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A Real-Time, High-Resolution Regional Forecast System for the Gulf of Mexico

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2013 Tuesday, April 2
Location: 
CG1 Auditoriums
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Raffaele Montuoro

Authors: Raffaele Montuoro, Jaison Kurian, Ping Chang, R. Saravanan

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Dr. Raffaele Montuoro is Senior Lead IT Consultant with the Texas A&M University Supercomputing Facility in College Station, TX. He joined Texas A&M University in 2004, after working as IT consultant for Eutelsat SA in Paris, France. Dr. Montuoro holds a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy, and has developed innovative numerical models used for accurate calculations of photoionization phenomena. In 2010, some of his recent work in code optimization has been featured in the national press. Dr. Montuoro is currently collaborating with investigators at Texas A&M and PNNL to create a comprehensive high-resolution coupled regional climate model for simulations over the Atlantic Ocean.

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WRF-Hydro modeling system development and Performance Test

Date and Time: 
2013 Tuesday, April 2
Location: 
CG1 Auditoriums
Speaker: 
Wei Yu

Authors: Wei Yu, David Gochis, David Yates

Speaker Description: 

Wei Yu obtained his MS degree in meteorology from China in 1994 and worked in China Meteorological Center for four years in parallel computation. He received the master degree in computer science from FSU in 2002. He worked in NCAR since 2002 and obtained PHD in Atmosphere and Oceanography from CU in 2011 while working in NCAR. His main working experiences include: FSU global spectral model parallelization, CCSM testing and porting, development of hybrid-data assimilation system with Satellite Radiance and Radar data. He is presently working as software engineer in WRF-Hydro development.

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Statistic Multiplexed Computing (SMC): An Neglected Path to Unlimited Application Scalability

Date and Time: 
2013 Tuesday, April 2
Location: 
CG1 Auditoriums
Speaker: 
Justin Y. Shi

Authors: Justin Y. Shi

Speaker Description: 

Justin Y. Shi is also known as Yuan Shi, graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in China specialized in Computer Engineering in 1979. He earned his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in U.S. in 1983 and 1984 respectively. His dissertation provided a unique solution to the distributed synchronization and termination problems for the Link econometric simulation project led by Professor and Nobel Laureate Lawrence Klein from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Shi’s teaching and research career started at Temple University since 1985. He was granted two patents for the design of large scale heterogeneous parallel computing. He is also the co-inventor of the DBx system with his former student Suntian Song with Parallel Computers Technology Inc. in King of Prussia of Pennsylvania, an independent research and development company he founded since 1997.

Dr. Shi was elected and appointed as the Chairman for the Computer and Information Sciences Department of Temple University from 2007-2009. He has been appointed as the Associate Chairman and Graduate Program Chair since 2009. He is a member of the Graduate Board of Temple University, a board member for Center of Responsible Journalism of Temple University and a member of Technology Advisory Committee for the Pennsylvania State Benjamin Franklin Technology Partnership Program.

Since early 1980’s, Dr. Shi’s research has been focused on programming paradigms and architectures for extreme scale systems using volatile resources. He is the architect and chief programmer for the Synergy parallel processing system. His recent discoveries include the imperfections in OSI 7-layer communication model and statistic multiplexed computing architectures for compute intensive and data intensive applications. His research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health and other U.S. Government entities. His 2012 projects include the construction of Temple University private HPC Clout (TCloud), peer-to-peer Hadoop File System (p2pHDFS) and Growshare.net – an auction-based civic exchange mobile social network.

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The Data Access Service Architecture for LaTiS

Date and Time: 
2013 Monday, April 1
Location: 
CG1 Auditoriums
Speaker: 
Doug Lindholm

Authors: Doug Lindholm

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Doug has been wrangling science data since the early 1990s. He is currently managing the science data system for the SORCE spacecraft and providing data access technologies at CU's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)

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Distributed-Memory Dense Linear Algebra Program Generation

Date and Time: 
2013 Tuesday, April 2
Location: 
CG1 Auditoriums
Speaker: 
Bryan Marker

Authors: Bryan Marker, Don Batory, and Robert van de Geijn

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Bryan Marker is a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin. He is an NSF and Sandia fellow researching automatic program generation, especially in the domain of high-performance dense linear algebra.

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SEEDME: Your results from disk to device

Date and Time: 
2013 Monday, April 1
Location: 
CG1 Auditoriums
Speaker: 
Amit Chourasia

Authors: Amit Chourasia, Mona Wong, Michael Norman

Speaker Description: 

Amit Chourasia leads the Visualization Services group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. His work is focused on leading the research, development and application of software tools and techniques for scientific visualization; for data typically generated by massively large computer simulations in various fields of science and engineering. Key aspect of his work is to find ways to represent data in a visual form that is clear, succint and accurate (a challenging yet very exciting endeavour).

Amit's application and research interests are in area of animation, computer graphics, visualization and visual perception. He received a Master's degree in Computers Graphics Technology from Purdue University, West Lafayette and a Baccalaureate degree in Architecture (Honors) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Notable accolades for his work include Honorable Mention at International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2010, Outstanding Achievement in Scientific Visualization award at the SciDAC 2011 & 2009 and Best Visualization Display award at TeraGrid 2011 & 2008 conferences. His visualization work has been featured at Siggraph Animation Festival, Siggraph Real Time Demos, documentaries by National Geographic and History Channel and many other news and media outlets.

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ChArctic: From Hackathon to Production

Date and Time: 
2013 Monday, April 1
Location: 
CG1 Auditoriums
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Kevin Beam

Authors: Kevin Beam, Matt Savoie, Hannah Wilcox

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Kevin is a software developer at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). His background includes software development in C++, Java, and Ruby, and is currently focused on science development at NSIDC, using Python whenever he can.

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3D Display and Gesture Technology For Scientific Programming

Date and Time: 
2013 Monday, April 1
Location: 
CG1 Auditoriums
Speaker: 
Eric Hackathorn, Jeff Smith

Authors: Eric Hackathorn, Jeff Smith

We will discuss development for touch screens, holographic (Z-space) displays, and the new Leap Motion using the 3D gaming engine, Unity 3D, in the context of developing our spinning globe application for NOAA called TerraViz. After a relatively brief talk, we'll conclude with a "show and tell" session so conference participants can come up and play with these devices themselves.

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Eric Hackathorn is the project manager for Data Visualization, Simulation, and Games at NOAA. The project leverages game mechanics and technology for a variety of projects and has unique expertise straddling science, education, and entertainment. Recently, under the leadership of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Eric participated in the creation of a Federal Games Guild. The goals for this community include knowledge sharing, collaborating on shared challenges, and identifying cross-agency needs pertaining to the effective use of games in government. Eric has served on advisory boards for NASA and NSF grants and worked on projects with several government agencies including NOAA, NASA, DOE, and the DOD. He is also a recipient of Federal Computer Week’s “Fed 100.”

Jeff Smith is a software engineer for CIRA and NOAA and works on a variety of projects related to big data, web applications, and data visualization. He's taught a variety of classes in software design and will be co-teaching a video game design class at the University of Colorado in Boulder in the fall of 2013. He's a two time recipient of the CIRA Research Initiative Award and was the 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year.

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Moving Weather Model Ensembles To A Geospatial Database

Date and Time: 
2013 Tuesday, April 2
Location: 
CG1 Auditoriums
Speaker: 
Jeff Smith

Authors: Jeff Smith

Moving weather model gridded data to a geospatial database enables forecasters and researchers to access and analyze the data in novel ways. My import program moves the NCEP 40km SREF (short range ensemble forecast) to PostGIS for the Aviation Weather Center, and I've also developed a web service interface (for external applications to leverage) as well as an HTML 5 web application. In this talk, I'll discuss the performance implications of accessing gridded data in PostGIS as well as the great potential for data mining.

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Jeff Smith is a software engineer for CIRA and NOAA and works on a variety of projects related to big data, web applications, and data visualization. He's taught a variety of classes in software design and will be co-teaching a video game design class at the University of Colorado in Boulder in the fall of 2013. He's a two time recipient of the CIRA Research Initiative Award and was the 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year.

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ARM & NCAR Collaboration on LROSE and Py-ART

Date and Time: 
2013 Tuesday, April 2
Location: 
CG1 Auditoriums
Speaker: 
Scott Collis and Joe VanAndel

Authors: Scott Collis, Joe VanAndel, Jonathan Helmus, Mike Dixon

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Scott Collis is radar metereologist at Argonne National Lab.

Joe VanAndel is a software engineer in the Remote Sensing Facility in EOL

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