July 29, 2013

Bosco & OSG @ XSEDE13

Last week, several members of the Bosco team attended the XSEDE 13 Conference.  We enjoyed the great San Diego weather, and even caught a little ComicCon, which was being held next door when I arrived.  Here are some of the highlights.<h3>OSG Summer School Programming Team Wins First place!</h3><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OSG Summer School Programming Team: Zhe Zhang, Travis Boettcher, Matthew Armbruster, Ben Albrecht, Cassandra Schaening</td></tr></tbody></table><div>A group of OSG summer school students formed a team for the student programming challenge.  They where given 10 difficult programming challenges to solve and had all day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to work on them.  On Friday, the results where released and the OSG team won first place in the programming challenge!</div><h3>Carrier Dinner</h3><div>On Tuesday evening, the XSEDE conference hosted a dinner on the USS Midway anchored not far from the conference.  It was a great evening of food, drinks, and tours!</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The USS Midway anchored in San Diego</td></tr></tbody></table><h3>Bosco @ XSEDE Poster Session</h3><div>Wednesday night was the XSEDE Poster Session.  We had a great reception.  Many people approached us, asking questions about Bosco and how it could help them.</div><div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Derek Weitzel and Miha Ahronovitz</td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><div></div>