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2021 SciTech and Friends Research Symposium
The Science Automation Technologies Research Group SciTech at the USC Information Sciences Institute aims to empower the scientific community by conducting research and software development in the area of automation of scientific computing, pro...
June 30, 2021
Looking For An Internship as a High School Student? Read About Kelsie's Experience at USC ISI
From High School to Leading Research Institute As a junior in high school who didn’t have much previous experience with coding or machine learning, Kelsie Lam had her fair share of doubts when starting off her internship. This past summer, Lam...
April 02, 2021
George Papadimitriou Wins PEARC '20 Award For Creating System For Facilitating Efficiency of Research
At the Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference, which took place from July 26-30, ISI graduate assistant George Papadimitriou won the Best Student Paper Award for his research on Pegasus workflow submission node...
December 15, 2020
Seminar: Scheduling and Memory Management for Large-Scale Applications: From Caches to Burst Buffers
This talk explores scheduling problems in the context of large-scale applications from a memory perspective. We focus here on two very different levels of memory in the hierarchy: caches and burst buffers.With the recent advent of many-core arc...
February 22, 2020
Seminar: Distribute High Throughput Computing at Work, an OSG Status Report
For more than 15 years, the Open Science Grid (OSG) has been offering the science community a fabric of distributed High Throughput Computing (dHTC) services. In close collaboration with science and campus communities as well as resource and so...
February 10, 2020
Seminar: defoe: A Spark-based Toolbox for Analysing Digital Historical Textual Data
In this talk will present defoe, a new scalable and portable digital toolbox that enables historical research. It allows for extracting knowledge from historical data by running text analyses across large digital collections, such as historical ne...
October 03, 2019
Seminar: The Cyberinfrastructure of Gravitational-wave Astronomy and March towards LIGO Open Data
Artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars. The rippling space-time grid represents gravitational waves that travel out from the collision, while the narrow beams show the bursts of gamma rays that are shot out just seconds after the gra...
June 04, 2019
Seminar: Co-scheduling for large-scale applications: memory and resilience
This talk explores co-scheduling problems in the context of large-scale applications with two main focus: the memory side, in particular the cache memory and the resilience side. With the recent advent of many-core architectures such as chip multi...
May 28, 2019
