 Virginia Tech had a strong presence at SC/07, the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, held November 10-16 in Reno, NV. Faculty had the opportunity to present their research in high-performance computing. An award was also in store for the department!
On Tuesday, November 13, Ali Butt and Henry Monti gave a talk entitled "Data Offloading Service for HPC Centers" at the ACM Petascale Data Storage Workshop at SC|07, and Keith Bisset spoke about "HPC Modeling of Epidemics" at the Virginia Tech booth.
On Wednesday, November 14, Pavan Balaji and Wu Feng, as part of the SC|07 Technical Program, gave a talk entitled "Analyzing the Impact of Supporting Out-of-order Communication on In-order Performance with iWARP." Dimitrios Nikolopoulos also gave a talk entitled "Polymorphic Parallelization on Accelerator-Based Multi-core Architectures" as part of a Birds-of-a-Feather Session on "Unleashing the Power of the Cell Broadband Engine Processor for HPC."
On Thursday 15, Wu Feng and Kirk Cameron presented the much-awaited "Green500 List" (photo). In addition, Pavan Balaji of Argonne National Laboratory, Wu Feng and Jeremy Archuleta of Virginia Tech, and Heshan Lin of North Carolina State University, won the Storage Challenge Award for "ParaMEDIC: Parallel Metadata Environment for Distributed I/O and Computing".
Congratulations to the faculty for their excellent presence and hard work!
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