1. SC12 Overview \

2. SC12 Technical Program This is where the real action is!
Details on NCSA/Illinois participation online at
Details on XSEDE participation at
Something to add or revise? Contact Trish Barker (NCSA) or Susan McKenna (XSEDE)

3. SC12 Exhibits NCSA: Booth 1030 XSEDE: Booth 2031
Parallel Computing Institute: Booth 1809
Focus on one-on-one interaction – no big presentations

4. NCSA: Booth #1030
Staffed by Trish Barker, Liz Murray & Alex Farthing (also volunteers through Student Engagement Program)
ALL NCSA’ers invited to sign up for time slot to work a booth station; can show slides, visualizations, etc. Contact Trish if you are interested.
Limited seating/meeting space: small café table (3 chairs), love seat and arm chairs. Not appropriate for confidential or large meetings.
One kiosk devoted to Illinois Parallel Computing Institute

5. Questions and how to answer them
When you are in the booth, you may get questions on any topic
OK to refer questions to Trish or Liz; Please refer all media to Trish

6. Most common question: What is NCSA?
Big Science, Big Data, Big Computing
Help scientists and engineers better understand our world (astronomy, weather, materials, etc.)
Located at the University of Illinois
Primary funding from National Science Foundation

7. Other FAQs Q. Are you hiring? Check out careers.ncsa.illinois.edu
Q. Where is Michelle Butler? I want to sell her something!
A. Can I give her a message?
Q. How can I use your resources?
A. start.ncsa.illinois.edu

8. Blue Waters FAQs
Blue Waters is an NSF-funded project to deploy and support a well-balanced sustained-petascale supercomputer at NCSA
All the CRAY hardware is installed and operational. (Details available in the booth, on the website)
Acceptance testing ongoing. IMPORTANT: Do NOT indicate how close/far from completion we are, when system will be in production.

9. More Blue Waters FAQs
80% allocated by NSF to national science & engineering community; 7% reserved for U of I; 1% for education
Severe storms, supernovae, earthquakes, molecular mechanisms of disease, and more
Imaginations unbound

10. What’s in the booth?
Signs and digital displays – about Extreme-Scale Computing, Big Data, NCSA capabilities, and key projects, including Blue Waters, XSEDE, LSST, etc.
Fall issue of Access magazine, w AR content
NCSA one-page flier
Blue Waters one-page flier
XSEDE highlights publication
NCSA coloring book, Volume 3
Flops Fever, FREE iOS and Android game
Contact Trish if you have fliers/brochures you would like to provide in the booth

11. XSEDE: Booth #2031
NCSA leads the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)
Susan McKenna, XSEDE Communications Coordinator, and Liz Murray are primary staff for XSEDE booth
Susan coordinating booth volunteers. Please sign up for time slots at:
In the booth: XSEDE highlights book, What is XSEDE? one-pager, notebooks, pens, and laptop stickers to give away
Stop by and add your location to the world map!

12. Parallel Computing Institute
10 x 10 Booth #1809 & kiosk in NCSA booth
Staffing: Jill Peckham & Kim Gudeman
Klara Nahrstedt’s team will demo tele-immersive system
Info at parallel.illinois.edu