Cray
HPCwire

Since 1986 - Covering the Fastest Computers
in the World and the People Who Run Them

Language Flags

Visit additional Tabor Communication Publications

Datanami
Digital Manufacturing Report
HPC in the Cloud
Green Computing Report

Tabor Communications
Corporate Video

At XSEDE13 Conference, Jul 24 Panel On Bioscience and Computation


A panel of distinguished experts will discuss the role of computation and data analytics in supporting biological discovery when XSEDE13—the annual conference focusing on science, education, outreach, software, and technology related to the National Science Foundation's eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment—is held July 22-25 at the San Diego Marriott Marquis and Marina in downtown San Diego.

One day of the conference (July 24) will be devoted to work in the biosciences. In addition to the panel discussion, there will be plenary talks, paper presentations, lightning talks, posters and a gallery of scientific visualizations.

"I think it's important for computational scientists to think deeply about the coming challenges in the biosciences, and this panel and the other activities and presentations will provide an excellent opportunity to further these connections," said Nancy Wilkins-Diehr of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, XSEDE13 general chair and co-director of XSEDE's Extended Collaborative Support Services.

Moderating the panel will be Kevin Patrick, professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2). Panelists will be:

  • Alex Dickinson, senior vice president, Cloud Genomics, Illumina. In this role, he is responsible for building a bioinformatics ecosystem for Illumina's customers to connect with academic, commercial and open-source tool providers to accelerate genomic data analysis.
  • Donald Jones, chief digital officer at the Scripps Translational Science Institute and vice president of global strategy and market development for Qualcomm Life. He is responsible for Qualcomm's development of wireless technologies and platforms in the health, fitness and life sciences markets.
  • Darryl León, associate director, product management, Life Technologies. He is responsible for developing bioinformatics software and hardware solutions to support next-gen sequencing instruments and has more than 10 years' experience with software informatics companies.
  • Karen Nelson, president, J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). She has extensive experience in microbial ecology, microbial genomics, microbial physiology and metagenomics. Since joining the JCVI, she has led several genomic and metagenomic efforts, including leading the first human metagenomics study, which was published in 2006.
  • Glen Otero, Life Sciences HPC Solution Architect, Dell. He is responsible for capturing computational biology requirements from customers and incorporating them into HPC design recommendations for Dell's HPC Group. He also works closely with Dell's partners to research and document various aspects of bioinformatics application performance.
  • Nicholas Schork, director of bioinformatics and biostatistics at the Scripps Translational Science Institute, his expertise is quantitative human genetics and genomics, especially the design and implementation of methodologies to dissect the genetic basis of complex traits and diseases.

The annual XSEDE conference brings together hundreds of technologists, researchers, educators, and students from across the country. For full bios of all of the panelists and more about Biosciences Day, see https://www.xsede.org/web/xsede13/biosciences-day

Sponsored Links

High-Performance Computing in Action
Businesses that want to be on the cutting edge of their industries are increasingly turning to high-performance computing (HPC) solutions to handle complex compute processes and speed up their rate of innovation. Download this Executive Brief to see how businesses in energy, life sciences and entertainment put HPC solutions to work in their operations.

Webinar: Programming Heterogeneous X64+GPU Systems Using OpenACC
Join Michael Wolfe as he compares the advantages and costs of using both low-level models and the directive-based OpenACC model for programming accelerated heterogeneous systems. Registration is free.

Accelerate your science with Seneca
One of the first HPC providers installing a 4X NVIDIA Kepler K-20 cluster. Invites you to a free evaluation on Seneca’s NVIDIA K20 Kepler cluster, pre-loaded with AMBER, NAMD, LAMMPS

May 23, 2013

May 22, 2013

May 21, 2013

May 20, 2013

May 17, 2013

May 16, 2013

May 15, 2013

May 14, 2013

May 13, 2013

May 10, 2013


Most Read Features

Most Read Around the Web

Most Read This Just In

Supermicro

Feature Articles

NSF Forges Further Beyond FLOPs

In a recent solicitation, the NSF laid out needs for furthering its scientific and engineering infrastructure with new tools to go beyond top performance, Having already delivered systems like Stampede and Blue Waters, they're turning an eye to solving data-intensive challenges. We spoke with the agency's Irene Qualters and Barry Schneider about..
Read more...

CERN, Google Drive Future of Global Science Initiatives

Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Read more...

Saddling Phi for TACC’s Stampede

The Xeon Phi coprocessor might be the new kid on the high performance block, but out of all first-rate kickers of the Intel tires, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) got the first real jab with its new top ten Stampede system.We talk with the center's Karl Schultz about the challenges of programming for Phi--but more specifically, the optimization...
Read more...

Short Takes

Building Supercomputers with Raspberries

May 22, 2013 | At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
Read more...

Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud

May 16, 2013 | When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
Read more...

Computing the Physics of Bubbles

May 15, 2013 | Supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
Read more...

Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications

May 10, 2013 | Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
Read more...

Sponsored Whitepapers

Best Practices in Big Data Storage

05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.

Progress in Parallel: the Bull Parallel Programming Center

04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.

Sponsored Multimedia

SGI DMF ZeroWatt Disk Solution

In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.

Cray CS300-AC Cluster Supercomputer Air Cooling Technology Video

The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.

SC12 Editorial Feature HPCwire Soundbite sponsored by ISC Xyratex

HPC Job Bank


Featured Events


  • June 16, 2013 - June 20, 2013
    ISC'13
    Leipzig,
    Germany

  • June 17, 2013 - June 18, 2013
    Forecast 2013
    San Francisco, CA
    United States





HPCwire Events