Baton Rouge --- Researchers from LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) will present a series of projects underway at the center during the Supercomputing Conference 2006 in Tampa, Fla.
CCT will host a demonstration booth at the conference, which lasts Nov. 13-16, to showcase different research activities along with the cutting-edge technologies developed and used at the center.
“This conference is a major event for centers like ours all over the world, and by attending and giving demonstrations, we are establishing CCT as a major player in the growing field of high performance computing,” said CCT Director Ed Seidel.
A key project CCT has undertaken in the past year that will be a highlight of these demonstrations is visualizations of Hurricane Katrina. Integrating data from multiple sources, a team of CCT researchers has built a three-dimensional scientific visualization of Hurricane Katrina’s path. Such visual tools are important for scientists to interpret and improve their complex models, as well for educating the public on the devastating effects of hurricanes.
In addition to visualizations of hurricanes, CCT will demonstrate technologies that use supercomputers for forecasting the effects of hurricanes. Built in collaboration with coastal scientists at University of North Carolina, the Lake Pontchartrain Forecast System uses the networks and supercomputers of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative to run numerous on-demand storm surge models.
The automated system is used to predict surge levels in New Orleans, and in particular provides information to the Army Corps of Engineers, which uses this data to make decisions about when to close and then reopen the canal gates at 17th Street, London Avenue and Orleans Street.
Also at this conference, CCT professor Thomas Sterling will preview his “Introduction to High-Performance Computing” course to be offered at LSU in the Spring 2007 semester. This course, taught at LSU, will be broadcast in high-definition video to students at different schools across the nation and the world.
The CCT booth also will feature demonstrations of other LSU research projects including the HARC co-allocator, Cactus metadata management, tangible devices, and the GridChem cyberinfrastructure for computational chemistry. For a complete schedule of demonstrations taking place during Supercomputing 2006, please visit the CCT Web site, www.cct.lsu.edu.
For more information, please contact Kristen Meyer, CCT manager of public relations, at 225-578-3469.
Publish Date:
11-13-2006
