MSI held the eighth annual Research Exhibition on April 25, 2017. This year, besides the judged poster session, the event included a panel discussion about careers in HPC-related fields, plus presentations by industry representatives about current and emerging technologies. Attendees were also able to take tours of MSI’s machine room.
Thank you to our sponsors!
Platinum level
Matrix Integration in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Gold level
Mellanox
Panasas
Silver level
Adaptive Computing
Sponsor level
ANSYS
NVIDIA
Pacific Biosciences
Panel Discussion and Presentations
- Adaptive Computing
- ANSYS
- MathWorks
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Mellanox
- NVIDIA
- Panasas
Poster Session
Posters by MSI users competed in one of two categories: Biological and Medical Sciences and Physical Sciences and Engineering. Three Finalists in each category were chosen prior to the event; the Finalists were interviewed by the judges during the event to determine the Grand Prize winners.
Biological and Medical Sciences
Grand Prize Winner (travel award of $2,000):
Pathway-Based Discovery of Genetic Interactions in Breast Cancer
Authors: Wen Wang, Zhiyuan Xu, Michael Costanzo, Charles Boone, Carol A. Lange, Chad L. Myers
MSI Principal Investigator: Chad L. Myers (Computer Science and Engineering)
Finalists (travel awards of $1,000):
EMBALMER Enables Mathematically Optimal Genome Database Search for Big Data
Author: Gabriel Al-Ghalith
MSI Principal Investigator: Dan Knights (Computer Science, Biotechnology Institute, BICB)
Unbiased Discovery of Exosome-Associated Biomarkers Using Xenograft Models
Authors: Milcah C. Scott, John R. Garbe, Hirotaka Tomiyasu, Jaime F. Modiano
MSI Principal Investigator: Jaime Modiano (Veterinary Clinical Sciences)
See a list of all the submitted Biological and Medical Sciences posters.
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Grand Prize Winner (travel award of $2,000):
Computation of Multiphase Breakup With a Lagrangian Volume of Fluid: Toward High-Fidelity and Affordable Simulation of Primary Atomization
Authors: Everett A. Wenzel, Sean C. Garrick
MSI Principal Investigator: Sean Garrick (Mechanical Engineering)
Finalists (travel awards of $1,000):
Computationally Guided Structural Nanomaterials Design
Authors: Yuezhou Wang, Jihong Al-Ghalith, Hao Xu, Grigory Drozdov, Traian Dumitrica
MSI Principal Investigator: Traian Dumitrică (Mechanical Engineering)
Inverse Design Process: Generating the BIG DATA to Efficiently Visualize a Complete Design Space
Authors: Bethany Tourek, Dan Orban, Hakizumwami Birali Runesha, Dan Keefe, Arthur Erdman
MSI Principal Investigator: Arthur Erdman (Mechanical Engineering)
See a list of all the submitted Physical Sciences and Engineering posters.
People’s Choice Award
Rational Design of Selective Adenine-Based Scaffolds for Inactivation of Bacterial Histidine Kinases
Authors: Manibarsha Goswami, Erin E. Carlson
MSI Principal Investigator: Erin. E. Carlson (Chemistry)
Thank you to the Poster Session judges!
- Graham Candler (Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics)
- Jiali Gao (Chemistry)
- Pratik Jagtap (Center for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics)
- Peter Morrell (Agronomy and Plant Genetics)
- Tracy Twine (Soil, Water, and Climate)
- Gianluigi Veglia (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics)
Photos courtesy Brian Carlton and Michael Milligan.
Image description: Panel discussion at the MSI 2017 Research Exhibition. Left to right: Scott Hurst, Adaptive Computing; Gerald Lotto, Mellanox; Stephen Wheat, Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Bonita Vormawor, MathWorks; Gilles Eggenspieler, ANSYS; Jonathan Bentz, NVIDIA; Mark Taylor, Panasas.
posted on April 28, 2017