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  ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition. IUSB Spartans coached by Dr. Vrajitoru will be participating in the East Central North America
Regional Programming Contest held at Ashland University.  

Nov 14, 2007: Final Standings http://acm.ashland.edu/2007/standings.html Totally 116 teams from 67 colleges participated, and IUSB was placed at the 44th position.

October 11, 2007
  A Practical Intro to Latex by Dr. Robert Batzinger. Hands-on Workshop. October 11, 2007 @ 7 pm in NS164
September 27, 2007 - Talk
 
TITLE: The Changing Face of Storage I/O in High Performance Computing

 

WHERE: Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 7 pm in NS 223.
 

ABSTRACT: In broad terms, HPC systems consist of 3 major components: processing, networking and storage.  Significant attention is given to the processing and networking components, yet storage is often overlooked, but is

frequently the bottleneck for many applications.  This problem has been
exacerbated in recent years by the advent of Linux clusters with commodity
hardware and software which has made high performance computing (HPC)
affordable for a much wider market segment then in the past. But many of
the new players in this field do not have experience with these systems and
adopt simple, yet inefficient storage I/O models.  Beginning with a
historical overview, this presentation examines the range of applications
and system architectures used in HPC today with a special focus on the
challenges of storage I/O, including both disk and tape.  It examines a
taxonomy of disk storage solutions commonly used in today's HPC environment
and gives examples of various storage system architectures that the author
has designed for his customers.
 

BIO: Dr. Ray Paden is currently an HPC Technical Architect with world wide scope

in IBM's Deep Computing organization, a position he has held since June,
2000.  His particular areas of focus include HPC storage systems,
performance optimization and cluster design.  Before joining IBM, Dr. Paden
worked as software engineer doing systems programming and performance
optimization for 6 years in the oil industry.  He also served in the
Computer Science Department at Andrews University for 13 years, including 4
years as department chair.  He has a Ph.D. from the Illinois Institute of
Technology in Computer Science.  He has done research and published papers
in the areas of parallel algorithms and combinatorial optimization,
performance tuning, file systems, and computer education.  He has served in
various capacities on the planning committee for the Supercomputing
conference since 2000.
September 10, 2007
  ACM Monthly Meeting

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November meeting for the IUSB ACM. Free pizza will be provided at this meeting. Everyone is welcome. We will be discussing upcoming events and also exploring ideas for future ACM activities.

November 8, 2005
  Mutable Body, campus theme presentations with students from Dr. Wolfer's Biomorphic Computing course. Come visit for an interactive session with many speakers, various topics and free pizza. Located next to the cafeteria from 4:30 - 7:00.
November 4-5, 2005
  ACM Collegiate Programming Competition. IUSB will be sending a programming team to Ashland University on November 4th to compete against other regional teams. The team is coached by Dr. Vrajitoru.

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