Sept. 23: HPC Symposium
Registration open for final 2015 High Performance Computing Symposium
10:05 a.m., Aug. 25, 2015--University of Delaware researchers are invited to the final 2015 High Performance Computing Symposium on Wednesday, Sept. 23.
The symposium will kick off with a presentation by David Racca, policy scientist in the Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research (CADSR).
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Racca will be presenting for the research team of Edward Ratledge, CADSR center director, about using the UD Community Cluster to develop a statewide speed survey from vehicle GPS data.
According to Racca, over 2,400 state vehicles are equipped with GPS providing over 8 million speed measurements on large and small roads throughout Delaware. By collecting this data, a detailed measure of performance for Delaware’s transportation system is achieved. The data can provide a depiction of travel by time of day, day of week and season throughout Delaware.
However, processing that much data requires an immense amount of computing time, which has been made possible by using the UD Community Cluster-Mills.
According to Racca, Mills currently can process one week’s worth of data in two days.
During his presentation, Racca will review the non-parallel, higher level network calculations developed in Python by Ratledge’s research team.
The presentation also will include a discussion of this data resource, an outline of information structures to accommodate GPS and transportation network data, and example applications that will be demonstrated with geographic information system maps and interfaces.
The presentation will begin at 10 a.m. in Faculty Commons, Room 116 in Pearson Hall, and will be followed by an hour-long open forum for researchers, staff members and students to ask questions, have their questions answered and share ideas.
Registration is now available at the redesigned IT Research Computing website. Refreshments will be provided.
This symposium series is designed for researchers using or interested in using the University’s High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters.
Registration is also available for the first 2016 session on Jan. 27, at the IT Research Computing website.
Those who are interested in presenting at one of the open HPC Symposium Series dates for 2016 can submit a research computing help request.