SC 12 Overview National Center for Supercomputing Applications

SC 12 Overview National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

SC 12 Technical Program • This is where the real action is! • Details on NCSA/Illinois participation online at www. ncsa. illinois. edu/extreme-scale/ • Details on XSEDE participation at www. xsede. org/xsede-sc • Something to add or revise? Contact Trish Barker (NCSA) or Susan Mc. Kenna (XSEDE)

SC 12 Exhibits • • NCSA: Booth 1030 XSEDE: Booth 2031 Parallel Computing Institute: Booth 1809 Focus on one-on-one interaction – no big presentations

NCSA: Booth #1030 • Staffed by Trish Barker, Liz Murray & Alex Farthing (also volunteers through Student Engagement Program) • ALL NCSA’ers invited to sign up for time slot to work a booth station; can show slides, visualizations, etc. Contact Trish if you are interested. • Limited seating/meeting space: small café table (3 chairs), love seat and arm chairs. Not appropriate for confidential or large meetings. • One kiosk devoted to Illinois Parallel Computing Institute

Questions and how to answer them • When you are in the booth, you may get questions on any topic • OK to refer questions to Trish or Liz; Please refer all media to Trish

Most common question: What is NCSA? • Big Science, Big Data, Big Computing • Help scientists and engineers better understand our world (astronomy, weather, materials, etc. ) • Located at the University of Illinois • Primary funding from National Science Foundation

Other FAQs Q. Are you hiring? A. Check out careers. ncsa. illinois. edu Q. Where is Michelle Butler? I want to sell her something! A. Can I give her a message? Q. How can I use your resources? A. start. ncsa. illinois. edu

Blue Waters FAQs • Blue Waters is an NSF-funded project to deploy and support a well-balanced sustained-petascale supercomputer at NCSA • All the CRAY hardware is installed and operational. (Details available in the booth, on the website) • Acceptance testing ongoing. IMPORTANT: Do NOT indicate how close/far from completion we are, when system will be in production.

More Blue Waters FAQs • 80% allocated by NSF to national science & engineering community; 7% reserved for U of I; 1% for education • Severe storms, supernovae, earthquakes, molecular mechanisms of disease, and more Imaginations unbound

What’s in the booth? • Signs and digital displays – about Extreme-Scale Computing, Big Data, NCSA capabilities, and key projects, including Blue Waters, XSEDE, LSST, etc. • Fall issue of Access magazine, w AR content • NCSA one-page flier • Blue Waters one-page flier • XSEDE 2011 -2012 highlights publication • NCSA coloring book, Volume 3 • Flops Fever, FREE i. OS and Android game • Contact Trish if you have fliers/brochures you would like to provide in the booth

XSEDE: Booth #2031 • NCSA leads the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) • Susan Mc. Kenna, XSEDE Communications Coordinator, and Liz Murray are primary staff for XSEDE booth • Susan coordinating booth volunteers. Please sign up for time slots at: http: //doodle. com/y 7 n 8 eqvaya 6 v 5 kmy • In the booth: XSEDE highlights book, What is XSEDE? one-pager, notebooks, pens, and laptop stickers to give away • Stop by and add your location to the world map!

Parallel Computing Institute • • 10 x 10 Booth #1809 & kiosk in NCSA booth Staffing: Jill Peckham & Kim Gudeman Klara Nahrstedt’s team will demo tele-immersive system Info at parallel. illinois. edu