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Color My Nails School of Nail TechnologyRead MoreAll of the students at Color My Nails School of Nail Technology have the same concentration. That's because the school is "nails only"—every teacher is a practicing nail tech, and the 300-hour course is designed to set graduates apart in the mani-pedi industry. To that end, it includes lessons on treatments that other schools might not delve into, such as how to use nail drills, perform white-tip fills, and forge a stunningly accurate van Gogh piece onto someone's thumb. Students practice on both mannequins and live clients, administering affordable manicures, pedicures, fills, and gel-polish applications. They also host children's parties that leave guests giggling at their newly glittery toes.85 East 7200 SouthMidvale, UT US
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Awesome Images Of Soap Bubbles Freezing Instantly In This Insanely Cold Weather [Video]
Simple soap bubbles become icy works of art in an instant thanks to the record cold temperatures the nation is experiencing this week.
Simple soap bubbles become icy works of art in an instant thanks to the record cold temperatures the nation is experiencing this week.
Get tips on how you can protect yourselves and your homes.
An area of disturbed weather in the Caribbean Sea is keeping Northern Gulf of Mexico residents vigilant with a watchful eye to the south. Could this system become Tropical Storm Karen by this weekend? Will this system cause weather worries for Acadiana?
An area of thunderstorms in the Caribbean Sea is being watched closely for development by the National Hurricane Center. Could this become a problem for Acadiana for the weekend?
With all of this flooding happening north of Louisiana, what could possibly happen here in Acadiana?
It looks like the heaviest storms will move through the area this evening into the early morning hours of Thursday.
As of 2am the only severe weather watches or warnings were well to the north and east of the 97.3 The Dawg listening area.This storm system should bring some gusty winds, frequent lightning and some heavy downpours to the area as it moves through.
While we are looking for a sleigh and reindeer, Rob and Dave will be watching for severe weather approaching the Lafayette area.
It's a forecast you can dance to! The rappin' weather man is laying down slick beats and cooler temperatures.
A tropical system in the Gulf of Mexico means that you need to be weather aware all weekend long. Staying informed is the key to protecting your family and your property. Here are some great links to get the very latest information on how Tropical Storm Lee will affect you. From our television partner KATC, here is the latest on the tropics as it pertains to Acadiana.


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EU pipeline to cut Russian gas reliance is dead -BP
LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) – A proposed pipeline that would
cut Europe's dependence on Russian gas by opening a route for
Central Asian and Middle Eastern supplies has been shelved
because it is not economically viable, anchor supplier BP
The UK oil major is no longer considering the Nabucco
pipeline as an option for shipping gas from its Shah Deniz Stage
2 Gas field in Azerbaijan, Iain Conn, BP's head of fuel refining
and marketing said in a speech circulated by BP on Friday.
PTT's $1.9 billion bid for Cove trumps Shell
LONDON (Reuters) – Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production PTTE.BK has trumped Royal Dutch Shell's (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) bid for Mozambique-focused explorer Cove Energy (COVE.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) by offering 1.22 billion pounds ($1.9 billion), highlighting international interest in East African gas finds.
Cove management said on Wednesday, hours ahead of a deadline for investors to accept Shell's bid, it now backed PTT's 240 pence per share bid, after earlier supporting Shell's 220 pence.
Shell set for wait to secure $2 bln Cove bid
LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell is
likely to have to wait to secure its $2 billion takeover of Cove
Energy as shareholders in the Mozambique-focused target
company look for potential counter-bidder Thailand's PTT to show
its hand.
Some Cove investors said on Tuesday they expected Shell to
extend the tender period for its 220 pence a share offer, as
they said they would not offer their shares ahead of the 1200
GMT, May 23 deadline Shell has set for acceptances.
What's a fair day's pay for a British CEO?
LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) – To the directors of London-listed
oil services group Petrofac Ltd, a proposed "value
creation plan" seemed an appropriate way to reward executives
for success. Nearly a third of non-management shareholders
didn't agree.
Put forward at the group's annual shareholders' meeting
earlier this month, the company's plan could lead to top brass,
excluding the CEO, earning additional bonuses which could be
worth up to 10 times their base salaries.
East Africa to join world gas giants
LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) – To East Africa's assets of
spectacular wildlife, abundant land and shimmering beaches you
can now add gas – so much gas it could transform global energy
flows along with some of the world's poorest countries.
Finds announced just last week off Tanzania and Mozambique
are estimated to hold enough gas to supply France, Germany,
Britain and Italy for at least a year – possibly much more.
New Anadarko find may stoke battle for partner Cove
LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) – U.S. explorer Anadarko Petroleum
Corp has discovered a major new gas field offshore
Mozambique in a move that could stoke a bid battle for one of
its partners, Cove Energy.
Anadarko said on Tuesday the Golfinho discovery in northern
Mozambique may hold more than 20 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of
gas, and would underpin a plan to develop a world class
liquefied natural gas export operation in Mozambique.
Qatar buys 'major' stake in oil giant Shell
LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) – Gas-rich Qatar is ploughing more
of its commodity wealth back into the sector with the purchase
of a major stake in Royal Dutch Shell while also
reportedly eyeing a chunk of Italian oil major ENI.
A Shell spokeswoman confirmed the purchase while declining
to detail its size but the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES)
reported earlier that Qatar's sovereign wealth fund (QIA) was
looking at a 3-5 percent stake.
Insight: When the Exxon way stops working
London (Reuters) – When Exxon boss Rex Tillerson walked into a meeting with the President of Ghana on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, he thought he was set to strike a deal with an important new oil producing nation.
Instead Tillerson – who had flown into town aboard an executive jet bigger than those used by many heads of state – was rebuffed by an irritated John Atta Mills, who had expected to be wooed rather than given a tough contract to rubber-stamp.
When the Exxon way stops working
London, May 8 (Reuters) – When Exxon boss Rex Tillerson
walked into a meeting with the President of Ghana on the
sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, he thought he
was set to strike a deal with an important new oil producing
Instead Tillerson – who had flown into town aboard an
executive jet bigger than those used by many heads of state -
was rebuffed by an irritated John Atta Mills, who had expected
to be wooed rather than given a tough contract to rubber-stamp.
Analysis: Investor protest votes on pay here to stay
LONDON (Reuters) – Company directors will remain under pressure from shareholders over executive pay long after the market downturn ends and lawmakers stop the heckling that has helped prompt votes against remuneration policies at this year's annual meetings.
Investors and directors say the days of shareholders rubber-stamping company resolutions at Annual General Meetings (AGMs) is over and directors will have to get used to investors being more vocal on many areas of company business.


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"NeuroBank is a perfect example of how today's technology and medical industries can intersect with business for the betterment of society," Boni said. "The success of this venture is the latest in a rich legacy of entrepreneurial excellence at the Tepper School, and we are extremely proud of their accomplishment."
This year's Moot Corp(R) win marks the fifth time that top honors have been awarded to a team from the Tepper School of Business, making it one of the most frequent honorees in the 25-year history of the contest. In the last five years alone, the Tepper School has achieved three first-place finishes and one second-place finish. Long considered a leader in entrepreneurial education, the Tepper School was one of the first business schools to offer formal entrepreneurship courses and is home to the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship, which brings together several of Carnegie Mellon's other renowned schools, including the School of Computer Science, the Carnegie Institute of Technology (engineering) and the Mellon College of Science, to offer exceptional interdisciplinary entrepreneurial education programs and resources to students.
The opening bell is available from 9:20 to 9:35 a.m. on Galaxy 28 C/9, downlink frequency 3880 horizontal, or Waterfront fiber 1623. An audio transmission of the opening bell is also available on uplink IA6 C band/transponder 24, downlink frequency 4180 horizontal. A live Webcast and high-resolution photographs of the market opening will also be available at http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm.
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The Computer Science and Mathematics Division (CSMD) is ORNL's premier source of basic and applied research in high-performance computing, applied mathematics, and intelligent systems. Basic and applied research programs are focused on computational sciences, intelligent systems, and information technologies.
Our mission includes working on important national priorities with advanced computing systems, working cooperatively with U.S. Industry to enable efficient, cost-competitive design, and working with universities to enhance science education and scientific awareness. Our researchers are finding new ways to solve problems beyond the reach of most computers and are putting powerful software tools into the hands of students, teachers, government researchers, and industrial scientists.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Co-Lead DOE's New HPC for Manufacturing Program (September 24, 2015)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is collaborating with Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LLNL and LBNL) to lead a new US Department of Energy program designed to fund and foster public-private R&D projects that enhance US competitiveness in clean energy manufacturing.
"The Manufacturing Demonstration Facility has worked with numerous industry partners to overcome challenges in areas of advanced manufacturing, and ORNL is excited by the prospect of extending and accelerating this success through modeling and simulation," said John Turner, Group Leader for Computational Engineering and Energy Sciences and ORNL lead for HPC4Mfg. He added, "We look forward to collaborating with colleagues at LLNL and LBNL, and with industry partners, to apply our computational expertise to challenging clean energy manufacturing problems." Read the article [here].
ACME continues to soar with yet another award (September 15, 2015)
Launched in 2014, ACME is a multi-laboratory initiative to harness the power of supercomputers like ORNL's Titan and Argonne's Mira to develop fully coupled state-of-the-science Earth system models for climate change research and scientific and energy applications. Eight national labs, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, four academic institutions, and one private sector company are collaborating on the 10-year project. Researchers from ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) were instrumental in developing and defending the project plan and are leading or co-leading several project teams, including the teams responsible for new land model development (Peter Thornton), assessing and improving model performance on high-performance computing platforms (Patrick Worley), and developing and evaluating simulation workflow tools (Kate Evans).
CSMD staff mentor HVA student (September 15, 2015)
Harding Valley Academy's Feldman ready to shed light on climate change
Following an internship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (where he was mentored by CSMD's Kate Evans), 18-year-old Sam Feldman not only has chosen his profession - he's passionate about helping to reverse the effects of man-made climate change.
"That's when I first found out about climate change research, and that got me interested," Feldman, a Hardin Valley Academy 2015 graduate and advanced placement honors student, said. "All the data we studied pointed toward it being a reality. And the fact that ice sheets are melting [at the earth's poles]. ... I specifically studied ice sheets so I learned a lot about how they are currently melting."
Pavel Shamis (ORNL) and Gilad Shainer (Mellanox) announce the UCX Unified Communication X Framework. (September 15, 2015)
UCX is a collaboration between industry, laboratories, and academia to create an open-source production grade communication framework for data centric and HPC applications
Jay Jay Billings Interview (September 15, 2015)
CSMD researcher Jay Jay Billings was the subject of the latest User Spotlight interview which is part of the Eclipse Newsletter. The Eclipse technology is a vendor-neutral, open development platform supplying frameworks and exemplary, extensible tools (the "Eclipse Platform").
To read the full interview please go here - To read the full interview please go [here].
Science Highlights
Safer Batteries through Coupled Multiscale Modeling
John Turner, Srikanth Allu, Mark Berrill, Wael Elwasif, Sergiy Kalnaus, Abhishek Kumar, Damien Lebrun-Grandie, Sreekanth Pannala, and Srdjan Simunovic
Batteries are highly complex electrochemical systems, with performance and safety governed by coupled nonlinear electrochemical-electrical-thermal-mechanical processes over a range of spatiotemporal scales. We describe a new, open source computational environment for battery simulation known as VIBE - the Virtual Integrated Battery Environment. VIBE includes homogenized and pseudo-2D electrochemistry models such as those by Newman-Tiedemann-Gu (NTG) and Doyle-Fuller-Newman (DFN, a.k.a. DualFoil) as well as a new advanced capability known as AMPERES (Advanced MultiPhysics for Electrochemical and Renewable Energy Storage). AMPERES provides a 3D model for electrochemistry and full coupling with 3D electrical and thermal models on the same grid. VIBE/AMPERES has been used to create three-dimensional battery cell and pack models that explicitly simulate all the battery components (current collectors, electrodes, and separator). The models are used to predict battery performance under normal operations and to study thermal and mechanical response under adverse conditions.
This work was performed at ORNL and sponsored by DOE's EERE office.
Scalable and Fault Tolerant Failure Detection and Consensus
A. Katti, G. Di Fatta, T. Naughton, and C. Engelmann
Future extreme-scale high-performance computing systems will be required to work under frequent component failures. The MPI Forum's User Level Failure Mitigation proposal has introduced an operation (MPI_Comm_shrink) to synchronize the alive processes on the list of failed processes, so that applications can continue to execute even in the presence of failures by adopting algorithm-based fault tolerance techniques. The MPI_Comm_shrink operation requires a fault tolerant failure detection and consensus algorithm. This work developed two novel failure detection and consensus algorithms to support this operation. The algorithms are based on Gossip protocols and are inherently fault-tolerant and scalable. The first algorithm is based on global knowledge: each process maintains a local view of the entire system state to achieve consensus on failed processes. A Gossip protocol is used to detect failures and to exponentially propagate them in the system until the local views converge. The second algorithm does not rely on global knowledge and adopts a heuristic method to achieve consensus on failures. The algorithms were implemented and tested using the Extreme-scale Simulator (xSim), ORNL's performance/resilience investigation toolkit for simulating future-generation extreme-scale high-performance computing systems. The results show that in both algorithms the number of Gossip cycles to achieve global consensus scales logarithmically with system size. The second algorithm also shows better scalability in terms of memory usage and network bandwidth costs and a perfect synchronization in achieving global consensus.
This work was performed at the University of Reading, UK and ORNL. The work at ORNL was funded by DOE's Advanced Scientific Computing Research office's Exascale Operating System and Runtime (ExaOS/R) program
Publication: A. Katti, G. Di Fatta, T. Naughton, and C. Engelmann, "Scalable and Fault Tolerant Failure Detection and Consensus", Proceedings of the European MPI Users` Group Meeting (EuroMPI'15), Bordeaux, France, September 21-24, 2015.
Quantifying Scheduling Challenges for Exascale System Software
Oscar Mondragon, University of New Mexico, Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico, Terry Jones, ORNL
The move towards high-performance computing (HPC) applications comprised of coupled codes and the need to dramatically reduce data movement is leading to a reexamination of time-sharing vs. space-sharing in HPC systems. In this paper, we discuss and begin to quantify the performance impact of a move away from strict space-sharing of nodes for HPC applications. Specifically, we examine the potential performance cost of time-sharing nodes between application components, we determine whether a simple coordinated scheduling mechanism can address these problems, and we research how suitable simple constraint-based optimization techniques are for solving scheduling challenges in this regime. Our results demonstrate that current general-purpose HPC system software scheduling and resource allocation systems are subject to significant performance deficiencies which we quantify for six representative applications. Based on these results, we discuss areas in which additional research is needed to meet the scheduling challenges of next-generation HPC systems.
This work is funded by DOE-ASCR and is part of the Hobbes project.
Publication: Oscar Mondragon, Patrick Bridges, and Terry Jones. "Quantifying Scheduling Challenges for Exascale System Software". in Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers (ROSS 2015). Portland, OR. June, 2015.
Block Preconditioners for Implicit Atmospheric Climate Simulations
P. A. Lott (LLNL), C.S. Woodward (LLNL), K.J. Evans (ORNL)
In this paper, we introduce a scalable preconditioner within the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM) model that is designed to improve the efficiency of the linear system solves in the implicit dynamics solver. Performing accurate and efficient numerical simulation of global atmospheric climate models is challenging due to the disparate length and time scales over which physical processes interact. Implicit solvers enable the physical system to be integrated with a time step commensurate with processes being studied rather than to maintain stability. The dominant cost of an implicit time step is the ancillary linear system solves, so the preconditioner, which is based on an approximate block factorization of the linearized shallow-water equations, has been implemented within the spectral element dynamical core of CAM to minimize this expense. In this paper, we discuss the development and scalability of the preconditioner for a suite of test cases with the implicit shallow-water solver within CAM, and show how the choice of solver parameter settings affects the behavior of both the solver and preconditioner. We also present the remaining steps to gain efficiency using this solver strategy.
This work is funded by DOE BER/ASCR and is part of the Multiscale BER SciDAC project
Publication: P. A. Lott, C.S. Woodward, K.J. Evans (2014). Algorithmically scalable block preconditioner for fully implicit shallow water equations in CAM-SE. Comp. Geosci., 19:49-61, doi: 10.1007/s10596-014-9447-6
Table2Graph: A Scalable Graph Construction from Relational Tables using MapReduce framework
Sangkeun Lee, Byung H. Park (Lead), Seung-Hwan Lim, and Mallikarjun Shankar
Identifying correlations and relationships between entities within and across different data sets (or databases) is of great importance in many domains. The data warehouse-based integration, which has been most widely practiced, is found to be inadequate to achieve such a goal. Instead we explored an alternate solution that turns multiple disparate data sources into a single heterogeneous graph model so that matching between entities across different source data would be expedited by examining their linkages in the graph. We found, however, while a graph-based model provides outstanding capabilities for this purposes, construction of one such model from relational source databases were time consuming and primarily left to ad hoc proprietary scripts. This led us to develop a reconfigurable and reusable graph construction tool that is designed to work at scale.
This work was sponsored by LDRD funds.
Publication: Sangkeun Lee, Byung H. Park, Seung-Hwan Lim, and Mallikarjun Shankar, Table2Graph: A Scalable Graph Construction from Relational Tables using Map-Reduce, IEEE conference on BigData Services, 2015
Climate Change Impact on Diseases
Paul E. Parham, Joanna Waldock, George K. Christophides, Deborah Hemming, Folashade Agusto, Katherine J. Evans, Nina Fefferman, Holly Gaff, Abba Gumel, Shannon LaDeau, Suzanne Lenhart, Ronald E. Mickens, Elena N. Naumova, Richard S. Ostfeld, Paul D. Ready, Matthew B. Thomas, Jorge Velasco-Hernandez, Edwin Michael
Arguably one of the most important effects of climate change is the potential impact on human health. While this is likely to take many forms, the implications for future transmission of vector-borne diseases (VBDs), given their ongoing contribution to global disease burden, are both extremely important and highly uncertain. In part, this is owing not only to data limitations and methodological challenges when integrating climate-driven VBD models and climate change projections, but also, perhaps most crucially, to the multitude of epidemiological, ecological and socio-economic factors that drive VBD transmission. This complexity has generated considerable debate over the past 10–15 years. In this review article, the authors seek to elucidate current knowledge around this topic, identify key themes and uncertainties, evaluate ongoing challenges and open research questions and, crucially, offer some solutions for the field. Although many of these challenges are ubiquitous across multiple VBDs, more specific issues also arise in different vector–pathogen systems.
Publication: Parham PE et al. 2015 Climate, environmental and socio-economic change: weighing up the balance in vector- borne disease transmission. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 370: 20130551. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0551
Analyzing the Interplay of Failures and Workload on a Leadership-Class Supercomputer
Esteban Meneses, University of Pittsburgh, Xiang Ni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Terry Jones, ORNL, and Don Maxwell, ORNL
The unprecedented computational power of current supercomputers now makes possible the exploration of complex problems in many scientific fields, from genomic analysis to computational fluid dynamics. Modern machines are powerful because they are massive: they assemble millions of cores and a huge quantity of disks, cards, routers, and other components. But it is precisely the size of these machines that glooms the future of supercomputing. A system that comprises many components has a high chance to fail, and fail often. In order to make the next generation of supercomputers usable, it is imperative to use some type of fault tolerance platform to run applications on large machines. Most fault tolerance strategies can be optimized for the peculiarities of each system and boost efficacy by keeping the system productive. In this paper, we aim to understand how failure characterization can improve resilience in several layers of the software stack: applications, runtime systems, and job schedulers. We examine the Titan supercomputer, one of the fastest systems in the world. We analyze a full year of Titan in production and distill the failure patterns of the machine. By looking into Titan's log files and using the criteria of experts, we provide a detailed description of the types of failures. In addition, we inspect the job submission files and describe how the system is used. Using those two sources, we cross correlate failures in the machine to executing jobs and provide a picture of how failures affect the user experience. We believe such characterization is fundamental in developing appropriate fault tolerance solutions for Cray systems similar to Titan.
Publication: Esteban Meneses, Xiang Ni, Terry Jones, and Don Maxwell. "Analyzing the Interplay of Failures and Workload on a Leadership-Class Supercomputer". in CUG 2015. Chicago, IL. April, 2015.
Towards a Science of Tumor Forecast for Clinical Oncology
T. Yankeelov, V. Quaranta , K.J. Evans, and E. Rericha
We propose that the quantitative cancer biology community makes a concerted effort to apply lessons from weather forecasting to develop an analogous methodology for predicting and evaluating tumor growth and treatment response. Currently, the time course of tumor response is not predicted; instead, response is only assessed post hoc by physical examination or imaging methods. This fundamental practice within clinical oncology limits optimization of a treatment regimen for an individual patient, as well as to determine in real time whether the choice was in fact appropriate. This is especially frustrating at a time when a panoply of molecularly targeted therapies is available, and precision genetic or proteomic analyses of tumors are an established reality. By learning from the methods of weather and climate modeling, we submit that the forecasting power of biophysical and biomathematical modeling can be harnessed to hasten the arrival of a field of predictive oncology. With a successful methodology toward tumor forecasting, it should be possible to integrate large tumor-specific datasets of varied types and effectively defeat one cancer patient at a time.
This work was sponsored by DOE.
Publication: T. Yankeelov, V. Quaranta , K.J. Evans, and E. Rericha (2015). Towards a Science of Tumor Forecast for Clinical Oncology. Cancer Research
A Simple, Optical Method to Determine How Two-dimensional Layers are Stacked in a Crystal
Alexander A. Puretzky, Liangbo Liang, Xufan Li, Kai Xiao, Kai Wang, Masoud Mahjouri-Samani, Leonardo Basile, Juan Carlos Idrobo, Bobby G. Sumpter, Vincent Meunier, David B. Geohegan
In this work it was discovered that layers of two-dimensional (2D) materials with different atomic registries have characteristic Raman spectra fingerprints in the low frequency spectral range that can be used to characterize stacking patterns of these materials. Stacked monolayers of 2D materials present a new class of hybrid materials with tunable optoelectronic properties determined by their stacking orientation, order, and atomic registry. Fast optical determination of the exact atomic registration between different layers, in few-layer 2D stacks is a key factor for rapid development of these materials and their applications. Using two- and three-layer MoSe2 and WSe2 crystals synthesized by chemical vapor deposition we show that the generally unexplored low frequency Raman modes (< 50 cm-1) that originate from interlayer vibrations can serve as fingerprints to characterize not only the number of layers, but also their stacking configurations. Ab initio calculations and group theory analysis corroborate the experimental assignments and show that the calculated low frequency mode fingerprints are related to the 2D crystal symmetries.
This work was sponsored by DOE.
Publication: "Low-Frequency Raman Fingerprints of Two-Dimensional Metal Dichalcogenide Layer Stacking Configuration", Alexander A. Puretzky, Liangbo Liang, Xufan Li, Kai Xiao, Kai Wang, Masoud Mahjouri-Samani, Leonardo Basile, Juan Carlos Idrobo, Bobby G. Sumpter, Vincent Meunier, David B. Geohegan, ACS Nano (2015). DOI:10.1021/acsnano.5b01884
Web-based Visual Analytics for Extreme Scale Climate Science
C.A. Steed, K.J. Evans, J.F. Harney, B.C. Jewell, G. Shipman, B.E. Smith, P.E. Thornton, and D.N Williams
In this paper, we introduce a Web-based visual analytics framework for democratizing advanced visualization and analysis capabilities pertinent to large-scale earth system simulations. We address significant limitations of present climate data analysis tools such as tightly coupled dependencies, inefficient data movements, complex user interfaces, and static visualizations. Our Web-based visual analytics framework removes critical barriers to the widespread accessibility and adoption of advanced scientific techniques. Using distributed connections to back-end diagnostics, we minimize data movements and leverage HPC platforms. We also mitigate system dependency issues by employing a RESTful interface. Our framework embraces the visual analytics paradigm via new visual navigation techniques for hierarchical parameter spaces, multi-scale representations, and interactive spatio-temporal data mining methods that retain details. Although generalizable to other science domains, the current work focuses on improving exploratory analysis of large-scale Community Land Model (CLM) and Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) simulations.
This work is funded by DOE-BER and is part of the ACME project.
Publication: C.A. Steed, K.J. Evans, J.F. Harney, B.C. Jewell, G. Shipman, B.E. Smith, P.E. Thornton, and D.N Williams. "Web-based Visual Analytics for Extreme Scale Climate Science", In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Oct. 2014. p383-392.
Fast Fault Injection and Sensitivity Analysis for Collective Communications
Manjunath Gorentla Venkata, Kun Feng, Dong Li
The collective communication operations, which are widely used in parallel applications for global communication and synchronization, are critical for application's performance and scalability. However, how faulty collective communications impact the application and how errors propagate between the application processes is largely unexplored. One of the critical reasons for this situation is the lack of fast evaluation method to investigate the impacts of faulty collective operations. The traditional random fault injection methods relying on a large amount of fault injection tests to ensure statistical significance require a significant amount of resources and time. These methods result in prohibitive evaluation cost when applied to the collectives.
In this work, we explore a novel tool named Fast Fault Injection and Sensitivity Analysis Tool (FastFIT) to conduct fast fault injection and characterize the application sensitivity to faulty collectives. The tool achieves fast exploration by reducing the exploration space and predicting the application sensitivity using Machine Learning (ML) techniques. A basis for these techniques is implicit correlations between MPI semantics, application context, critical application features, and application responses to faulty collective communications. The experimental results show that our approach reduces the fault injection points and tests by 97% for representative benchmarks (NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB)) and a realistic application (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS)) on a production supercomputer. Further, we explore statistically generalizing the application sensitivity to faulty collective communications for these workloads, and present correlation between application features and the sensitivity.
This work is funded by OLCF and is part of the FastFIT project.
Publication: Kun Feng, Manjunath Gorentla Venkata, Dong Li, Xian-He Sun "Fast Fault Injection and Sensitivity Analysis for Collective Communications". In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), 2015.
Transfer of Lustre Expertise to the Community
Michael Brim, Jesse Hanley, Jason Hill, Neena Imam, Josh Lothian, Rick Mohr (UTK/NICS), Sarp Oral, Joel Reed, Jeffrey Rossiter
The Lustre 101 web-based course series is focused on administration and monitoring of large-scale deployments of the Lustre parallel file system. Course content is drawn from nearly a decade of experience in deploying and operating leadership-class Lustre file systems at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
A primary concern in deploying a large system such as Lustre is building the operational experience and insight to triage and resolve intermittent service problems. Although there is no replacement for experience, it is also true that there is no adequate training material for becoming a Lustre administration expert. The overall goal of the Lustre 101 course series is to distill and disseminate to the Lustre community the working knowledge of ORNL administration and technical staff in the hope that others can avoid the trials and tribulations of large-scale Lustre administration and monitoring.
The Lustre Administration Essentials course is targeted at experienced system administrators who are relatively new to Lustre, but may have prior experience with other distributed and parallel file systems. Topics in this course include an introduction to Lustre, hardware selection and benchmarking strategies, Lustre software installation and basic configuration, Lustre tuning and LNet configuration, and basic file system administration and monitoring approaches.
This work was sponsored by DoD-HPC Research Program at ORNL
For more information please visit - http://lustre.ornl.gov/lustre101-courses/
System-Level Support for Composition of Applications
Brian Kocoloski, John Lange, Hasan Abbasi, David E. Bernholdt (ORNL PI), Terry R. Jones, Jay Dayal, Noah Evans, Michael Lang, Jay Lofstead, Kevin Pedretti, and Patrick G. Bridges
This paper presents a preliminary design study and initial evaluation of an operating system/runtime (OS/R) environment, Hobbes, with explicit support for composing HPC applications from multiple cooperating components. The design is based on our previously presented vision and makes systematic use of both virtualization and lightweight operating systems techniques to support multiple communicating application enclaves per node. In addition, it also includes efficient inter-enclave communication tools to enable application composition. Furthermore, we show that our Hobbes OS/R supports the composition of applications across multiple isolated enclaves with little to no performance overhead.
Work was performed at University of Pittsburgh, ORNL, Georgia Institute of Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and the University of New Mexico. Sponsored by the DOE, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program.
This work is funded by DOE-ASCR and is part of the Hobbes project.
Publication: Brian Kocoloski, John Lange, Hasan Abbasi, David E. Bernholdt, Terry R. Jones, Jay Dayal, Noah Evans, Michael Lang, Jay Lofstead, Kevin Pedretti, and Patrick G. Bridges, System-Level Support for Composition of Applications, in Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers (ROSS 2015), 2015.
Fidelity of Climate Extremes in High Resolution Global Climate Simulations
Michael Brim, Jesse Hanley, Jason Hill, Neena Imam, Josh Lothian, Rick Mohr (UTK/NICS), Sarp Oral, Joel Reed, Jeffrey Rossiter
Precipitation extremes have tangible societal impacts. Here, we assess if current state of the art global climate model simulations at high spatial resolutions (0.35◦x0.35◦) capture the ob- served behavior of precipitation extremes in the past few decades over the continental US. We design a correlation-based regionalization framework to quantify precipitation extremes, where samples of extreme events for a grid box may also be drawn from neighboring grid boxes with statistically equal means and statistically significant temporal correlations. We model precipitation extremes with the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution fits to time series of annual maximum precipitation. Non-stationarity of extremes is captured by including a time-dependent parameter in the GEV distribution. Our analysis reveals that the high-resolution model substantially improves the simulation of stationary precipitation extreme statistics particularly over the Northwest Pacific coastal region and the Southeast US. Observational data exhibits significant non-stationary behavior of extremes only over some parts of the Western US, with declining trends in the extremes. While the high-resolution simulations improve upon the low resolution model in simulating this non-stationary behavior, the trends are statistically significant only over some of those regions.
This work is funded by DOE-BER and is part of the ACME project.
Publication: Mahajan S., K. J. Evans, M. Branstetter, V. Anantharaj and J. K. Leifeld (2015): Fidelity of precipitation extremes in high-resolution global climate simulations, Procedia Computer Science
Microscopic Calculations Reveal a Surprising Conventional Nature of Exotic Pairing States
Y. Wang, T. Berlijn, P.J. Hirschfeld, D.J. Scalapino, T.A. Maier
Early calculations of the iron-based superconductors based on a spin fluctuation model of pairing had great success in predicting the superconducting ground state and the qualitative systematics of its variation with doping, etc. Recent proposals, however, have argued that these treatments have neglected the true symmetry of the crystalline layer containing Fe, which has pnictogen and chalcogen atoms in buckled positions, providing a strong potential on the electrons in the Fe plane and enforcing a unit cell with 2 Fe atoms. Several recent phenomenological treatments of the implications of this symmetry for pairing have argued that this aspect had been missed in the earlier 1-Fe unit cell calculations and that this potential can force a completely different electronic ground state, where so-called eta-pairing states with non-zero total momentum and exotic properties such as odd parity spin singlet symmetry and possible time reversal symmetry breaking contribute to the superconducting condensate. This work uses concrete and realistic microscopic calculations for 2-Fe and 1-Fe models to demonstrate that the earlier 1-Fe calculations correctly accounted for this glide-plane symmetry and correctly predicted its implications on the observable superconducting gap. It furthermore shows that eta-pairing naturally arises in systems where both orbitals with even and orbitals with odd mirror reflection symmetry in z contribute to the Fermi surface states. In contrast to the recent proposals, however, this study finds that eta-pairing contributes with the usual even parity symmetry and that time reversal symmetry is not broken. This work has established a clear framework for the study of such questions in other unconventional superconductors, where similar questions have also arisen.
This work is funded by DOE and NSF.
Publication: "Glide-Plane Symmetry and Superconducting Gap Structure of Iron-Based Superconductors", Y. Wang, T. Berlijn, P.J. Hirschfeld, D.J. Scalapino, T.A. Maier, Physical Review Letters 114, 107002 (2015).
Wide-Area In Transit Data Processing For Real-Time Monitoring
S. Klasky, N. Podhorszki, Q. Liu, H. Abbasi, J. Choi, Y. Tian, J. Mu, J. Logan, D. Pugmire, G. Ostrouchov, T. Kurc, L. Wu, K. Wu, X. Yan, M. Wolf, G. Eisenhauer, M. Aktas, M. Parashar
ICEE addresses the challenges of building a remote data analysis framework, motivated from real-world scientific applications. ICEE is designed to support data stream processing for near real-time remote analysis over wide-area networks. This solution is based on in-memory stream data processing in which we can reduce the time-to-solution compared with conventional batch-based processing.
Work was performed by ORNL, LBNL, PPPL, Georgia Tech, Rutgers University, KISTI (Korea), A*STAR Computational Resource Centre (Singapore), and the ICEE SciDAC project for the wide-area-network movement.
Presentation: ICEE: Enabling data stream processing for remote data analysis over wide area networks. Supercomputing Frontiers 2015, March 17, 2015.
Publication: ICEE: Enabling data stream processing for remote data analysis over wide area networks. Special Issue in Supercomputing frontiers and innovations, 2015
Memory Scalability and Efficiency Analysis of Parallel Codes
Tomislav Janjusic and Christos Kartsaklis, ORNL
Memory scalability is an enduring problem and bottleneck that plagues many parallel codes. Parallel codes designed for High Performance Systems are typically designed over the span of several, and in some instances 10+, years. As a result, optimization practices, which were appropriate for earlier systems, may no longer be valid and thus require careful optimization consideration. Specifically, parallel codes whose memory footprint is a function of their scalability must be carefully considered for future exa-scale systems.
In this work we present a methodology and tool to study the memory scalability of parallel codes. Using our methodology we evaluate an application's memory footprint as a function of scalability, which we coined memory efficiency, and describe our results. In particular, using our in-house tools we can pinpoint the specific application components, which contribute to the application's overall memory foot-print (application data- structures, libraries, etc.).
This work was performed at ORNL using OLCF funding.
Publication: Tomislav Janjusic, and Christos Kartsaklis. "Memory Scalability and Efficiency Analysis of Parallel Codes". in CUG 2015. Chicago, IL. April, 2015.
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Author has written 31 stories for Naruto, Final Fantasy: Unlimited, Kingdom Hearts, D N Angel, Death Note, Gravitation, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Hotel Dusk: Room 215, Septimus Heap, Inheritance Cycle, Bleach, Walking Dead, and Hobbit.
Quick update: Hello Tis been awhile again. Uh, so much stuff goes on and fanfiction writing seems to go to the back of the list. Sorry Roleplaying kind of takes up the rest of the time. I'm trying. XP I'm also extremely ashamed of how I come and go and my stories. I'm extremely ashamed of those. Oh gods, I don't even want to think of them.
If you have a story you would like me to rewrite just send me a quick PM and I'll see what I can do.
Also, disregard all of those "will be planning to rewrite this story" notes on some of my fanfictions. That probably won't be happening. I'm so ashamed of them and can't even look at them. The only story I'll probably will be rewritting is "Comatose State." Because it's not half bad and it's so close to being finished.
Well, hello there. Rain-Chan here. Wow, it's been a long ass time since I've called myself that. How long has it been? Two years? Three years? Some even four? XD Kind of nostalgic. Anyway, just going to say that I've reopened for...I guess fanfiction writing. Even though I have a shitton of everything else in the world to do, I kind of wanted to reopen this?
I doubt anyone notices or cares, but just putting myself out there. My old stories are...well, let's just say that they are terrible and I hate looking at most of them because grammar is shit and the characters are most of the time out of character. Terribly sorry to say, but it's true. So, here's the dealio. I'm thinking of rewriting. Not all of them, but most of them. At least, some of the ones that I haven't deleted off the Interwebs yet.
After a long time, I'm finally cleaning up everything and what a better place to start than here? I'm sort of coming out of retirement, because I retired a couple of years ago with the mun of Meloremi, but hey, it's not like I've got anything else to do. (Let me just tell you that's the fucking understatement of the century.) Anyway, I just thought it would be nice. (To deliver Mr. Vector's cookies first. XD See what I did there?)
I'm not saying I'll be posting up stories out the yin-yang, cause I already know I'm not, but I'll be trying.
So, it would be cool if anyone still following me or a fan of my old work shot me a PM or a review or something.
But if perchance you like my writing and would like to see how far I've come from previous little shit-shat fanfictions, you can also find me on my roleplay blogs. Baelfire. Hook. Jack Frost.
Rewritten Stories:(In the order that I rewrote them.)
1. Morning Nicknames
2. Caffeine Nicknames
3. Thankful For You
Multi Chapter Stories Planning To Rewrite: (In whatever order they come.)
1. Just Smile
2. Love Me Now?
3. Comatose State
4. You're My King
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Miranda Lambert Unveils New Shoe Line
Is there anything Miranda Lambert can't do? The songstress -- a country music favorite -- is up for a 2014 Grammy, recently opened two stores and is now releasing a new shoe line, Miranda by Miranda Lambert.
Is there anything Miranda Lambert can't do? The songstress -- a country music favorite -- is up for a 2014 Grammy, recently opened two stores and is now releasing a new shoe line, Miranda by Miranda Lambert.
The 2014 Country Thunder event in Twin Lakes, Wisc. doesn't take place until July, but organizers are already gearing up for the big event by making a major announcement about the talent that will take the stage. They've revealed a trio of powerhouse headliners: Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert and Brantley Gilbert.
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Even though Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert's 'We Were Us' debuted on the Aussie singer's recent album 'Fuse,' it actually has been years in the making.
Kacey Musgraves came under fire when a camera "caught" her "frowning" during Miranda Lambert's win for Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2013 CMAs. She has finally spoken out about all the media-created drama over the fact that her expression was misinterpreted.
Oops! Miranda Lambert generously gifted her tourmate Dierks Bentley with an awesome new toy, which he promptly proceeded to get hung up on -- but not in the way you'd think.
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Miranda Lambert dropped a dress size by cutting back her portions and working out prior to the 2013 CMA Awards. Cardio, circuit training and store-bought, prepared pressed juices are her secret. The result is a body she's glad people are noticing, but especially husband Blake Shelton.
When you're a country music power couple like Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton, it can be easy to fall for the glitz and glamour of the entertainment industry. But, the 'All Kinds of Kinds' singer relays that she not only stays grounded with her funny guy, but also has a tremendous amount of respect for him.
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While Hunter Hayes and songwriters Dean Dillon and Rodney Clawson were the big winners at the BMI Country Awards in Nashville on Tuesday (Nov. 5), Miranda Lambert's slim figure is stealing the morning headlines. The CMA Female Vocalist of the Year nominee stepped out in a sleeveless black gown tight enough to show off her signature curves ... except the curves stayed home.


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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — North Adams Police have arrested two people after a motor vehicle stop early Thursday morning uncovered nearly 1,000 bags of heroin.
Officers and detectives executed a motor vehicle stop on Blackinton Street at approximately 12:55 a.m. on a red Chrysler sedan bearing Massachusetts registration 648EL9.
The operator of the motor vehicle was identified as Courtney Schnopps, 21, of Protection Avenue, who was found to have an outstanding warrant for her arrest. The passenger of the vehicle was identified as 22-year-old Matthew Capek of Blackinton Street.
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27, of North Adams had a not guilty plea entered on his behalf on a single count of trafficking in heroin.
He was ordered to be held at the Berkshire County House of Correction on $7,500 cash or $75,000 surety bail.
The charge stems from the execution of a search warrant at his Union Street home on August 18, 2015.
38, of Bronx, N.Y. pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute - his second offense - and single counts of possession of heroin with intent to distribute - his second offense - and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license.
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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A local police officer was taken to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon after his cruiser was involved in a collision on Church Street.
School Resource Officer Fran Maruco was taken to Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, where he was treated for contusions and a head injury.
North Adams Police posted an update on its Facebook page later in the evening:
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Friday, 23 Nov 2012
Is Microsoft Developing a Set-top Xbox?
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Wednesday, 21 Nov 2012
Skype for Windows 8 Announced (Update)
Skype, the voice call and chat service provider which was acquired by Microsoft late last year for US$8.5 million, has announced a new Modern-style version of Skype for Windows 8. The app will be pre-installed on devices from 12 manufacturers, and be made available in the Windows Store come October 26.
Tuesday, 20 Nov 2012
Windows 8 Sales Not as Good as Expected, But is Steadily Improving
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Head of Microsoft's Windows Division, Steven Sinofsky, has Left Microsoft
Head of Microsoft's Windows division, Mr. Steven Sinofsky has left the company with immediate effect. His sudden departure comes shortly after the recent launch of Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 8.
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Microsoft Surface Touch and Type Covers Split
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Two heavy explosions have rocked two different northern Nigerian cities frequently targeted by deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram, residents say.
It was not yet clear if there were any deaths linked to Monday's explosions in Kano, the largest city in Nigeria's north, and Maiduguri, a northeastern city.
Borno state, where Maiduguri is located, has been the epicentre of a violent campaign by Boko Haram, which is fighting Western influence and wants to form an Islamic state in Nigeria's north.
A blast outside a mosque near Kano's main textile market went off around 8:30am in an area where traffic police were stationed, residents said.
The area was later cordoned off by troops and policemen, an AFP news agency reporter saw.
"We just heard a loud explosion followed by billows of smoke and we realised that the traffic police that rest near the mosque and take turns in manning the traffic were the target," said a resident who lives in the area.
Residents of Maiduguri reported a huge explosion but could not provide any details.
"There was a very heavy explosion this morning that shook the entire city," a resident said.
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The blasts came after suspected Boko Haram members killed 10 Christians in a village called Chibok, in a remote part of Borno, on Sunday.
"Suspected Boko Haram came at night and set people's houses on fire before killing their victims," said Nuhu Clark, a former councillor of the village who escaped the attack.
A local government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said "the attackers came in around 9pm chanting 'Allahu Akbar', which made us suspect they are Boko Haram. They moved into selected homes in the predominantly Christian part of the town and slaughtered 10 people like sheep".He said he counted 10 bodies afterwards.
A police spokesman said they were aware of the incident but were still trying to confirm casualties.
Armed fighters have killed hundreds of people since launching a rebellion against the government in 2009, the usual targets being security forces, government officials or Christians, whom Boko Haram sees as infidels.
Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, reporting from Maiduguri, said there was fear among the people in the area.
"People are on edge and are constantly worried about violence. Maiduguri has been at the epicentre of violence, with criminal acts perpetrated by members of Boko Haram for at least two years now," she said.
"Almost on a daily basis we found, while on the ground there, that people witnessed suicide attacks, car bombings, churches being attacked, and major fighting between the armed group and a joint task force set up to fight Boko Haram."
In another development, security forces said on Sunday they had killed a senior Boko Haram commander, Mohammed Ibrahim, one of several who had a bounty placed on his head last week of 25 million naira ($158,900) in his case.
"He was killed in an operation in Gwange ward [Borno state] along with two of his unit commanders," a spokesman for joint military and police forces in Borno state, Lieutenant-Colonel Sagir Musa, said.
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