Here’s a nice report on the inaugural Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing conference by participants from the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI).
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Proceedings, slides, and thank you!
To all PEARC17 participants:
We want to thank you once again for helping to make the inaugural Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing conference a success. We hope it was everything you expected and more!In our last message to attendees, we wanted to pass along some final information that you may find useful:
The PEARC17 Proceedings have been published in the ACM Digital Library. Presentation slides can be found at slideshare.net (search for PEARC17) as authors share them. We will also be adding links to them on the PEARC17 website.
And don’t forget that commemorative PEARC17 polo shirts can still be ordered for a limited time from https://business.landsend.com/store/pearc.
Finally, we would like to extend a special thank-you to all of our exhibitors and partners and to attendees who opted in to receive emails from them.
Be sure to keep an eye on the PEARC18 site for next year’s event — www.pearc18.pearc.org.
Regards,
Dave Hart, NCAR
PEARC17 General Chair
Where to find PEARC17 slides
Looking for some of your favorite PEARC17 slide presentations? Just search for “PEARC17” at www.slideshare.net.
We also plan to add links to this website at some point.
The PEARC17 Awards
PEARC17 wrapped up today with an awards luncheon. Awards were presented by Maytal Dahan, Technical Program Chair, and Alana Romanella, Student Program Chair.
The Phil Andrews Best Technology Paper
Stampede 2: The Evolution of an XSEDE Supercomputer
Bill Barth, Niall Gaffney, Kelly Gaither, Chris Hempel, Susan Mehringer, Tommy Minyard, D.K Panda, Dan Stanzione, Pat Teller, Henry Tufo, Eric Wernert.
Pictured, from left: Maytal Dahan, Tech Program Chair, Eric Wernert, Susan Mehringer, Kelly Gaither, Dave Hart, PEARC17 General Chair.
Best Software and Data Paper
Data access for LIGO on the OSG
Brian Bockelman, Duncan Brown, Peter Couvares, Edgar Hernandez, Derek Weitzel (pictured below), Frank Wurthwein

Best Accelerating Discovery in Scholarly Research Paper
Extracting Meaningful Data from Decomposing Bodies
Alison Langmead, Paul Rodriguez (pictured, right), Sandeep Satheesan, Alan Craig (pictured)
Best Workforce Diversity and Evaluation Paper
Advanced Computing for Social Change—Educating and Engaging Our Students to Compete in a Changing Workforce
Linda Akli, Marques Bland, Susan Fratkin, Kelly Gaither (pictured), Rosalia Gomez, Ruby Mendenhall
Best PEARC17 Poster
Advancing the representation of Women in HPC at Purdue University
Gladys K. Andino, Marisa Brazil (pictured), Michael Gribskov, Preston Smith

People’s Choice Visualization Award
CESM Wind Speed Magnitude
Matt Rehme

Best Student Poster
How Curvature Regulates Cell Migration
Xiuxiu He, Yi Jiang
Best Student Paper
A real-time machine learning and visualization framework for scientific workflows
Feng Li, Fengguang Song
Feng LI is pictured here with Alana Romanella, Student Program Chair (left), and Dave Hart (right).
More PEARC17 in the news
A report on HPCwire based on Paul Morin’s Wednesday plenary talk on mapping the poles: Satellite Advances, NSF Computation Power Rapid Mapping of Earth’s Surface – July 13
PEARC17 in the news
Here are some of the informative, thought-provoking stories coming out of PEARC17:
How supercomputers are uniting the US and China – July 13 (ScienceNode)
Perverse Incentives? How Economics (Mis-)shaped Academic Science – July 12 (HPCwire)
Why Tech is Failing at Diversity and How It Can Succeed – July 11 (HPCwire)
PEARC17 Wednesday, July 12
Wednesday featured another fascinating keynote, compelling presentations in multiple tracks, and visits with exhibitors. Later, attendees checked out the Visualization Showcase, with some of the most computationally intensive simulations that have recently come from HPC systems, and celebrated with a true New Orleans-style party and Zydeco music.
PEARC17 Tuesday, July 11
Tuesday started off with a band, excellent keynote, poster prep, networking, and visits with exhibitors.
PEARC17 Monday, July 10
Some images from a full day of workshops
Data in Science Technologies a new PEARC17 exhibitor
Data in Science Technologies (DST) has joined the list of PEARC17 exhibitors at the Patron level to support the inaugural Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing conference.See our Exhibitors & Partners page for information about our other supporters.Welcome, DST, and thank you for your support!