NCSA Video on Demand archive, page 18

SC11: Power Optimization: A 'Cool' Load Balancer for Parallel Applications
Posted: November 14, 2011

University of Illinois professor Sanjay Kale discusses his techniques to cooling processors to cut back on energy costs.

Full-length Quicktime .mov (~43 MB)
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SC11: Performance Modeling for Systematic Performance Tuning
Posted: November 8, 2011

Torsten Hoefler discusses the performance modeling method that NCSA will present during the SC11 State of the Practice and how performance modeling can be used to improve application performance.

Full-length Quicktime .mov (~63 MB)
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How to use a supercomputer
Posted: October 19, 2011

How do researchers from across the country use NCSA's supercomputers for astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, and a host of other challenges?

Full-length Quicktime .mov (~33 MB)
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SC11: Modeling and Tolerating Heterogeneous Failures in Large Parallel Systems
Posted: October 12, 2011

Illinois PhD student Ana Gainaru describes work she and collaborators at NCSA and INRIA will present at SC11.

Full-length Quicktime .mov (~24 MB)
Full-size Flash video

SC11: Scaling to 100 Million Atoms
Posted: October 4, 2011

Eric Bohm from the Illinois Parallel Programming Laboratory discusses the challenges and solutions involved scaling the NAMD molecular dynamics application to support both extremely large systems and to run on extremely large machines.

Full-length Quicktime .mov (~60 MB)
Full-size Flash video