January 2020 - Affiliates - mailman3.cels.anl.gov

ATPESC 2020 now accepting applications
by Loy, Raymond M. 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

*** Now Accepting Applications for ATPESC 2020 *** The call for applications for the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) is now open. The deadline to apply is March 2, 2020. This year's program will be held July 26-August 7, 2020. Doctoral students, postdocs, and scientists interested in conducting computational science and engineering research on large-scale computers are encouraged to apply. Application instructions can be found at: http://extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov -- Computing mailing list Computing(a)anl.gov https://lists.cels.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/computing

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REMINDER: Argonne Computing Coffee Hour Today in the Viz Lab from 2:00-3:00
by Werner, Janet M. 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

Hello, The weekly Argonne Computing Coffee Hours are going well with having presentations each week to facilitate everyone getting to know about each other’s computing activities to enable more collaborations. The coffee hours take place on Wednesdays, 2pm – 3pm in the Viz Lab on the 4th floor, 4312. The speaker for today is Raj Kettimuthu and the title of his talk is “From classical to quantum networking: leveraging networks to advance distributed science”. Janet -- Computing mailing list Computing(a)anl.gov https://lists.cels.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/computing

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January News Bulletin
by CPS Division Office 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

[cid:[email protected]] CPS NEWS January 14, 2020 CPS NEWS BULLETIN Director’s Note Welcome back everyone – Happy New Year! A number of new and exciting things will be happening in 2020 associated with joint positions, new scientific thrusts, a CPS postdoc cohort, and student programs. Watch your email and the CPS slack for more announcements. Salman and Tim Science Highlight [https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/bb-E5AF7tRZgdx02Q2ajQHOvGzVHpJqs5tpElUZm7… of the HACC team in ALCF, CPS, and HEP divisions received a very large allocation – Mira's swan song – to carry out “The Last Journey” cosmological simulation. One of the world's largest cosmology runs, Last Journey occupied all of Mira and was completed in September, 2019. The outputs of this simulation will be the basis for applying detailed models that populate the simulation's matter distribution (localized clumps, called ‘halos’) with galaxies and create synthetic sky maps that will be used by many sky surveys, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), the Dark Energy Survey Instrument (DESI), and CMB-S4. The simulation parameters were based on the current best-fit Planck cosmology, the run consisted of evolving ~1.24 trillion particles in a (5025 Mpc)3 volume and included a full on-the-fly analysis suite to create particle light cone outputs out to redshift, z=10, halo catalogs at 101 snapshots, and down-sampled particle snapshots. Information needed to create the history of structure formation (including galaxy formation) is captured by the construction of halo merger trees in post-processing. Finally, in order to follow the development of substructure over time, we have stored halo ‘core’ particles – particles that sample the stable central region of halos as they undergo mergers – for all analysis time snapshots. One major simulation aim was to exercise HACC at scale with the full analysis suite turned on to mimic the upcoming exascale challenge runs on Aurora and Frontier. First-level analysis tasks have been carried out, while others are in progress. We have measured the density fluctuation power spectra at different redshifts, the distribution of halo masses at different redshifts and for different mass definitions, and halo shape parameters. We have also created the first visualizations of the simulations, including time evolution movies (shown at SC19). The image shows the cosmic web structure consisting of voids, filaments, and halos, in a very small piece of the simulation at the final timestep. ALCF: Joe Insley, Esteban Rangel, Silvio Rizzi, Tom Uram // CPS: Nick Frontiere, Salman Habib, Adrian Pope // HEP: Katrin Heitmann, Imran Sultan, Patricia Larsen, Eve Kovacs Division News CPS New Year Luncheon: The CPS New Year Luncheon will take place Monday, January 27 from 12-1:30 in TCS Rooms 1406-1407. Lunch will be catered by Chuck’s. Sign up with $15 payment to Samantha by Wednesday, January 22 CPS Webpages: The first project page has been drafted and we are working through the rest of the pages to build up our presence. If you haven’t done so already, update your personal profile page and upload relevant images to the Box folder<https://anl.box.com/s/tw6xyyno4fp8wppdgrjzm8s8mrwp0dpf>. When you submit a photo, please also include a caption in the caption document. * If you were contacted to provide content for specific pages, please continue working on these requests. Speakers Needed: We need speakers for the Division Meetings beginning February 10. Sign up for available dates here<https://anl.box.com/s/l06fvyc3zt4zeeyb1rvuzk3luatwdvam>. Employee Spotlights Anniversaries * Nichols Romero – 10 years Promotion * Christopher Knight – 12/1/2019 Reclassification * Murat Keceli – 10/21/2019 Awards & Recognition Core Values Shout-Out Recipients: Marta Garcia Martinez, Adrian Pope, Patrick Shriwise, & John Tramm Monthly Calendar Wed. Jan 15 @ 2:00 – International Travel Monthly Refresher<https://my.anl.gov/article/international-travel-monthly-refresher-1?utm_sou…> // Building 233 Conference Room Thur. Jan 16 @12:00 – Argonne Town Hall<https://my.anl.gov/event/argonnes-water-strategy>: Water Strategy // Building 241, Room D172 Tue. Jan 21 @ 4:00 – Artist’s Reception<https://my.anl.gov/event/art-exhibit-signature-strokes> // Building 201 Lobby Wed. Jan 22 @ 10:00 – Conversations with Kearns<https://my.anl.gov/event/conversations-with-kearns> // Building 212, Room A157 Thur. Jan 23 @ 11:00 – Basics of Proposal Preparation<https://my.anl.gov/event/basics-of-proposal-preparation> // Building 212, Room A157 Mon. Jan 27 @ 12:00 – CPS New Year Luncheon (Sign up required) // Rooms 1406-1407 Mon. Jan 27 @ 2:00 – CPS Division Meeting: Speaker Tim Williams // Room 4301 Wed. Jan 29 @ 12:00 – 4LIFE Lecture<https://inside.anl.gov/event/food-thought-everyday-eating-wellness-1>: Everyday Eating for Wellness // Building 362, Auditorium Wed. Feb 5 @ 2:00 – Weekly Computing Coffee Hour: CPS Presents // Viz Lab, Room 4312 Thur. Feb 6 @ 12:15 – VP 20 Minute Seminar<https://my.anl.gov/event/facts-about-fiber>: Facts About Fiber // Building 402 Auditorium Resources News Bulletin Archive<https://anl.app.box.com/folder/95583966226> Submit content for future bulletins<mailto:[email protected]?subject=News%20Bulletin> Core Values Shout-Out Nomination<https://apps.inside.anl.gov/xink/displayForm.jsp?formNumber=ANL-1238> CPS Division Talk Schedule<https://anl.app.box.com/folder/91124636901> [cid:[email protected]] [Logo] U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science UChicago Argonne LLC Privacy & Security notice Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 www.anl.gov<http://www.anl.gov>

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Reminder: CPS Meeting TODAY - Speaker: Rick Wagner
by Tezak, Samantha L. 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

REMINDER: Rick Wagner, will present a talk TODAY titled “Advanced Data Services for ALCF.” January 13, 2020 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Building 240, Room 4301 [cid:[email protected]]

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Anyone working on geospatial data? Response needed.
by Habib, Salman 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Hi Everyone, Please see the message below and let me and Samantha know if you are (or think you maybe) involved in any activities involving geospatial data. Note the deadline is the end of this month. Best Salman ****************************** Hello Salman, Shortly before winter break, DOE HQ released a data call to collect information on current geospatial activities within DOE, as a requirement to the Geospatial Data Act of 2018 (GDA). This is DOE’s first attempt at collecting this information under the GDA, and they are using a very broad definition of geospatial activities: anything that can be geolocated on the earth, and involving creating, using, processing, and analyzing data. DOE is interested in activities that involve processing large amounts of (geospatial) data, and the data call has a specific question about using AI and machine learning with geospatial data. They are interested in work that is funded by DOE or work for others, and only unclassified work at this time. I am one of the people who is working to collect this information for Argonne. Given the broad definition of “geospatial” in this data call, I thought there may be people in CPS whose work fits this call. If you can identify anyone, please send me their names, and I will reach out to them with further information. I am also happy to provide you with more details, but I wanted to keep this initial email brief. The data call deadline is the end of this month. Best, ~Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Zvolanek Senior GIS Analyst Environmental Science Division Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Ave, Building 240 Argonne, IL 60439 630.252.1443 emily(a)anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CPS Meeting Monday - Speaker: Rick Wagner
by Tezak, Samantha L. 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Good afternoon CPS, Monday’s speaker, Rick Wagner, will present a talk titled “Advanced Data Services for ALCF.” January 13, 2020 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Building 240, Room 4301 [cid:[email protected]]

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looking for reviewer for materials modeling (peridynamics)
by Williams, Timothy J. 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hello All, Casting a bit of a broad net here—sorry about that, but this is short-fuse (need to find somebody today). I’ve been helping ASCR program management/SBIR find some reviewers for some SBIR Phase II proposals recently, which a couple of you have heard about already. There is one additional proposal that came up today in the area of materials modeling that they’ve had a hard time finding a reviewer for. It’s proposing looking at material damage processes in coatings on turbine engine components, with emphasis on peridynamic modeling. I’m open to any suggestions/volunteers as a reviewer (can provide abstract, but didn’t want to broadcast that to the list). Thanks, Tim ------- Timothy J. Williams, Ph.D. --- Argonne National Laboratory --- tjwilliams(a)anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> -------

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REMINDER: Argonne Computing Coffee Hour Today in the Viz Lab from 2:00-3:00
by Werner, Janet M. 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hello, The weekly Argonne Computing Coffee Hours are going well with having presentations each week to facilitate everyone getting to know about each other’s computing activities to enable more collaborations. The coffee hours take place on Wednesdays, 2pm – 3pm in the Viz Lab on the 4th floor, 4312. The speaker for today is Álvaro Vázquez-Mayagoitia. The title of Alvaro’s talk is ” Auto-generated data sets for engineering panchromatic co-sensitized solar cells”. Janet -- Computing mailing list Computing(a)anl.gov https://lists.cels.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/computing

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Temporary society membership policy
by Habib, Salman 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Hi Everyone, We still don't have a CELS-wide policy about this, but here's a temporary CPS one. We'll have a final decision soon. Ok to pay for membership iff 1) Membership cost saves money, i.e., cost of the membership + discounted registration fee < non-discounted registration fee AND 2) the source of the funding allows it (project funds like ECP probably will not, neither will LDRD); please check this before you get audited and the cost is disallowed. For now, it's ok to have a maximum of two memberships paid for this way. Best Salman

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Society memberships
by Habib, Salman 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Hi Everyone, I am still trying to figure out the society membership policy for CPS so that we are in sync with other CELS divisions. I'll get back to you with the policy this week. Best Salman

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