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A Publication Of The Institute Of High Performance Computing MITA (P) No. 009/07/2008

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$3.4million R&D Boost for Maritime Sector

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Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) has become an integral part of product design as well as research and development process, in aiding companies to shorten product development cycles, enhance product performance and quality, and in allowing researchers to evaluate complex, critical and cost-prohibitive systems that would otherwise be unable (or expensive) to be addressed. Over the past years, IHPC has been engaging private organisations in the maritime industry through specific industry-oriented collaborations in areas ranging from structural analysis of large platforms for the offshore and marine engineering (OME) industry to the study and optimisation of fluid flow behaviour in coastal areas. Since 2004, IHPC has conducted about 30 projects with the maritime industry.

Together with the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA), IHPC has initiated the Maritime Research Programme (MRP) which aims to spearhead the application of CSE to the various sectors of the Maritime Cluster through several private-public research partnerships.

Under the MRP, IHPC will collaborate with companies in the sector and will be able to offer them the opportunity to enhance their technologies through efforts on fluid dynamics, structural analyses of large complex systems, coupled field analysis as well as computing technologies in areas like data-mining and advanced visualisation techniques. There is already one project under way with two more in the pipeline.

Dr Raj. Thampuran, Executive Director, IHPC said, “The institute’s position as a computational science and engineering institute will increase the R&D activities within the numerous maritime industry companies already located here in Singapore as well as to attract oversea maritime companies to establish R&D centres in Singapore. Partnering the Maritime Port Authority, a world leader in their domain, will attract companies to invest more in R&D to be competitive.”

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the three-year Maritime Research Programme was signed by BG (NS) Tay Lim Heng, Chief Executive, MPA, and Ms Yena Lim, Managing Director, A*STAR

Promoting R&D innovation in Singapore from left to right: Mr Toh Ah Cheong, Director (Technology), MPA, BG (NS) Tay Lim Heng, Chief Executive, MPA , Ms Yena Lim, Managing Director, A*STAR and Dr Raj. Thampuran, Executive Director, IHPC.

An exchange of mementos to commemorate the occasion.

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electronics Forum

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second iHPc symposium

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Fostering Next Generation of sci-Fi Writers

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showcase of visualisation chamber to industry

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industryBy Industry Developmentidd@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

$3.4million R&D Boost for Maritime Sector at MPA’s 12th Maritime Forum on 19th September 2008. The event was attended by 200 participants from the maritime cluster and government agencies with an interest in research and technology.

BG (NS) Tay said, “MPA has been actively promoting maritime R&D and innovation development over the past decade. Today’s MOU brings about the large-scale involvement of a national research institute in the areas of port, shipping, and offshore and marine engineering. The maritime companies’ enthusiastic par t ic ipat ion in the programme is heartening. In the mid- to long-term, ma r i t ime R&D wou ld bo l s t e r t he competitive edge of our maritime cluster, which is central to Singapore’s growth as an international maritime centre.”

Ms Lim added, “Since its inception 10 years ago, IHPC has collaborated with the maritime industry through specific industry-oriented research projects. Over the past three years, IHPC has undertaken over 150 col laborat ive projects with various industry partners to leverage on IHPC’s expertise and its multi-disciplinary R&D manpower. Today’s signing marks a consolidated effort to encourage Singapore-based ma r i t ime compan i e s t o t a ke f u l l advantage of advanced modelling and simulation methods to innovate and optimise the performance of engineering systems.” Mr Ravi Varahamurthy, Senior Manager, Industry Development, presented

the maritime research thrusts and IHPC’s capabilities to the audience at the 12th Maritime Forum.

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Research Thrusts for the Maritime Sector1) ComputationalFluidDynamics/FluidFlowModelling – External f lows around submerged vehic les or

underwater structures. – Internal flows, such as oil/water sloshing. – Drag/force analysis for platforms & oil rig. – Fire & smoke study for maritime vessels. – Ventilation system analysis. – Coastal hydrodynamics. – Pollution transport and oil spill.

2) CoupledFieldAnalysis – Many subsea applications involve the interaction of

more than one physics. Coupled field analysis aims to provide solutions to such problems.

3) FluidStructureInteraction – Expertise in fluid-structure interaction and structural

acoustic. – Prediction of undersea pipelines to extreme stresses,

i.e. imaging of acoustics scatter. – Safety assessment of subsea structures; subsea

profiling for oil and gas exploration.

4) ComputationalMechanics – Study on spud-can footings for jack-up rigs. – Simulation of jacking operations for a self-elevated

jack-up unit.

– Analysis of rack tooth, gear case and gear box system. – Analysis of leg structures. – Impact/crash analysis of offshore structures. – Analysis and optimisation of offshore structure ( non-

linear stress analysis).

5) EngineeringVisualisation – Immersive 3D data rendering. – Fully immersive capability. – Visualisation of large data sets.

6) PredictiveMaintenance – Grid-based problem prediction. – Distributed data federation & data mining techniques.

Distributed Computing

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Electronics Industry ForumInsights into Trends and Latest Techniques

industryBy Industry Developmentidd@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

Mr Chow Wee Sing (right) from ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems).

Dr Li Er Ping (left) explaining some of the research carried out in his division.

IHPC organised its first electronics forum-cum-networking session with members of the industry on 8th October 2008. The aim of the forum was to highlight IHPC’s competencies in computational electronics, electromagnetics and photonics as well as to gather insights into trends, opportunities and challenges in the electronics industry.

External speakers f rom Rohde and Schwarz (Germany), Mr Ulrich Konietzko, Fujikura (Japan), Dr Kensuke Ogawa, and ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems), Mr Chow Wee Sing, were invited to present at the forum, along with researchers from IHPC’s Computational Electronics and Photonics (CEP) programme. The topics included computational techniques for the advancement of electronics, electromagnetics for PCB packages and semi-conductor devices, Electro-Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) research, nanoelectronic devices and silicon photonics to name a few. Emerging research areas on plasmonics and a new initiative known as the EMC virtual lab were also highlighted to the audience.

Dr Raj. Thampuran, Executive Director of IHPC, said: “I am pleased to share that plasmonics, or “Light on a Wire”, is our new research thrust and is a field that potentially can bridge the link between nanoscale electronics and photonics. This technology can lead to radically new small-scale chip device technology able to transport data at speeds and frequencies equivalent to optical systems- all in the nanoscale!”

Dr Thampuran added, “I sense that the speed of technological change in the 21st century will be unprecedented compared to the last century. Partnerships between Research Institutes and companies can become an effective way to respond to changes, create and innovate with despatch and deliver technologies and skills at the highest level. Collaboration is a much more powerful approach than individual and separate efforts.”

There were numerous posit ive comments received from the industry participants during the networking session. Many acknowledged that it was a good platform for the participants to have an overview of IHPC’s capabilities and to have discussions on the latest developments within the electronics sector.

IHPC speakers with their industry counterparts (Left to right): Dr Richard Gao, Dr Kensuke Ogawa from Fujikura, Mr Ulrich Konietzko from Rohde & Schwarz, Dr Li Er Ping, Mr Chow Wee Sing from ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems), Dr Liu Enxiao, Dr Lim Soon Thor and Dr Koh Wee Shing.

The forum provided a useful platform for industry partners to find out more about IHPC’s capabilities and ways to innovate their products.

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eventBy Corporate Comms comms@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

Computational Science – Driver of Science & TechnologySecond IHPC Symposium 2008

Registration sign up.

The Second IHPC Symposium was held on 3rd and 4th November 2008. The objective of this event was to expose IHPC researchers to projects and capabilities in the various teams in IHPC and to encourage cross-programme collaborations. This year also marks the tenth anniversary of IHPC, and thus gives the symposium an even more meaningful purpose of looking back and stepping into a new era in a new environment in Fusionopolis.

The one-and-a-half day event started with an Opening Address by Dr Raj. Thampuran, Executive Director, IHPC. Speaking to the audience of researchers and some of IHPC’s industry collaborators, Dr Thampuran said, “We recognise today, and in the foreseeable future, that science will increasingly drive computing. IHPC was formed 10 years ago and it has taken us about 5 years to sculpt a broad repertoire of research fields, shape capabilities-development and recruit the talent to advance research and development. Clearly, the nature of problem solving now requires a highly multidisciplinary approach and the use of sophisticated tools. I think we are in a good position having talented and versatile scientists from diverse disciplines such as physics, mathematics, all disciplines of engineering, chemistry and computer science.”

Dr Thampuran further elaborated that the key facet of our environment has been the many, and rewarding relationships with local and international universities and research organisations. He shared that in the year 2007, we had initiated 9 international collaborations, 14 local collaborations and 18 collaborations with fellow A*STAR Research Institutes.

It was also highlighted that some of IHPC’s collaborative research with the industry are highly sophisticated and intellectually demanding. Citing the example of a recent paper that IHPC had published with Fujikura in Applied PhysicsLetters on the findings of a project in photonics, Dr Thampuran stressed the importance of these partnerships as IHPC’s contribution to help grow Singapore into an innovation-driven economy and to compete among the ranks of R&D intensive countries of the West.

Professor Wil l iam Goddard from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) delivered the keynote address on the exciting prospects of the use of first principles prediction on simulation of a wide variety of complex systems. Areas of applications include catalysis, nanoelectronics, fuel cells, force fields, plasma etching and mechanisms for superconductivity.

Researchers were able to experience the new Genexis Theatre in Fusionopolis where the Symposium was held.

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Dr Ofer Manor, Dr Rogerio Manica with Dr Evert Klaseboer.

The Symposium provided a platform for inter-programme discussions.

Prof William Goddard giving his keynote address. Dr Jerry Quek from the Materials Theory and Simulation team.

Dr Chew Choon Seng, organising chairman of IHPC’s 2nd Symposium.

In total, 20 research staff gave presentations about their research on various topics that range from neck modelling, nucleation and growth mechanism, photonics and plasmonics, wireless energy, cloud negotiation, fuel cells, to zinc oxide guides and nickel oxide ceramics.

In addition, Professor Wang Jian-Sheng from NUS, and Professor Zhang Yong Wei, Programme Manager, LCS also shared their exciting work on thermal transport in nanostructures and coarse-grained simulations of membranes & vesicles.

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As part of the global branding efforts for IHPC, the Web Committee was formed in July 2007 with a mission to bring about a vibrant, dynamic and energetic look of IHPC’s web presence that best reflects reflects the research culture within the institute. The new IHPC website (www.ihpc.a-star.edu.sg) was officially launched by Dr Raj. Thampuran, during his opening address at the 2nd IHPC Symposium. The new website boasts new improvements in three areas: content management, usability and aesthetics. Firstly, to improve the timeliness and efficiency of content update, a web-based content management system is developed to enhance the efficiency in updating the content. Through this system, content owners of the website can add, edit and update related information, without the need for advanced Web authoring skills.

With effect from December 2008, researchers can have access to their personal profile pages and perform timely updates through CMS.

Secondly, the usability of the website has also been improved. Java Script is now employed to achieve animation for flashly effects, improving the site’s loading speed and solving compatibility problems in a variety of browers. Furthermore, the hosting server of the new website is now located within Fusionopolis. The inhouse hosting provide greater control such as giving more computing power to enhance the loading speed. Other improvements include the Ajax-enabled site search function, site compatibility adherence in different devices and images size optimisation. Thirdly, in the area of aesthetics, a range of colours have been employed for the six key sections of the website. With art work such as layered graphics, the images associated highlighted research activities and staffs are made more appealing in look.

We hope our visitors and users will enjoy their surfing experience on the new IHPC website!

IHPC launches New Website

in The NewsBy Web Committee webcomms@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

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industryBy Industry Developmentidd@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

IHPC-Hitachi Joint Research on Metal/Oxide and Polyimide Interface Adhesion StudySince 2006, IHPC and Hitachi researchers have collaborated to study the adhesion of metal/oxide and polyimide interfaces. The objective of this research is to develop a new forcefield that can predict the adhesion strength between a new substrate and polymer. For this purpose, Dr Jin Hongmei* of IHPC carried out Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations to understand the electronic and atomic behaviour of the system. Working closely with Dr Tomio Iwasaki of Hitachi-MERL, the DFT information was used as input to develop a more comprehensive force field which is good for classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.

BackgroundoftheprojectThe adhesion of polymers with metals in electronic devices is usually improved by making the surface of metals rough. As electronics decrease in size, polymers that have good adhesion to metals without surface roughness will become more and more important. Metals that are important for devices include Cu, Ni, Co, Ag and Au as well as oxides such as Cu2O, CuO, NiO and CoO. Polymers that are most often used include PMDA-ODA, which is sold under the trade name Kapton, and BPDA-PDA. Some of these materials have been simulated by Computational Materials Science & Engineering (CMS) group in IHPC and Hitachi using the combined DFT and MD approach, respectively. To improve simulation accuracy, IHPC and Hitachi used expertise from both sides to develop a new potential that is similar to other forcefields such as the AMBER forcefield, but also includes an additional term to account for the chemical bonding between the polymer and the metal. To this end, IHPC performed DFT calculations to optimise the structure of different metal and polymer interfaces. The forces, coordinates, energies, adhesion

strength as well as the charge transfer information were obtained and used by Hitachi as inputs for force field development.

SimulationmodelandparametersSurfaces are simulated by using slab supercell approach with periodic boundary condition. Each surface is made up of four layers of metal/oxide atoms, and the bottom two layers are frozen in a vacuum region of 10 Å, which is large enough to avoid interactions between slabs. For the metal surfaces used in the calculations, there are a total number of 120 metal atoms (shown in Fig.1). For oxide systems, there are a total of 128 Cu and 128 O atoms. No symmetry conditions were imposed and the polyimide and top two metal/oxide layers were allowed to move freely. All these settings have been tested and surface energies were converged to better than 5meV/atom.

SimulationresultsandpossibleapplicationsWith the model and parameters described above, the adhesion strength for four substrates and polymer were calculated. By comparing the adhesion energy of each system, the order of adhesion strength for the calculated systems was derived and interesting results were obtained. This will be very useful in searching for new materials that can improve the adhesion strength between polymer and copper substrate which is currently used for electronic devices such as mobile phone and display. Through this process, Hitachi is able to shorten their design cycle from three or more months to about one month resulting in savings in time and cost.

* Dr Jin Hongmei is the Principal Investigator of this joint project and a Senior Research Engineer (Multiscale Modelling), Computational Science & Engineering Programme.

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In electronic devices, good adhesion of polymers with metals is an important subject.

Hitachi is impressed by the quality of IHPC’s researchers,

computing facilities and software. Through the recent IHPC-

Hitachi collaborations, Hitachi’s engineers have gained

deeper understanding of the problem at hand, whilst at the

same time able to leverage on IHPC’s talents and industry

relevance. Hitachi would like to keep a long term relationship

through joint technological projects as well as exchanges

between both parties senior management teams.

- Dr Shinobu Yoshida of Hitachi-MERL.

8 December 2008

IHPC successfully concluded its pilot science fiction writing competition “Science Chronicles – A Literary Quest” with a Prize Awards Ceremony, held on 4th July 2008 at IHPC. A total of 103 entries were submitted by 113 students from 20 schools. Within the secondary category, there were 82 entries while 21 other submissions came from the Junior College category. The students had a wide option to choose on what they would like to write about, as long as the story had an element of science in it. The aim was afterall, to foster and cultivate the next generation of science thinkers and writers who can apply their knowledge of science with the art of imaginative literary creation.

Indeed, the submissions by the students included a wide spread of stories about advanced robots, artificial intelligence, advanced visualisation and simulation technologies being used, societies in the future, science fiction spiced with romance, militaristic wars between aliens and humans / humans and robots, nuclear annihilation, new earth & life after a nuclear explosion, time travel, immortality, genetic engineering/ cloning, advances in medical science with new types of implants and procedures to improve lives, etc. It was encouraging to see the creativity of our students

in this area and the efforts they have put into creating credible stories with science and technology woven into their work. After 2 months of deliberation, a total of 31 entries were shortlisted and they were individually assessed by a panel of judges. They were Ms Bernadette Foong who is the Deputy Executive Director of A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council, Mr Koh Buck Song - a writer and media consultant as well as the campaign strategist with Hill & Knowlton and Ms Rosemary Lim, a writer and editor who was the winner of the 1999 Asia Pacific Commonwealth Short Story Competition and the 1998 Singapore Literature Prize. The organisers are grateful to the judges for their time and effort in selecting the winners. The 31 entries can be found on the website www.science-chronicles.com.

Congratulations once again to all the winners and our thanks to schools for their support in this pilot competition. We hope that in the near future, Singapore will have its own visionary writers who can convey more awareness of science and technology in our everyday lives through their literary creations.

outreachBy Corporate Comms comms@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

Fostering Next Generation of Sci-Fi WritersScience Chronicles’ Prize Awards Ceremony

Consolation winners from Category A.

Audience at the awards ceremony.

Commendation winners from Category B.

Shaun Ee, Vishesh Mittal and Asra Siddiqui enjoyed their chat with Rosemary Lim after the Prize Awards Ceremony.

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“The competition was awesome! And so were the prizes. I have never participated in any other ‘writing’ competition,

so I really cannot compare it with anything else. But one good thing that I would point out is that the website

was kept updated. And the finalist entries are uploaded for every one to have a look. This is not the case with

most competitions I know of. I have told the juniors in my college about this competition and advised them to

participate next year.”

Vishesh Mittal, Anglo Chinese Junior College & 1st prize co-winner, Category B

“For an inaugural competition, such a response is indeed quite encouraging. Not to mention the quality of the

entries in the top three. The only concern after this year will be promoting the competition further and getting a

larger response. Perhaps a magazine with the published entries? There are quite a few talents out there waiting

for such an opportunity.”

Asra Siddiqui, NUS High School for Maths and Science & consolation prize winner, Category B.

“I think that it’s excellent that such a genre-specific competition has arisen, since it does well to encourage the

genre in Singapore.”

Shaun Ee, Raffles Institution & 1st prize winner, Category A.

Category A Winners1stPrize : Shaun Ee Kai Ern – Raffles Institution 2ndPrize : Kong Ming Wai – National Junior College 3rdPrize : Yeo You Wei – St Joseph’s Institution

CommendationPrizes : Jacqueline Lee – Anglican High School : Jason Tay – St Joseph’s Institution : Foong Ke Wei – Dunman High School : Chloe Chua – Raffles Girls’ School

ConsolationPrizes : Lim Shu Hui – National Junior College : Chong Ren Jean – National Junior College : Teo Shu De – Raffles Institution : Benjamin Chin – St Joseph’s Institution : Ng Qiu Lin – National Junior College : Ong Yi Lin – Anglican High School : Belle Ong – National Junior College : Xie Hui Ling – Raffles Girls’ School : Shana Yap – Pierce Secondary School : Joanne Han & Amanda Wong – Anglican High School

Category B Winners1stPrize : Mohit Khandelwal – Anglo-Chinese Junior College Vishesh Mittal – Anglo-Chinese Junior College2ndPrize : Leonard Lim – Catholic Junior College 3rdPrize : Zhuo Xuewen – Temasek Junior College

CommendationPrizes : Tasmana Ishat – Victoria Junior College : Philip Chan & Chin Guo Jie – Hwa Chong Institution : Samuel Ng – Hwa Chong Institution : David Low – Catholic Junior College

ConsolationPrizes : Bob Wong – Hwa Chong Institution : Deborah Tan – Catholic Junior College : Asra Siddiqui – NUS High School : Sarah Tan – Victoria Junior College : Sherry Chan – Temasek Junior College : Maria Andriani – Temasek Junior College : Shashank Gupta & Mainak Ghosh – National Junior College

Rosemary Lim gave a short address to the students.

Cat A: 1st prize winner - Shaun Ee from RI.

Cat B: 1st prize joint winner - Vishesh Mittal from ACJC.

His co-writer Mohit Khandelwal was unable to attend

the Awards Ceremony.

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visitsBy Corporate Comms comms@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

Since moving to Fusionopolis, IHPC has played host to many government officials and industry partners. In the course of their visit to IHPC, these visitors are often shown to its state-of-the-art Visualisation Chamber, where it is used in both research and for industry projects, to simulate various scenarios in 3-D images. At the same time, visitors are also introduced to Lightdraw, its in-house developed software that uses ordinary light sources such as laser pointers to interact with a computer screen.

On 21st August, Mr S Iswaran, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industy and members of A*STAR’s Board of Directors visited IHPC. Demonstrations of IHPC’s visualisation facilities and new research tools like Lightdraw were showcased during this visit.

During the same month, Dr Ryoji Chubachi, President and Electronics CEO of Sony Corporation Japan paid a visit to IHPC. Besides the visualisation facilities, he was also given a tour of the A*CRC Data Centre in Fusionopolis.

IHPC Showcases its New Visualisation Chamber

All goggles on at the Visualisation Chamber for a 3-D demonstration. Mr Lim Chuan Poh (front row, second from left) with the A*STAR Board members at the LightDraw demonstration.

Dr Su Yi is introduced to Mr S. Iswaran by Dr Raj. Thampuran.

Dr Raj. Thampuran and Prof Chong Tow Chong in discussion with Dr Ryoji Chubachi during the Sony visit.

Prof Chong Tow Chong, ED of SERC sharing a light moment with Dr Ryoji Chubachi.

Delegates from Sony Corporation, Japan during their visit to IHPC.

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Familiarising the Media with FusionopolisAs a prelude to the Opening of Fusionopolis, A*STAR invited the local and international media to tour the towering complex and experience the uniqueness of its work-live-play-learn environment. Local media representatives from The Straits Times, The Business Times, Lianhe Zaobao, Channel News Asia, The New Paper, Today as well as international ones such as Reuters, Bloomberg News, Agence France – Presse (AFP) and Discovery Channel Magazine were brought to the IHPC Visualisation Chamber where they were given a demonstration on the cutting-edge capabilities in modelling and simulation. Through the 3D Urban-planning model demonstration and Lightdraw project, the media was able to understand how computational science can be applied to serve a wide array of research needs and uses. The media was especially impressed with the Lightdraw project and sees in it a lot of potential for an interactive experience for large-scale displays.

The tour would not be complete without a visit to the A*STAR Computational Resource Centre (A*CRC), which comprises of the Network Operation Centre (NOC) and the Data Centre. The NOC monitors the operations of the data centre and network infrastructure. Parameters such as air-conditioning, temperature, electricity, fire alarm, security access, network bandwidth, etc are monitored and managed from this centralised location.

Members of the media had a tour of Fusionopolis and IHPC’s visualisation facilities to find out more about working in an R&D hub.

The new supercomputing facilities at Fusionopolis has a total compute resource of 16 Tflops. It provides the necessary IT infrastructure in a research-friendly environment to support compute-intensive R&D projects undertaken by A*STAR researchers, research students and collaborators in upstream and user-inspired research.

As scientific models become more complex from the immense amount of data available, the demands for processing power and storage capacity will also increase and the new A*CRC is geared to meet the future demands of the research community. At the same time, with faster analysis being sought by both researchers and collaborators, the services provided by the A*CRC will enhance productivity, reduce cost through time savings and increased competitiveness for industrial partners.

The A*CRC provides the following resource and services:

• Compute resource on multiple operating platforms to support a full spectrum of users.

• Comprehensive range of third-party software for a variety of applications.

• A friendly and informative web portal.

• Highly-trained high performance computing support staff to administer and optimise the use of compute resources.

About the new A*CRC

View of the A*CRC’s Network Operation Centre.

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Editorial TeamJerry LimJoanne TanDaryl Yap

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in The NewsBy Corporate Comms comms@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

Congratulations to Mr Wu Yan, an NSS (PhD) scholar with the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), who was awarded a Certificate of Merit for The 2008 International Conference of Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering for his paper entitled ‘Detect Climate Factors Contributing to Dengue Outbreak based on Wavelet, Support Vector Machines and Genetic Algorithms’ by the International Association of Engineers.

The paper was one out of 591 papers accepted (Acceptance rate: 57.43%) at The World Congress on Engineering (WCE) 2008. Mr Wu Yan’s paper was ranked among the top ten percent of papers selected and has also been invited to be part of an edited book, titled “Advances in Electrical Engineering and Computational Science” to be published by Springer for WCE 2008.

Wu Yan is currently pursuing his PhD on Computational Neuroscience at Imperial College in London.

A*STAR Scholar receives Certificate of Merit at Prestigious Computational Science Conference

Mr Wu Yan (left) with fellow IHPC researchers

from the Advanced Computing Programme.

IHPC sends Season’s Greetings

and a Happy New Year

to all our readers!