HPC in Liberal Arts Colleges

A short (and incomplete!) summary of most visible HPC efforts in Liberal Arts including some ideas for HPC use at Pomona College.

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1. HPC in Liberal Arts Asya Shklyar February 2018
2. Oberlin makes headlines in 2005 and 2014 https://www.oberlin.edu/news/leader-supercomputing https://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/facilities/detail.dot?id=318539&buildingId=9375
3. ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES http://www.las.illinois.edu/news/article/?id=22036 http://www.las.illinois.edu/news/article/?id=19336&/news//news/2016/gerrymandering16/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JUzbvjZ1OY
4. Teagle Foundation sponsored HPC+Liberal Arts workshops in NY – 6 college consortium http://www.teaglefoundation.org/About http://cs.union.edu/~barrv/Grants/Teagle/teagle-overview.html#W1 http://cs.union.edu/~barrv/Grants/Teagle/workshop-2-summary.pdf
5. Harvey Mudd and Jeho Park • Educause 2014 • Providing the Missing Piece for Advanced and High- Performance Computing at Liberal Arts Colleges • Almost all disciplines taught and researched at liberal arts colleges use computer tools and digital data that are neither simpler nor smaller than those used in large universities. However, it is often difficult to find readily available advanced computing resources at liberal arts colleges due to various reasons. For the last two years, the IT department at Harvey Mudd has worked to identify high-performance computing resources outside the college. In this poster, we will introduce the resources that liberal arts colleges can obtain and maintain without spending a large amount of money to provide advanced computing for teaching and research. • OUTCOMES: Learn about the XSEDE program * Learn about the Campus Champions program and its best practices * Learn about other opportunities for obtaining advanced computing resources that are readily available to higher education
6. Emory https://it.emory.edu/catalog/data-and-reporting/high-performance-computing.html
7. Reed https://people.reed.edu/~jimfix/CSatReed.html
8. Bowdoin https://www.bowdoin.edu/it/services/linux-hpc.shtml
9. • https://hpcc.stanford.edu/
10. Pomona Use Case 1 • Physics – fluid dynamics, flow simulation • Fluent – ANSYS, commercial • Aternatives: Star-CCM+, also commercial • OpenFOAM – free, open source
11. Pomona Use Case 2 • Chemistry - molecular modeling • Gaussian http://gaussian.com/gpu/
12. Pomona Use Case 3 • Biology • Blast
13. Pomona Use Case 4 • Linguistics • Proprietary software
14. Pomona Use Case 5 • Astronomy • Mathematica http://www.publish.csiro.au/AS/pdf/AS10019
15. Pomona Use Case 6 • Psychology • Brain Imaging
16. Semantic Web or Web 3.0 • https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
17. Connection to Liberal Arts and AI • https://liberalarts.utexas. edu/public- affairs/events/2612 • http://www.pascal- hitzler.de/
18. http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP: 2017
19. https://hpc.llnl.gov/data-vis/vis-software
20. https://portal.xsede.org/software#/
21. http://www.sdsc.edu/support/user_guides/co met.html#software
22. https://sciencegateways.org/ https://catalog.sciencegateways.org/#/home