The 14th annual Research Computing Exhibition was held on April 25, 2023. It took place at the MSI offices in Walter Library.
Thank you to our sponsors!
Platinum Level
- PIER Group in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Gold Level
- Panasas
Silver Level
- VAST Data
Events included a panel discussion about employment in HPC fields, a judged poster session with posters featuring work being done using Research Computing resources, tours of the data center, and visualizations by Research Computing users in the Visualization Lab.
Panel Discussion - Employment in High Performance Computing
Participants:
- Moderator: Jim Wilgenbusch; Director of Research Computing
- Forest Godfrey; Distinguished Technologist, Slingshot Network Group, HPE
- Adam Marko; Director of Life Science, Panasas
- Subramanian Kartik; VP of Systems Engineering, VAST Data
- Dan McDonald; IT Services Supervisor, U of M Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Ben Lynch; Director, MSI
Poster Session
Posters by MSI users competed in one of two categories, Life Sciences and Engineering or Physical Sciences and Engineering. They were judged using the following criteria:
- How much did using Research Computing contribute to the outcome of the research presented?
- How well is the use of Research Computing and the research communicated on the poster?
- How well of the importance of this science communicated?
Life Sciences and Engineering
Grand Prize Winner (travel award of $2,000)
- Tracking viruses in real-time using "dirty" mice
- Authors: Frances Shepherd, Shanley Roach, Autumn Sanders, Dira Putri, Zhongde Wang, Ryan Langlois
- PI: Ryan Langlois (Microbiology and Immunology)
Finalists (travel awards of $1,000)
- Metagenomic MAGIC: Dissecting the structure and function of the developing gut microbiome
- Authors: Daniel Chang, Suzie Hoops, Dan Knights
- PI: Dan Knights (BioTechnology Institute; Computer Science and Engineering)
- Overcoming near-sightedness in protein-surface molecular simulations with ML lenses
- Authors: Varun Gopal, Salman Bin Kashif, Daniel Pert, Aniruddha Seal, Brian Lee, Sapna Sarupria
- PI: Sapna Sarupria (Chemistry)
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Grand Prize Winner (travel award of $2,000)
- Forging mass outflow rate estimators in FIRE
- Authors: Cody Carr, Aaron Smith, Viraj Pandya, Chris Hayward, Claudia Scarlata
- PI: Claudia Scarlata (Physics and Astronomy)
Finalists (travel awards of $1,000)
- Sustainable maritime transportation: Design and optimization of a global marine fuel supply chain
- Authors: Hanchu Wang, Prodromos Daoutidis, Qi Zhang
- PI: Qi Zhang (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)
- Investigating the effects of arginine on hydrophobic interactions: Insights towards temperature-stable vaccine design
- Authors: Jonathan Zajac, Praveen Muralikrishnan, Sapna Sarupria
- PI: Sapna Sarupria (Chemistry)
Thank you to the Poster Session judges!
- Natalia Calixto Mancipe, MSI
- Nick Dunn, MSI
- Ryan Langlois, Microbiology
- Ben Lynch, MSI
- Noelle Noyes, Veterinary Population Medicine
- Borgne Raasch, MSI
- Ju Sun, Computer Science and Engineering