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SW4: Ground Motion Simulations on the New Commodity Technology Systems (CTS-1) Platform

SW4 is being used to simulate earthquake ground motions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on their new capacity computing systems called the Commodity Technology Systems-1 (CTS-1). One of their newest computers, Jade, is composed of over 2200 compute nodes with 36 cores per node. It is part of a major investment in capacity computing at the DOE National Labs as part of the Advanced Scientific Computing Program. ... read full article. A Rodgers ...

CIG'16 brought together more than 100 researchers for a weeklong event which included 8 tutorials and 2 1/2 days of plenary talks, panels, lightening talks and posters.  The tutorials spanned the range of CIG’s hosted software packages as well as an introduction to Python. Many tutorials were offered on virtual machine installations and included “tinker time” to help users launch  directly into the tutorial examples, and participants were able to attend more than one to sample different software. The plenary talks and panels cut across CIG’s scientific domains and included discussions of recent scientific and computational advances, best practices in benchmarking, scientific challenges for the future, and innovative ideas for using CIG software in outreach and education. A big thank you  to the organizing committee, the speakers, panelists, tutorial instructors, and poster presenters, and especially CIG staff who worked incredibly hard behind the scenes to make this event a success. If you attended CIG’16, don’t forget to give us your feedback. It helps us plan future CIG events. [survey]