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Workshops and Materials from Supercomputing 2014

Left: Dr. Allison Heath leads a talk at the OSDC booth about biomedical clouds. Right: Software developer Josh Miller talks about high performance data transfer.

OSDC and PIRE at SC14

OSDC and PIRE participated at the SC14 Supercomputing Conference held November 16-21, 2014 in New Orleans, LA. We held a Birds of a Feather Session about research with large datasets, the Open Science Data Cloud, and the PIRE fellowship program.

  • The Open Science Data Cloud and PIRE Fellowships: Handling Scientific Datasets
  • Event Type: Birds of a Feather
  • Date: Wednesday, November 19th
  • Time: 12:15pm - 1:15pm
  • Session Leaders: Robert Grossman, Maria Patterson
  • Location: Room 297
  • Abstract: A wide variety of disciplines are producing unprecedented volumes of data, and research groups are struggling to manage, analyze, and share their medium to large size datasets. The Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC) is an open source infrastructure designed to allow scientists to easily manage, analyze, integrate and share medium to large size scientific datasets. OSDC is operated and managed by the not-for-profit Open Cloud Consortium. Come to this session to learn about how you can use the OSDC for your big data research projects and how to participate in the NSF sponsored OSDC PIRE (Partnerships in Research Education) program.

OSDC PIRE 2014 Fellows’ Presentations

Several of this past summer’s PIRE fellows presented their research at SC14.

Alexander Moreno presented a co-authored paper at the 2014 Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS-2014) workshop about research completed with University of Edinburgh School of Informatics collaborators.

  • Paper: dispel4py: A Python Framework for Data-Intensive Scientific Computing
  • Authors: Rosa Filgueira Vicente, Iraklis Klampanos, Amy Krause, Mario David, Alexander Moreno, and Malcolm Atkinson
  • Date: Sunday, November 16th
  • Time: 10:30am - 12:00pm
  • Location: Rooms 298-99
  • Session Link: International Workshop on Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems


Alexander Moreno presented a paper at the Workshop on High Performance Computational Finance.


Yuan (Ben) Zhao presented research completed with OSDC collaborators at AIST in Japan.

  • Poster: Hydra: An HTML5-Based Application for High-Throughput Visualization of Ligand Docking
  • Authors: Yuan Zhao, Jason Haga
  • Date: Tuesday, November 18th
  • Time: 5:15pm - 7:00pm
  • Location: New Orleans Theater Lobby
  • Session Link: Poster Presentation: Hydra
  • Poster: (pdf)
Ben showcases his SC14 poster presentation.


Cody Buntain and Christopher Natoli presented research completed with OSDC collaborators at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

  • Poster: Comparing Algorithms for Detecting Abrupt Change Points in Data
  • Authors: Cody L. Buntain, Christopher Natoli, Miroslav Živković
  • Date: Tuesday, November 18th
  • Time: 5:15pm - 7:00pm
  • Location: New Orleans Theater Lobby
  • Session Link: Poster Presentation: Change Points
  • Poster: (pdf)
Cody Buntain in front of his SC14 poster presentation.