A major feature of the Mind Bytes event is the poster session, designed to enable the exchange of ideas across disciplines and reward researchers' work.
The posters should represent research projects that showcase the application of either high-end computing, big data, visualization, or RCC consultants in research and that leveraged RCC's resources. The RCC will print and display these posters in Ida Noyes Hall during the event. Judges will evaluate posters on the researcher's unique implementation of RCC resources. Each poster will be evaluated with respect to its field and the researcher's ability to use HPC in novel ways.
Mind Bytes Award Categories (please click on the title to view the description)
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 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 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.
Throughout the afternoon Mind Bytes attendees will have several opportunities to browse the poster gallery. Guests will be able to cast votes for their favorite posters using voting stations set up at the event.
The Judges will select a poster that is not selected for the other categories, but is deserving of an award.
Poster submissions are now CLOSED.
