{"51333":{"#nid":"51333","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Interactive HPC Laboratory Launches New Multi-Core Focus Facility","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Interactive High Performance Computing Laboratory, celebrating\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nits 12th year of hosting cluster computing resources and cutting-edge\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nresearch for the GT community, has announced its newest facility.\u00a0\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBuilding upon a long history of industry and federal support, Intel has\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ngenerously seeded a new multi-core computing environment for both\u003Cbr \/\u003E\neducation and research.\u00a0 With additional support from the Office of the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSenior Vice Provost for Research and the Chair of the School of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nComputer Science, this facility is now available for the wider campus\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncommunity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Multi-core computing has forced us to go back to the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nbasics,\u0022 says Matthew Wolf, director of IHPCL and research faculty with\u003Cbr \/\u003E\na joint appointment between the School of Computer Science and Oak\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nRidge National Laboratory.\u00a0 This rethinking not only applies to the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nbasics of computer science, like schedulers, I\/O systems, and parallel\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nlanguages, but also to the way that we train students in sciences and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nengineering to think about using their machines.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKarsten Schwan,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nfounding director of IHPCL and current director of the Center for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nExperimental Research in Computer Systems, further focuses on the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ninnovative approach Georgia Tech has taken towards multi-core\u003Cbr \/\u003E\neducation.\u00a0 \u0022Rather than try to fit all of the multi-core training in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\none lonely course in the senior year, a team of CS and ECE faculty\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nwithin CERCS has been working hard to find ways to expose students to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nmulti-core repeatedly throughout the curriculum.\u00a0 Resources like IHPCL\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nprovide the vital link between the Institute\u0027s research mission and the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nmission of training the next generation of computer scientists and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nengineers.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new facilities are focused at several levels,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nand faculty are encouraged to inquire about availability of resources\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nfor courses requiring parallel and\/or multi-core environments, as well\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nas seed proposal requests for time to start undergraduate or graduate\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nthesis projects in the broader high performance computing context.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Interactive High Performance Computing Laboratory, celebrating its 12th year of hosting cluster computing resources and cutting-edge research for the GT community, has announced its newest facility.\u00a0 The new facility cores are focused at several levels and are now available for the wider campus community.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:43:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:43","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}