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2015-09-23

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This talk covers the in-progress journey of the Tandy School of Computer Science at The University of Tulsa to build a unique high performance computing (HPC) ecosystem for researchers and students. The presenters motivate and describe the launch of TU's initial HPC point of presence — a traditional CPU cluster — along with lessons learned from that process. They also discuss ongoing work to stand up two distinct heterogeneous compute node clusters and the challenging research problems they will be used to address. Objectives and developments in leveraging these HPC resources in the classroom will be presented. In addition to passing along some wisdom picked up along the way, the presenters will reveal their plans for the future of TU's evolving HPC ecosystem.

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Dr. John Hale is a Professor of Computer Science and holds the Tandy Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Tulsa. He is a founding member of the TU Institute of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (IBCB), and a faculty research scholar in the Institute for Information Security (iSec). His research has been funded by the US Air Force, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). These projects include research on neuroinformatics, cyber trust, information privacy, attack modeling, secure software development, and cyber-physical system security. He has testified before Congress on three separate occasions as an information security expert, and in 2004 he was awarded a patent on technology he co-developed to thwart digital piracy on file sharing networks. In 2000, Professor Hale earned a prestigious NSF CAREER award for his educational and research contributions to the field of information assurance.
Peter J. Hawrylak, Ph.D. (M'05) received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, in 2002, 2004, and 2006, respectively. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Tandy School of Computer Science, at The University of Tulsa. He has published more than 40 publications and holds 12 patents in the radio frequency identification (RFID) and energy harvesting areas. His research interests include RFID, security for low-power wireless devices, Internet of Things applications, and digital design. Dr. Hawrylak is a member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, and is currently the Secretary of the Tulsa Section of the IEEE. He served as chair of the RFID Experts Group (REG) of the Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM) in 2012-2013. Peter received AIM Inc.'s Ted Williams Award in 2015 for his contributions to the RFID industry. Dr. Hawrylak is the Publication Co-Chair of the International IEEE RFID Conference, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Applications (IJRFITA) journal published by InderScience Publishers, which focuses on the application and development of RFID technology.
Andrew Kongs is Research Staff at The University of Tulsa. His specialties include prototyping, enterprise networking, embedded systems, printed circuit board design and digital forensics. He designed, built and manages Anvil, a general purpose cluster at the University of Tulsa. He has designed electronics and instrumentation for research and teaching purposes.

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Computer Science, High Performance Computing, University of Tulsa

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http://hdl.handle.net/11244/20928

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Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium