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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>/****************************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies **<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>***************************************************/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SDSC to Host ‘Gordon’ Supercomputer Workshops August 8–11<span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Potential Users of First Flash Memory-based Supercomputer Asked to Apply by June 24<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, will host a special workshop in August as the organized research unit begins deployment of <span style='color:black'>a unique data-intensive, high-performance computing (HPC) system called <i>Gordon</i> later this year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The ‘Get Ready for <i>Gordon</i> – Summer Institute’ will be held<b> </b>August 8–11 at SDSC, at the northwest end of the UC San Diego campus. The four-day workshop is designed to familiarize potential users with <i>Gordon’s</i> unique capabilities for high-performance, data-intensive computing. <i>Gordon</i> is the result of a five-year, $20 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The team will start accepting allocation requests this fall, with production startup set for January 1, 2012.<span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='line-height:115%'><em>Gordon</em> will be the first high-performance supercomputer to use large amounts of flash-based SSD (solid state drive) memory. Flash memory is more common in smaller devices such as mobile phones and laptop computers, but unique for supercomputers, which generally use slower spinning-disk technology. With 250 trillion bytes of flash memory and 64 I/O nodes, <i>Gordon</i> will be capable of handling massive databases while providing up to 100 times faster speeds when compared to hard drive disk systems for some queries. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“We are encouraging applications from researchers engaged in data-intensive science and data mining across a diverse range of disciplines, including those who may not previously have considered leveraging supercomputing resources,” said SDSC Director Michael Norman. “This includes researchers in astronomy, geosciences, and genomics, as well as economics and linguistics, just to name a few. Those with applications that serve a wide research community, such as through the use of a science gateway, are also encouraged to apply.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Data-intensive computational science that will benefit from <i>Gordon’s</i> unique configuration includes network analyses for new drug discovery, and </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>converting observed measurements into information about a physical object or system </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>in oceanography, atmospheric science, and oil exploration. The system’s large shared-memory system is also able to research modestly scalable codes in quantum chemistry, structural engineering, and computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Attendee Applications due June 24<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Topics covered during the “Get Ready for <i>Gordon </i>– Summer Institute” will include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>An overview of <i>Gordon’s</i> architecture<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Using flash to improve I/O performance of data-intensive applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>The use of vSMP (virtual symmetric multiprocessing) for large memory applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Application profiling of data intensive applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Hands-on sessions using <i>Gordon</i> I/O nodes and <i>Dash</i>, the prototype for <i>Gordon <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Database and data mining applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Breakout sessions for researchers who provide support for data-intensive architectures such as <i>Gordon<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>How to write a successful allocation proposal for <i>Gordon</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Applications to attend the “Get Ready for <i>Gordon</i> – Summer Institute” must be submitted by Friday, June 24, 2011. Applicants will receive notification of the status of their application by Friday, July 1, 2011. NSF funding for the event will cover accommodations and meals for attendees from US research and academic institutions. However, attendees are expected to cover their own travel to the UC San Diego campus. Information on submitting applications, as well as full program details, can be found at </span><a href="http://www.sdsc.edu/Events/summerinstitute2011/index.html"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.sdsc.edu/Events/summerinstitute2011/index.html</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>. </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Specific questions regarding the event may be addressed to </span><a href="mailto:gordonevents@sdsc.edu"><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>gordonevents@sdsc.edu</span></a><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The <i>Gordon</i> Summer Institute will be held at SDSC the same time as the 8<sup>th</sup> annual Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists (CSIG’11), which will specifically focus on data-intensive computing within the geosciences. The program schedules have been designed to allow for interaction among participants of both events, and will include a common introductory session on the first day. For more information on CSIG’11, please see </span><a href="http://www.geongrid.org/index.php/education/summer_institute/csig_2011"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>http://www.geongrid.org/index.php/education/summer_institute/csig_2011</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>