Carnegie Mellon Researchers Win HPC Analytics Challenge at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2006
David O'Hallaron and Julio Lopez on Winning Team
November 27, 2006
Computer science (CS) graduate student Tiankai Tu and David O'Hallaron, Associate Professor of CS and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), led a team of researchers to win the High Performance Computing (HPC) Analytics Challenge at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2006 in Tampa, FL. ECE graduate student Julio Lopez was a member of the winning group.
The entry is titled Remote Runtime Steering of Integrated Terascale Simulation and Visualization. The team developed a novel analytic capability that enables scientists and engineers to obtain insights from on-going large-scale parallel unstructured finite element mesh simulations. During the Analytics Challenge session, the team showed a live demo: steering, in real-time, the visualization of a 2050-processor earthquake ground motion simulation running on the Cray XT3 supercomputer in Pittsburgh, PA, via a wireless Internet connection, from a laptop computer in the conference room in Tampa, FL.
The Carnegie Mellon team members were Tiankai Tu (team lead), Jacobo Bielak, Julio Lopez, David O'Hallaron, Leonardo Ramirez-Guzman, and Ricardo Taborda-Rios. The other team members were: Hongfeng Yu (technical lead) and Kwan-Liu Ma of the University of California, Davis; Omar Ghattas of the University of Texas at Austin; and Nathan Stone and John Urbanic of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
Source: Byron Spice, Carnegie Mellon Computer Science News
David O'Hallaron (left), Associate Professor of CS and ECE, and Julio Lopez, an ECE graduate student, were members of a team of researchers that won the HPC Analytics Challenge at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2006.