July 10 — The second annual Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC18) conference takes place July 22-26 at the Wyndham Grand Downtown in Pittsburgh.
PEARC18 offers tutorials, panel discussions, invited talks, workshops, posters, Birds of a Feather sessions and research papers. Some of the key topics to be covered include:
Bytes and BTUs: Lessons Learned from the World’s Most Energy Efficient Data Center (Steve Hammond, National Renewable Energy Center) — Tuesday, July 24, 8am
Towards a National Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem: The Role of Software Institutes (Vipin Chaudhary, National Science Foundation) — Tuesday, July 24, 8am
Neuroscience and Advanced Computing (Gregory Farber, National Institute of Mental Health) — Wednesday, July 25, 8am
Using Advanced Computing to Recover Black Women’s Lost History (Ruby Mendenhall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) — Wednesday, July 25, 8am
Town Hall: NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (Manish Parashar, National Science Foundation, OAC) — Wednesday, July 25, 1:30pm
Hacking Academia/Trusted CI Panel Discussion (Anita Nikolich, Illinois Institute of Technology) — Thursday, July 26, 8am
Championing Research Computing (Campus Champions Fellows) — Thursday, July 26, 10:30am
To view the conference schedule, go to: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/pearc/pearc18_program/views/at_a_glance.html
To register for the conference, go to: pearc18.pearc.org/register
To book your hotel room, go to: https://aws.passkey.com/e/49070408
Source: PEARC