Update from Brendan Mort:

Dr. Carlos Sosa will be visiting the University of Rochester from IBM on November 19th to give a general HPC talk, a Blue Gene presentation, and a Blue Gene workshop. The HPC talk will take place in the Gowen Room in Wilson Commons from 10-11 a.m., and the Blue Gene presentation will be in Goergen 108 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The workshop will be held from 1-3 p.m.

The Blue Gene workshop will demonstrate how to build and run software on the Blue Gene architecture using the DOCK6 molecular docking application as an example. Attendees of the workshop should be comfortable with a command line interface and have some experience developing or building Linux applications (e.g. working with compilers, Makefiles, etc.).

Because there is limited space available in the computer lab, please let us know by Wednesday, November 17th, if you are interested in attending the workshop. There is no need to RSVP for the two presentations.

Contact Brendan at brendan.mort@rochester.edu to sign up for the workshop.

Of interest to the growing number of EEB folks who make use of High Performance Computing (HPC)… Carlos Sosa, an IBM Academy of Technology Visiting Member, will present a series of lectures and a workshop Friday, November 19th on HPC using the BlueGene platform (the U of R Center for Research Computing makes one of these available to researchers, details here).

At 10am in the Gowen Room in Wilson Commons, Sosa will provide an overview of IBM’s efforts in high performance computing and a summary of some of his work in biomedical informatics at a special plenary lecture, “High-Performance Computing Solutions Development at IBM”.

From 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m in Goergen 108, Carlos will present an overview of Blue Gene hardware, software, and application porting.

Following the Blue Gene presentation, there will be a Blue Gene workshop, where demonstrations of porting and parallelizing software for Blue Gene will be given using a molecular docking application as an example. The presentations are open to all, but registration for the Blue Gene workshop will be required.  I will post registration information here when those details become available.