Several University of Michigan researchers and professional IT staff attended the Supercomputing 17 (SC17) conference in Denver from Nov. 12-17, participating in a number of different ways, including demonstrations, presentations and tutorials.
U-M participation included:
- Matt McLean, a Big Data systems administrator with ARC-TS, served as a panelist at a session titled “The ARM Software Ecosystem: Are We There Yet?” (Slides)
- Jeff Sica, a research database administrator with ARC-TS, helped lead a Birds of a Feather session titled “Containers in HPC.” (Slides)
- Quentin Stout (EECS) and Christiane Jablonowski (CLASP) taught the “Parallel Computing 101” tutorial.
- Shawn McKee, U-M Department of Physics, and OSiRIS Principal Investigator, demonstrated Object Storage and Caching for Science (network topology diagrams)
- Eric Boyd, Director of Research Networks, presented on Research Networking at the University of Michigan at the U-M exhibit booth.
- Simon Adorf, Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering Department, U-M, presented on Simple Data and Workflow Management with Signac and GPU-Accelerated Predictive Material Design at the U-M exhibit booth.
- ARC sponsored a networking and career networking reception put on by Women in HPC. ARC Director Sharon Broude Geva spoke at the event.
- Amy Liebowitz, a network architect at ITS, worked on SCINet, a high-capacity network created every year for the conference. Liebowitz was on the routing team, which is responsible for installing, configuring and supporting the high performance conference network. The Routing Team also coordinated external connectivity with commodity Internet and R&E WAN service providers.