RCE - Super Computers

RCE 118: MEEP

April 22, 2018 00:00 - 40 minutes - 17 MB

Steven G. Johnson is a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics at MIT. He works in the field of nanophotonics—electromagnetism in media structured on the wavelength scale, especially in the infrared and optical regimes—where he works on many aspects of the theory, design, and computational modeling of nanophotonic devices, both classical and quantum. He is coauthor of over 200 papers and over 25 patents, including the second edition of the textbook Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of...

RCE 117 PMIx

November 18, 2017 00:00 - 39 minutes - 18.9 MB

Dr. Ralph H. Castain is a Principal Engineer at Intel, where he focuses on the development of control system technologies for exascale computing systems. Dr. Castain received his B.S. degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College and multiple graduate level degrees (M.S. in solid-state physics, M.S.E.E. degree in robotics, and Ph.D. in nuclear physics) from Purdue University. He has served in government, academia, and industry for over 30 years as a contributing scientist and business leader in ...

RCE 116 Jupyter

October 29, 2017 00:00 - 43 minutes - 19.1 MB

Brian Granger is an associate professor of physics and data science at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. His research focuses on building open-source tools for interactive computing, data science, and data visualization. Brian is a leader of the IPython project, co-founder of Project Jupyter, co-founder of the Altair project for statistical visualization, and an active contributor to a number of other open-source projects focused on data science in Python. He is an advisory bo...

RCE 115 PBS Professional

August 18, 2017 00:00 - 37 minutes - 16.8 MB

Dr. Bill Nitzberg is the CTO of PBS Works at Altair and “acting” community manager for the PBS Pro Open Source Project (www.pbspro.org). With over 25 years in the computer industry, spanning commercial software development to high-performance computing research, Dr. Nitzberg is an internationally recognized expert in parallel and distributed computing. Dr. Nitzberg served on the board of the Open Grid Forum, co-architected NASA’s Information Power Grid, edited the MPI-2 I/O standard, and ha...

RCE 114 NetCDF

July 28, 2017 00:00 - 44 minutes - 19.7 MB

NetCDF is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.

RCE 113 Shifter

July 08, 2017 00:00 - 43 minutes - 18.5 MB

Shifter is a prototype implementation that NERSC is developing and experimenting with as a scalable way of deploying containers in an HPC environment. It works by converting user or staff generated images in Docker, Virtual Machines, or CHOS (another method for delivering flexible environments) to a common format. This common format then provides a tunable point to allow images to be scalably distributed on the Cray supercomputers at NERSC. The user interface to shifter enables a user to sele...

RCE 112: Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience

April 28, 2017 00:00 - 34 minutes - 15.1 MB

Chris Gorgolewski is a co-director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience and a research associate at Stanford University, California, USA. He is interested in enabling new discoveries in human neuroscience by building data-sharing and analysis tools and services, as well as establishing new data standards and data-sharing policies. http://reproducibility.stanford.edu/

RCE 111: Deal.II

March 19, 2017 00:00 - 37 minutes - 16.7 MB

Deal.ii is a C++ software library supporting the creation of finite element codes and an open community of users and developers.

RCE 110: SAGE2

February 11, 2017 00:00 - 34 minutes - 15.2 MB

SAGE2 enables groups to work in front of large shared displays in order to solve problems that required juxtaposing large volumes of information in ultra high-resolution. SAGE2 is developed as a complete redesign and implementation of SAGE, using cloud-based and web-browser technologies in order to enhance data intensive co-located and remote collaboration.

RCE 109: iRODS

January 26, 2017 00:00 - 46 minutes - 20.2 MB

iRODS Integrated Rule Data System

RCE 108: Academic Torrents

October 23, 2016 00:00 - 47 minutes - 21.1 MB

Academic Torrents a distributed system for sharing enormous datasets - for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with blazing fast download speeds.

RCE 107: Julia

October 05, 2016 00:00 - 49 minutes - 22.2 MB

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. Julia’s Base library, largely written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed open source C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation, signal pr...

RCE 106: Singularity

September 15, 2016 00:00 - 37 minutes - 17.9 MB

Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Gregory Kurtzer about Singularity. Singularity allows a non-privileged user to "swap out" the operating system on the host for one they control. So if the host system is running RHEL6 but your application runs in Ubuntu, you can create an Ubuntu image, install your applications into that image, copy the image to another host, and run your application on that host in it's native Ubuntu environment! Gregory Kurtzer has created many open source initiativ...

RCE 105: Impala

April 09, 2016 00:00 - 42 minutes - 19 MB

Marcel Kornacker is the Chief Architect for database technology at Cloudera and creator of the Cloudera Impala project. Following his graduation in 2000 with a PhD in databases from UC Berkeley, he held engineering positions at several database-related start-up companies. Marcel joined Google in 2003 where he worked on several ads serving and storage infrastructure projects, then became tech lead for the distributed query engine component of Google's F1 project.

RCE 104: D-Wave Quantum Computing

March 19, 2016 00:00 - 44 minutes - 21.5 MB

Edward (Denny) Dahl is a Ph.D. physicist who has been at D-Wave Systems for over four years. He works with customers to help them understand the principles of adiabatic quantum computing as implemented in the D-Wave 2X System. He is currently on assignment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which recently purchased a one-thousand qubit system from D-Wave. His interests are quantum programming, playing the guitar and exploring the high deserts of north central New Mexico.

RCE 103: EasyBuild

February 14, 2016 00:00 - 41 minutes - 18.7 MB

EasyBuild is a software build and installation framework that allows you to manage (scientific) software on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems in an efficient way. EasyBuild homepage: http://hpcugent.github.io/easybuild

RCE 102: Spack

October 30, 2015 00:00 - 38 minutes - 17 MB

Spack is a package management tool designed to support multiple versions and configurations of software on a wide variety of platforms and environments. It was designed for large supercomputing centers, where many users and application teams share common installations of software on clusters with exotic architectures, using libraries that do not have a standard ABI. Spack is non-destructive: installing a new version does not break existing installations, so many configurations can coexist on ...

RCE 101: Conduit

October 04, 2015 00:00 - 36 minutes - 16.3 MB

Conduit is an open source project from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It provides an intuitive model for describing hierarchical scientific data in C++, C, Fortran, and Python and is used for data coupling between packages in-core, serialization, and I/O tasks. Docs: http://scalability-llnl.github.io/conduit/ Repo: https://github.com/scalability-llnl/conduit Cyrus is a computer scientist and group leader in the Applications, Simulations, and Quality (ASQ) division of LLNL's Comput...

RCE 100: Fasterdata

June 19, 2015 00:00 - 45 minutes - 20.2 MB

https://fasterdata.es.net/ http://www.es.net/about/esnet-staff/office-of-the-cto/Eli-Dart/ Eli Dart is a network engineer in the ESnet Science Engagement Group, which seeks to use advanced networking to improve scientific productivity and science outcomes for the DOE science facilities, their users, and their collaborators. Eli is a primary advocate for the Science DMZ design pattern, and works with facilities, laboratories, universities, science collaborations, and science programs to deplo...

RCE 99: perfSONAR

May 20, 2015 00:00 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MB

Jason Zurawski is a Science Engagement Engineer at the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) in the Scientific Networking Division of the Computing Sciences Directorate of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ESnet is the high performance networking facility of the US Department of Energy Office of Science. ESnet''s mission is to enable those aspects of the DOE Office of Science research mission that depend on high performance networking for success. Jason's primary responsibilities include ...