PEARC17 is for everyone who cares about the challenges in using and operating advanced research computing. Organizations supporting this new conference include the Advancing Research Computing on Campuses: Best Practices Workshop (ARCC), XSEDE, the Science Gateways Community Institute, the Campus Research Computing (CaRC) Consortium, the ACI-REF consortium, the Blue Waters project, ESnet, Open Science Grid, Compute Canada, the EGI Foundation, the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC), and Internet2.

While there, student completed hands-on projects and gave presentations as listed here:

Mathematical Modeling for Malaria Transmission Dynamics I

Mathematical Modeling for Malaria Transmission Dynamics II

Prediction Model for Human and Mosquito Populations in Malaria Afflicted Regions

Modeling the Zombie Apocalypse

Using RK4 to Model Felix Baumgartner's 38969 m Skydive