2015 Student Presentations

Presentations - Program

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Location: National Center for Atmospheric Research - Mesa Laboratory- Main Seminar Room

Wednesday July 29, 2015

9:00

Introduction - Rich Loft

9:05

"WRF Performance Optimization Targeting Intel Multicore and Manycore Architectures"
Samuel Elliott, University of Colorado, Boulder

9:25

"Modeling Snow Water Equivalent in the Rocky Mountain Region"
Colette Smirniotis, San Diego State University

9:45

"Performance Analysis, Profiling and Optimization of Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) Model"
Negin Sobhani, The University of Iowa

10:05

Break

10:25

"Pi in the Sky (Sensors)"
Ian Bragg, Jacksonville State University

10:45

"Accelerating ‘fields’ by Revamping the Cholesky Decomposition"
Vinay Ramakrishnaiah, University of Wyoming

11:05

"Improving the Thread Scalability of the Community Atmosphere Model"
Kyle Marcus, University at Buffalo

Thursday July 30, 2015

9:00

Introduction - Rich Loft

9:05

"GPU-based Raycasting of Volumetric Data"
Dongliang Chu, The University of Memphis

9:25

"Evaluating Coprocessor Effectiveness for the Data Assimilation Research Testbed"
Delilah Feng, University of Wyoming

9:45

"Implementation of Radial Basis Function - Finite Difference (RBF-FD) based PDE Solvers on Multi CPU-GPU Systems"
Mudambi Srivatsa, University of Utah

10:05

Break

10:25

"Statistical Downscaling- R Package and Application to Snow"
Lee Richardson, Carnegie Mellon University

10:45

"Pi in the Sky (Storing Big Data on Cloud)"
Jenish Koirala, Claflin University

11:05

"PyStormTracker: A Parallel Object-Oriented Cyclone Tracker in Python"
Albert Yau, Stony Brook University

Friday July 31, 2015

9:00

Introduction - Rich Loft

9:05

"Pi in the Sky (Scripts for Web Interface)"
Whitney Nelson, Hampton University

9:25

"Lossy Compression of Structured Scientific Data Sets"
Shreya Mittapalli, New Jersey Institute of Technology

9:45

"Pi in the Sky (Web Interface)"
Gaston Seneza, Philander Smith College

10:05

Break

10:25

"Evaluating PIO2 performance in the CESM-POP Model"
Qian Zhang, Louisiana State University

10:45

"Optimizations of Scientific Computation across Languages and Platforms"
Tuan Ta, University of Mississippi

11:05

"Lessons from Post-processing Climate Data on Modern Flash-based HPC Systems"
Adnan Haider, Illinois Institute of Technology