National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois

NCSA at SC12

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) provides powerful computers and expert support that help thousands of scientists and engineers across the country better understand our world. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where NCSA is based, is known for its excellence in computer science and electrical and computer engineering. It is home to the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies, the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center, the Illinois Cloud Computing Testbed, the Parallel Computing Institute, and is a CUDA Center of Excellence.

Visit booth #1030 on the SC12 exhibit floor to learn more about NCSA and Illinois.

Questions? Contact Trish Barker, 217-390-3593.

XSEDE at SC12

NCSA also leads the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). This multisite collaboration represents the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world.

Visit booth #2031 on the SC12 exhibit floor to learn more about the XSEDE project.

The schedule of XSEDE-related events is now available.

Questions? Contact Susan McKenna, 217-265-5167.

Play Flops Fever!

Flops Fever is a mobile game, designed and programmed by University of Illinois students, that puts you in charge of getting work done on a massive supercomputer. Can you juggle jobs—such as modeling molecules and simulating severe storms—or will your queue explode? Download this FREE game for iOS or Android.

Technical Program

NCSA and the University of Illinois are participating in a number of events during the SC12 technical program.

Sunday, Nov. 13

Tutorial: Parallel Programming with Migratable Objects for Performance and Productivity
Authors: Laxmikant V. Kale, Eric J. Bohm
8:30 a.m. - noon

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Monday, Nov. 12

Tutorial: Advanced MPI
Authors: William Gropp, Ewing Lusk, Robert Ross, Rajeev Thakur
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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Tutorial: Developing and Tuning Parallel Scientific Applications in Eclipse
Authors: Beth R. Tibbitts, Greg Watson, Jay Alameda, Jeff Overbey
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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Tuesday, Nov. 13

BOF: The 2012 HPC Challenge Awards, HPC Challenge Class 2
Author: Laxmikant Kale
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

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Scientific Visualization Showcase: Investigation of Turbulence in the Early Stages of a High Resolution Supernova Simulation
Authors: Robert Sisneros, Chris Malone, Stan Woosley, Andy Nonaka
5:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

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Scientific Visualization Showcase: Cosmology on the Blue Waters Early Science System
Author: Dave Semeraro
5:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

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BOF: XSEDE User Meeting
Organizers: John Towns, Glenn Brook
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

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BOF: Scientific Application Performance in Heterogeneous Supercomputing Clusters
Organizers: Wen-mei Hwu, Jeffrey Vetter, Nacho Navarro
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

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Wednesday, Nov. 14

BOF: Building an Open Community Runtime (OCR) framework for Exascale Systems
Organizers: Vivek Sarkar, Barbara Chapman, William Gropp
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

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BOF: Unistack: Interoperable Community Runtime Environment for Exascale Systems
Organizers: Pavan Balaji, Laxmikant Kale
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

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Paper: Optimizing Fine-Grained Communication in a Biomolecular Simulation Application on Cray XK6
Authors: Yanhua Sun, Gengbin Zheng, Chao Mei, Eric J. Bohm, Laxmikant V. Kale, James C. Phillips, Terry R. Jones
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

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