The Texas Advanced Computing Center, in association with the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, is pleased to present the second annual Scientific Software Days. The purpose of the event is to increase communication among scientific software users, vendors, and service providers.
May 15th will be a day of science-oriented presentations. On May 16, there will be two half day tutorials presented:
- Representatives of IBM Corp. will present the Eclipse platform and its use
in parallel programming,
- Representatives of Enthought Inc. will talk about the use of Python in
scientific computing.
There is no cost for attending, but spaces are limited. To register please visit http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/softwareday.
May 15
8:30 AM coffee and snacks
9:00 AM Supercomputer facilities at TACC (Karl Schulz, TACC)
9:30 AM TACC Visualization Resources (Romy Schneider, TACC)
10:00 AM MyCluster Version 2: Building dynamic personal clusters on the desktop (Ed Walker, TACC)
10:30 AM break
10:45 AM SPSS, SAS and R Can Greatly Simplify Presentation & Analysis of Research Finds (James Bryant, Biological Sciences, UT)
11:15 AM Making Parallel Programming Synonymous with Programming for Matrix Computations (Robert van de Geijn, Computer Science, UT)
11:45 AM HPC Considered Harmful (Greg Wilson, University of Toronto)
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 - 3:10 PM- New Directions in Scientific Workflows (Eric Jones)
- Interactivity in Biological Simulation (Thomas Blom, Biochemistry, U T, and KinTec)
- Boundary value calculations of conformational transitions in proteins (Peter Majek, ICES, UT)
- PIO: A Parallel I/O Library (Robert Jacob, Argonne National Laboratory)
- LabView in Multi-Core and Parallel Environments (Darren Schmidt, National Instruments)
- Reproducible Computational Experiments Using the Madagascar System (Sergei Fomel, Jackson School of Geosciences, UT)
- Parallel Seismic Wave Simulations on Lonestar and Ranger (Chunlei Chu, Jackson School of Geosciences, UT)
- Grid-Enabled Ensemble Kalman FIltering for Hydrocarbon Reservoir Management (Ravi Vadapalli, Texas Tech)
May 16
8:30 AM registration, welcome, coffee and snacks
9:00 AM Scientific Application Development with Eclipse and the Parallel Tools Platform (Beth Tibbitts and Greg Watson) (with a 15 minute break, concludes at 12:30)
12:30 PM lunch
1:30 PM Enthought Inc presents Scientific Python (Eric Jones and Travis Oliphant) (with a 15 minute break, concludes at 5 PM)




