High Performance Computing Day
May 21, 2019: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8-8:45 a.m. | Registration and coffee / breakfast – Supported by Microway |
| 8:45-9 a.m. | Opening Remarks
Nourredine Melikechi, Dean of Kennedy College of Sciences, UMass Lowell |
| 9-10 a.m. | KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Kirk Jordan, IBM Data centric systems: Algorithm exploitation & evolving AI / Cognitive examples |
| 10-10:25 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 10:25-10:55 a.m. | Mark Hempstead, Tufts Univ.
Workload Characterization Tools for Every Need: From Architecture Agnostic Classification of Communication to Trace-based Simulation of Multi-Threaded Workloads |
| 11-11:30 a.m. | Stephen de Bruyn Kops, UMass Amherst
Why huge simulations are invaluable for understanding fluid flow physics |
| 11:35 a.m. -12:05 p.m. | Mary Jo Ondrechen, Northeastern University
Electrostatic networks in natural enzymes: What can we learn for protein engineering? |
| 12:05-1:15 p.m. | Lunch - Supported by Dell EMC |
| 1:15-1:30 p.m. | Julia Levites, NVIDIA
GPU Hackathons – accelerating applications through hands-on experience and collaboration |
| 1:30-2 p.m. | Stratis Ioannidis, Northeastern University
Distributing Frank-Wolfe via Map-Reduce |
| 2:05-2:35 p.m. | Nurit Haspel, UMass Boston
Detecting Large Scale Chromosomal Rearrangements: A big data challenge |
| 2:40-3:10 p.m. | Noah Van Dam, UMass Lowell
Using HPC for engine and fuel spray simulations |
| 3:10-4 p.m. | Coffee break and poster session |
| 4-4:30 p.m. | Maricris Mayes, UMass Dartmouth
Quantum chemical study of the initial-assembly of aromatic dipeptides into nanosturectures for biomedical applications |
| 4:35-5:10 p.m. | Benoit Forget, MIT
High-fidelity nuclear reactor simulations and the need for Exascale computing |
| 5:15-5:40 p.m. | Dmitry Korkin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Frozen: Finding genomic elements that are extremely conserved in evolution using cache-oblivious computing |
| 5:45-6 p.m. | Poster prizes and closing remarks
Julie Chen, Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, UMass Lowell |