USC Research Cyberinfrastructure (RCI) Activities 2013- 3rd Quarter

Phil Moore, Director of Research Cyberinfrastructure, phil@sc.edu

Management

Torkian hired as RCI Senior Applications Scientist

NSF XSEDE “Campus Champion” responsibilities assigned to Torkian

CSE graduate student hired to evaluate GPU acceleration of research applications using

PGI OpenACC compiler

Submitted EPSCoR Track 2 Letter of Interest, “A Collaborative Cyberinfrastructure for

Nuclear Engineering Modeling and Simulation”, USC (Moore-PI, Cacuci, Knight), UPPR

(Cruz), SCSU (Okafor), USC-B (Ji), SRNL (Harris, Hamm, Mendez-Torres, Gorensek,

Garrett)

Met with Chair of Computer Science and Vice Provost for Research Computing at NCSU-

Raleigh to discuss their campus HPC computing environment (RCI, UTS)

Scheduled IBM on-site visit to assess power and cooling capabilities in the UTS Annex

data center facility

Met with Dr. Mezzacappa and the JICS Leadership Team at ORNL-Knoxville to discuss

HPC technologies and collaboration opportunities with University of Tennessee (RCI)

Coordinated several Polycom video teleconference sessions in Law School Conference

room for EPSCoR Track-2 workshops (Elger)

Presentations given to Computer Science and Engineering students enrolled in CSCE 190

to provide information about high performance computing career paths (Huhns, Moore,

Sagona)

Conferences and Workshops

NSF XSEDE National Conference and Workshop, San Diego (Sagona)

Python programming overview for CEC research group (Flora, Caicedo, Torkian, Moore,

Sagona, Students)

Research Faculty Engagement A current list of HPC users and applications is available from Dr. Phil Moore (phil@sc.edu)

Civil Engineering (Chaudhry, Elalfy, Bradshaw, Sagona)

Incorporated OpenACC PGI-Accelerator compiler directives into Fortran simulation

program for 1.5x speedup on NVIDIA GPU hardware

Earth and Ocean Sciences (Bulusu , George, Torkian)

Assisted in migration of satellite data processing programs from Matlab on Mac

Workstation to Python on HPC cluster

USC-Clemson GPU Workshop (Sagona, Bakos, Smith, Sagona, Graduate Students)

Organized meeting at USC to explore common research interests in GPU, PHI, DSP and

FPGA hardware acceleration technologies

Psychology (Shinkareva, Richards, Torkian, Elger)

Installed Python research applications on HPC cluster for fMRI brain image processing

and visualization

Physics (Johnson, Torkian)

Developed prototype Python web interface for MetaMath Python application

College of Arts and Sciences (Zur Loye, Moore, Zhou)

Discussed high performance computing in College of Arts and Sciences

Arnold School of Public Health (Norman, Torkian)

Investigated solutions to decrease BLAST run times and memory requirements by

incorporating a Python wrapper into the workflow

Baruch Institute and EOS (Jefferson, Moore)

Received overview of Wera HF radar sites and remote data collection

Technical Meetings

Savannah River National Laboratory, Computational Sciences (Harris, Ansley, Moore)

Meeting at USC to discuss high-speed fiber connection

IBM (Moore, Sagona, McSwain, Griswold)

Presentations by IBM engineers and sales team at RTP-Raleigh providing information

about HPC systems and data storage

DELL (Moore, Sagona, Elger)

Presentations by Dell engineers and sales team providing information about HPC and

data storage

Hewlett Packard (Sagona)

Technology updates from HP engineers providing information about HPC and data

storage solutions

NetApp (Sagona)

Presentation of high-speed HPC disk storage solutions

Bright Computing (Sagona)

Presentation describing HPC cluster management software

Zyratex (Sagona)

Presentation of high-speed HPC disk storage solutions