SIRIUS HPC Laboratory

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SIRIUS HPC Laboratory

• Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
• Engineering Faculty
• Computer Science Program

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PRESENTERS

• Prof. Michael F. Martinez
• Electronics Engineer Pontificia Universidad
  Javeriana
• Sirius HPC Lab. Researcher
• Prof. Computer Science Faculty Universidad
  Tecnologica de Pereira
• Prof. Jose A. Jaramillo-Villegas
• Electronic Engineer Pontificia Universidad
  Javeriana
• Magister of Science in Intrumentation Science
• Sirius HPC Lab. Director
• Prof. Computer Science Faculty Universidad
  Tecnologica de Pereira

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LOCATION
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STAFF

• 5 Computer Science and Electronic Engineers
  Professors
• 10 Undergraduate Students
• 3 Graduate Students
• Administrative Assistant

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RESEARCH AREAS

• Digital Design
• Embedded Systems
• Reconfigurable Computing
• High Performance Computing

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PARTNERS SPONSORS
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RESOURCES

• SGI Altix 350
• 8 Intel Itanium 2 processors
• 16 GB RAM Shared Memory (NUMA)
• RASC Computing Module (Virtex FPGAs)
• Cluster
• 15 Compute Nodes 5 FPGA Nodes
• Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz ea.
• 512 MB RAm ea.
• 73 GB Hard Disk ea.
• 4 Virtex II PRO 1 Virtex 5 for FPGA Nodes

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RESOURCES

• SUN FIRE Servers
• AMD Opteron Dual Core
• 2 GB RAM ea.
• 73 GB Hard Disk ea.
• Network
• 48 ports 3Com Gigabit Switch
• Fiber Optic Modules

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SERVICES

• Distributed and Parallel Software consultants
• Data analysis
• Data Mining
• Soft Computing
• Art. Neural Networks
• Fuzzy Systems
• Swarm Intelligence
• Evolutionary algorithms
• Algorithms Speed up with FPGAs
• Cluster building consultants
• Math/Science software apps
• Matlab, Star-p, etc
• Model and simulation consultants

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PROJECTS IN COURSE

• BLAST
• N-dimension Fourier Transform
• Wavelet Transform
• Image and Video Processing
• PETSC

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WHY ARE WE HERE?

• Research Interchange
• Share Information
• International Relationship
• New Research Projects