2013 K2I Summer Institutes
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Oil and Gas HPC Workshop Highlights Industry ChallengesLeaders from the oil and gas industry and the high-performance computing and information technology industry, as well as academics and representatives from national laboratories, met at Rice University in Houston, Texas, on Thursday, March 1, for the 5th annual Rice Oil and Gas HPC Workshop.
The oil and gas industry depends heavily on high-performance computing to spur meaningful returns on its significant investments in drilling and production. The huge demands on data and processing in oil and gas are driven by the services that support geophysical mapping—like seismic imaging and reservoir simulation—to help companies assess reservoirs and place wells.
The workshop’s 300 attendees—a record number for the event, which is organized by the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University—heard talks from industry and
K2I Awards Eleven Fellowships With
the aid of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology (K2I), 11
graduate students at Rice University have been awarded fellowships for their
research and educational achievements in computational science and engineering,
and high-performance computing.
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Three from Rice University elected to American Academy of Arts and SciencesTwo Rice University professors and a fellow from Rice’s
Baker Institute for Public Policy have been elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bonnie Bartel, Richard Tapia and John Mendelsohn joined the ranks of
astronaut John Glenn, singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, actor Sally
Field and operatic soprano Renee Fleming as members of the academy’s
Class of 2013 — one of the highest honors for leaders in academia,
business, public affairs, the humanities and the arts.
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K2I Centennial Research Nugget WinnersEleven teams won cash prizes in the 2012 Centennial Ken Kennedy Institute (K2I) Research Nugget Competition at Rice University, a contest aimed at encouraging engineers and scientists to share their research with the public in a concise, accessible form. “There’s a lot of great research being done here at Rice, but we’re not always good at communicating it to the layman. Our goal with this competition is to help our engineers and scientists communicate what they’re doing, and do it effectively, using nuggets,” said Jan E. Odegard, executive director of K2I. “This is the first of what we hope will be a regular nugget competition hosted by K2I.”
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AAAS board chief urges `patient, long-term investment’ in scienceWhich
nations will best advance the interests of science and engineering, and thus
reap the most economic benefits in the coming century, asks William Press, chairman
of the board and former president of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
His
answer: “Those nations most willing to engage in patient, long-term investment,
and that’s not necessarily the United States. I think China is very good at
this. Europe is pretty good. The countries at risk are the U.S., Canada and
Australia.”
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Rixner, Warren, Greiner and Wong honored by trusteesFour members of the Computer Science Department faculty received special
recognition at the March 21 Rice Board of Trustees meeting for
developing and launching Rice’s first massive open online course (MOOC)
on Coursera. Coursera, which launched in 2012, was the first education
platform to host MOOC content from multiple world-renowned universities
on one website.
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Inexact Design: Beyond Fault-ToleranceKrishna Palem, a computer scientist at Rice University, has an
unorthodox prescription for building faster computers. "If you are
willing to live with inexact answers, you can compute more efficiently,"
he says. If you ask him whether one of his processors is working
correctly, he's apt to answer, "Probably."
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In oil and gas, `technology is the key’The
future of the oil and gas industry, and of its continued prosperity, will
increasingly rely on high-performance computing and improved visualization,
says Dirk Smit, vice president of exploration technology and chief scientist
for geophysics at Shell.Smit
was a keynote speaker at the 2013 Oil and Gas High-Performance Computing
Workshop, held Feb. 28 at Rice University. In attendance at the sixth annual
event were more than 350 leaders from the oil and gas industry, the
high-performance computing and information technology industries, and
academics.
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Vardi named SURA Distinguished ScientistWashington, DC – The Southeastern Universities Research
Association announced that Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University’s Karen
Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational
Engineering, will receive SURA’s 2013 Distinguished Scientist Award.
The award honors a research scientist whose extraordinary work fulfills
the SURA mission of “fostering excellence in scientific research.”
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Introducing the I-SlateA Labour of Love for a Professor and his Proteges
As a part of their 125th anniversary, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA), Singapore section) recognised the I-slate as one of the seven 'technologies that will change the way humans interact with machines, the world and each other'.
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Rice launches sweeping Energy and Environment InitiativeHOUSTON — (Sept. 20, 2012) — Rice University today announced the Energy and Environment Initiative (E2I), a sweeping plan to support interdisciplinary research that will draw experts from every corner of the university to work with Houston’s energy industry to overcome barriers to the sustainable development and use of current and alternative forms of energy. "E2I will allow Rice to initiate new lines of computationally based energy-related research from seismic imaging to modeling fluid flow in oil reservoirs. It will also allow Rice to expand programs like the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology’s Rice Oil and Gas HPC Workshop, which has doubled in attendance in less than five years," said Alan Levander, Rice’s Carey Croneis Professor of Earth Science and director of Rice’s data analysis and visualization cyberinfrastructure (DAVinCI) project.
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