Announcements

October 30, 2009
Time: 9:30-11:30 AM
Location: Suite 101, National Security Education Center (LARP 1st Floor-IMMS)

Speaker: Robert B. Randall, School of Mechanical and Manufactuing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Flyer available here.

The Office of Science has announced a new $12.5M Graduate Fellowship Program funded by the ARRA. Each of approximately 80 planned fellowships will be for $50,500 annually for three years.  Applications are through the DOE website at http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF.html.  The DOE press release is available here.

The date for this tutorial has been changed to:

November 5, 2009
Time: 1:00-4:30 PM
Location: Suite 101, National Security Education Center (LARP 1st Floor-IMMS)

Instructor: Michael B. Prime, W-13, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Abstract:
Residual stresses are the stresses existing in a body that is free of external loads. They are left behind by most manufacturing processes. Just like applied stresses, they contribute to failures caused by fatigue, fracture, stress corrosion cracking, distortion, etc. But they can be particularly insidious because they are ubiquitous, offer no external evidence of their existence, and they are difficult to predict or measure.

This tutorial, aimed at a general technical audience, will answer a broad set of practical questions on residual stresses. How do they arise? Why do we care and when do we not care? How do we measure residual stresses? How do we predict their effect on failures? How do we manipulate residual stresses to our benefit? Many practical examples will be used to illustrate these issues.

Bio: Mike received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley in 1994 under a Berkeley Fellowship and NDSEG Fellowship. Mike has worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory as an R&D Engineer in various divisions for over 14 years. He has worked on nonlinear vibrations, structural health monitoring, residual stress measurement, shock physics, and material failure at high strain rates. Mike co‐founded the Residual Stress Summit, was the Program Chairman for the 2008 8th International Conference on Residual Stresses, served as an Associate Technical Editor for Experimental Mechanics, and is the Chair for ASTM Task Group E28.13.02. Mike has 26 journal publications, one patent and several awards. Prior to Los Alamos, Mike worked for New United Motors Manufacturing several awards Prior to Los Alamos Mike worked for New United Motors Manufacturing (GM/Toyota), Material Integrity Solutions, as a summer Fellow at Wright Research Center, and has consulted for several companies.  In 1993 Mike set two world records in a Human Powered Vehicle he helped design and build as a student project.

A flyer with the event information is available here.

Congratulations to Sherry Salas of DCS-1, a graduate of the 2007 Cluster and Networking Summer Institute, on her Best Computing Poster Award at the 2009 Student Symposium.  Salas received the award for her poster Automated Installation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machines.  The abstract for the poster is available here.  The poster can be downloaded here.

Four groups of students from the 2009 Cluster and Networking Summer Institute participated in a poster session at the Student Symposium.  View the posters at the Summer Institute Projects page.

Booting over Infiniband with Perceus Cluster Management

Matthew Dosanjh, University of New Mexico
William Pickett, New Mexico Tech
Graham Van Heule, Michigan Technological University

Congratulations to this team on their Best Poster Award in the Information Technology category.

Kerberized NFS in a Clustered Environment

Paige Ashlynn, University of New Mexico - Los Alamos
Ian Burns, New Mexico Tech
Christopher Hoffman, Michigan Technological University

Affinity in HPC Applications

Dane Gardner, Colorado School of Mines
Christian Romano, University of New Mexico
Jonathan Welters, Michigan Technological University

QDR Infiniband Network Study

Ben Haynes, Michigan Technological University
John Herrera, Northern New Mexico College
Jharrod LaFon, New Mexico State University

Congratulations to Jason Bossert of INST-OFF for his Best Computing Presentation Award at the 2009 Student Symposium.  Bossert received the award for his technical presentation Artificial Diffusivity: A Solution to Boundary Condition Interference. The abstract for the presentation is available here.

Congratulations to Ashishkumar Patel of C-CDE for his Best Engineering Poster Award at the Student Symposium.  Patel received the award for his poster Characterization of Mg Dopant Source for InGaN based Photovoltaic Devices.  The abstract for the poster is available here.

The motivation for a National Resilience workshop is the pressing need for an integrated  multi-disciplinary approach to maintaining productivity within HPC systems of today and tomorrow.  This workshop will span multiple disciplines from machine hardware and the traditional reporting on the hardware environment to requirements of "self-aware" software that monitors itself and the machine environment to ensure application progress in the face of failure.

The workshop is sponsored by LANL and the Petascale Data Storage Institute (DOE SciDAC).  The workshop will be held August 12-14 in Arlington, VA at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel.