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NCMIR-Osaka Team Among Finalists in SC06’s High Performance Computing Analytics Challenge

November 1, 2006 — Kazunori Nozaki and Susumu Date, of Osaka's Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, and colleagues from Japan and NCMIR will face off against other finalists in the SC06 High Performance Computing (HPC) Analytics Challenge, during a special session of the annual Super Computing (SC) Conference on November 14th. The premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage, SC06 will be held November 11-17, 2006, in Tampa, Florida.

The joint Osaka University/NCMIR’s entry, “Computational Oral and Speech Science on E-science Infrastructure’” was among three finalists chosen in this year’s competition. Collaborators from Osaka University’s Dental Hospital and Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, will team up with NCMIR’s Rajvikram Singh, and other colleagues in demonstrating how a new computer speech infrastructure will enable scientists and clinicians to access a clinical index of disease prognostics for use in medical and dental clinics.

“The benefit of the HPC Analytics Challenge contest is to provide a forum for researchers, engineers, and analysts to showcase data-intensive applications that solve real-world, complex problems," said Donald Jones, of PNL and co-chair of the HPC Analytics Challenge. The winner of the SC06 Analytics Challenge will be announced at the end of the session.

SC06 is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (ACM SIGARCH). For more information, see http://sc06.supercomp.org/