalf of the Organizing and Scientific Advisory Committee,

Thanks,
Alex

-- 
Alexander Pacheco, Ph. D.
IT Analyst 3
LSU - HPC &  LONI
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~apacheco

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