[Colloquium] Call for Posters--Mind Bytes

Mon Feb 27 17:48:29 CST 2017

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Subject: Call for Posters--Mind Bytes

ANNOUNCEMENT

 Call for Posters: Mind Bytes - Research Computing Expo and Symposium
The University of Chicago Research Computing Center is holding its third annual research computing symposium and exposition, Mind Bytes, on May 2nd, 2017. A major feature of the Mind Bytes event is the poster session, designed to enable the exchange of ideas across disciplines.
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 computational scientists 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.

Poster submissions are being accepted today through April 18th, 2017. General guidelines, and more information can be found at http://mindbytes.uchicago.edu/callforposters.php

The Award Categories are:

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

The prizes will be announced soon. For questions, please email us at events at rcc.uchicago.edu.<mailto:events at rcc.uchicago.edu>

We look forward to seeing you at the Mind Bytes 2017.

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