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- panelJuly 2012
Campus bridging pilot project reports: XSEDE12 panel
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 67, Page 1https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335865The mission of XSEDE Campus Bridging Program is to improve access to national cyberinfrastructure and ease the transition of researchers from campus cyberinfrastructure to national resources. As described in the 2011 ACCI Task Force Report on Campus ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
Building a partnership for computer science education
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 64, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335862The University of California San Diego (UCSD) piloted a new undergraduate introduction to computer science (CS) principles in fall 2010. The course was contextual, conceptual, and constructivist in its approach to programming; building interest and ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
The initial role of evaluation in a large-scale multi-site project
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 62, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335860The initial role of evaluation in a large-scale multi-site project is presented. The evaluation utilized an educative, values-engaged approach (EVEN) [4]. This paper also presents the evaluation questions and metrics used to structure an evaluation of ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
A learning outcome driven cyber infrastructure for thermodynamics education
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 60, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335858The Web portal TEST, the Expert System for Thermodynamics (www.thermofluids.net) is a courseware that is being used in Engineering Thermodynamics classes by more than 2000 registered educators around the world. The courseware combines a number of ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
Using stereoscopic 3D videos to inform the public about the benefits of computational science
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 58, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335856This paper describes an effort to create and disseminate a series of stereoscopic 3D videos that raise awareness about the value of computational science. While the videos target the general population, including the K-12 community, the audience for ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
Conducting K-12 outreach to evoke early interest in IT, science, and advanced technology
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 55, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335853The Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute has engaged for several years in K-12 Education, Outreach and Training (EOT) events related to technology in general and computing in particular. In each event we strive to positively influence ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
Computational science certificates for the current workforce: lessons learned
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 51, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335849One of the keys to the future competitiveness of U. S. industry is the integration of modeling and simulation into the development, design, and manufacturing process. A related challenge is to retrain the current workforce in the use of computational ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
Trinity RNA-Seq assembler performance optimization
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 45, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335842RNA-sequencing is a technique to study RNA expression in biological material. It is quickly gaining popularity in the field of transcriptomics. Trinity is a software tool that was developed for efficient de novo reconstruction of transcriptomes from RNA-...
- research-articleJuly 2012
Massively parallel direct numerical simulations of forced compressible turbulence: a hybrid MPI/OpenMP approach
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 23, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335819A highly scalable simulation code for turbulent flows which solves the fully compressible Navier-Stokes equations is presented. The code, which supports one, two and three dimensional domain decompositions is shown to scale well on up to 262,144 cores. ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
Exploiting HPC resources for the 3D-time series analysis of caries lesion activity
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 19, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335815We present a research framework to analyze 3D-time series caries lesion activity based on collections of SkyScan® μ-CT images taken at different times during the dynamic caries process. Analyzing caries progression (or reversal) is data-driven and ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
Analyzing throughput and utilization on trestles
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 11, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335802The Trestles system is targeted to modest-scale and gateway users, and is designed to enhance users' productivity by maintaining good turnaround time as well as other user-friendly features such as long run times and user reservations. However, the goal ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
A tale of two systems: flexibility of usage of Kraken and Nautilus at the National Institute for Computational Sciences
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 6, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335794The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee currently operates two computational resources for the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), Kraken, a 112,896-core Cray XT5 for general ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
Gordon: design, performance, and experiences deploying and supporting a data intensive supercomputer
- Shawn M. Strande,
- Pietro Cicotti,
- Robert S. Sinkovits,
- William S. Young,
- Rick Wagner,
- Mahidhar Tatineni,
- Eva Hocks,
- Allan Snavely,
- Mike Norman
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 3, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335789The Gordon data intensive supercomputer entered service in 2012 as an allocable computing system in the NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program. Gordon has several innovative features that make it ideal for data ...
- research-articleJuly 2012
Running many molecular dynamics simulations on many supercomputers
XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyondArticle No.: 2, Pages 1–9https://doi.org/10.1145/2335755.2335787The challenges facing biomolecular simulations are many-fold. In addition to long time simulations of a single large system, an important challenge is the ability to run a large number of identical copies (ensembles) of the same system. Ensemble-based ...
