USC Research Cyberinfrastructure (RCI) Activities
2014- 2nd Quarter
Phil Moore, Director of Research Cyberinfrastructure, phil@sc.edu
http://www.sc.edu/rci
Management
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RCI hosted a four-day XSEDE HPC summer bootcamp workshop covering hybrid
computing, MPI, OpenMP, and OpenACC, 17 students participated
Relocated Planck HPC cluster to Swearingen
Installed RCI ‘Condo’ base cluster (9 nodes-180 cores) and additional Institute for Mind
Brain compute nodes (6 nodes-120 cores) in UTS Annex datacenter
Dell “Seed” server (60 Intel I7 cores) received for evaluation
Organized meeting with the CEC and CAS IT staff to discuss current MATLAB licenses
Organized meeting with college IT staff and USC MathWorks sales representatives to
discuss campus academic license
Sponsored student workshop taught by MathWorks applications engineer presenting
features of latest MATLAB release and Toolboxes, 114 students attended
Discussed Open Science Grid and access to high energy physics data (Pordes, Moore,
McSwain)
Participated in collaboration meeting with VPR, SRNL and research faculty (Moore)
Accepted invitation to review ACM Modeling and Simulation 2015 conference
submissions (Moore)
Interview published in UofSC-Today news article covering RCI group expertise, USC High
Performance Computing (HPC) activities and contact information (Moore)
Conferences and Workshops
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ACM Modeling and Simulation 2014 Conference, Tampa, FL (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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USC School of Medicine (M. Nargakatti, ,Yang, Moore)
Discussed research applications, network connectivity and remote data sites
Marine Science (Morris, Torkian, Moore)
Converted Excel –Visual Basic salt marsh model to Python-Matplotlib
McCausland Brain Imaging Center (Rorden, Torkian)
Achieved 100X speedup of FSL brain imaging calculations using NVIDIA GPU and Parallel
Matlab for grant proposal
Physics (Johnson, Moore, Torkian, Sagona, Elger, Students)
Hired graduate and undergraduate students for ASPIRE Python software development
projects
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Mechanical Engineering (Cao, Torkian, Moore)
Discussed software development collaboration
Institute for Mind Brain (Richards, Henderson, Fillmore, Heller, Moore, Sagona,
Torkian)
Reviewed HPC hardware and software requirements for brain simulation and analysis
Electron Microscopy Center (Ghoshroy, Moore)
Discussed collaboration opportunities
Earth and Ocean Sciences (Owens, Voulgarus, Moore)
Discussed potential collaboration topics
Computer Science and Engineering (Matthews, Sagona, Elger)
Configured HPC cluster resource and created accounts for computer science parallel
programming class
Test HPC cluster for BLAST simulations (Norman, Sagona, Student)
Hired undergrad student to restore HPC cluster located in School of Public Health
Earth Science Research Institute (C. Knapp, Torkian)
Migrated petroleum research database from Access to PostgreSQL database
English Department (Gavin, Sagona, Torkian)
Installed application on HPC cluster for modeling complex systems
Philosophy Department (Dickson, Lin, Dougherty, Sagona)
Discussed development environment on HPC cluster for multi-agent neural network
GPU application
Computer Science and Engineering (Bakos, Gao, Moore)
Moore on Yang Gao’s Ph.D. Committee
Technical Meetings
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UTS (McSwain, Wagner, Minor, Miller, Moore, Sagona, Elger)
Technical meeting to document network and power requirements for new RCI condo
cluster in Annex Datacenter
Hewlett Packard (Moore, Sagona)
Technology updates from HP engineers providing information about current and future
HPC systems and cluster data storage solutions