Breakout Groups
B9. Enhance our understanding of the roles and functions carried out by microbial life on Earth, and adapt these capabilities for human use, through bioinformatics and computational biology.
1:00 – 2:00 Providing Biological Insights through Exascale Computing
- 1:00 – 1:15 Igor Jouline, ORNL/UTK – Exploring microbial world through genomics
- 1:15 – 1:30 Danny Rintoul, SNL – Helping Computational Biology Make a Difference
- 1:30 – 2:00 Discussion
2:00 – 3:00 HPC for High-Throughput Processing and Analysis of “Omics” Data
- 2:00 – 2:15 Annanth Kalyanaraman, WSU -- Algorithmic & HPC Issues in Microbial Community Genomics
- 2:15 – 2:30 Andrey Gorin, ORNL – High performance computing in mass-spectrometry proteomics: exploring the ultimate limits of data extraction
- 2:30 – 3:00 Discussion
3:00-3:30 – Break
3:30 – 4:30 Analysis and Modeling of Biological Networks
- 3:30 – 3:45 David Bader, GA Tech – Achieving sustainability through exascale analysis of complex biological networks
- 3:45 – 4:00 Elebeoba May, SNL – Biological Networks: Unraveling Multicellular Mysteries via Exascale Computing
- 4:00 – 4:30 Discussion
4:30 – 5:30 Modeling and Simulation of Biomolecular Machines
- 4:30 – 4:45 Tjerk Straatsma, PNL – Biomolecular simulations on next generation parallel machines
- 4:45 – 5:50 Andrea Vaiana, LANL – Future challenges in simulation and modeling of molecular machines: from the petascale to the exascale.
- 5:00 – 5:15 Phil LoCascio/Ed Uberbacher, ORNL – TBD
- 5:15 – 5:45 Discussion
5:45 – Adjourn
Questions to be addressed by the breakout session:
- What are the major problems that we think could be tackled with exascale computing?
- What is the current “state-of-the-art” used to solve these types of problems?
- What are the H/W, S/W, Math, and Cyber requirements to get to the exascale?
- Are there any other gaps or bottlenecks to achieving these breakthroughs?
- What are the research programs needed to address these gaps?
