Poster submission is closed!
A major feature of Mind Bytes is the poster session which is designed to enable the exchange of ideas across disciplines and reward researchers' work. Any researchers at the University of Chicago are eligible to submit their work.
The posters should represent research projects that leveraged the RCC's resources and that showcase the application of either high-end computing, data science, or visualization in their research.
Posters should be PDF files with the dimensions 48” wide x 35” high (landscape) and with a pixel density of 200 dpi. To view previous years’ posters, browse below:
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The RCC will print all posters and display them during the event. Please note the RCC will print only one copy. If you make changes and resubmit a poster you may be responsible for printing the new copy.
Poster submission begins: 1/17/2024
Poster submission due date: 4/23/2024 at 12 PM
Computing
The Computing award will be given to a researcher whose poster demonstrates the best implementation and performance of the 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 interested in code that runs on the greatest number of cores, the code that is best tuned to the existing hardware, and/or demonstrates the greatest performance speed-up when scaled.
Data Science
The Data Science award will be given to the
research team that shows
scientific methods, processes, and systems used in their
data-driven
research. The judges will evaluate the size and scope of
researchers'
data, the novelty of how they extracted knowledge or
insights from the
data, and the efficiency and innovation with which it was
processed on
the RCC's Midway compute resources.
Visualization
The Visualization award will be given to the researcher whose poster offers the most compelling data visualization of scientific research that utilizes the RCC's 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.
Judges will evaluate each poster with respect to its field and the researcher's unique ability to use RCC computational resources in novel ways.
This year the prize for the winning poster in each category is an iPad.