IBM p690 SUR Grant

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IBM p690 SUR Grant
UTEPs Top Gun
High-Performance Computing / HPC at UTEP

• Patricia J. Teller, Ph.D.
• Department of Computer Science
• The University of Texas at El Paso

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IBM SUR Grant

• IBM Shared University
• Research Grant
• Facilitate advances in computation-intensive
  research
• Research requires modeling, simulation, and/or
  data analysis

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IBM SUR Grant

• Collaborators
• College of Engineering
• College of Science
• Departments
• Computer Science
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Biological Sciences
• Chemistry

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IBM SUR Grant

• Other Potential Users
• Mathematics
• Geological Sciences
• Physics
• Civil Engineering
• Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
• Business

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IBM SUR Grant

• Research
• Nava, Teller, Villa, Williams
• IBM/UTEP collaborative research
• Enhance IBM HPC platform performance
• Identify ways to make applications run faster

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IBM SUR Grant

• Research
• Aley, Bain, Baldwin, Das, Stec
• Life Sciences and Bioinformatics
• An emerging strength of UTEP
• Research advances can have significant scientific
  and societal impacts

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UTEPs Top GunIBM eServer pSeries 690

• 8 processors
• Capable of more than 40 billion calculations per
  second
• 16 billion units (GBytes) of
• memory
• 1 trillion units (TBytes) of disk storage
• Sophisticated processor interconnect

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UTEPs Top GunIBM eServer pSeries 690

• All eight processors can be used
• to solve a problem collaboratively
• More calculations per second
• Solve the problem eight times faster
• More accurate results
• Solutions to larger problems

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HPC BenefitsIBM SUR Grant

• Saves time
• Improves quality and quantity of
• information available
• More realistic models
• Calculations once unthinkable
• Faster processes, e.g., from
• design to production

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HPC BenefitsIBM SUR Grant

• Reduces cost
• Eliminate need for physical models
• Test designs before build
• Develop better processes
• Produce better quality products, fewer rejects

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Biological SciencesUTEP / IBM SUR Grant
Stephen Aley, Siddhartha Das

• Study the genome of Giardia lamblia, a parasitic
  protozoan that is the major non-bacterial cause
  of diarrhea in North America

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Biological SciencesUTEP / IBM SUR Grant
Lisa Bain, William Baldwin

• Predict how toxic chemicals affect the
  reproduction, growth and development of organisms
• Determine success of remediation at Superfund
  sites

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ChemistryUTEP / IBM SUR Grant
Boguslaw Stec

• Shorten drug design time
• Design thermostable proteins, for example
• enzymes in detergents
• PCR enzymes that revolutionized recombinant DNA
  technology

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Mechanical and Industrial EngineeringUTEP / IBM
SUR Grant
Jack Chessa

• Investigate strength of
• carbon nanotubes
• Theoretically stronger than steel titanium

• Possible applications

• Stronger building materials
• Smaller sensors
• High-speed computer chips

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Civil EngineeringUTEP / IBM SUR Grant
Soheil Nazarian

• Simulate damage in pavement structures due to
  overweight trucks
• Model the propagation of cracks within fresh
  concrete

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UTEPs Top Gun VisionShared high-performance
computing facility that grows, over time, with
UTEPs needs

• Increase research potential
• Facilitate research advancements
• Enhance curricula, in particular, in Colleges of
  Engineering and Science
• Attract research support
• Encourage multi-disciplinary research

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