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SC12 Technical Program This is where the real action is! Details on NCSA/Illinois participation online at www.ncsa.illinois.edu/extreme-scale/ Details on XSEDE participation at www.xsede.org/xsede-sc Something to add or revise? Contact Trish Barker (NCSA) or Susan McKenna (XSEDE)

SC12 Exhibits NCSA: Booth 1030 XSEDE: Booth 2031 Parallel Computing Institute: Booth 1809 Focus on one-on-one interaction – no big presentations

NCSA: Booth #1030 Staffed by Trish Barker, Liz Murray & Alex Farthing (also volunteers through Student Engagement Program) ALL NCSA’ers invited to sign up for time slot to work a booth station; can show slides, visualizations, etc. Contact Trish if you are interested. Limited seating/meeting space: small café table (3 chairs), love seat and arm chairs. Not appropriate for confidential or large meetings. One kiosk devoted to Illinois Parallel Computing Institute

Questions and how to answer them When you are in the booth, you may get questions on any topic OK to refer questions to Trish or Liz; Please refer all media to Trish

Most common question: What is NCSA? Big Science, Big Data, Big Computing Help scientists and engineers better understand our world (astronomy, weather, materials, etc.) Located at the University of Illinois Primary funding from National Science Foundation

Other FAQs Q. Are you hiring? Check out careers.ncsa.illinois.edu Q. Where is Michelle Butler? I want to sell her something! A. Can I give her a message? Q. How can I use your resources? A. start.ncsa.illinois.edu

Blue Waters FAQs Blue Waters is an NSF-funded project to deploy and support a well-balanced sustained-petascale supercomputer at NCSA All the CRAY hardware is installed and operational. (Details available in the booth, on the website) Acceptance testing ongoing. IMPORTANT: Do NOT indicate how close/far from completion we are, when system will be in production.

More Blue Waters FAQs 80% allocated by NSF to national science & engineering community; 7% reserved for U of I; 1% for education Severe storms, supernovae, earthquakes, molecular mechanisms of disease, and more Imaginations unbound

What’s in the booth? Signs and digital displays – about Extreme-Scale Computing, Big Data, NCSA capabilities, and key projects, including Blue Waters, XSEDE, LSST, etc. Fall issue of Access magazine, w AR content NCSA one-page flier Blue Waters one-page flier XSEDE 2011-2012 highlights publication NCSA coloring book, Volume 3 Flops Fever, FREE iOS and Android game Contact Trish if you have fliers/brochures you would like to provide in the booth

XSEDE: Booth #2031 NCSA leads the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) Susan McKenna, XSEDE Communications Coordinator, and Liz Murray are primary staff for XSEDE booth Susan coordinating booth volunteers. Please sign up for time slots at: http://doodle.com/y7n8eqvaya6v5kmy In the booth: XSEDE highlights book, What is XSEDE? one-pager, notebooks, pens, and laptop stickers to give away Stop by and add your location to the world map!

Parallel Computing Institute 10 x 10 Booth #1809 & kiosk in NCSA booth Staffing: Jill Peckham & Kim Gudeman Klara Nahrstedt’s team will demo tele-immersive system Info at parallel.illinois.edu