U-M prepares for SC16 conference in Salt Lake City

By November 2, 2016 August 5th, 2021 News

University of Michigan researchers and professional research IT staff will participate in the SC16 conference in Salt Lake City from Nov. 13-17 in a number of ways, including demonstrations, presentations and tutorials. Please join us at booth 1543 if you’re at the conference, or at one of the following events:

Sunday, Nov. 13
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Quentin Stout (EECS) and Christiane Jablonowski (CLASP) will teach the “Parallel Computing 101” tutorial.

Monday, Nov. 14 through Thursday, Nov. 17
U-M will exhibit at booth #1543 alongside Michigan State University. The booth will include an ongoing demonstration of the OSiRIS networking and storage project; information on the Yottabyte Research Cloud; and a presentation on ConFlux.

Tuesday, Nov. 15
10:30 a.m.: Todd Raeker, Research Technology Consultant, ARC-TS, will give a talk on ConFlux at the NVIDIA booth (#2231).
11 a.m.: Project PI Shawn McKee (Physics) will give a presentation on OSiRIS at the U-M booth (#1543).
2:15 p.m.: Nilmini Abeyratne, a Ph.D student in computer science, will present “Low Design-Risk Checkpointing Storage Solution for Exascale Supercomputers” at the Doctoral Showcase.
1 – 5 p.m.: Todd Raeker, Research Technology Consultant, ARC-TS, will participate in the IBM Power8 University Group Meeting.
3 p.m.: Representatives from Yottabyte and ARC-TS will give a presentation on the Yottabyte Research Cloud.
3:30 – 5 p.m., Sharon Broude Geva, Director of Advanced Research Computing, will participate in a panel titled “HPC Workforce Development: How Do We Find Them, Recruit Them, and Teach Them to Be Today’s Practitioners and Tomorrow’s Leaders?

Wednesday, Nov. 16
10 a.m.: Representatives from Yottabyte and ARC-TS will give a presentation on the Yottabyte Research Cloud.
11 a.m.: Ben Meekhof, HPC Storage Administrator, ARC-TS, will give a presentation on OSiRIS at the U-M booth (#1543).
1 p.m.: Todd Raeker, Research Technology Consultant, ARC-TS, will give a talk on ConFlux at the U-M booth (#1543).
5:15 – 7 p.m.: Ben Meekhof, HPC Storage Administrator, ARC-TS, will present at a “Birds of a Feather” meeting on “Ceph in HPC Environments.”

Thursday, Nov. 17
11 a.m.: Project PI Shawn McKee (Physics) will give a presentation on OSiRIS at the U-M booth (#1543).
1 p.m.: Todd Raeker, Research Technology Consultant, ARC-TS, will give a talk on ConFlux at the U-M booth (#1543).