USC Research Cyberinfrastructure (RCI) Activities
2014- 1st Quarter
Phil Moore, Director of Research Cyberinfrastructure, phil@sc.edu
http://www.sc.edu/rci
Management
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RCI hosted seminar and collaboration discussions with Dr. Bhanu Rekepalli from
National Institute for Computational Sciences (ORNL, UT). Seminar topic was “Impact of
Next-Generation High Performance Computing Architectures on Life Sciences Research
Moore discussed Shared University Research (SUR) award program with IBM corporate
representatives
RCI relocated from Law School to Tower Building, 1301 Gervais St., Suite 750
INTEL microcontrollers distributed to RCI, McCausland Institute, USC-Beafort and CEC
for evaluation
Incorporated two-factor login authentication for all HPC accounts
Conferences and Workshops
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NVIDIA GPU conference, San Diego, CA (Sagona, Elger)
Agile Programming workshop, USC-UTS (Moore, Torkian)
Monthly USC Scientific Python Users Group meetings hosted by RCI (Torkian, Elger)
Scientific visualization workshop, Clemson University (Torkian)
Southern Crossroads (SoX) regional workshop, Atlanta (Moore, Torkian)
Research Faculty Engagement
A current list of HPC users and applications is available from Dr. Phil Moore (phil@sc.edu)
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Physics (Johnson, Moore)
Provided software development implementation plan for ASPIRE grant proposal
McNair Institute (Van Tooren, Sagona)
Specified engineering workstations to satisfy CATIA aerospace engineering application
requirements
Mechanical Engineering (Bokinsky, Torkian)
Recommended software development tools for engineering application
Chemistry (Garashchuk, Rassolov, Sagona, Torkian, Elger, Moore)
Discussed support of computational chemistry application on HPC cluster
McCausland Brain Imaging Center (Rorden, Torkian)
Developed parallel accelerated GPU MATLAB prototype application for brain imaging
analysis simulation for grant proposal
Chemical Engineering (Heyden, Sagona, Moore)
Discussed future NSF grant proposal opportunities for High Performance Computing
Technical Meetings
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IBM (Moore, Sagona, Elger)
Presentations by IBM providing information about HPC and data storage solutions
Hewlett Packard (Moore, Sagona)
Technology updates from HP management and engineers about HPC and data storage
solutions