Tennessee CyberInfrastructure Symposium

April 3rd and 4th at Tennessee State University

Sponsored by NSF EPSCoR grant EPS-091943 and TNSCORE

The importance of computing is growing quickly in every domain science, driving the next generation of knowledge discovery. Computing matters, as it has become an integral part of not only the scientific community but also the general population on a daily basis, pushing the requirement for a comprehensive Cyber-Infrastructure (CI). This CI symposium will focus on educating both students and faculty to enhance their desktop applications into programs that run on computing clusters and eventually on supercomputers, to advance their data analysis to higher orders of magnitude. The workshop will feature successful projects utilizing high-performance computing (HPC) facilities as examples to educate the audience. The audience will also be introduced to HPC resources that are available within the state of Tennessee and at nationwide NSF-funded supercomputing facilities -- available to the scientific research community for free.

Conference Highlights

HPC Training Session on April 3, 2013

The pre-workshop hands-on training sessions will introduce students and faculty to introductory parallel programming modules on National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) high performance computing (HPC) architectures along with providing insights into scientific computing on a larger scale .

Symposium Meeting on April 4, 2013

If you have questions, you may contact workshop organizers Tamara Rogers (CS, TSU) or Bhanu Rekepalli (NICS, EECS, UTK) for further assistance.

Logistics

Registration

Registration is now open.

Agenda

Thursday, April 4, 2013

9:00 Morning Sessions

Tennessee State University Welcomes and Introductions

KEYNOTE: Tennessee CyberInfrastructure Enabling Large-Scale Scientific Discovery
- Dr. Gregory Peterson, NICS Director and Professor in EECS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
TN-SCORE Talk
- Dr. John Hopkins, TNSCORE Director, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
TSU Bioinformatics Program Development and Research
- Dr. Ali Sekmen, CS Head, Tennessee State University

LUNCH

Bioinformatics in Medicine
- Dr. Ricardo Gonzalez Mendez, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

Afternoon Sessions

Solving Life Sciences Data Deluge Problems using Supercomputers
- Dr. Bhanu Rekepalli, NICS Scientist and EECS Adjunct Faculty, UT-Knoxville
Computational Advance Material End Station on HPC architectures
- Dr. Jacek Jakowski, NICS Scientist, UT-Knoxville
Bioinformatics
- Dr. Wei Chen, CS Faculty, Tennessee State University
Opportunities for Students & Faculty
- Jim Ferguson, NICS Education and Outreach Director, UT-Knoxville
- Josh Francois, TN-Score Education and Outreach Director, UT-Knoxville

Tennessee State University Closing Remarks

Venue

The meeting will be held at Tennessee State University at the Agricultural Industrial Technology Center (AITC) Auditorium (building 2 on the map). Directions can be found here .

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