Research posters: SC18 and the 2018 LANL summer symposium

In November 2018 the Center for Advanced Research Computing took a collection of digital posters highlighting computational research at UNM to SC18 in Dallas, the premier supercomputing conference. They are collected here with the student posters from that summer’s Los Alamos National Laboratory symposium. See also the news story about the trip.

SC18 research posters

• Biologist looks at genetic past of viruses to try to predict future outbreaks
• Research aims to help patients at risk for diabetic blindness
• Researchers collaborate to expand arts, engineering connection
• Research finds links between board networks, company success
• Spatial clustering of metal and metalloid mixtures in unregulated water sources on the Navajo Nation
• A computational model for regulation of nanoscale glucan exposure in Candida albicans
• Database of deceased people a national first
• LANL-CARC collaboration works to prevent wildfires
• Libraries, CARC join to preserve research data
• Looking for ways to prevent railroad overpass damage
• Robot swarms aid NASA Mars journey
• Working to meet wind power goals
• HPC hyper-converged virtualized software-defined storage framework (PDF)

Two stories from the same season were shown alongside the posters: Social Media Workshop pod project looks toward futuristic farming and CARC recipient of grants for cyberinfrastructure optimization, protecting sensitive data, SMART Grid projects.

LANL UltraScale Systems Research Center 2018 Summer Research Symposium

Student projects presented at the Los Alamos National Laboratory UltraScale Systems Research Center 2018 Summer Research Symposium:

• Bryce Renke and Randall Woodall, New Mexico State University (NMSU) — Power management for Raspberry Pi clusters (PDF)
• Colette Caskie, NMSU — Link-state routing for compute nodes within a cluster (PDF)
• Eli Snyder, New Mexico Consortium (NMC) — Designing a versatile software build cluster using Open Build Service (PDF)
• Kevin Pelzel, NMC — Using CI/CD to automate cluster setup and initialization (PDF)
• Scott (Mason) Walls, NMSU — Neutron scattering models of computer hardware using MCNP6 (PDF)

NMSU student research posters shown at SC18

Titles only; these posters were presented by New Mexico State University researchers.

• Fault tolerance performance evaluation of large-scale distributed storage systems: HDFS and Ceph case study
• Exploring sparse matrix–vector multiplication on EMU
• The Technicolor Dawn simulations
• BIGDATA: Collaborative research: Discovering context-sensitive impact in complex systems
• A phylogenetically informed investigation of transcriptome evolution and transcriptome response of the tropical crop genus Leucaena to psyllid herbivores
• New computational chemistry methods to quantify the properties of atoms in materials