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Speaker: Professor Dieter Kranzlmüller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen (LMU)
Date: Friday, August 05, 2011, 11:00 AM
Venue: Room 538, CoRE Bldg., Busch Campus - Piscataway, NJ
To view the seminar notice in pdf format click here.

The 2011 Governor's School of Engineering and Technology Research Symposium was held on Friday, July 22nd, 2011. Prof. Manish Parashar and Dr. Ivan Rodero from TASSL mentored a group of four of New Jersey's most talented and motivated high school students (Sarah Anne Coe, Eric Principato, Omar Rizwan and Katherine Ye) who developed the project "Autonomic Data Center Thermal Management". This project, which addresses one of the most important problems in the management of modern data centers, is part of the educational activities of the GreenHPC initiative (http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/GreenHPC) at TASSL and CAC.

ADIOS 1.3 collaborators include researchers from TASSL.
Feature article published at HPC Wire

Dr. Manish Parashar describes the winning supercomputing as a service project that demonstrates how to connecting two IBM Blue Gene/P systems in two different continents to form a large HPC cloud using the CometCloud framework.
Feature article published at HPC in the Cloud (http://www.hpcinthecloud.com/)

A multi-institutional team consisting of The Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center (Rutgers University), IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Center for Subsurface Modeling (The University of Texas at Austin) was awarded first place in the IEEE SCALE 2011 Challenge for their demonstration titled “A Scalable Ensemble-based Oil-Reservoir Simulations using Blue Gene/P-as-a-Service”. The project team was led by Professor Manish Parashar and consisted of Moustafa AbdelBaky and Hyunjoo Kim (CAC, Rutgers Univ.), Kirk Jordan, Hani Jamjoom, Vipin Sachdeva, Zon-Yin Shae and James Sexton (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), and Gergina Pencheva, Reza Tavakoli, and Mary F. Wheeler (CSM, UT Austin).
More information can be found at http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/icode/scale/

The ACM Publications Board has voted to confirm Prof. Manish Parashar as the next co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). His co-Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Franco Zambonelli of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
This is a 3 year appointment. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems is the premiere journal focused on foundational, engineering, and technological aspects of computing systems exhibiting emergent, autonomic and adaptive behavior.

Congratulations to Moustafa AbdelBaky for being awarded the prestigious and highly competitive IBM Ph.D. fellowship. He was among a small set of 2011 awardees selected from several hundred nominations worldwide. Moustafa is pursuing his Ph.D. under the guidance of Professor Manish Parashar and is a member of the Center for Autonomic Computing and the Applied Software Systems Laboratory. His research is focused on developing an infrastructure to provide HPC as-a-service (HPC Clouds) for HPC applications such as oil reservoir management and CO2 sequestration. He recently presented a poster and demo titled "Cloudy with a Chance of Supercomputing: A Framework for Enabling Supercomputing Resources as HPC Clouds", at SC10 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November, 2010. More information about the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship can be found at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/university/phdfellowship/ More information about the iCode framework can be found at http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/icode/

• Screenshots and writeup of the demo
• Poster for the Early Adaptors Workshop at SC'10

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