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

[Shirley Entzminger]

 		 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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