Northwest Indiana Computational Grid - 3rd Annual NWICG Workshop (August 10-11, 2006)

3rd Annual NWICG Workshop (August 10-11, 2006)

August 10, 2006

10:00 am	-	12:00 pm	Opening Session	Te-Reika Chambers - Congressman Visclosky's Office
10:00 am	-	12:00 pm	Opening Session	Celina Weatherwax - Senator Lugar's Office
10:00 am	-	12:00 pm	Opening Session	Howard Cohen - Chancellor, Purdue University Calumet
10:00 am	-	12:00 pm	Opening Session	Dewitt Latimer - Deputy CIO, Deputy CIO (Assistant VP/Assistant Provost) and Chief Technology Officer, University of Notre Dame
10:00 am	-	12:00 pm	Opening Session	Doug Sharp - CIO, Purdue University Calumet
1:30 pm	-	2:00 pm	Computational Models of Star Cluster Evolution	Shawn Slavin - Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Purdue University Calumet
2:00 pm	-	2:30 pm	Need for Grid Computing in High Energy Physics	Neeti Parashar - Assistant Professor, Physics, Purdue University Calumet
3:00 pm	-	3:30 pm	Easy Sharing of NWICG Resources through iShare	Rudi Eigenmann - Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University West Lafayette
3:30 pm	-	4:00 pm	Docking, Virtual Screening and MD in Drug Discovery	Olaf Wiest - Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame
5:30 pm	-	7:00 pm	Welcome by Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs	Nabil Ibrahim - Vice Chancellor, Purdue University Calumet
5:30 pm	-	7:00 pm	Defining the Technical Roadmap for the NWICG-OSG	Ruth Pordes - Fermilab
7:00 pm	-	8:30 pm	Open Discussion with Ruth Pordes about the NWICG/OSG Collaboration	Ruth Pordes - Fermilab

August 11, 2006

8:30 am	-	9:00 am	Enhancing Electric System Reliability and Communications with the Northwest Indiana Computational Grid	Robert Kramer - Director, Energy Efficiency and Reliability Center, Purdue University Calumet
9:00 am	-	9:30 am	High-performance Grid Computing Support for Detection, Identification, and Tracking in Sensor-Cyber Networks	Jren-Chit Chen - Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Science , Purdue University West Lafayette
10:30 am	-	11:00 am	Large-Scale Classical Molecular Dyanamics Simulations of Novel Nano-ceramic Matrix Composites	Vikas Tomar - Assistant Professor, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Participants

Te-Reika Chambers	Congressman Visclosky's Office
Jren-Chit Chen	Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Science, Purdue University West Lafayette
Howard Cohen	Chancellor, Purdue University Calumet
Rudi Eigenmann	Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University West Lafayette
Nabil Ibrahim	Vice Chancellor, Purdue University Calumet
Robert Kramer	Director, Energy Efficiency and Reliability Center, Purdue University Calumet
Dewitt Latimer	Deputy CIO, Deputy CIO (Assistant VP/Assistant Provost) and Chief Technology Officer, University of Notre Dame
Neeti Parashar	Assistant Professor, Physics, Purdue University Calumet
Ruth Pordes	Fermilab
Doug Sharp	CIO, Purdue University Calumet
Shawn Slavin	Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Purdue University Calumet
Vikas Tomar	Assistant Professor, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Celina Weatherwax	Senator Lugar's Office
Olaf Wiest	Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame

A Distributed Active Storage Testbed for Scientific Applications on NWICG
Users with large computing needs have easy access to an enormous array of CPUs via systems such as the TeraGrid, the Open Science Grid, and (soon) NWICG. However, users of these systems are almost universally constrained by the performance of … [more]
Computational Models of Star Cluster Evolution
Star clusters in the Galaxy come in several varieties, ranging primarily in their size (number of stars) and distribution within the Galactic gravitational potential. A proper understanding of the observational results of star clusters requires … [more]
PURE-NX
We propose developing PURE-NX: a real-time remote rendering and interactive visualization platform for Doppler weather radar data. PURE-NX allows users to interactively access, analyze, and visualize remote 3-D data. Moreover, such a system is … [more]
September 11 WTC Attack Simulations Using LS-Dyna
The graphics group used professional animation and visualization tools to bring the simulation results of the 9/11 attack on the North Tower of the World Trade Center to life. Still images, papers, and animations are available here: … [more]
Need for Grid Computing in High Energy Physics
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be completed in 2007, will smash particles, protons to protons with nearly the speed of light to create conditions that occurred a few seconds after the Big Bang. These collisions will happen at an unprecedented … [more]
Easy Sharing of NWICG Resources through iShare
iShare is an Internet sharing infrastructure – a follow-on effort to Purdue’s successful PUNCH project. iShare enables Internet-connected resources such as computer systems, storage systems, applications, and data to be shared easily. That is, … [more]
Parallel 3D Cellular Potts Model Package and its Applications
Morphogenesis is one of three fundamental mechanisms of developmental biology along with cell growth and differentiation. Understanding morphogenesis requires understanding the processes which control the spatial distribution of cells during … [more]
Enhancing Electric System Reliability and Communications with the NWICG
This proposal seeks to conduct research and developmental activities to assist in enhancing reliability and communications for the interconnected electric transmission network. As evidenced by the huge financial and personal losses resulting from … [more]
Docking, Virtual Screening and MD in Drug Discovery
The use of computational methods had a major impact on modern drug design and is now firmly established as a necessary element of any drug development. A recent study by Boston Consulting estimated that the use of in silico methods saves … [more]
Large-scale Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Novel Nano-ceramic Matrix Composites
One of the key focus areas in the nanomaterials technology is the development of nanocrystalline materials with desired improvements in the mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. Examples of such nanomaterials are nanocrystalline Al, Cu, … [more]
On-Line Biometric Data Repository
The biometrics research group at Notre Dame conducts (with support from DARPA, ONR, AFOSR, NSF, ITIC, DOJ, and UNISYS) cutting-edge research and performance evaluation of multibiometric systems. Notre Dame currently hosts the largest open research … [more]
Enabling Scientific Collaboration using Application-Level Multicast
Scientific collaboration applications such as large-scale reliable transfer of data to multiple sites, web-service notification, and video conferencing (e.g. Access Grid) require the ability to efficiently disseminate high-bandwidth content to a … [more]
High-performance Grid Computing Support for Detection, Identification, and Tracking in Sensor-Cyber
Detection, identification, and tracking (DIT) problems that arise in applications such as perimeter surveillance for suspected group activities or detection/assessment of radiation and chemical dispersions, require capabilities beyond those of … [more]