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We hosted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program officers for a site visit of the Center for Advancing Education and Studies on Critical Infrastructures Resilience (CAESCIR) at FIU on March 29, 2018.

Kishwar Ahmed has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Energy Demand Response for High-Performance Computing Systems” on March 22, 2018. Congratulations, Dr. Ahmed.

Mohammad Abu Obaida has successfully defended his PhD proposal, titled “Performance Prediction of Large Scale Parallel Applications and Systems using HPC Simulation and Analysis based Modeling”, on March 19, 2018.

Our paper, titled Parallel Application Performance Prediction Using Analysis Based Models and HPC Simulations, has been accepted for publication at the 2018 SIGSIM-SIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS’18) to be held on May 23-25, 2018 in Rome, Italy.

Our paper titled Investigating the Statistical Distribution of Learning Coverage in MOOCs, has been published in Information 2017, 8(4). The article is an extension of our paper Zipf’s Law in MOOC Learning Behavior, appeared at the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Analysis (ICBDA 2017).

Jason Liu attended the 2017 GEFI (Global Experimentation for Future Internet) Workshop, on October 26-27, 2017, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he gave a talk on “Virtual Time Machine for Large-Scale Reproducible Distributed Emulation”.

Jason Liu attended the Annual CIRI PI Meeting on October 19, 2017, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. At the meeting, he gave an introductory talk on CAESCIR (the Center for Advancing Education and Research on Critical Infrastructure Resilience), which is a new project at FIU, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

 

Jason Liu attended the 2017 Workshop on Modeling & Simulation of Systems and Applications, August 09-11, 2017, held at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.  The three-day workshop is organized by Adolfy Hoisie (PNNL) and provided a DOE-centric perspective on HPC modeling and simulation. In particular, the workshop explored the  impact of modeling and simulation on the traditional HPC and its potential on new computing paradigms in the era of exascale computing.

Detailed notes (private) from the workshop are available.

Our paper On Improving Parallel Real-Time Network Simulation for Hybrid Experimentation of Software Defined Networks has been accepted for publication at the 10th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTOOLS 2017), which will take place in Hong Kong, China on September 11-13, 2017.

Our papers Simulation of HPC Job Scheduling and Large-Scale Parallel Workloads and A Brief History of HPC Simulation and Future Challenges  have been accepted for publication at the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2017), which will be held at Las Vegas, Nevada on December 3-6, 2017.