[Colloquium] Reminder: Call for Posters for Mind Bytes 2015

[Benjamin Recchie]

REMINDER

Call for Posters: Mind Bytes - Research Computing Expo and Symposium
The University of Chicago Research Computing Center is holding its second annual research computing symposium and exposition, Mind Bytes<https://xmail.uchicago.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>, on October 27, 2015. A major feature of the Mind Bytes event is the poster session, designed to enable the exchange of ideas across disciplines and reward researchers' work.

The posters should represent research projects that leveraged RCC's resources and that showcase the application of either high-end computing, big data, visualization, or RCC consultants in research. Judges will evaluate each poster with respect to its field and the researcher's unique ability to use RCC computational resources in novel ways.

Important dates

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Deadline for poster submission: October 5, 2015



General Guidelines

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Standard poster size: 48” wide x 35” high (landscape) and with a pixel density of 200 dpi.
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Posters should be submitted as PDF files
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RCC will print all posters and display them in Ida Noyes Hall during the event. Please note RCC will print only one copy. If you make changes and resubmit a poster you may be responsible for printing the new copy
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When submitting your poster, please include the following information:
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The name of the person submitting the poster. If the poster is a group submission, please identify a representative for the group.
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The specific RCC resource(s) that were used for the research.
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If the poster includes the use of data, please specify the size of the data.
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The specific prize category, not including Judges’ and Attendees’ choice, that you would like to be considered for.  More than one category can be selected.

The presenting author(s) (at least one) must attend the symposium


Poster submission:
Please see mindbytes.uchicago.edu/posters.html<https://xmail.uchicago.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> for the Mind Bytes poster submission.

The Award Categories:

The RCC Mind Bytes Award for Visualization in Research
This award, given in memory of Kathleen A. Zar, acknowledges the research team whose poster offers the most compelling data visualization of scientific research that utilize RCC resources. Contestants will be evaluated on the novelty of the technology that they implement; the level of difficulty of their visualization; and the technical use of RCC resources to produce the visualization.

The RCC Mind Bytes Award for Performance and Scalability
The performance and scalability prize will be awarded to a researcher whose poster demonstrates the best implementation and performance of RCC's Midway compute cluster. Performance tuning and parallelization of codes are becoming increasingly important in order to effectively use modern hardware and implement complex algorithms. The judges are not just interested in code that runs on the greatest number of cores but the code that are best tuned to the existing hardware and/or demonstrates the greatest performance speed-up when scaled.

The RCC Mind Bytes Award for Big-Data Research
The big-data prize will be given to the poster that shows research that fulfills the four Vs of big-data research: volume, velocity, veracity, and variety relative to the field of study. The judges will evaluate not just the size and scope of researchers' data but also the novelty of how they extract knowledge from the data and the efficiency and innovation with which it is processed on the RCC Midway compute resources.

The RCC Mind Bytes Attendees' Choice Award
Throughout the afternoon Mind Bytes attendees will have several opportunities to browse the poster gallery. Guests will be able to cast votes for their favorite posters using voting stations set up at the event.

The RCC Mind Bytes Judges' Choice Award
The Judges will select a poster that is not selected for the other categories, but is deserving of an award.

The author(s) of each winning poster will be awarded a tablet computer, courtesy of RCC.

We look forward to seeing you at the Mind Bytes 2015!




Benjamin Recchie
Communications, Outreach, and Project Manager, Research Computing Center
The University of Chicago
6030 S. Ellis Ave., Room 130
Chicago, IL 60637
E: bcrecchi at uchicago.edu
T: 773.834.5546
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