The 14th annual Research Computing Exhibition (formerly the MSI Research Exhibition) was held on April 25, 2023. The event was held at the MSI offices in Walter Library.
Thank you to our sponsors!
Platinum level
PIER Group in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Gold level
Panasas
Silver level
VAST Data
Events included a panel discussion about employment in HPC fields, a judged poster session with posters featuring work being done using Research Computing resources, tours of the data center, and visualizations by Research Computing users in the Visualization Lab.
Panel Discussion - Employment in High Performance Computing
Participants:
Moderator: Jim Wilgenbusch; Director of Research Computing
Forest Godfrey; Distinguished Technologist, Slingshot Network Group, HPE
Adam Marko; Director of Life Science, Panasas
Subramanian Kartik; VP of Systems Engineering, VAST Data
Dan McDonald; IT Services Supervisor, U of M Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Ben Lynch; Director, MSI
Poster Session
Posters by MSI users competed in one of two categories, Life Sciences and Engineering or Physical Sciences and Engineering. They were judged using the following criteria:
- How much did using Research Computing contribute to the outcome of the research presented?
- How well is the use of Research Computing and the research communicated on the poster?
- How well of the importance of this science communicated?
Life Sciences and Engineering
Grand Prize Winner (travel award of $2,000):
Tracking viruses in real time using "dirty" mice
Authors: Frances Shepherd, Shanley Roach, Autumn Sanders, Dira Putri, Zhongde Wang, Ryan Langlois
PI: Ryan Langlois (Microbiology and Immunology)
Finalists (travel awards of $1,000):
Metagenomic MAGIC: Dissecting the structure and function of the developing gut microbiome
Authors: Daniel Chang, Suzie Hoops, Dan Knights
PI: Dan Knights (BioTechnology Institute; Computer Science and Engineering)
Overcoming near-sightedness in protein-surface molecular simulations with ML lenses
Authors: Varun Gopal, Salman Bin Kashif, Daniel Pert, Aniruddha Seal, Brian Lee, Sapna Sarupria
PI: Sapna Sarupria (Chemistry)
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Grand Prize Winner (travel award of $2,000):
Forging mass outflow rate estimators in FIRE
Authors: Cody Carr, Aaron Smith, Viraj Pandya, Chris Hayward, Claudia Scarlata
PI: Claudia Scarlata (Physics and Astronomy)
Finalists (travel awards of $1,000):
Sustainable maritime transportation: Design and optimization of a global marine fuel supply chain
Authors: Hanchu Wang, Prodromos Daoutidis, Qi Zhang
PI: Qi Zhang (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)
Investigating the effects of arginine on hydrophobic interactions: Insights towards temperature-stable vaccine design
Authors: Jonathan Zajac, Praveen Muralikrishnan, Sapna Sarupria
PI: Sapna Sarupria (Chemistry)
Thank you to the Poster Session judges!
Natalia Calixto Mancipe, MSI
Nick Dunn, MSI
Ryan Langlois, Microbiology
Ben Lynch, MSI
Noelle Noyes, Veterinary Population Medicine
Borgne Raasch, MSI
Ju Sun, Computer Science and Engineering
Photos from the Research Computing Exhibition.
posted on May 1, 2023