MSI held the 12th annual Research Exhibition on April 20, 2021. Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Research Exhibition was held as a virtual event, with two sections: presentations by representatives from industry, MSI, and Research Computing, and a poster session.
Thank you to our sponsors!
Platinum level
PIER Group in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Panasas
Silver level
Intel
Participant
Schrodinger
Industry Presentations
Our industry collaborators gave talks about current and emerging technologies at their companies (see list below). MSI leadership talked about the past year at MSI and the new resources we’ll be activating in the next year, including the new HIPAA cluster Blackwell, the new supercomputing cluster Agate, and upgraded storage capabilities. Jim Wilgenbusch, Director of Research Computing, gave a presentation about funding opportunities from the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute.
Intel
DAOS and Optane: Breaking Through the High Performance Storage Bottleneck
Andrey Kudryavtsev
Schrodinger
Using Schrodinger Applications for Research and Education
Abigail Emtage, Yamini Naidu
Panasas
Storage That Supports Changing Research Needs
Adam Marko
Mike Begley
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Emerging Trends and Technologies in High Performance Compute
Bill Mannel
Poster Session
Posters by MSI users competed in one of two categories, Life Sciences and Engineering and Physical Sciences and Engineering. They were judged using the following criteria:
- How much did using MSI contribute to the outcome of the research presented?
- How well is the use of MSI and the research communicated on the poster?
- How important is this science?
Thank you to the Poster Session judges!
Nick Dunn; MSI
Randall Victora; Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dylan Millet; Soil, Water, and Climate
Harry Orr; Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Jeff Shi; MSI
Life Sciences and Engineering
Grand Prize Winner (travel award of $2,000):
Dogpile: A Scalable Wrapper for Processing And Analyzing Canine Whole Genome Sequencing Data
Authors: Jonah Cullen, Steven Friedenberg
MSI PI: Steven Friedenberg, Veterinary Clinical Sciences
Finalists (travel awards of $1,000):
Classifying Taxonomy Presence in Metagenomic Data
Authors: Benjamin Hillmann, Dan Knights
MSI PI: Dan Knights, Computer Science and Engineering
Supercomputing at MSI and Use of PacBio Hifi Long Reads Enables Near Complete Haplotype Phase Genome Assembly of the Wheat Stem Rust Fungus
Authors: Radhika Bartaula, Pablo Olivera Firpo, Les J. Szabo, Yue Jin
MSI PI: Yue Jin, Plant Pathology
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Grand Prize Winner (travel award of $2,000):
Impact of Phase Noise on Magnon-based Parametric Excitations
Authors: Aneesh Venugopal, R.H. Victora
MSI PI: R.H. Victora, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Finalists (travel awards of $1,000):
Vestigial Nematicity in the Presence of Random Strain Disorder
Authors: W. Joe Meese, Thomas Vojta, Rafael Fernandes
MSI PI: Rafael Fernandes, Physics and Astronomy
Predicting the Observed Lyman Alpha Profiles in Green Pea Galaxies
Authors: Cody Carr, Claudia Scarlata, Jeremy Blaizot, Leo Michel-Dansac, Anne Verhamme, Alaina Henry
MSI PI: Claudia Scarlata, Physics and Astronomy
posted on April 28, 2021