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IDC Announces New Winners of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
NEW ORLEANS --(Business Wire)--
International Data Corporation (IDC)
today announced the eighth round of recipients of the HPC
Innovation Excellence Award at the SC'14
high performance computing (HPC) conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Two sets of winners are announced each year, at the November SC
conference in the U.S. and the June ISC HPC conference in Germany.
The HPC Innovation Excellence Awards recognize noteworthy achievements
by users of high performance computing technologies. The program's goals
are to showcase return on investment (ROI) and scientific success
stories involving HPC; to help other users better understand the
benefits of adopting HPC and justify HPC investments, especially for
small and medium-size businesses (SMBs); to demonstrate the value of HPC
to funding bodies and politicians; and to expand public support for
increased HPC investments.
"IDC (News - Alert) research has confirmed that HPC can greatly accelerate innovation
and in many cases can generate ROI. The award program aims to collect a
large set of success stories across many research disciplines,
industries, and application areas," said Earl
Joseph, Program Vice President for HPC at IDC. "The winners achieved
clear success in applying HPC to improve business ROI, scientific
advancement, and/or engineering successes. Many of the achievements will
also directly benefit society."
Winners of the prior seven rounds of awards included 41 organizations
from the U.S., seven from the UK, four from Italy, three from the
People's Republic of China, two each from India and Slovenia, and one
each from Australia, Canada, Sweden, South Korea, Switzerland, Germany,
France, and Spain.
The new award winners and project leaders announced at SC'14 are as
follows (contact IDC for additional details about the projects):
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Argonne National Laboratory, NRG (Netherlands), SCK-CEN (Belgium),
TerraPower, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign teamed with nuclear reactor designers and
research laboratories in the United States and Europe to enable
high-fidelity, cost-saving simulations to design the next-generation
of nuclear reactors using the computational fluid dynamics code
Nek5000. This research will result in multimillion-dollar savings for
several companies and nuclear research centers. Project Leads: Paul
Fischer, Elia Merzari, Aleks Obabko, and Shashi Aithal, Argonne
National Laboratory
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The Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at Children's Mercy
Hospitals Kansas City was the first genome center in the world to be
created inside a children's hospital and one of the first to focus on
genome sequencing and analysis for inherited childhood diseases. While
most genome centers focus on research, the CPGM develops new clinical
tests as a starting point for next-generation medical treatments to
improve outcomes in patients at Children's Mercy and around the world.
Using the TaGSCAN and STAT-seq applications, Children's Mercy has
reduced the overall diagnosis time and substantially helped affected
children and their families. Project Lead: Dr. Stephen Kingsmore
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GIS Federal: For the US Army and the intelligence community as a
whole, GIS Federal developed an innovative approach to quickly filter,
analyze, and visualize in near real time big data streams from
hundreds of data providers with a partcular emphasis on geospatial
data. GIS Federal leveraged the highly parallel compute power of
graphical processing units (GPUs) to conduct the data processing. The
solution generated multimillion-dollar revenues while saving tens of
millions of dollars. Project Leads: Amit Vij and Nima Negahban
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North Carolina State University: Researchers from NCSU conducted
innovative research that will allow better prediction of thermal
hydraulic behavior for current and future nuclear reactor designs.
They analyzed the turbulence anisotropy in single-phase and two-phase
bubbly channel flows based on DNS data. These novel simulations will
help academia and later industry. Multiphase flow model development
for computational fluid dynamics already benefits from high fidelity
simulations presented in this work. Project Lead: Igor A. Bolotnov
(Department of Nuclear Engineering)
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Nexio simulation is a French SME located in Toulouse and specializing
in electromagnetic simulation and studies for marine, space, defense
and aeronautics domains applications. Nexio simulation partnered with
Bpifrance (the French public bank dedicated to SMEs), Inria, and GENCI
to optimize and scale out their current simulation package called
CAPITOLE-EM by using large scale HPC resources. While the maximum size
of simulation was about 500,000 unknowns in 2011, Nexio was able to
simulate 6 millions unknowns thanks to the use of HPC. This major
improvement allowed Nexio to win two major contracts with Japanese
aerospace companies and to participate in the first PRACE SHAPE call
and the Fortissimo project. Project Lead: Pascal De Resseguier
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NASA: The noise generated by civil air transport adversely impacts
population centers near major airports. With the expected growth in
air travel, community exposure to aircraft noise will increase
considerably. To alleviate this problem, the Environmentally
Responsible Aviation (ERA) project within NASA's Aeronautics Mission
Research Directorate is working to simultaneously reduce aircraft
noise, fuel consumption, and engine emissions. High-fidelity
simulations are being used to provide an accurate representation of
the aerodynamic mechanisms that produce airframe noise (a prominent
component of noise during aircraft landing) and to evaluate a suite of
novel noise reduction concepts for aircraft flaps and landing gear.
Project Lead: Mehdi R. Khorrami
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Central Michigan University researchers used HPC resources to run and
visualize a breakthrough simulation involving a long-track EF5 tornado
embedded within a supercell. Code was developed to utilize buffered
HDF5 output in the CM1 model in order to achieve satisfactory
throughput when doing I/O. A plugin was developed to interface VisIt
to the CM1 output format. This research adds innovative improvements
to the existing simulation workflow, potentially enabling operational
use of CM1 models. Project Lead: Leigh Orf
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PayPal (News - Alert) engineers developed a platform for real-time event analytics
using HPC designs on new hardware technology. By converting
traditional text data into digital signals through a process of
encoding and mapping, the engineers used multi-core digital signal
processors in the HP/Texas Instruments (News - Alert) Moonshot m800 platform to
deliver high performance/low-latency processing with very low power
(approx. 11.2GF/watt). A truly revolutionary approach, PayPal's method
brings the rich legacy of digital signal processing's capabilities to
real-time analytics for the first time. Project Lead: Ryan Quick and
Arno Kolster
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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas Advance
Computing Center (TACC) and Elekta AB: Researchers at MD Anderson
Cancer Center in collaboration with TACC and Elekta AB are using
detailed Monte Carlo computer simulations of radiation transport to
assist in the development of the next generation of radiation therapy
cancer treatments, which use a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
scanner integrated with a radiation therapy unit (MRI-linac unit). The
results of the simulations have demonstrated that the response of
radiation detectors in the presence of magnetic fields can be
predicted and accounted for, enabling researchers to calibrate the new
MRI-linac units. This research is expected to lead to the development
of new methods and procedures for the use of radiation detectors in
the presence of magnetic fields. This will make possible the
implementation and safe use of new MRI-linac units. Ultimately, the
results of this project will directly contribute to improve treatment
outcome of cancer patients. Project Lead: Gabriel O. Sawakuchi
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Researchers at Ohio State University Cancer Comprehensive Care Center
developed and implemented bioinformatics and molecular methods to
understand what happens to human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in the "end
game" of HPV-positive human cancers. Approximately 15% of all cancers
are caused by viruses, including HPV, but the mechanisms by which such
viruses cause cancers have remained mostly unknown. Using the new
Oakley supercomputer at the Ohio Supercomputer Center, the OSU
researchers found that in virtually every HPV-positive cancer cell
line that they studied, HPV had integrated into the host genome and
was associated with focal genomic instability. They used this insight
to develop a new model called the HPV looping model. This research
could eventually have a significant impact on how cancer doctors
detect and treat different types of virus-associated cancer. Project
Leads: Drs. David E. Symer, Keiko Akagi, Jingfeng Li, and Maura L.
Gillison, and the Ohio Supercomputer Center
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Tech-X Corporation: To heat magnetically confined plasmas to the
millions of degrees needed for fusion reactions, scientists inject
megawatts of electromagnetic energy from carefully engineered
radiofrequency antennas. The generated electromagnetic waves interact
with the plasma in complex ways. Scientists at Tech-X Corporation
modeled these interactions using their VSim software at increasing
levels of detail, scaling up to 184,000-core, billion-grid-cell
simulations on the Titan Cray XK7 at the Oak Ridge Leadership
Computing Facility (OLCF). They are now using these simulation results
(in collaboration with other members of the SciDAC Center for
Simulation of Wave-Plasma Interactions) to develop and refine
predictive models for wave-plasma interactions in the reactor core and
edge. Such computations enable the identification of more efficient
operational regimes for existing magnetic fusion experiments, and
provide predictive capabilities for future experimental devices. This
work was funded by DOE grant DE-SC0009501, with OLCF computing
resources provided by an ALCC award sponsored by DOE's Office of
Science, Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725. The VSim team provided the
VSim computational application. Project Leads: Thomas G. Jenkins and
David N. Smithe
The next round of HPC Innovation Excellence Award winners will be
announced at ISC'15
in June 2015.
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