Research Computing Symposium 2026

Research Computing is hosting a half-day of presentations to highlight the many different ways our research community is using the HPC.  Please plan to come to the University Center, room 300, the morning of September 3rd, 8:30a – noon-ish. Feel free to pop in and out as your schedule permits, but make sure you at least stop by first thing in the morning for a coffee, snack, and a chat with the research computing team and other researchers.

Schedule

8:30am - Hang out, drink coffee, and eat snacks

9:00am - Opening remarks

9:15am - Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos - "HPC in Earthquake Modeling"

9:45am - Brian Wentzloff (Research Computing)  - R Studio on Big Blue demo

10:00am - Daniel Frimpong - "Supercomputing Centrapalus: Assembling a Complex Plant Genome"

10:30am - Imran Sharker - "The Impact of HPC on Advanced CFD Simulations and Large-Scale Data Processing"

11:00am - Eric Spangler (Research Computing) - llama.cpp on Big Blue demo

11:30am - Maziar Ganji - "HPC-Accelerated Random Forest Optimization for PTSD Subtype Classification and Biomarker Discovery in High-Dimensional Data"

Noon - Closing remarks

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