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Jamil Gafur, a doctoral student at the University of Iowa, and Gretta Kellogg, Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) assistant director of strategic initiatives and director of the Center for Applications of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning to Industry, pose together for a photo at the PEARC conference.

ICDS presents, wins award at PEARC

Posted on September 10, 2024

The annual Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference allots attendees the space for these connections. Each year faculty and researchers from Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) take part in presenting their work to this national audience and participating in conversations with our peer institutions and industry for the betterment of our shared research computing.

Jeff Nucciarone, Research Innovation with Scientists and Engineers Team (RISE) engineer, won a Best Abstract-Student award for his work, “A Novel Approach in Using MPI to Manage a Coupled Workflow.” His work started when he was working to help graduate students run models, who were running into problems with job scheduling. His research designed a way to automate the whole process using a less commonly used approach, called a parallel Fortran application, that uses a dynamic framework with multiple job runs to increase efficiency.

Lindsay Wells, research computing systems engineer, presented her team’s abstract “Leveraging Large Language Models for HPC User Support: A RAG-Based Chatbot,” to a room full of attendees and industry experts.

The research team included Wells, Amit Amritkar, assistant director for advanced computing; Simon Delattre, RISE engineer; Emery Etter, RISE engineer; and Justin Petucci, RISE engineer.

Other ICDS attendees included Chad Bahrmann, assistant director of engineering and science services; Carrie Brown, ICDS advance cyberinfrastructure and education facilitator; Gretta Kellogg, assistant director of strategic initiatives and director of the Center for Applications of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning to Industry (AIMI), who was able to see her mentee, Jamil Gafur, present his work.

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