Thank you for joining us for the 2024 DARWIN Computing Symposium, sponsored by the Data Science Institute. This Delaware Advanced Research Workforce and Innovation Network (DARWIN) Computing Symposium event has served as the annual meeting for the NSF-funded DARWIN High Performance Computing (HPC) Resource since 2020. As the NSF project ended in September 2023, we will continue to expand the DARWIN Computing Symposium as a venue to showcase and develop regional partnerships for research computing.
With a goal to advance future computing needs for artificial intelligence, to reduce the overhead for domain scientists utilizing HPC, and to develop regional partnerships, the 2024 DARWIN Computing Symposium featured panels and talks on DARWIN-enabled research, on computational and data-intensive (CDI) research/training needs, and on AI-focused CDI research more generally. These talks include the use of AI in HPC to advance sciences and predictive capabilities with societal relevance and new tools from the leading industry partners. Panel discussions aim at facilitating interactions between research software engineers and domain scientists to advance scientific progress in different disciplines. In addition, poster presentations by students and postdocs highlighted a number of relevant CDI research projects.
This day-long event was held in-person at UD’s Star Campus in The Tower at STAR Audion from 8:30am-5:00pm on Monday, February 12, 2024.
The 2024 DARWIN Computing Symposium proceedings are available here.
NSF-OAC
Update on the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot
William Miller
Senior Advisor
Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
National Science Foundation
Keynote Speaker
AI For Biodiversity: Combatting Extinction Together
Tanya Berger-Wolf
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology
Ohio State University
Session I: HPC and Data Science
Roger Wang
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rutgers University
Jing Gao
Assistant Professor of Geography and Spatial Sciences
University of Delaware
Gulni Ozbay
Professor of Natural Resources
Delaware State University
Kyle Davis
Assistant Professor of Geography and Spatial Sciences
University of Delaware
Session Chair: Marianna Safronova
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
University of Delaware
Session II: Science on DARWIN
Carolina Perez Segura
PhD Candidate
Hadden-Perilla Research Laboratory
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Nitant Gupta
Postdoctoral Researcher
Jayaraman Lab
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Vineeth Gutta
PhD Candidate
Computational Research and Programming Lab
Computer and Information Sciences
Session Chair: Ben Bagozzi
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations
University of Delaware
Panel Discussion: Beyond DARWIN: The Next Generation
Jing Gao
Assistant Professor of Geography and Spatial Sciences
University of Delaware
Marianna Safronova
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
University of Delaware
Robert Henschel
Project Director, Research Engagement, Research Technologies
Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University
Sunita Chandrasekaran
Associate Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, Co-Director AI Center of Excellence
University of Delaware
Session Chair: John Huffman
Director of Research Computing
University of Delaware
Sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors!
Research Desktop: A Remote Linux Desktop Environment Demo by Robert Henschel, Indiana University
Schedule
| 8:30 | Registration & Poster Setup |
| 9:00 | Welcome & Introductions |
| 9:10 | Remarks from UD |
| 9:20 | Remarks from NSF-OAC |
| 9:40 | Keynote |
| 10:25 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 | Session I: HPC and Data Science |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 12:50 | Poster Lightning Talks |
| 1:15 | Poster Session |
| 2:15 | Session II: Science on DARWIN |
| 3:15 | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 | Panel: Beyond DARWIN: The Next Generation |
| 4:30 | Closing Remarking & Best Poster Award |
Planning Committee
Tom Hsu (Chair)
Rudolf Eigenmann
Arthi Jayaraman
Benjamin Bagozzi
Cathy Wu
William Totten
John Huffman
Daria Blinova
Lynette Carney
Michael Blaustein
Jiaye Zhang
Samantha Smith (Coordinator)
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