PEARC17 Report from SGCI Staff and Students

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

We also plan to add links to this website at some point.

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).

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)

Tuesday started off with a band, excellent keynote, poster prep, networking, and visits with exhibitors.