RHIT Parallel Computing - Activities

Seminar

Speaker and Title: Dan Jelski, The Best Ever Bucky Ball Potential Energy Surface
Date and Time:Wednesday, Oct 9, 3:25 P.M.
Location: G219
Abstract: A bucky ball is buckministerfullerene, C₆₀, a molecule with the same symmetry of a soccerball. This talk will describe the potential energy surface of such a molecule and how the RHIT cluster was used to speed up this computation.

Speaker and Title: Louis Turcotte, Parallel Computing Overview
Date and Time:Wednesday, Oct 9, 3:50 P.M.
Location: G219
Abstract: An overview of some of the issues in parallel versus serial computation.

Speaker and Title: Joshua Holden, Parallel Computing in Number Theory
Date and Time:Wednesday, Oct 23, 3:25 P.M.
Location: G219
Abstract: This talk will discuss an example of collecting data on a conjecture in number theory; such data collection is often both time-consuming and easy (or trivial) to parallelize. Special attention will be given to how to get all 38 processors up and running!

Speaker and Title: Michael Cain, Stochastic simulation models of movement in plants
Date and Time:Wednesday, Oct 23, 3:50 P.M.
Location: G219
Abstract: Many plants can move from one place to another in their local environment by producing "runners" (as in strawberries and aspen trees), and they move long distances by seed dispersal. I will discuss simulation models of both of these ways that plants move.

Speaker and Title: Allen Broughton, Workshop: Introduction to MPI
Date and Time:Wednesday, Nov 6, 3:25 P.M.
Location: G219
Abstract: A workshop in which the goals will be to see how to write up an MPI version of a simple embarrassingly parallel program in Fortran or C++. If you wish to try it out bring your laptop. You will need to have done the
following:

• Get an account and remember the password
• Ensure that you have SecureCRT and SecureFX installed.

An overview of the website will be given as well as planned steps to increase usability of the cluster.

Speaker and Title: Larry Merkle: Design Optimization for a Novel Class of High Power Microwave Sources Using a Farming Model Parallelization of a Real-Valued Evolutionary Algorithm
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 13, 3:25 P.M.
Location: G317
Abstract: See Announcement