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Call for Participation: Texas A&M Research Computing Week – June 5-9, 2017

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Call for Participation: Texas A&M Research Computing Week – June 5-9, 2017

Conference web site: http://u.tamu.edu/HPRCWeek

Register your interest and submit talk and poster abstracts here!

Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing is hosting a week-long series of events June 5-9, 2017 to introduce the A&M research community to computing and data resources and expertise available to support research, and, for advanced users, to provide additional training.

The week will start with morning and afternoon workshops on a variety of topics on using local and national research computing resources, and will end with a Symposium on Thursday and Friday presenting talks and posters about best practices in computing and data intensive research, and national perspectives on building cyberinfrastructure capacity in the U.S. A Reception and Poster Session are planned for late Thursday afternoon.

Please help us refine the program by registering your interest in participating in Research Computing Week events and by indicating what topics you would find most interesting. If you would like to present a short (~20 minute) research talk or poster about how you use computing in your research please provide a title and short abstract on the registration form.

 

The preliminary deadline for submissions is May 5, 2017 so please respond as soon as possible. As the program develops we will keep you informed.

For further information about Research Computing Week and opportunities for sponsorship send email to mcmullen (at) tamu.edu or call 979-458-8414.

 

PEARC17 conference registration now open

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Categories: Training, Education & Outreach, Networking, Press, General User News, Conferences

Posted on 21 Feb, 2017 20:16 UTC by Travis Tate

New Orleans hosting national conference for advanced research computing professionals and students_

Registration is now open for the first annual PEARC conference! PEARC17 is open to professionals and students in advanced research computing. The conference will take place July 9-13 at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans (601 Loyola Ave., New Orleans). Registrants can book their conference registration and hotel room at “pearc.org”:pearc.org.

The PEARC (Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing) conference series is being ushered in with support from many organizations, and will build upon earlier conferences’ success and core audiences to serve the broader community. In addition to XSEDE, organizations supporting the new conference include the Advancing Research Computing on Campuses: Best Practices Workshop (ARCC), the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI), the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRC), the ACI-REF consortium, the Blue Waters project, ESnet, Open Science Grid, Compute Canada, the EGI Foundation, the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC), and Internet2.

**Registration costs are as listed below:**

Regular Registration: $500 (Tues – Thurs)

Late Registration Fee: $600 (as of 5 p.m. ET 5/31/17)

Student Registration: $300 Note: must provide ID upon check-in for the conference

Student Registration: $360 Note: must provide ID upon check-in for the conference (as of 5 p.m. ET 5/31/17)

Tutorial Fee: $125 (Monday only)

Late Tutorial Fee: $150 (as of 5 p.m. ET 5/31/17)

Student Tutorial Fee: $80 (Monday only)

Late Student Tutorial Fee: $95 (as of 5 p.m. ET 5/31/17)

One Day Registration: $200

Late One Day: $240 (as of 5 p.m. ET 5/31/17)

Two Day Registration: $400

Late Two Day: $480 (as of 5 p.m. ET 5/31/17)

The Call for Participation is also open and accepting submissions from now until March 6 for Technical Papers and Tutorials. External Program and Workshop proposals are due March 31. Poster, Visualization Showcase and Birds-of-a-Feather submissions are due May 1.

Follow PEARC on Twitter (“PEARC_17”:https://twitter.com/pearc_17) and on Facebook (“PEARChpc”:https://www.facebook.com/PEARChpc/).

2018 INCITE call is now open

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2018 INCITE

Open Call for Proposals

April 17, 2017—June 23, 2017
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering, and computer science domains.

INCITE will award over 6 billion supercomputer processor-hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility.

For more information, read the announcement article.

The INCITE program is hosting free proposal writing webinars on April 19, May 18, and June 6, 2017, to assist teams in writing an effective INCITE proposal. Registration is required.

To register for a webinar, visit: www.doeleadershipcomputing.org/2018-incite-proposal-writing-webinar/

HPRC Seminar on May 1: Toughness, Roughness and Crack Path Engineering for Improved Fracture Resistance

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Title: Toughness, Roughness and Crack Path Engineering for Improved Fracture Resistance

Speaker:        Dr. Alan Needleman, University Distinguished Professor

                      Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

                      TEES Distinguished Research Professor

                      Texas A&M University

Date: May 1, 2017 2:00-3:00pm

Place: Koldus Building, Room 110

Abstract: I discuss the possibility of engineering crack paths by controlling the features of the microstructure, such as the distribution of second phase particles or the grain morphology, in a manner so as to increase the ductile crack growth resistance of structural metals. The focus is on ductile fracture where crack growth occurs by the nucleation, growth and coalescence of micro-scale voids. Simulations of crack growth in various microstructures are carried out in order to address some basic questions of fracture mechanics. One such question is, do cracks choose a minimum energy path? Another is, what is the relation, if any, between measures of the statistics of fracture surface roughness and the material’s ductile crack growth resistance? The extent to which a material’s crack growth resistance can be significantly increased by suitably designing its microstructure is explored. Perhaps surprisingly, it turns out that, in a range of circumstances, adding defects to a material can increase its fracture resistance. The important role of large-scale simulations in addressing these issues will be illustrated.

Anyone who attends will have an opportunity to win a door prize (tee-shirts and scarfs). Refreshments will be served after the seminar. Please help distribute this message to anyone who may be interested.

I am looking forwarding to seeing you at this seminar on May 1.

Honggao Liu, PhD
Director, High Performance Research Computing (HPRC)
115 Henderson Hall
Texas A&M University (TAMU)

3361 TAMU

222 Jones St.

College Station, TX 77843-3361
Email: honggao@tamu.edu
Tel: 979.845.2561
Web: http://hprc.tamu.edu

Call for Participation Gateways 2017: The 12th Gateway Computing Environments Conference

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Call for Participation

Gateways 2017: The 12th Gateway Computing Environments Conference

Monday through Wednesday, October 23 to 25, 2017

Hosted at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Science gateways serve as connection points, assembling various components of advanced cyberinfrastructure—data collections, instruments, supercomputers, clouds, collaboration capabilities, and analytical tools—behind streamlined, user-friendly interfaces. Gateway developers and users — regardless of their domain area — have a lot in common but have had few venues for exchanging experiences. The 2nd annual Gateways conference will be a continuing opportunity for gateway creators and enthusiasts to learn, share, connect, and shape the future of gateways while building a vibrant community with common interests.

We welcome the submission of many presentation formats on the topic of science or engineering gateways. Subjects may include their design, use, impact, development process, sustainability, best practices — or any other aspect that you think fellow gateway creators or users will find interesting to learn. We also welcome educational topics directed toward the next generation of gateway creators. An expanded list of relevant topics may be viewed on the conference website.

Participation options

Short Paper
Demo
Panel
Tutorial
Student-Focused Program
Poster

We request a submission of 2-4 pages for any of the above participation options (except posters). Further details about each type of submission are on our website. Those whose papers are accepted for presentation at the conference will also have the option to submit a full paper (8-14 pages; journal to be determined) at a later date.

A new feature this year is the option to suggest an “Open Space” topic for lunchtime. More details will follow.

Deadline for all participation options (except posters): Monday, June 5
Poster session deadline: Friday, September 8

For further information about the conference and submission details, visit http://sciencegateways.org/gateways2017/call

ALCF Many-Core Tools & Techniques Video Series

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The four videos in ALCF many-core tools and techniques series, produced by Colfax International, is great for users new to Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors (formerly Knights Landing) or users who want to refresh their understanding of Xeon Phi. The field of machine learning has taken off with advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). This video will give you an introduction to frameworks for machine learning and how to optimize them for the Xeon Phi.
The Many-Core Tools & Techniques series is intended to build awareness about key technologies featured in ALCF’s current and future Intel architectures; to describe those features; and to teach users techniques to assess and improve their use of them. The complete archive can be found here.