The University of Texas at Dallas had the exciting opportunity to participate once again in the Supercomputing Conference, or SC ’24, from November 17-22 in Atlanta, Georgia. The Supercomputing Conference offers a platform for high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage, and analysis. Here, over 18,000 scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, and developers connect to share education, resources, and insights with the supercomputing community. SC ’24 featured technical presentations, workshops, tutorials, and 500 exhibits from leading manufacturers, research organizations, and universities.
UTD’s High-Performance Computing (HPC@UTD) team hosted a booth to showcase UTD research progress, as well as HPC initiatives and demonstrations. The 300 visitors who stopped by enjoyed the UTD Research Showcase, which spotlighted live demos of high-speed communication and HPC systems.
The UTD Research Showcase featured eight presentations, which ranged from research projects and technology demonstrations to applications of HPC and HPC infrastructure that highlighted the full range of HPC and research work at UTD. Speakers included Khalid Sarwar Warraich, Dr Stefano Leonardi, Ahmed Hamada, Hayden Bell, Jeremy Warren, Aparaajitha Gomathinayakam Latha, Kevin Alberto and Stephen Goss.
Visitors also saw live demos by PhD students Muhammad Ridwanur Rahim, Aparaajitha Gomathinayakam Latha, Moojan Kamalzadeh, and Linqi Xiao from Dr Andrea Fumagalli’s OpenLab work on high-speed communications. The live demo showed interoperability of networking equipment from several different vendors.
The booth also hosted demos and presentations on high-speed communication and HPC systems and services from the OpenLab and HPC staff. Speakers included Sasmita Mohapatra, Steven Kuhlo, and guest speaker Krzysztof Kielak from Saglab SA from Poland. UTD uses MooseFS from Saglab for distributed data management in our HPC cluster environment.
OIT’s Casey Foulds, Brian Dourty, and Ithiel “Ty” Brazier helped to build SciNet this year. During the week of SC, SCinet becomes the most powerful and advanced network on Earth, connecting the SC community to the world. Industry, academia, and government experts volunteer to design, build, and administer the cutting-edge SCinet infrastructure.
The team is currently working to roll out a new and improved HPC cluster and storage system to campus, aiming for a Spring 2025 finish date. By participating in SC ’24, the researchers demonstrated our HPC advancement to the community, academic research institutions, and other potential partners. This showcase of their efforts will bring positive attention to UT Dallas as an R1-classified university!
Learn more about UTD at SC ’24 here: https://sites.utdallas.edu/hpc/utd-at-supercomputing-24/