Student Mini-Presentations

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2	Mone't	Simulating how epoxies cure using MD simulations	Use MPI to do domain decomposition on box
3	David	MD simulation of Amyloid Beta	Distributed, independent simulations
4	Valerie	Ionization as affected by high intensity lasers	MD code uses C++ and OpenMP; need to write Python scripts
5	Justus	Scaling Sub-surface Fluid Flow Simulation	Use MPI processes to handle independent calculations
6	Karen	Creating remote sensing and image registration	Existing code uses hybrid; understanding architecture will help make code more available
7	Qihua	Plant Hormones Triggering Parasite Growth	Can parallelize different paths the proteins take
8	Xiaodan	Finite Element Analysis of Breaking Waves and Tsunamis	Poisson demo is very similar; project involves PDEs; can take advantage of distributed and hybrid
9	Benjamin	Crystal growth of germanium quantum dots	MPI to divide set up dots, OpenMP to figure out if atoms are worth calculating and calculate bond energy
10	Tyler	Electron density calculations using DFT and FMO to elucide catalytic activity of protein	Use MPI to simulation individual fragments of protein
11	Sumegha	Quantum Mechanical studies of catalysts in metals	Parallelization for own versions of code
12	Jaime	Molecular interactions between polymers	Use MPI to split up big jobs, OpenMP to handle individual interactions
13	Mark	Optimizing AutoDock Vina with Docker	Parallelization for speedup
14	Koutian (Leo)	Graphing electron band structure within metals	Using parallelization to do many samples of a domain - finishing implementing MPI
15	Caleb	Brain-state modeling from EEG data	Parallelization to speed up machine learning algorithms to optimize for architecture
16	Nicholas	Optimizing Genetic Algorithm	Using MPI for python; finding best way to divide up work
17	Wen Rui	Making floating point BLAS routines reproduceable	MPI
18	Caroline	Mesoscale model for tornado outbreaks	Poisson demo applies; using MPI to gather information from many different simulations
19	Drew	Light absorption properties of molecules	Scaling simulations and analysis using batch processing w/ hybrid MPI+OpenMP
20	Maxwell	Optimizing AutoDock Vina with Docker	Understanding communication overhead and communication vs computation
21	Ernie	Post-Processing DNS to identify patterns of turbulence	Big simulation grid could make use of MPI and hybrid
22	Adrian	Fourier Transforms in Spherical Coordinates	Being able to distribute massive amounts of data and do mathematical calculations in parallel
23	Gage	Scaling Sub-surface Fluid Flow Simulation	Distribute components using MPI, calculate two properties using OpenMP; scatter data
24	Amy	FIRE simulations (cosmological) - adding stars to dark matter	Understanding communication to determine whether to use MPI or OpenMP
25	Ananth	Simulating neural networks in the brain	MPI+OpenMP to parallelize numerical methods
26	Xavier	A "Google doc" for visualization with VR capabilities over a server	Distributing calculations across servers; parallelize data reading and visualization; OpenMP to do individual tasks
27	Andrew	Finite Element Analysis for brain scans	Use MPI to more effeciently calculate at points in a mesh
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