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Determining our first-ever ROI Influencers: Technology list was a process that followed our traditional format: We spoke to approximately a dozen New Jersey tech leaders (all of whom are on the list) to get their takes on various categories.

Written by: Evan Koblentz New algorithms from at NJIT can make supercomputer power available to almost anyone Ordinary people could soon have greater ability to analyze massive amounts of information, based on new algorithms and software tools being designed at NJIT, intended to simplify access to a programming interface from data scientists at the Department of Defense.

Today we’re delving into the world of high performance data analytics with David A. Bader. Professor Bader is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (https://www.

New York City - February 2, 2021 – The New York State Board of Elections unanimoulsy rejected certification of a voting machine called the ExpressVote XL at a special late January meeting.

Abstract: Data science aims to solve grand global challenges such as: detecting and preventing disease in human populations; revealing community structure in large social networks; protecting our elections from cyber-threats, and improving the resilience of the electric power grid.

Jan. 25, 2021 — The Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM) at the University of Warsaw invites enthusiasts of Data Science, HPC and all people interested in challenging topics in Computer and Computational Science to the ICM Seminar in Computer and Computational Science that will be held on Friday, January 29, 4 pm CET.

By Jeff Pillets, NJ Spotlight News New Jersey officials estimate that replacing the state’s aged fleet of voting machines could cost between $60 million and $80 million. Add to that the price tag for new technology that would enable early in-person voting — a 2021 priority for state policymakers — and taxpayers could be looking at a $100 million bill in the next few years just to finance their own votes.

David Bader, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing and Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Written by: Dean Mudgett Responding to the surge in demand for technical skills in data science, NJIT plans to launch in fall 2021 a new Bachelor of Science in Data Science undergraduate degree, co-managed by the Ying Wu College of Computing Department of Computer Science and College of Science and Liberal Arts Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Written by: Evan Koblentz Leonard Kleinrock, who devised the mathematical model for packet switching in 1962. TTI/Vanguard, a prestigious organization of technology industry executives who meet a few times each year to study and debate emerging innovations, chose to virtually visit New Jersey Institute of Technology this week for their latest intellectual retreat.

Written by: Evan Koblentz Institute for Data Science will host many more talks than last year About two dozen experts on data science are giving seminars to the NJIT community this semester and next, with many of them excited to participate virtually from far away with the students and faculty here in New Jersey .

One of the most studied algorithms in computer science is called “Minimum Spanning Tree” or MST. In this problem, one is given a graph comprised of vertices and weighted edges, and asked to find a subset of edges that connects all of the vertices, and the total sum of their weights is as small as possible.

Seed Fund Announcement The Northeast Big Data Hub is delighted to announce our Seed Fund program this month. The Seed Fund is designed to promote collaboration and support the cross-pollination of tools, data, and ideas across disciplines and sectors including academia, industry, government, and communities.

The Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub Seed Fund will be launching by this fall to support data science activities within our community. We are pleased to announce David Bader as Chair of the Seed Fund Steering Committee.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) announced last summer that the University would establish a new Institute of Data Science, focusing on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and development in all areas of digital data.

Dear Northeast Hub Community, As new program activities launch under our second phase of NSF funding, we are delighted to welcome new community members to our leadership team who will help guide the Hub forward, and to thank those whose service has helped us reach this point.

Written by: Prerna Dar Top row: Jacob Chakareski, Matthew Toegel, Ryan Tolboom, Salam Daher, Tomer Weiss, Cody Buntain. Bottom row: David Bader, Jertishta Qerimaj, Pan Xu, Ravi Varadarajan, Przemyslaw Musialski, Yao Shen.

David Bader, director of NJIT’s Institute for Data Science, works on computing initiatives that will help people make sense of large, diverse and evolving streams of data from news reports, distributed sensors and lab test equipment, among other sources connected to worldwide networks.

Shawn Cicoria, Principle Software Engineer Manager, Microsoft, discusses the M.S. in Data Science program at NJIT@JerseyCity, highlighting Prof. David A. Bader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQt5GSgwk8k

Experts in artificial intelligence from the Ying Wu College of Computing will highlight how their work solves real-world problems at a prestigious meeting in New York next week. The professors — Chaoran Cheng, Jing Li, Zhi Wei and Pan Xu — will share their session stages with researchers from IBM, Facebook, Yahoo and other prominent organizations for audiences at the 34th annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

NJIT@JerseyCity is located at 101 Hudson Street on the Jersey City waterfront and, in addition to an ultra-modern learning environment, also provides an expansive view of the iconic Manhattan skyline.

Our featured community member this week is Dr. David Bader, Distinguished Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Dr. David Bader – This Week’s Featured Community Member Without doing too much ego-boosting, we can just say David is a graph-addict for a long time before it was a ‘thing’.

By Evan Koblentz Data science has reached a point where techniques such as deep learning can beat humans at recognizing objects, although experts are still figuring out how to make explainable predictions from massive data, NJIT distinguished professor David Bader said.

David Bader Distinguished Professor and Director of NJIT’s Institute for Data Science What is NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science? The growing abundance and variety of data we amass gives us unprecedented opportunities to improve lives in multifold arenas - manufacturing, health care, financial management, data protection, food safety and traffic navigation are just a few.

By Rob Matheson, MIT News Office Using a supercomputing system, MIT researchers developed a model that captures what global web traffic could look like on a given day, including previously unseen isolated links (left) that rarely connect but seem to impact core web traffic (right).

Defined by the practice of aggregating power in an effort to achieve greater performance, high-performance computing (HPC) is increasingly becoming more diverse. Now, this market, which is expected to reach $59.

By Oliver Peckham In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details.

By Oliver Peckham In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details.

The director of NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science has received an award from Facebook to support real-world analytics research. The research aims to develop faster learning patterns to make it easier for companies to extract actionable information from extremely large data sets.

On August 5-6, 2019, I was invited to attend the Future Computing (FC) Community of Interest Meeting sponsored by the National Coordination Office (NCO) of NITRD. The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program is a formal Federal program that coordinates the activities of 23 member agencies to tackle multidisciplinary, multitechnology, and multisector cyberinfrastructure R&D needs of the Federal Government and the Nation.

By Oliver Peckham In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details.

David Bader The New Jersey Institute of Technology has announced that it will establish a new Institute for Data Science, directed by Distinguished Professor David Bader. Bader recently joined NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing from Georgia Tech, where he was chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering within the College of Computing.

Former CRA Board Member David Bader will direct the new institute for data science at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The institute will focus on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and development in all areas pertinent to digital data.

New Jersey Institute of Technology is creating a center that will conduct basic and applied research focusing on interdisciplinary research and development for all areas pertaining to digital data. The Institute of Data Science, unveiled July 9, will be led by David Bader, a distinguished professor at NJIT.

Continuing its mission to lead in computing technologies, NJIT announced today that it will establish a new Institute for Data Science, focusing on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and development in all areas pertinent to digital data.

Researchers from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) will present seven papers at the 33rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2019) in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, May 20-24.

In January, Facebook invited university faculty to respond to a call for research proposals on AI System Hardware/Software Co-Design. Co-design implies simultaneous design and optimization of several aspects of the system, including hardware and software, to achieve a set target for a given system metric, such as throughput, latency, power, size, or any combination thereof.

Georgia Tech, UC Davis, Texas A&M Join NVAIL Program with Focus on Graph Analytics By Sandra Skaff NVIDIA is partnering with three leading universities — Georgia Tech, the University of California, Davis, and Texas A&M — as part of our NVIDIA AI Labs program, to build the future of graph analytics on GPUs.

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics selected 28 fellows for 2019 in recognition of their research and service to the community. David A. Bader, a professor and chair of computational science and engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, for contributions in high-performance algorithms and streaming analytics and for leadership in the field of computational science.

(Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA. 8 April 2019) After five years, Professor David Bader has decided not to seek another term as the chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) and is returning to faculty and his research.

SIAM Recognizes Distinguished Work through Fellows Program Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is pleased to announce the 2019 Class of SIAM Fellows. These distinguished members were nominated for their exemplary research as well as outstanding service to the community.

Shimi the Robot’s Latest Venture in Sound Explores Emotive Response and What It Means for Communication “It’s all about music,” said Gil Weinberg, the founding director of the College of Design’s Center for Music Technology (GTCMT), School of Music professor, and School of Interactive Computing adjunct professor.

When David Bader started working with graphs 25 years ago, it was a niche that required designing specific algorithms and even specific computers. Now the Neo4j graph database is used widely by analysts and researchers who work with Georgia Tech, rapidly asking questions and visualizing results.

Georgia Tech high-performance computing (HPC) experts are gathered in Dallas this week to take part in the HPC community’s largest annual event — the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis — commonly referred to as Supercomputing.

School of Computational Science and Engineering Chair and Professor David Bader has been named Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (ACM ToPC). ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing is a forum for novel and innovative work on all aspects of parallel computing, and addresses all classes of parallel-processing platforms, from concurrent and multithreaded to clusters and supercomputers.

ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC) welcomes David Bader as new Editor-in-Chief, for the term November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2021. David is a Professor and Chair in the School of Computational Science and Engineering and College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.

School of Computational Science and Engineering Chair and Professor David Bader was named Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (ACM ToPC) this morning. ACM Transactions on Parallel Computingis a forum for novel and innovative work on all aspects of parallel computing, and addresses all classes of parallel-processing platforms, from concurrent and multithreaded to clusters and supercomputers.

NVIDIA today announced a GPU-acceleration platform for data science and machine learning, with broad adoption from industry leaders, that enables even the largest companies to analyze massive amounts of data and make accurate business predictions at unprecedented speed.

In this video from PASC18, David Bader from Georgia Tech summarizes his keynote talk on Big Data Analytics. “Emerging real-world graph problems include: detecting and preventing disease in human populations; revealing community structure in large social networks; and improving the resilience of the electric power grid.

In this keynote video from PASC18, David Bader from Georgia Tech presents: Massive-Scale Analytics Applied to Real-World Problems. “Emerging real-world graph problems include: detecting and preventing disease in human populations; revealing community structure in large social networks; and improving the resilience of the electric power grid.

By Sebastian Moss In 1999, Sony was ascendant. Its video gaming business was its most profitable division, the PlayStation 2 was the world’s most successful console, and hopes were high that the successor would prove even more popular.

In April 2018, the ECE department at Lehigh University celebrated a huge milestone- the 125th Anniversary of the department! Alumni, students, guest and faculty members all showed their support in our one day celebration.

By Jen Babakhan More than one-third of Americans are obese: We’re facing a national crisis, and solutions are in short supply. Here’s how one man turned a personal tracker into weight-loss success, one step at a time.

Today PASC18 announced that this year’s Public Lecture will be held by David Bader from Georgia Tech. Dr. Bader will speak on Massive-Scale Analytics Applied to Real-World Problems. David Bader from Georgia Tech “Emerging real-world graph problems include: detecting and preventing disease in human populations; revealing community structure in large social networks; and improving the resilience of the electric power grid.

As 2017 drew to a close, several faculty and alumni from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) traveled across the globe to attended two conferences in India – The 24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC2017), held in Jaipur, and the IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Science (ICMLDS2017) in Greater Noida.

Recently, David Bader visited India to give a keynote talk at IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Science at Bennett University, Greater Noida. David A. Bader is Professor and Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology.

By Victor Rogers Debbie Dorsey wants to live to be 110 years old. Her great-grandfather lived to the age of 95. Her grandmother lived to be 99. And, her 85-year-old mother still lives on her own.

The Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE) of Bennett University organised its first International Conference on Machine learning and Data Science, at the University campus, in Greater Noida.

The conference coincided with the recent MoU signed between Bennett University and Nvidia, making it the first educational institute in the country to get the DGX-1V100 AI supercomputer.

By Gordana Goudie, Tara La Bouff, Jacqueline Nemeth, and Mike Terrazas A secure internet and its applications are now essential to almost every aspect of our daily lives. Yet connected technology has opened the door for criminals and foreign governments to launch cyberattacks with increasing scale and impact.

The 15th Graph500 list – which ranks supercomputers based on how quickly they can build knowledge from massive-scale data sets – was released Nov. 15 at Supercomputing 2017 (SC17), with Japan’s K-Computer defending its position in the number-one spot several years in a row.

Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Science and Engineering finalized a $662,525 contract for a one-year Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) grant. CSE Senior Research Scientist Jason Riedy leads the project titled, Evaluating Memory-Centric Architectures for High Performance Data Analysis, while working alongside CSE Chair David Bader and School of Computer Science Professor Tom Conte.

(Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, 10 July 2017) The Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have been selected to receive Department of Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funding under the Hierarchal Identify Verify Exploit (HIVE) program.

By Karthika Swamy Cohen Where is computational science and engineering (CSE) headed? What new “grand challenges” will stimulate progress? How will the field benefit from machine learning and scientific computing? How will it drive new application areas like computational biology and medicine, computational geoscience, and materials science?

by George Leopold Artificial intelligence researchers are leveraging an emerging divide-and-conquer computing approach called “dynamic programming” to greatly accelerate the process of solving problems ranging from genomic analysis to cyber security.

Georgia Tech Professor David Bader, chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), participated in the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) Anniversary Workshop in Washington D.

Congratulations to the following faculty who have been selected for IBM Faculty awards granted in 2016. Big Data / Analytics Bader, David, Georgia Institute of Technology, Optimizing Graph Analytics for Cognitive Computing

The eleventh Graph500 list was released today at the Supercomputing 2015 conference (SC’15), with Japan’s K-Computer maintaining its top spot for the second consecutive time. Fujitsu, IBM and China’s National University of Defense Technology dominated the top 10, with the BlueGene/Q architecture holding eight of the top 10 positions.

Four doctoral students comprising two research projects in the School of Computational Science & Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology are finalists for “Best Student Research Paper” at Supercomputing ’15, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.

Surviving Cyberspace When we think of cybersecurity, we often think of the outsider trying to hack into our computer systems. But, another challenge is how we identify and defend against an insider, oftentimes a lone wolf, who knows our procedures and safety precautions.

As data intensive science emerges, the need for high performance computing (HPC) to converge capacity and capabilities with Big Data becomes more apparent and urgent. Capacity requirements have stemmed from science data processing and the creation of large scale data products (e.

The White House National Strategic Computing Initiative Workshop Proceedings is a summary of the workshop held at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in McLean, Virginia on October 20-21, 2015. The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program National Coordination Office (NCO) has edited and released this report in support of the White House National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI).

Regents’ Professor Karsten Schwan, a prolific researcher and faculty leader in the School of Computer Science, passed away Sept. 28, following a battle with cancer. Schwan, who had taught in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing since 1988, leaves behind more than 70 active Ph.

By Michael Byrne Earlier this week, President Obama signed an executive order creating the National Strategic Computing Initiative, a vast effort at creating supercomputers at exaflop scales. Cool. An exaflop-scale supercomputer is capable of 1018 floating point operations (FLOPS) per second, which is a whole lot of FLOPS.

by David Bader, IEEE Computer Society member, and Chair, School of Computational Science & Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology Companies and governments increasingly rely on ‘big data’ to operate efficiently and competitively.

Two highly anticipated lists of the world’s fastest supercomputers were released this week, and Georgia Tech’s David Bader was behind one of them. The lists – Top 500 and Graph 500 – are published twice each year to coincide with supercomputer conferences, and are closely watched as indicators of development and investment into high-performance computing worldwide.

By Katherine Noyes, Senior U.S. Correspondent, IDG News Service Hard on the heels of the publication of the latest Top 500 ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, IBM and Nvidia on Monday announced they have teamed up to launch two new supercomputer centers of excellence to develop the next generation of contenders.

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has awarded 11 research grants to top universities around the world to significantly broaden and deepen the relationships between Accenture’s technology research and development (R&D) groups and leading university researchers.

To reach our goals, we have assembled a Top R&D Team with several of the world’s most renowned scientists in the fields of software engineering, high-performance computing, algorithm design, and hardware systems.

David Bader, professor and chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech, delivered the keynote address during the recent “International Opportunities in Cloud Computing & Big Data” conference.

David A. Bader, Chair of the School - Computational Science and Engineering & Executive Director - HPC, Georgia Institute of Technology With the last decade’s rapid advances in computational power and the resulting explosion of available data, two major areas of computational application—business and scientific research—are now converging.

Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series The computer science departments at Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have joined forces to create the Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series.

Making room for privacy in cybersecurity In this video, Anton explains why she disagrees with the Director of the FBI and the Attorney General on the topic of cell phone encryption.

By Jim Burress Office parks, like this one in DeKalb County, are one place data storage centers are housed. Chances are you’d never know it, though. Companies prefer to keep their data center locations top-secret.

By Rolfe Winkler Google’s trained computers recognized that this is a photo of “two pizzas sitting on top of a stove top oven” Google Google ’s computers learned to recognize cats in photos.

By Rick Robinson A GTRI team consisting of (left to right) Dan Campbell, Rob McColl, Jason Poovey, and David Ediger is bringing graph analytics to bear on a range of data-related challenges including social networks, surveillance intelligence, computer-network functionality, and industrial control systems.

ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) and IEEE Computer Society have named Harshitha Menon of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (UIUC) and Alexander Breuer of Technische Universität München (TUM) as recipients of 2014 ACM/IEEE Computer Society George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships.

Researchers Georgia Tech are helping Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) to develop an energy efficient computer that can last 75 times longer than the present day computers. The computer is being developed as part of an initiative called Power Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT), which is still in the elementary stages.

Georgia Tech is putting forth a dominating presence at one of the premier parallel computation symposia this week in Phoenix as it sends 30 of its professors and researchers to present nine papers, two of which earned “best paper” honors.

Professor David Bader, ECE alumnus and founder of ECE GSA, is named Chair of Georgia Tech’s CSE. Photo courtesy of Raftermen Photography University of Maryland Electrical and Computer Engineering alumnus David Bader (Ph.

David Bader the new chair of Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Science and Engineering. Following a national search for new leadership of its School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), Georgia Tech’s College of Computing has selected its own David A.

Following a national search for new leadership of its School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), Georgia Tech’s College of Computing has selected its own David A. Bader, a renowned leader in high-performance computing, to chair the school.

Georgia Tech’s College of Computing has selected David A. Bader ‘90 ‘91G, a renowned leader in high-performance computing, to chair its School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). A professor in the School of CSE and executive director of its High-Performance Computing Lab, Bader will assume his new role in July 2014.

By Verne Kopytoff Google’s executives have long dreamed of solving one of the technology industry’s biggest riddles. How do you predict what people want — hockey scores or new Ugg boots, for example — before they even ask for it?

HPCwire, the leader in world-class journalism covering high performance computing (HPC), announced its ‘HPCwire People to Watch 2014’ list today. The annual list is comprised of an elite group of some of the brightest minds in HPC.

David Bader is a professor of computational science and engineering in the College of Computing. The College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, one of only two major universities to house its computing program within a college of its own, today announced that David A.

The Executive Director of High Performance Computing at Georgia Tech, David Bader, discusses High Performance Computing. https://youtu.be/Jbd_fW5l6ls

By Tiffany Trader Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Southern California will receive nearly $2 million in federal funding for the creation of tools that will help developers exploit hardware accelerators in a cost-effective and power-efficient manner.

Until now the niche area of supercomputing was available only to those in national research laboratories or leading research universities. That’s about to change. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Southern California recently received a nearly $2 million federal grant to develop tools to assist all developers in using hardware accelerators productively and effectively.

It’s around 9:30 a.m. on a Thursday, and David Bader is explaining how trick-or-treating is connected to graph theory. “For example, we get together with our friends to figure out which houses to go to for optimal candy rewards — and optimization is one component of graph theory,” said Bader, professor in the College of Computing and executive director for High Performance Computing.

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Thomas M. Conte, first vice president for Publications and professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been voted IEEE Computer Society 2014 president-elect.

by Doug Black In this video from the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, David Bader from Georgia Tech and Tamara Kolda from Sandia discuss the significance of Big Data and the importance of mathematical modeling to make sense of and interpret all that data in various fields from social networks and epidemiology to climatology.

New Editors-in-Chief David Bader, a professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems starting in 2014.

Join HPCwire Editor Nicole Hemsoth and Dr. David Bader from Georgia Tech as they take center stage on opening night at Atlanta’s first Big Data Kick Off Week, filmed in front of a live audience.

By Joshua E. Keating Jung Yeon-Je / AFP / Getty Images Government-funded trolls. Decoy documents. Software that identifies you by how you type. Those are just a few of the methods the Pentagon has pursued in order to find the next Edward Snowden before he leaks.

By Nicole Hemsoth Outside of the main attractions, including the keynote sessions, vendor showdowns, Think Tank panels, BoFs, and tutorial elements, the International Supercomputing Conference has balanced its five-day agenda with some striking panels, discussions and topic areas that are worthy of some attention.

In this guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Georgia Institute of Technology’s David A. Bader discusses his upcoming ISC’13 session, Better Understanding Brains, Genomes & Life Using HPC Systems. Supercomputing at ISC has traditionally focused on problems in areas such as the simulation space for physical phenomena.

Georgia Tech’s leadership in education and research came through clearly at the 27th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS2013) in Cambridge, MA the week of May 19-24, 2013. IPDPS accepted only 22% of submissions, and Georgia Tech’s Schools of Computational Science and Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering participated in nine of the total 108 papers and one of the 23 PhD posters.

Georgia Institute of Technology’s David A. Bader discusses his upcoming ISC’13 session, Better Understanding Brains, Genomes & Life Using HPC Systems Supercomputing at ISC has traditionally focused on problems in areas such as the simulation space for physical phenomena.

This is to recognize those individuals in the broader community who have had major professional service roles in conferences (TCPP and others), journals, various committees, major events, community resources, and international outreach, and those who have had a major impact on the community at large in possibly other ways.

There are four new additions to the CRA Board of Directors. David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, is the new IEEE-CS Representative. Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, and P. Takis Metaxas, Wellesley College, replace members who resigned, and their terms end June 30, 2014.

Did You Know Lehigh alumni are engaged in high performance computing and data analytics in a variety of ways. Here are a few examples: David A. Bader ‘90, ‘92G is executive director of high performance computing at Georgia Tech, conducting research at the intersection of high performance computing, computational biology and genomics, and social network analysis.

Emcien Corp., a leading provider of pattern-based analytics solutions, announced today the addition of internationally renowned High-Performance Computing luminary Dr. David A. Bader to the Emcien Advisory Board, thereby lending his expertise to Emcien’s next generation of solutions designed for massive-scale analytics in real time in multiple sectors, including government, financial services, healthcare, medical research, and insurance.

Emcien Corp., a leading provider of pattern-based analytics solutions, announced today the addition of internationally renowned High-Performance Computing luminary Dr. David A. Bader to the Emcien Advisory Board, thereby lending his expertise to Emcien’s next generation of solutions designed for massive-scale analytics in real time in multiple sectors, including government, financial services, healthcare, medical research, and insurance.

By Joab Jackson The Graph 500 ranking of the most powerful supercomputers at handling Big Data workloads has been introduced to complement the Top500 HPC list. So while a new Cray supercomputer took first place on the Top500, it was another machine, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Sequoia, that proved to be the most adept at processing data intensive workloads on the Graph 500.

By Joab Jackson, U.S. Correspondent, IDG News Service The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloads.

By Joab Jackson, U.S. Correspondent, IDG News Service The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloads.

Georgia Tech has received $561,130 for the first phase of a negotiated three-phase $2.9 million cooperative agreement contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) to create the algorithmic framework for supercomputing systems that require much less energy than traditional high-speed machines, enabling devices in the field to perform calculations that currently require room-sized supercomputers.

Georgia Tech has received $561,130 for the first phase of a negotiated three-phase $2.9 million cooperative agreement contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) to create the algorithmic framework for supercomputing systems that require much less energy than traditional high-speed machines, enabling devices in the field to perform calculations that currently require room-sized supercomputers.

In our last few posts we discussed the fact that over 90% supercomputers (94.2% to be precise) employ Linux as their operating system. In this post, a sequel to our last posts, we shall attempt to investigate the potentials of Linux which make it suitable and perhaps the best choice for supercomputers OS.

Georgia Tech researchers say they have developed an algorithm that quickly determines betweenness centrality for streaming graphs. They say the algorithm also can identify influencers as information changes within a network.

At an airport, many people are essential for planes to take off. Gate staffs, refueling crews, flight attendants and pilots are in constant communication with each other as they perform required tasks.

At an airport, many people are essential for planes to take off. Gate staffs, refueling crews, flight attendants and pilots are in constant communication with each other as they perform required tasks.

It’s not easy turning the Mayberry Police Department into the team from CSI, or turning an idea for a new type of social network analysis into something like Klout on steroids, but those types of transformations are becoming ever more realistic.

By Derrick Harris It’s not easy work turning the Mayberry Police Department into the team from C.S.I., or turning an idea for a new type of social network analysis into something like Klout on steroids, but those types of transformations are becoming increasingly more possible.

By Derrick Harris It’s not easy turning the Mayberry Police Department into the team from CSI, or turning an idea for a new type of social network analysis into something like Klout on steroids, but those types of transformations are becoming ever more realistic.

By Nicole Hemsoth The world lost one of its most profound science fiction authors in the early eighties, long before the flood of data came down the vast virtual mountain.

By John Pavlus Computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have devised a framework for running large-scale computations for tasks such as social network or Web search analysis efficiently on a single personal computer.

By Noah Shachtman Air Force One waits for U.S. President Barack Obama in the fog at London’s Stansted Airport, Friday, April 3, 2009. PHOTO: AP / KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH Pentagon-funded researchers have come up with a new plan for busting leakers: Spot them by how they search, and then entice the secret-spillers with decoy documents that will give them away.

By Robert Gelber Search giant Google along with researchers from Stanford University have made an interesting discovery based on an X labs project. After being fed 10 million images from YouTube, a 16,000-core cluster learned how to recognize various objects, including cats.

[KOMO NewsRadio Interview](KOMO Radio–GOOGLE NEURAL NETWORK EXPERIMENT.mp3) In this clip, Seattle’s KOMO NewsRadio interviews David Bader on Google’s neural network experiment that recognizes cats in YouTube videos.

Supercomputing performance is getting a new measurement with the Graph500 executive committee’s announcement of specifications for a more representative way to rate the large-scale data analytics at the heart of high-performance computing.

Supercomputing performance is getting a new measurement with the Graph500 executive committee’s announcement of specifications for a more representative way to rate the large-scale data analytics at the heart of high-performance computing.

An image of a cat that a neural network taught itself to recognize. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times By John Markoff, June 25, 2012 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.

Supercomputing performance is getting a new measurement with the Graph500 executive committee’s announcement of specifications for a more representative way to rate the large-scale data analytics at the heart of high-performance computing.

The 26th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) took place May 21-25, 2012, in Shanghai, China. Georgia Tech’s participation in the technical program included 23 faculty and students presenting six accepted papers, eight workshops, two Ph.

Georgia Institute of Technology will be recognized as one the 50 charter members of the HPC500, an exclusive community of High-Performance Computing user organizations at the vanguard of their areas of specialization, during the International Supercomputing conference, ISC'12, in Hamburg, Germany, June 17-21.

The IEEE Computer Society will honor 14 prominent technologists at its annual awards dinner in Seattle, including the inventor of MATLAB, two dedicated computer science educators, a parallel programming languages expert, and innovators in the fields of data mining, distributed computing, database theory, computer standards, and other technologies.

The IEEE Computer Society will honor 14 prominent technologists at its annual awards dinner in Seattle, including the inventor of MATLAB, two dedicated computer science educators, a parallel programming languages expert, and innovators in the fields of data mining, distributed computing, database theory, computer standards, and other technologies.

Project CHASM, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of its Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program announced in 2010, is focusing UHPC architecture designs on achieving scalable capability on defense application requirements.

Can diseases in human populations be detected and prevented? How many currents can one electrical power grid handle? Who detects the community structure of large social networks?

HPCwire, the most widely recognized and accessed news and information site covering the ecosystem of High Performance Computing (HPC) announced today that it has published the HPCwire 2012 ‘People to Watch’ list.

In 2011, The University of Maryland’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering established the Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize alumni who have made significant and meritorious contributions to their fields. Alumni are nominated by their advising professors or the department chair, and the Department Council then approves their selection.

In November 2011, the AAAS Council elected 539 members as Fellows of AAAS. These individuals will be recognized for their contributions to science and technology at the Fellows Forum to be held on 18 February 2012 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Iraq, Fallujah: US marines from the First Battalion, 5th Marines, Bravo Company, browse the internet at camp Mercury 25 April 2004. (AFP Photo / Nicolas Asfouri) © AFP The Pentagon will soon be prying through the personal correspondence and computer files of US military personnel, thanks to a $9-million program that will put soldiers’ private emails under Uncle Sam’s microscope.

By Trent Nouveau The Pentagon is kicking of a new initiative to monitor military emails in an attempt to detect insider threats. Backed by DARPA, the project seeks to create “a suite of algorithms [capable of] detecting multiple types of insider threats by analyzing massive amounts of data – including email, text messages and file transfers – for unusual activity.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named four Georgia Tech professors as 2011 Fellows. AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society, and the election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

The Pentagon is currently working to prevent another WikiLeaks situation within the department. Wired.com recently reported a group of military funded scientists are developing a sophisticated computer system that can scan and interpret every key stroke, log-in and uploaded files over the Pentagon’s networks.

A project funded through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency would identify the most serious insider threats to security by scanning all user e-mail messages, text messages, logins, file transfers and Web browsing on military networks, reports Katie Drummond at Wired’s Danger Room blog.

Photo: D. Sharon Pruitt/Flickr If you don’t have anything nice to say, then definitely don’t say it, type it or text it over a military network.

Georgia Tech leveraged its strengths in high performance computing Nov 12-18 at the SC11 conference in Seattle, with a strong showing in the technical program and through faculty members building on current research partnerships and collaborations.

By Julian Sanchez I wrote on Monday that a cybersecurity bill overwhelmingly approved by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence risks creating a significantly broader loophole in federal electronic surveillance law than its boosters expect or intend.

Georgia Tech DARPA ADAMS leaders Georgia Tech DARPA ADAMS team Data collection environment When a soldier in good mental health becomes homicidal or a government employee abuses access privileges to share classified information, we often wonder why no one saw it coming.

By Darlene Storm Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano said the “risk of ‘lone wolf’ attackers, with no ties to known extremist networks or grand conspiracies, is on the rise as the global terrorist threat has shifted,” reported CBSNews.

By Kevin McCaney Researchers backed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are developing a system than could scan up to 250 million text messages, e-mail messages and file transfers a day in search of anomalies that could help identify insider threats or employees who might be about to “break bad.

By Claire Shefchik A new project from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and George Institute of Technology will begin scanning e-mails, text messages and file transfers to pick up on what it calls “insider threats,” the university announced earlier this month.

By John Brandon, Fox News Nov. 10, 2011: The “data collection environment” at Georgia Tech, where researchers use a combination of massively scalable graph-processing algorithms and statistical analysis to scan through emails, text messages and IMs for “anomalies.

David Bader, Full Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Executive Director for High Performance Computing Dr. Bader is a lead scientist in the DARPA Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program.

By Rich Brueckner, insideHPC In this video, Professor David Bader from Georgia Tech discusses his participation in the DARPA ADAMS project. The Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (ADAMS) program uses Big Data Analytics to look for cleared personnel that might be on the verge of “Breaking Bad” and becoming internal security threats.

By Robert Lemos, Contributing Editor The hunt for technology to identify malicious insiders took off in 2011 with the research arm of the Pentagon, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), offering up millions of dollars in grants to fund research.

At insideHPC, we are pleased to announce that David Bader is our latest Rock Star of HPC. “While HPC tends to focus on compute-intensive problems, Big Data challenges require novel architectures for data-intensive computing.

“We never saw it coming.” Those words often fall from the lips of victims or witnesses to incidents when a person takes the law into their own hands. However, when doing the forensics in the case, a trail often exists that if anyone noticed, it could have possibly provided enough time to intervene and prevent an incident.

Researchers at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Army Research Office, and Georgia Tech are developing new approaches for identifying insider threats before a data breach occurs.

Researchers from Georgia Tech are helping to create a suite of algorithms that can detect multiple types of insider threats by analyzing massive amounts of data for unusual activity.

Seattle-based CODONiS, a provider of advanced computing platforms for life sciences and healthcare, has teamed up with scientists from the world-renowned Institute for Systems Biology, a nonprofit research organization in Seattle, to advance biomedical computing for future personalized healthcare.

By Ellyne Phneah Innovations around computing are increasingly designed to imitate the human brain but the day artificial intelligence becomes “smarter” than human intelligence is a “long time” away, said experts.

By Carlo Alaimo An artist’s rendering of a proposed Interdisciplinary High Performance Computation Center, part of the CSI Master Plan. CSI will host a two-day workshop on Data-Intensive Computing on July 26-27, 2011 from 8:15am to 4:45pm in the Lecture Hall of the Center for the Arts.

The Georgia Institute of Technology inaugurated its School of Computational Science and Engineering at a convocation in February. The result of an initiative that began in 2005, the new school is located within the College of Computing, where it joins the School of Computer Science and the School of Interactive Computing.

Back in 2009, Josh Anderson didn’t know much about biology. But he knew that a summer undergraduate research assistantship working on something called “RNA folding” had to be better than the job his mother had lined up for him.

As a new era centered on human health dawns around the world, the life sciences — accelerated by the tremendous bloom of genomics — are poised to open new horizons. And, in this relatively new, interdisciplinary branch of biology called genomics, computing plays a critical role, particularly in such areas as genome assembly, analysis and interpretation.

Nine supercomputers have been tested, validated and ranked by the new “Graph500” challenge, first introduced this week by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories. The list of submitters and the order of their finish was released Nov.

The road to exascale computing is a long one, but the Georgia Institute of Technology, a leader in high-performance computing (HPC) research and education, continues to win new awards and attract new talent to drive technology innovation.

The road to exascale computing is a long one, but the Georgia Institute of Technology, a leader in high-performance computing (HPC) research and education, continues to win new awards and attract new talent to drive technology innovation.

Researchers Mark Richards, David Bader and Dan Campbell (left to right) pose in the Advanced Computing Technology Lab operated by the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Image Credit: Gary Meek Imagine that one of the world’s most powerful high performance computers could be packed into a single rack just 24 inches wide and powered by a fraction of the electricity consumed by comparable current machines.

Imagine that one of the world’s most powerful high performance computers could be packed into a single rack just 24 inches wide and powered by a fraction of the electricity consumed by comparable current machines.

In supercomputing these days, it’s usually the big science applications (astrophysics, climate simulations, earthquake predictions and so on) that seem to garner the most attention. But a new area is quickly emerging onto the HPC scene under the general category of informatics or data-intensive computing.

By Christopher Mims Determining the most influential users of Twitter is probably not what the creators of the Cray XMT supercomputer had in mind when they designed their machine. But when you’re packing this much computational heat, you go where the hard problems are.

NVIDIA announced today that they have officially named Georgia Institute of Technology a CUDA Center of Excellence. Jeff Vetter, joint professor of the Georgia Tech College of Computing and Group Leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will serve as principal investigator for the center.

NVIDIA today announced the addition of new research and educational centers dedicated to leveraging the immense processing power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to address today’s most challenging computing issues.

NVIDIA today recognized Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) as a CUDA Center of Excellence. One of the world’s premier engineering and science universities, Georgia Tech is engaged in a wide number of research, development and educational activities which leverage GPU Computing.

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By Michael Feldman The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected four “performers” to develop prototype systems for its Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program. According to a press release issued on August 6, the organizations include Intel, NVIDIA, MIT, and Sandia National Laboratory.

Advanced computing is the backbone of the Department of Defense and of critical strategic importance to our nation’s defense. All DoD sensors, platforms and missions depend heavily on computer systems. To meet the escalating demands for greater processing performance, it is imperative that future computer system designs be developed to support new generations of advanced DoD systems and enable new computing application code.

‘Life Sciences’ is becoming a strategic discipline at the frontier between Molecular Biology and Computer Science, impacting medicine, biotechnology, as well as society. ‘Life Sciences’, the leading edge research is one of the most challenging supercomputer application for the future.

by Rick Smith Georgia Institute of Technology has launched the Georgia Tech Institute for Data and High Performance Computing (IDH) in recognition of the need to advance and coordinate institute research and education activities in this area, both in its application to key areas of science and engineering as well as in the advancement of the technology itself.

Today the Georgia Institute of Technology Office of the Provost announced the formation of the Georgia Tech Institute for Data and High Performance Computing (IDH) in recognition of the need to advance and coordinate institute research and education activities in this area.

Today the Georgia Institute of Technology Office of the Provost announced the formation of the Georgia Tech Institute for Data and High Performance Computing (IDH) in recognition of the need to advance and coordinate institute research and education activities in this area.

The 25th International Supercomputing Conference – ISC'10 – the leading HPC event in 2010, introduces four new special sessions to address some of the biggest challenges in science, industry and technology today.

By John Brandon High-performance computing (HPC) has almost always required a supercomputer – one of those room-size monoliths you find at government research labs and universities. And while those systems aren’t going away, some of the applications traditionally handled by the biggest of Big Iron are heading to the desktop.

By Therese Poletti, Columnist Entrepreneur Ijad Madisch initially wanted to be a virologist and studied how to stop certain viruses in their path. Now, the 29-year-old scientist, technologist and medical doctor is learning the positive aspects of possibly having a “viral” product on the Internet.

In 2010, David A. Bader received the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award. A plaque is awarded for long-standing member or staff service to the society. This program was initiated in 1996 with a charter membership of 450.

In 2010, David A. Bader received the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award for service as General Chair for the 2010 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS).

By Miriam Boon, iSGTW This figure illustrates how gene order changes among the eight species. Each thin line represents a single gene and its position in the different species.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of only six U.S. universities to have five of its faculty members elevated to the rank of IEEE Fellow, the most at any academic institution in the United States.

By KI MAE HEUSSNER Guess what’s on the U.S. Air Force’s wish list this holiday season. Sony’s popular PlayStation 3 gaming console. Thousands of them. The Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.

Seventy IEEE Computer Society members will be elevated to IEEE Fellow grade in 2010. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession. The IEEE Board of Directors elevated 309 members to Fellow status.

By Timothy Prickett Morgan The Hybrid Multicore Consortium is on a mission that perhaps all of computing - on the desktop and in the data center - will one day embark on: making hybrid computing architectures as easy to program and use as monolithic platforms have been.

The National Science Foundation has funded three research teams under a four-year $1 million project to help ensure that certain bioinformatics tools are compatible with upcoming petascale computers. NSF awarded the grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support the development of algorithms that will infer evolutionary relationships from genomic rearrangement events — a task that could take “centuries” to analyze on today’s fastest parallel computers, according to the agency.

By Matthew Dublin A team of researchers led by Georgia Tech’s David Bader are poised to bring genomic evolution to petascale heights. Equipped with a four-year $1M grant courtesy of the National Science Foundation’s PetaApps program, Bader and his team are setting their sights on developing algorithms to take advantage of petascale computing platforms for studying genome rearrangement events.

Scientists at three universities will use funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to develop computational biology tools that researchers will use with next-generation computers to study genomic evolution, according to Georgia Tech.

Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes.

The Georgia Institute of Technology, an emerging leader in high-performance computing research and education, will be showcasing scientific research at the technical edge at next week’s SC09, the international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis scheduled for Nov.

By John E. West, for HPCwire Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, edited by David A. Bader (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2007), is the first book in CRC’s Computational Science Series, edited by Horst Simon at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

By Matthew Dublin Given the combination of the everincreasing power of compute hardware and researchers’ desire to unlock the mysteries of life, it’s no surprise that high-performance computing in the early 21st century is now talking in terms of a whole new scale of computation.

Kamesh Madduri won the best poster award in the Ph. D. Forum at the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) held April 14-18 in Miami. Madduri’s research in computational science and high-performance computing beat out 72 other submissions to win one of two prizes in the competition.

By Jonathan Erickson David Bader is Executive Director of High-Performance Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology and author of Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications. Q: David, you’ve been actively involved with multicore and parallelism since the early 1990s and the rest of the computing world seems just now catching up.

By Samuel K. Moore Of the many things that have gone wrong on Wall Street this past year, the use and misuse of computational algorithms meant to give financiers a clear picture of the risk of big losses was one of them.

The Georgia Institute of Technology, an emerging leader in highperformance computing research and education, will command a significant presence at next week’s SC08, the international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis scheduled for Nov.

By Michael Feldman Tuesday marks the first full day of the conference technical program. This year’s conference keynote will be given by Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell, Inc. Dell’s selection reflects both the changing face of the industry, and the conference’s location – Dell is headquartered about 20 miles north of Austin in Round Rock, Texas.

By Mark Anderson When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins smashing protons together this fall inside its 17-mile- (27-kilometer-) circumference underground particle racetrack near Geneva, Switzerland, it will usher in a new era not only of physics but also of computing.

A supercomputing architecture that first appeared in prototype form more than 10 years ago has been given a new lease on life, thanks in part to a recent $4 million Department of Defense grant issued to seed the new Center for Adaptive Supercomputing Software.

By Abby Vogel Research Horizons Summer 2008 Vol. 25, No. 3

By Sheila McNulty in Houston No one knows the extent of US oil and natural gas reserves in the offshore and Arctic areas that are off-limits to drilling. The last time they were surveyed was in the 1980s and the technology then used is no longer considered accurate, say industry experts.

The Center for Adaptive Supercomputing Software will take advantage of the multithreaded processors in the Cray XMT. Image courtesy of Cray, Inc. The newest breed of supercomputers have hardware set up not just for speed, but also to better tackle large networks of seemingly random data.

With the arrival of the new QS22 blade, IBM and its partners are pushing hard to flesh out the software ecosystem for the Cell Broadband Engine. The QS22 contains the double-precision enhanced version of the processor, and as such, represents the first mainstream Cell platform for HPC.

The Georgia Tech College of Computing today announced the renewal of the Sony Corporation/Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group)-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence (STI Center), based on Georgia Tech’s exceptional work in multiple areas of research and evangelism for the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.

By David Ho, Cox New York Correspondent A video game microchip may be the key to a system that keeps aging commercial and military airplanes structurally safe, Georgia Tech’s College of Computing plans to announce Thursday.

NPR radio interview on Atlanta’s 90.1 WABE station In this radio interview, Atlanta’s NPR station 90.1 WABE’s John Lemley interviews David Bader on the IBM Cell microchip in the Sony PlayStation 3 that could save lives.

By David Ho Cox News Service A video game microchip may be the key to a system that keeps aging commercial and military airplanes structurally safe, GeorgiaTech’s College of Computing plans to announce Thursday.

Third Annual High Performance Computing Day at Lehigh http://www.lehigh.edu/computing/hpc/hpcday.html Friday, April 4, 2008 Featured Keynote Speaker David Bader ‘90, ‘91G Petascale Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Evolutionary Histories http://www.lehigh.edu/computing/hpc/hpcday/2008/hpckeynote.html Executive Director of High Performance Computing

By Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer After more than two decades of boosting chip performance by using two hardware tricks that work hand-in-glove, Intel Corp. has realized that one trick makes computers too hot, so it has been forced to redesign its microprocessors in a way that requires the invention of a whole new approach to PC software.

By Therese Poletti No technology company wants to end up with great research that it fails to commercialize. Silicon Valley is too familiar with the failure of the research lab previously known as Xerox PARC to capitalize on its early innovations for the personal computer in the 1980s.

Over twice as fast as today’s most commonly used supercomputers, petascale processors—which are able to perform 1,000 trillion calculations per second—are slated to be released as early as 2008. With the power of 100,000 desktop computers, the newest generation of supercomputers is predicted to have a profound impact in the fields of business and industry.

By Liz Tay The author of the world’s first published collection on petascale techniques, David A. Bader, discusses petascale, exascale and the future of computing. Supercomputing has come a long way in the past half-century.

ECE introduced a new video game programming class to students this fall: Multicore and GPU Programming for Video Games. The course focuses on the architecture and programming of multicore photo of Brian Davidsonprocessors and graphical processing units (GPUs).

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech and Chapman & Hall/CRC Press today announced the launch of “Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications”, the first published collection on petascale techniques for computational science and engineering, at the SC07 conference.

“Multi-core is a disruptive technology — and I mean that in a good way — because it’s only when you have disruption of the status quo that new innovations can affect technology with revolutionary advances,” says David A.

The Office of the Provost has awarded Focused Research Program (FRP) funding for research proposals in high performance computing for $30,000 and web science for $29,313. The proposals were coordinated by College of Computing Associate Professor David A.

College of Computing Associate Professor and Executive Director of High-Performance Computing David A. Bader has been elected to the 2007 Internet2 Advisory Council in its first-ever election held this summer. Formed in 1996, Internet2 is a non-profit consortium contributing to the advancement of networking research with projects like the Abiline Network and the National Lambda Rail (NLR) project, which has deployed the highest bandwidth research network in the country.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has selected two Georgia Tech faculty — College of Computing Associate Professor David Bader and Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Samuel Graham — to participate in the NAE’s annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium, a three-day event that will bring together engineers ages 30 to 45, who are performing cutting- edge engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines.

David A. Bader The thirteenth annual US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium was held in September, 2007, in Redmond Washington. Chaired by Julia M. Phillips of Sandia National Laboratories, the meeting included sessions on Engineering trustworthy computer systems, Control of protein conformations, Biotechnology for fuels and chemicals, Modeling and simulating human behavior, and Safe water technologies.

Georgia Tech is one of the first universities to deploy the IBM BladeCenter QS20 Server for production use, through Sony-Toshiba-IBM (STI) Center of Competence for the Cell Broadband Engine (http://sti.cc.gatech.edu/) in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech.

College of Computing Associate Professor David A. Bader is one of eighty-three of the nation’s brightest young engineers who have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 13th annual U.

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech today announced it will host the Georgia Tech Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) Processor Workshop from June 18-19, 2007, focusing on applications for the Cell/B.

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech today announced it will host the Georgia Tech Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) Processor Workshop from June 18-19, 2007, focusing on applications for the Cell/B.

Georgia Tech will be hosting a two-day workshop on software and applications for the Cell Broadband Engine, to be held on Monday, June 18 and Tuesday, June 19, at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, (http://www.

What do Harley-Davidson, Lehman Brothers, eBay, Volkswagen, Electronic Arts, and Georgia Tech all have in common? Each is a member of the highly-selective IBM Technical Leadership Forum, which is comprised of high-tech representatives from around the world who serve as an advisory board for IBM on information technologies.

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech hosted its 16th Annual Awards Celebration on April 17, 2007. Master of Ceremony and CoC Associate Dean and Honors & Awards Chair Merrick Furst led the College in congratulating students, faculty, and staff on another exciting and productive year.

David A. Bader, Executive Director of High-Performance Computing, and Associate Professor in the Computational Science and Engineering Division of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, recently delivered a keynote talk on “Petascale Computing for Large-Scale Graph Problems“ at the 8th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC), on March 30 in Long Beach, CA, held in conjunction with the 21st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS).

by Pam Frost Gorder There’s no question that multicore processors have gone mainstream. These computer chips, which have more than one CPU, first hit the consumer market less than two years ago.

The Intel Teraflop Research Chip is seen Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007, near San Jose, Ore. Intel Corp. has designed a computer chip that promises to do as many calculations as quickly as an entire data center, while consuming as much energy as a light bulb.

Supercomputers help scientists build virtual worlds to explore blood flow for stroke prevention, design new proteins for life-saving drugs, and diagnose brain disorders. But even with today’s largest machines, researchers are only beginning to capture the key features of many complex problems.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that ten universities spanning multiple geographies have been chosen as winners of the latest IBM Shared University Research (SUR) awards. For the first time, each of the universities will be using the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.

Supercomputers help scientists build virtual worlds to explore blood flow for stroke prevention, design new proteins for life-saving drugs, and diagnose brain disorders. But even with today’s largest machines, researchers are only beginning to capture the key features of many complex problems.

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech has been designated as the first Sony-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence to build a community of programmers and broaden industry support for the Cell Broadband Engine microprocessor.

College of Computing Associate Professor and Executive Director of High-Performance Computing David Bader received a $75,000 award from Microsoft Research to investigate the design and optimization of algorithms that fully exploit multi-core processors.

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech today announced its designation as the first Sony-Toshiba-IBM (STI) Center of Competence focused on the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell BE) microprocessor. IBM® Corp., Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation selected to partner with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech to build a community of programmers and broaden industry support for the Cell BE processor.

The College of Computing at Georgia Tech today announced its designation as the first Sony-Toshiba-IBM (STI) Center of Competence focused on the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell BE) microprocessor. IBM® Corp., Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation selected to partner with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech to build a community of programmers and broaden industry support for the Cell BE processor.

By Bob Keefe WEST COAST BUREAU Three of the biggest names in technology plan to announce today that they will start a research center at the Georgia Institute of Technology to explore ways to expand the reach of a promising new semiconductor design.

By Bob Keefe Cox Washington Bureau Three of the biggest names in technology plan to announce today they will start a research center at Georgia Tech to explore ways to expand the reach of a promising new semiconductor design.

College of Computing Associate Professor David Bader gave an invited keynote on “Petascale Computing for Large-Scale Graph Problems” at the second international conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC ‘06) in Munich, Germany.

Congratulations to Associate Professor David Bader who recently received a 2006 IBM Faculty Award in recognition of his outstanding achievement and importance to industry. The highly competitive award, valued at $40,000, was given to Bader for making fundamental contributions to the design and optimization of parallel scientific libraries for multicore processors, such as the IBM Cell.

College of Computing Ph.D. student Kamesh Madduri has received a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) Fellowship for his proposal titled, “Performance Analysis and Optimization of NASA Scientific Applications on the NAS Supercomputers.

David Bader Ph.D. alumnus David Bader ‘96, Associate Professor of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech, has joined the Technical Advisory Board of DSPlogic, a provider of FPGA-based, reconfigurable computing and signal processing products and services.

This year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will award the acquisition of a national supercomputer for production use by 2011. The supercomputer will achieve petascale computation which is a rate several orders of magnitude more powerful than the fastest supercomputers available today.

Dr. David A. Bader, a Georgia Tech faculty member and international leader in high performance computing, has joined DSPlogic’s Technical Advisory Board. “At DSPlogic we increase our customers' productivity by improving the software and tools needed for high performance reconfigurable computing solutions,” said Michael Babst, president of DSPlogic.

Dr. David A. Bader, a Georgia Tech faculty member and international leader in high-performance computing, has joined DSPlogic’s Technical Advisory Board. “At DSPlogic we increase our customers' productivity by improving the software and tools needed for high-performance reconfigurable computing solutions,” said Michael Babst, president of DSPlogic.

Research faculty from the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) at Georgia Tech recently received several new industry awards. CERCS, located within the College of Computing, is one of the largest experimental systems programs in the U.

WASHINGTON — Eighty-three of the nation’s brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 13th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The 2½-day event will bring together engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines.

David Bader, associate professor within the College’s Computational Science and Engingeering (CSE) division, along with Ph.D. students Kamesh Madduri and Vaddadi Chandu, have three papers accepted at this year’s 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP).

David Bader, associate professor within the College of Computing’s Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) division, was co-organizer and steering committee member of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2006, held in Rhodes, Greece on April 25-29.

By Aliya Sternstein After President Bush in his State of the Union address proposed spending more on supercomputing, the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology announced a new partnership with the federal government that could advance the president’s agenda.

Mr David Bader, the Associate Professor of the College of Computing, Atlanta, USA said that two papers which will be submitted in Goa conference are excellent and professionals will get latest technological know-how that are taking around the globe.

Computer’s editor in chief extends her thanks to the more than 200 professionals who contributed their time and expertise as reviewers of article submissions in 2005. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1556489

Seattle supercomputer maker Cray yesterday revealed that it lost more than Wall Street expected, including its co-founder and chief executive. Jim Rottsolk, 60, retired yesterday after 27 years of running the company.

David A. Bader has joined Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Computing, effective August 15, 2005. David will advance Georgia Tech’s capabilities in the area of computational science, high-performance computing, and biomedical engineering.

Maryland Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) alumnus David Bader will join the Computational Science and Engineering faculty at Georgia Tech this fall. Dr. Bader completed his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in 1996.

Call it yet another biological gold rush. When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859, scientists began working in earnest to document the world’s plant and animal species and build a phylogeny—a map of how all those species relate to each other. More scientists came to the discipline in the 1980s, when automated DNA sequencing offered a new way to classify species and new applications for phylogenetics. Today, the newest prospectors in the gold rush are those with enough expertise in computing to connect all that genetic data in a meaningful way. The goal is the same as it was 150 years ago: build the ultimate family tree.

by Greg Johnston Illustration by Greg Tucker. Biologist Terry Yates distinctly remembers a question posed in 2000, when he served as director of the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation, NSF.

Prof David Bader who is an Associate Editor for The ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics and the IEEE Distributed Systems Online, as well as a Member of the Founding Editorial Board for the International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking; has been selected as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $350,000 Major Research Instrumentation grant to the University of New Mexico for the purchase and maintenance of a state-of-the-art shared memory high-performance computer.

IEEE Distributed Systems Online, the IEEE’s first online-only publication has named the charter members of its editorial board. Editor-in-Chief Jean Bacon culled the 17 board members from leading professionals within academia and the distributed systems industry worldwide.

by John Fleck, Journal Staff Writer Richard Stallman is one of those people who isn’t famous but should be. … https://abqjournal.newspapers.com/image/443547089/

Noted scientist Richard Stallman will be the featured speaker at a seminar hosted by the University of New Mexico School of Engineering (SOE) Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the Student Union Building, Ballroom B, at 3 p.

The University of New Mexico will collaborate with a number of institutions on two separate Information Technology Research (ITR) “large” (over $5 million) awards announced by the National Science Foundation today.

Sometimes change is good, and in the case of the Center for High Performance Computing (HPC), it’s a welcomed opportunity. The HPC recently underwent a few changes including new management, mission and focus, which gives Marc Ingber, who was hired as the director earlier this year, reason to be excited.

UNM Mirage UNM Computing faculty David A. Bader, Patrick Bridges, Arthur B. Maccabe and Bernard Moret, are collaborating on IBM’s Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable, Computing Systems (PERCS) project, a new initiative to design a supercomputer several orders of magnitude faster than today’s high-end systems.

CIO Insight reporter Debra D’Agostino spoke with Dr. David A. Bader, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and researcher at the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of New Mexico, about the differences between Linux clusters and supercomputers, and the challenges CIOs can expect to face when evaluating the two strategies.

Prof. David A. Bader, an Associate Professor and Regents' Lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of The University of New Mexico, has been elected Chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP).

David A. Bader, an associate professor and Regents’ Lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of New Mexico, has been elected chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP).

David A. Bader, an associate professor and regents' lecturer in the electrical and computer engineering department at UNM, has been elected chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s technical committee on parallel processing.

David A. Bader, an assistant professor and Regent’s Lecturer in the electrical and computer engineering department at UNM, has been selected to be a lecturer for the IEEE Computer Society’s Distinguished Visitors Program for a three-year term.

UNM Mirage David A. Bader, assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, has been selected as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Distinguished Speaker. Bader is named to a group of about three dozen speakers from throughout the country and will serve a three-year term.

“Simple identification via phylogenetic classification of organisms has, to date, yielded more patent filings than any other use of phylogeny in industry.” Bader et al. (2001)

CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Special Issue on High-Performance Computational Biology Guest Editors: Prof. Srinivas Aluru Electrical & Computer Engg. Iowa State University 3218 Coover Hall

Attendees of SC2002 will be treated to a thought-provoking set of panel discussions on topics from homeland security to innovations in high-end computing to the impact of the Earth Simulator, the world’s fastest supercomputer.

The goal of phylogenetic analysis is to reconstruct the evolutionary history of different taxa (e.g., species, genera). Recent advances in molecular biology and genomics have provided biologists with molecular data at an unprecedented rate and scale.

University of New Mexico Post-Doctoral student Tiffani Williams has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology for two years. Twenty-six past Sloan Fellows have become Nobel Laureates.

By Stephen Shankland The computer, called LosLobos, will connect 256 two-processor IBM Intel-based servers with high-speed Myrinet network cards, said John Patrick, vice president of IBM Internet technology. The machine will be able to perform 375 billion calculations per second, UNM said.

University of New Mexico School of Engineering professors Bernard Moret of Computer Science and David Bader of Electrical and Computer Engineering have received more than $1 million in grants this fall from the National Science Foundation for research in reconstructing evolutionary “trees.

UNM Mirage University of New Mexico School of Engineering Professors Bernard Moret, Computer Science, and David Bader, Electrical and Computer Engineering, have received more than $1.1 million in grants this fall from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue research in reconstructing evolutionary trees (known as “phylogenies”).

Dr. David Bader, who earned his doctoral degree from the Department in May 1996, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his work on High-Performance Algorithms for Scientific Applications.

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By Liz Otero Vallejos David A. Bader, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Mexico, has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.

By J. William Bell, NCSA Senior Science Writer Gene data allow researchers to recover the evolutionary history of plants, but even the smallest dataset can require impossibly large computations. Using an Alliance Linux cluster and newly designed software, a team from the University of New Mexico and the University of Texas have increased the speed of the process millionfold for one family of plants.

UNM Mirage University of New Mexico School of Engineering professors David A. Bader and Hy D. Tran recently received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards.

Prof. David A. Bader has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. This highly prestigious grant in High-Performance Algorithms for Scientific Applications emphasizes the importance NSF places on the early development of academic careers dedicated to stimulating the discovery process in which the excitement of research is enhanced by inspired teaching and enthusiastic learning.

Using the largest open, production Linux supercluster, LosLobos, researchers at The University of New Mexico’s Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center have achieved a nearly one-million-fold speedup in solving the computationally-hard phylogeny reconstruction problem for the family of twelve Bluebell species (scientific name: Campanulaceae) from the flowers' chloroplast gene order data.

Using the largest open-production Linux supercluster in the world, LosLobos, researchers at The University of New Mexico’s Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center ( http://www.ahpcc.unm.edu ) have achieved a nearly one-million-fold speedup in solving the computationally-hard phylogeny reconstruction problem for the family of twelve Bluebell species (scientific name: Campanulacae) from the flowers' chloroplast gene order data.

To understand the evolutionary process from the beginning of life itself to present-day species, we must first determine the “tree of life.” In this tree, called a phylogeny, known species reside at the tree’s leaves, while conjectured ancestor (extinct) species reside where the tree’s branches split.

Albuquerque, N.M. — IBM announced the opening of the industry’s first Linux supercluster briefing center for customers developing scalable applications on Linux systems. The briefing center will be based at the University of New Mexico’s (UNM) Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC), and complements the existing briefing facility at the Maui High Performance Computing Center (Maui HPCC).

“IBM today announced the opening of the industry’s first Linux supercluster briefing center for customers developing scalable applications on Linux systems. The briefing center will be based at the University of New Mexico’s (UNM) Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC), and complements the existing briefing facility at the Maui High Performance Computing Center (Maui HPCC).

COLLOSAL CLUSTERS AT ALLIANCE CENTERS The Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center at the University of New Mexico has long been a proponent of colossal clusters. The AHPCC and the National Computational Science Alliance (the Alliance), comprising more than 50 academic, government, and industry research partners from across the US, have formed a partnership that the National Science Foundation funds.

By Hiawatha Bray TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION SECTOR REPORT / HARDWARE When the leading maker of dial-up telephone modems, 3Com Inc., announces that it’s getting out of the business, you might think it’s a sign that old-fashioned modems are doomed.

San Diego, CA — The National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) will take delivery of a 512-processor Linux supercluster within the next month – a move that will give this nationwide partnership the largest open production Linux supercluster aimed at the research community.

IBM said on Wednesday it is providing a new class of low-cost supercomputer that uses the Linux alternative operating system, allowing researchers and developers access to computational power they previously could not afford.

IBM Corp. said it’s providing a new class of low-cost supercomputer that uses the Linux alternative operating system, allowing researchers and developers access to computational power they previously could not afford.

By Matthew Beale IBM (NYSE: IBM) has edged yet another step away from Microsoft by working with the University of New Mexico to create a Linux-based supercomputer that will do more than just crunch research numbers.

By Dominique Deckmyn IBM is helping the University of New Mexico build what it claims will be the world’s fastest Linux supercomputer. It is a cluster of 256 rack-mounted, dual-processor IBM Netfinity servers running Linux and is able to execute 375 billion floating-point operations per second.

THE UNIVERSITY OF New Mexico and IBM are teaming up to build the world’s fastest Linux-based supercomputer. Named “LosLobos”, the new supercomputer is scheduled to be fully operational by the summer.

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IBM and the University of New Mexico (UNM) today announced a joint research project to integrate leading-edge IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputing technology running AIX, IBM’s UNIX operating system, with the fast-developing world of Linux superclusters.

Participants at the upcoming SC99 conference in Portland, OR, will have ample opportunity to experience the progress made by the National Computational Science Alliance in prototyping the next century’s advanced computational and information infrastructure.

By Lenny Liebmann Linux delivers lots of computing power on commodity lntel processors, and it’s especially popular with Net devotees. So could Linux turn out to be the OS of choice for dot.

From cutting-edge research projects, to the most talked about trends in networking, programming, performance analysis, and computer and network security, the SC99 Tutorials Program offers something for everyone with an interest in high performance computing and networking.

(Boston, Mass.) - This September, tourists will be able to explore the ruins of an imaginary ancient palace, bringing to light the artifacts of a long-lost civilization, interacting with kinetic sculptures and chatting with other visitors to this virtual world.

CHAMPAIGN, IL – The National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) will host three technology road shows this summer designed to demonstrate to researchers, educators and students how emerging technologies and the developing National Technology Grid will change the way people communicate, learn, and conduct research and business in the 21st century.

The National Computational Science Alliance’s (Alliance) Linux Roadrunner Supercluster at the University of New Mexico (UNM) is officially open for business as a node on the Alliance Grid. A prototype of the national information infrastructure of the 21st century, the Alliance Grid is an emerging integrated computational and collaborative environment that links people, resources, and services over high speed networks.

By Therese Poletti Linux – the renegade operating system that is among the hottest topics in Silicon Valley – is also making its way into the most serious bastion of computing, the supercomputing world.

By Jessica Schneider University of New Mexico, Daily Lobo

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Albuquerque, NM — The National Computational Science Alliance will introduce its first 128 processor workstation supercluster running the Linux operating system as the latest addition to the National Technology Grid, its arsenal of powerful computational resources.

IEEE Concurrency ’s home page (http://computer.org/concurrency/) now includes a link to ParaScope, a comprehensive listing of parallel computing sites on the Internet. The list is maintained by David A. Bader, assistant professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

David A. Bader and Joseph Ja’Ja' have released a technical report entitled “SIMPLE: A Methodology for Programming High Performance Algorithms on Clusters of Symmetric Multiprocessors (SMPs),” Technical Report Number: CS-TR-3798 and UMIACS-TR-97-48.

Scientists at CuraGen Corporation have coordinated the assembly of the most complete mouse EST database to date. The assembly took as input 45,683 clusters of public mouse ESTs. The CAP2 program was used to perform the assembly, producing 49,228 assembled sequences (some clusters produced multiple assemblies) with 3-fold coverage on average.

By Alan Beck, managing editor Contrary to strident popular opinion, the enervating quality of the Web is generated more through an abundance of information rather than an accumulation of moral deficits.

David Albert Bader, son of Dr. and Mrs. Morris Bader of Bethlehem, was elevated to the rank of Eagle Scout during ceremonies held recently in the Haupert Union Building at Moravian College.

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