{"471961":{"#nid":"471961","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Patrick Flick Wins Best Student Paper at SC\u002715","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhD Candidate \u003Cstrong\u003EPatrick Flick\u003C\/strong\u003E (CSE) won \u0022Best Student Paper\u0022 at the Supercomputing \u002715 conference -- held this week in Austin, Texas -- where a contingent of more than 50 students, faculty, and researchers from Georgia Tech advanced the field of high-performance computing (HPC).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFlick, working with Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESrinivas Aluru\u003C\/strong\u003E (CSE), created parallel algorithms for distributed-memory construction that are 110x times faster than the best method running on a sequential, single computer. Using the human genome as a racetrack to test his speed, Flick was able to index the entire human genome in just 7.3 seconds running on 1024 Intel Xeon cores.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0022It is very gratifying to see Patrick win this highly competitive and prestigious award,\u0022 Aluru said. \u0022He injected a new way of solving an important problem that many have recently worked on, engineered his solution perfectly, and came up with performance that will be hard to beat.\u0022\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt is believed to be the first algorithm and implementation that uses this approach for distributed-memory parallel systems, and an important one for analyzing complex biological data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBioinformatics is an example of a scientific field that is extremely data intensive; speed matters and speed helps,\u201d Flick said. \u201cWe are not aware of any other parallel suffix array or suffix tree construction algorithms which achieve speedups this high.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENext, Flick is working on a journal paper that includes more improvements, additional techniques, and further showcases the algorithms on real applications. Flick also authored another paper at SC\u002715 with fellow graduate students \u003Cstrong\u003EChirag Jain \u003C\/strong\u003E(CSE) and \u003Cstrong\u003ETony Pan \u003C\/strong\u003E(CSE) about how to partition large graphs that arise in metagenomics -- another data-intensive application area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhD Candidates \u003Cstrong\u003EDipanjan Sengupta\u003C\/strong\u003E (CS) and \u003Cstrong\u003EKapil Agarwal\u003C\/strong\u003E (CS) also were nominated for best paper at SC\u002715 after developing a scalable framework (dubbed \u201cGraphReduce\u201d) to process large graphs that exceed a device\u2019s GPU memory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther activity by Georgia Tech at SC\u002715 included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EChair \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bader\u003C\/strong\u003E, Assoc. Chair \u003Cstrong\u003ERich Vuduc\u003C\/strong\u003E and Senior Research Scientist \u003Cstrong\u003EJason Riedy\u003C\/strong\u003E launched a new effort funded by the National Science Foundation called EMBRACE to address scientific and technical issues related to benchmarking. Vuduc says forward-looking benchmarks are needed because HPC is attracting new people to the field, applications are diverse, and platforms are quickly evolving. The project asks the community to decide how benchmarks are defined, interpreted and used to produce meaningful results for scientists and manufacturers alike.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EProfessor \u003Cstrong\u003ETom Conte\u003C\/strong\u003E (CS), president of IEEE, opened the Computer Society fall meeting among other activities as IEEE continues to champion a movement called \u0022Rebooting Computing\u0022 to address the end of Moore\u0027s Law.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBader was one of six selected panelists at the session, \u201cSupercomputing and Big Data: From Collision to Convergence.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAluru held a session about the new South Big Data Regional Hub (awarded to Georgia Tech and RENCI earlier this month by the National Science Foundation). The workshop was intended to introduce attendees to future research collaboration.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EProfessor \u003Cstrong\u003EEdmond Chow\u003C\/strong\u003E led the the Georgia Tech delegation, in addition to meeting with industry partners and attending workshops.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFlick and Sengupta participated in a panel to guide undergraduate students who are interested in HPC.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJoint professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJeffrey Vetter \u003C\/strong\u003Eof Oak Ridge National Labs participated in the SC\u002715 opening media briefing.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBader and other university partners released the 11th \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/latest-graph500-ranking-fastest-supercomputers-released-leading-universities-supercomputing-15\u0022\u003EGraph500 list\u003C\/a\u003E -- a performance ranking of the world\u0027s top supercomputers.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENumerous other individuals presented papers, led sessions, and met with potential partners to secure research funding and network.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVuduc served on the SC\u002715 conference organizing committee as co-chair of Tutorials planning and noted a dramatic rise in the number of workshops, exhibitors and attendees. More than 350 papers were submitted to the conference this year, but only 80 were accepted. Vuduc said that trend is one to expect at SC\u002716 in Salt Lake City, Utah, which he has been asked again to help organize.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more about what happened at this year\u0027s conference, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sc15.supercomputing.org\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/sc15.supercomputing.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESee \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/ccgatech\/YX2P47\u0022\u003Ephotos of Georgia Tech at SC\u002715\u003C\/a\u003E from throughout the week.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Student Patrick Flick won \u0022Best Student Paper\u0022 at Supercomputing \u002715  -- which was attended by a contingent of more than 50 students, faculty and researchers from Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"27490","created_gmt":"2015-11-20 09:11:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:03","author":"Tara La Bouff","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"472071":{"id":"472071","type":"image","title":"CSE at SC15","body":null,"created":"1449257176","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:26:16","changed":"1475895197","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:17","alt":"CSE at SC15","file":{"fid":"205719","name":"2015-11-19_12.30.16.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2015-11-19_12.30.16_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2015-11-19_12.30.16_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1425008,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2015-11-19_12.30.16_0.jpg?itok=z6R3SsdW"}}},"media_ids":["472071"],"groups":[{"id":"1304","name":"High Performance Computing (HPC)"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167322","name":"supercomputing"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETara La Bouff, 404.769.5408\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tlabouff@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}