Welcome to the MSM - WG 5 Web-page
Working Group 5 is part of the Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) consortium . The goal of this working group is to discuss aspects related to high-performance computing, computational issues and algorithms that are common to our different projects funded within the Multiscale Modeling Initiative.
Ongoing Events:
Model Sharing Strategies - One Day Mini-Workshop - April 10, 2007.
Tentative agenda of the workshop: here
PI meeting at NIH - April 11-12, 2007.
Tentative agenda of the meeting: here
During this meeting, WG 5 will meet to discuss this topics:
1. Review of the activities of the group during the first year. Has the group met
the objectives of the first year?
2. Review of the key aspects presented by the invited speakers during the
first year. Has anybody in the group moved (or is planning to move) their
applications on any of the systems introduced by our experts?
3. Short presentations of the current computing systems used by the several
projects. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the computing systems
currently used?
4. Schedule of the group activities for the second year. What kind of activities
would be beneficial for the group?
5. Selection of the new lead of the working group. Any volunteers?
Past Events:
February 5, 2007: Using volunteer computing, i.e., BOINC, for large scale simulations. What does it mean to use the idle time of home computers (i.e., Windows, Mac, or Linux machines) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research? What are the main challenges in installing a system in your lab that deploys volunteer's idle cycles? Speaker: David Anderson (UC Berkeley). More about BOINC and volunteer computing here
February 24, 2007: The IBM initiative World Community Grid. The World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Currently this IBM initiative provides idle cycles from volunteer's computers for several biomedical projects such as: the genome comparison project, the help cure muscular dystrophy project, the help defeat cancer project, the human proteome folding, and the fightAIDS@Home project. We will review the achievements of this IBM initiative and address questions such as how can a project join this initiative? Speaker Viktors Berstis (IBM). Other members of the initiative will join the meeting and will answer your questions. More about the World Community Grid here