Minutes of April 3, 2009 ScienceSim Senate

On the call: Mic Bowman, Tom Murphy

Next senate meeting: Apr 10, 2009 in SciSim at Galileo (181, 181, 32)

Next Up: Inaugural “Think Parallel” Blogcast Tuesday April 21st at 10:00-10:30 AM PST at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TeachParallel and in-world

ScienceSim infrastructure

ScienceSim-wide upgrade to new stable version of OpenSim went very smoothly. It included an upgrade to Mono and a functional wind model.

Processing Load

The villin headpiece protein model Charlie provided is no longer stressing internal Intel models. They are ready for something more complex.
Lys/Cut is a larger lysozyme protein used for benchmarking composed of 23,207 atoms. It should produce more than the required load.
Another common benchmark is DPPC, a phospholipid membrane of 121,856 atoms.

Think Parallel

Paul Steinberg and I are ready for first blogcast of “Think Parallel”, with our first speaker, Dan Garcia, from UC Berkeley

Long Walk Grant

Broadening Engagement grant working with Navajo Nation to develop and deliver curricula focused on teaching parallel and concurrent concepts
I will be one of PIs on grant. Interns from CCC, and elsewhere, will be working with students on the Navajo reservation
Alice and Linden scripting language on OpenSim based as way of teaching concurrent and parallel programming very early (high school juniors and seniors)

                                             ... Tom Murphy