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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, February 27, 2017 at 5:41 PM<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Call for Posters--Mind Bytes<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <b>Call for Posters: Mind Bytes - Research Computing Expo and Symposium</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>Poster submissions are being accepted today through April 18th, 2017. </b>General guidelines, and more information can be found at<b> </b></span></font><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://mindbytes.uchicago.edu/callforposters.php">http://mindbytes.uchicago.edu/callforposters.php</a> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Award Categories are:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The RCC Mind Bytes Award for Visualization in Research</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The RCC Mind Bytes Award for Performance and Scalability</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The RCC Mind Bytes Award for Big-Data Research</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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
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<u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The RCC Mind Bytes Judges' Choice Award</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>The prizes will be announced soon. </b>For questions, please email us </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:events@rcc.uchicago.edu">events@rcc.uchicago.edu.</a></span><br>
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