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.