[Crib-list] TODAY: SPEAKERS: Christopher Hill (MIT) and Jeremy Kepner (Lincoln Labs) -- Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar (CRIBB) -- Friday, April 1, 2011 (fwd)

[Shirley Entzminger]

T O D A Y . . .


 		 COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR


DATE:		Friday, April 1, 2011
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 144

(Pizza and beverages provided at 12:15 PM outside Room 32-144.)


TITLE:		Petaflops On Demand Data Superstore

SPEAKERS:	Christopher Hill (MIT) and Jeremy Kepner (Lincoln Labs)

ABSTRACT:

PODDS, the Petaflops On Demand Data Superstore will be located in New 
England and led by the MIT in a consortium with Boston University, Brown 
University, Harvard University, Northeastern University and the University 
of Massachusetts system. As such PODDS will be a collaboration amongst some 
of the world's foremost science and engineering research organizations to 
build a computational resource for connecting real-world, applied science 
and engineering challenges to high-performance computing (HPC). PODDS aims 
to be 'the' computational resource for users with petabytes of information 
and corresponding level of computation. It has an architecture designed for 
petascale data processing and a software stack that can support, (a) 
traditional batch processing and (b) on-demand, quasi-realtime/interactive 
modes of HPC; both at petascale levels. PODDS will be a national resource 
for advanced research, but will also inte-grate into engineering education 
programs; providing an important resource for making HPC a core part of 
learning and thinking for the next generations of engineers, scientists and 
industry leaders in all disciplines, of whom many will likely study in New 
England.

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