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CATEGORIES:Academics,Natural & Applied Sciences Division
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, March 6 and Thursday\, March 7\, 2019\, the Natu
 ral and Applied Sciences Division will welcome Dr. Valerie Taylor as she he
 adlines the annual Gentile Interdisciplinary Lectureship.\n\nDr. Taylor is 
 the director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne Na
 tional Laboratory. Previously\, she served at Texas A&M University as head 
 of the computer science and engineering departments\, senior associate dean
  of academic affairs in the College of Engineering\, and also a Regents Pro
 fessor and the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor in the Department of Computer 
 Science. Prior to her time at Texas A&M\, Dr. Taylor was a faculty member i
 n the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwester
 n University for 11 years. Her research is in the area of high-performance 
 computing\, with a focus on performance analysis and modeling of parallel\,
  scientific applications. She is also the chief executive officer and presi
 dent of the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-I
 T)\, and is a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics En
 gineers\, and the Association for Computing Machinery.   \n\nDr. Taylor wil
 l lead two sessions during her visit. The first\, entitled High Performance
  Computing:  A Case for Performance Analysis\, will take place on Wednesday
 \, March 6 at 7:00pm in Winants Auditorium and is open to the public:\n\nHi
 gh Performance Computing refers to the aggregation of resources (compute\, 
 data\, interconnects) to deliver the significant computational power for la
 rge-scale problems. Current systems have hundreds of thousands of resources
 . For example\, the Theta supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory cons
 ists of 4\,392 nodes\, each containing a 64 core Xeon Phi processor\, resul
 ting in 281\,088 cores. Such machines are used to solve large scale applica
 tions in physics or engineering\, for which it is important to analyze the 
 performance of the applications to achieve efficient execution. This talk w
 ill provide an overview of HPC systems\, motivate the need for performance 
 analysis and modeling\, and present some research results from the use of t
 he models to improve performance.\n\nA more technical second session geared
  toward students and faculty entitled Exploring the Tradeoffs Between Perfo
 rmance and Power for Parallel Applications\, will be held on Thursday\, Mar
 ch 7 at 11:00am in the Schaap Auditorium inside the Bultman Student Center:
 \n\nThe demand for computational power continues to drive the deployment of
  ever-growing parallel systems. Production parallel systems with hundreds o
 f thousands of components are being designed and deployed. Future parallel 
 systems are expected to have millions of processors and hundreds of million
 s of cores\, with power requirements. The complexity of these systems is in
 creasing\, with hierarchically configured manycore processors and accelerat
 ors\, together with a deep and complex memory hierarchy. As a result of the
  complexity\, applications face an enormous challenge in exploiting the nec
 essary parameters for efficient execution. While reducing execution time is
  still the major objective for high performance computing\, future systems 
 and applications will have additional power requirements that represent a m
 ultidimensional tuning challenge. To embrace these key challenges\, we must
  understand the complicated tradeoffs among runtime and power\, and in some
  cases resilience strategies. This talk will present our methods and analys
 es to explore these tradeoffs for parallel applications.\n\nThe lectureship
  is supported by a multi-year grant from the Kavli Foundation of Oxnard\, C
 alifornia\, to bring prominent scientists to campus.\n\nPlease join us for 
 this special time of learning!
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SUMMARY:Gentile Lectureship Technical Talk: Dr. Valerie Taylor
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