SC15 Brainstorm Meeting — 5/26/2015
Attendees: Ruth, Phil, Neal, Yemi
SC15 theme “HPC Transforms”
Location: Exhibit Hall 2; #2009
Keep It Simple.
Avoid a five day setup for a 3 day display.
SU/SLAC Staff needed to help setup and takedown.
- need to find out who’s going from SLAC and what our travel budget is.
Network setup would occupy a corner of the booth.
Displays for research/science etc. could be arranged in various configurations.
- Explore option of having vendor that produced the SU ceiling sign also design, build and deploy our booth.
- Pursue themes in transforming science and education
STEM involvement.
- Contact Persis Drell for faculty involvement?
SCIENCE/RESEARCH to CONSIDER for DISPLAY
- Genomics
- Free Electron Laser
- SIMES
- SUNCAT
- Kavli
- PULSE
- LSST
- Stuart Marshall Viz Lab; anything usable yet?
- SRCF Sherlock cluster
- Show the science that is coming out of it.
- Already have some posters/demos?
- Openstack based VM environment.
- Google and SU partnership.
- Cray GPU Cluster — Yemi
- Kavli
- SUNCAT
- Show how CS faculty use cloud technology for online classes and collaboration.
- IOT ideas
- Does Mayank have some IOT/Science demos that could be useful for SC15?
May be difficult to get SMEs to talk about their science to SC15 audience.
- Record presentations to run with the displays and list "showtimes".
Setup SC15 Confluence site? Setup at SLAC.
Giveaway ideas:
- SU nerd glasses w/chip for tracking locations within conference for fun; wireless.
- Maybe disguise the chip to look like a Band Aid to complete the Nerd look? :)
Current inventory of items for use:
- two 50” monitors
- tables and chairs
- Phil has list of items.
Freeman provided carpet/pad at the conference venue. Should we look into purchasing carpet/carpet tiles?
Budget:
- SLAC will have to come up with budget for travel or participants.
- Don’t worry about the budget for the rest; need design first and will work on getting funds from participating departments etc. and other generous donors.
ACTION Items:
- Ruth will look at calendar to setup meetings for every two weeks.
- Phil will make initial contact with SU sign vendor to discuss cost of doing the conference booth design. DONE
- Neal will work with Phil on Confluence site. IN PROGRESS
- Yemi will talk to Stuart and another research opportunity TBD.