Colloquium Archive

High Performance Computing (Hpc) And The Sequoia Supercomputer At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Kimberly Cupps, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

04/16/2015

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has fielded high performance computers to solve problems of national interest for over 50 years. Sequoia is an IBM Blue Gene Q supercomputer capable of 20 petaFLOPs of peak performance sited at LLNL. It is the third fastest computer in the world and is built upon massive numbers of low power cores. In this talk I will touch on HPC applications at LLNL and key components of Sequoia. I will also comment on future challenges facing Exascale computers, expected in the early 2020s.

An Economic Model Of Mass Internet Attacks

John W. Mamer, Anderson School of Management, UCLA

04/23/2015

Mass attacks by malware-infected third party hosts, most famously employed against Iran’s nuclear program, constitute only one vector of cyber crime/warfare, but one that has been much reported in the news media. How dangerous are such attacks? How effective? And, most importantly, how best to defend against such attacks? We explore a simple economic model of attacks for the purposes of better understanding the potential threats and possible countermeasures.

Spring 2015 Short Presentations Of Student Research

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS (Pizza during talks)

04/30/2015

Short presentations of research carried out by Sonoma State Computer Science Students

Awards Presented To Sonoma State Computer Science Majors

END OF SEMESTER CELEBRATION & AWARDS (Pizza during talks)

05/07/2015

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