What's new in computing today at Fermi

[Wayne Schneidman]

UniForum Chicago presents:

Tuesday, October 28th, 7 - 9 pm, IIT, 201 East Loop Rd, Room 103, Wheaton, IL

Presentation by Sharan Kalwani:  

Open to the public

As a national center of scientific research and experiments, Fermilab in Batavia has continuously sought to optimize and improve it's technological capabilities to accommodate the ever increasing demands of the scientific community at large. Sharan will go over the latest advances in computing and networking at Fermi, as well as interesting projects which use advanced computing. He will cover many of their new projects and will also present an overview of Scientific Linux; an open source Linux distribution based Centos/RedHat,  maintained by Fermilab, in co-operation with CERN. Sharan will also talk about some of the new science and physics projects coming on stream in the very near future. 

Sharan Kalwani joined the HPC group at Fermi National Accelerator Labs as a Computing Services Architect. Before Fermi, he was the Subject Matter Expert/Project lead at the UberCloud project, working on helping to realize HPC in the cloud. With 30 years of experience in Scientific and Technical computing, Sharan has worked at numerous HPC industry leaders that include Cray Research, Silicon Graphics, etc. He has also spent several years in the industry at General Motors – managing their global engineering HPC centers, as well as in the academic domain, helping to fulfil their research computing missions. Sharan is a member of the ACM, senior member of IEEE/Computer Society, USENIX/LISA., Union of Concerned Scientists and the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was also one of the original founders of the michigan!/usr/group (mug.org) back in 1986. He also runs the popular discussion group 'Innovative Uses of HPC' on Linked In.

After the meeting we generally adjourn to Cozymel's around the corner from IIT for a more informal get together and discussion. 

Meetup site:

http://www.meetup.com/UniForum-Chicago/events/213935612/

Hope to see you there!

-Wayne Schneidman

UniForum Chicago