Evaluating the Performance of MPI Java in FutureGrid.
Summer 2014
Indiana University Bloomington

Keywords: MPI, HPC, OpenMPI, FastMPJ, Benchmark

Mentors: Dr. Geoffrey Fox & Saliya Ekanyanke

Abstract:

Message Passage Interface (MPI) has been popular in developing tightly coupled parallel applications in the high performance computing (HPC) domain. The majority of such applications are based on either C, C++ or Fortran. The recent advancement in big data, however, has brought attention towards Java. Effort has also been put on Java's support for HPC with flavors of MPI such as OpenMPI Java and FastMPJ. We evaluate these against native C based MPI on a set of standard micro-benchmarks from Ohio State University. The results show a promising future with Java and MPI for HPC applications.

Webpage: https://github.com/cloudmesh/reu/blob/master/doc/source/projects/mpi-java-performance.rst
Poster

Customizing and Configuring the HUBzero Experience
Spring 2014
Elizabeth City State Univerisity

Keywords: HUBzero, gateway user experience

Mentors: Justin Deloatch, Je'aime Powell

Abstract:

HUBzero is an open source software package used to construct websites for scientific research and educational activities. HUBzero was originally created by researchers at Purdue University in conjunction with the National Science Foundation (NSF) who sponsored the Network for Computational Nanotechnology to support nanoHUB.org. The HUBzero platform currently supports over 40 hubs across a variety of disciplines, including cancer research, biofuels, climate modeling, water quality, education, and more.
The team investigated how HUBzero features are utilized for research, education, and scientific collaboration. The project involved configuring and customizing the user experience on a new hub. The team also learned how to work with simulation workspaces, plus the process of allowing groups to collaborate. Finally, the team learned how to publish the hub so that it could be viewed publicly and how to use the new database component.
To accomplish this, the HUBzero team members used data collected by the 2013 Research Experience for Undergraduates Pasquotank River Watershed Team who completed tests of five tributaries and the river itself. Streams tested were Newbegun Creek, Knobbs Creek, Areneuse Creek, Mill Dam Creek, and Sawyers Creek. The team uploaded test data to a database to determine how HUBzero handles databases.

Website: http://nia.ecsu.edu/ur/1314/teams/hubzero/

The Biosynthesis of Ethanol
June 2013
Elizabeth City State Unviersity

Keywords: Ethanol, Solution

Mentor: Shanta Outlaw

Abstract:

Ethanol can be found in cleaning solvents, medicines, colognes, and after shave. Ethanol is a benfit of gasoline; it helps lower carbon dioxide, hydrocarbon, and nitrogen emmisions. Ethanol is a clean burning alternative to gasoline. It can be beneficial to the skin because it acts as a cooling agent to the skin. The purpose of this project was to test and and see which mixture would make the most ethanol and which solution would be the purest to actual ethanol. The mixture of fructose, yeast, water and diosodium phosphate produced the most ethanol with 38 milliliters. The mixture of yeast, sucrose, water, and diosoduim phosphate was the purest in comparrison to ethanol. In the future, a common interset will be to find ways to produce ethanol at a faster pace and at a more abundant amount.

The Biosynthesis of Ethanol Powerpoint

Poster (PPT)(JPEG)