Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies

IACAT and other Illinois units are co-sponsoring a workshop on Wearable Computing for Art & Performance, Sept. 3-6, 2009.

Narayana R. Aluru, a researcher in the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies, will be invested as the Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering in a ceremony at 4 p.m. on Sept. 17 in the auditorium of the NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana. A reception will follow from 5 to 6 p.m. Aluru efforts in IACAT's Center for Extreme-Scale Computation are in the development of multiscale simulation methods that seamlessly couple interatomic potentials with nonlinear continuum mechanical theories.

William Gropp, the deputy director for research for the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies (IACAT), is among those honored by R&D Magazine for the development of PETSc, software that allows engineers and scientists to perform large-scale numerical simulations of physical phenomena rapidly and efficiently.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a four-year, $1.45 million grant to the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory (NDSSL) at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and partners to develop petascale computing environments that model billions of individuals in extremely large social and information networks. IACAT researcher Sanjay Kale, a professor in the Illinois Computer Science Department, is a co-principal investigator on the project.

Attendees at the Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing (July 27-31, 2009) can register for discounted rooms at the Hampton Inn, which is conveniently located less than a block from SAAHPC host the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

The Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies has doubled the size of its accelerator cluster from 16 to 32 nodes.  Each of the 32 compute nodes is matched with one NVIDIA Tesla S1070 containing four GT200 GPUs, each with 4 GB of memory.  The cluster also includes 11 Nallatech H101 PCIX FPGA accelerators.

The program for the Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing (SAAHPC'09) has been announced and is available online at: http://www.saahpc.org/agenda.html.

Richard Braatz, a Millennium Chair and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering--eight former students and postdocs, and collaborators at Merck & Co. were recognized with the 2009 Collaboration Success Award from the Council for Chemical Research (CCR) for contributions to process analytical technology for pharmaceutical crystallization. The award recognizes outstanding collaborative research between academic and industrial teams.

Illinois graduate student Ben Smith will perform in an internet concert with musicians and dancers at studio-labs in Indiana and New York at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 30 from the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies Creativity Space on the second floor of the NCSA Building. Other performers include the IUPUI Telematic Ensemble, at IUPUI's Concert Space under the direction of Scott Deal; the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute multimedia ensemble Tintinnabulate, under the direction of Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Brasch; and Butler University dance students, from the studio of Cynthia Pratt.  During the telematic concert, Indianapolis-based new music ensemble BASILICA, under the direction of Ben S. Jacob, will also premier a new work by Charlie Olvera.  For more information and the live streaming link, go to http://music.iupui.edu/news/2009/04/telematic-ensemble/.