CSUSB Research Computing Day plus Lucky BBQ

CSUSB

plus Lucky BBQ

CSUSB Research Computing Day, Faculty Center for Excellence, Pfau Library.

Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California AI Resource (CENIC AIR).

CSUSB catering is okay.

Roundtable discussion.

Apple pie looked good. I managed to resist.

The view.

Pfau Library smells like dusty books.

Poster presentations.

CSUSB's good side (the east side).

Can tell how small the student union is with only two restaurants in the main food court.

But they have a bowling alley.

And pool tables.

Mascot is a coyote.

Hot food vending machine??

The legacy fountain.

Evening approaches.

Gerard (CSUSB CIO) with SDSC collaborators.

Lucky BBQ in Rowland Heights.

They pre-grill the skewers.

Kinda skimpy.

Tea lights are a dumb gimmick.

Eggplant was nice and heavy on the garlic, but slow to come out.

View from the central courtyard.

CSUSB Research Computing Day, held at the CSUSB Faculty Center for Excellence inside Pfau Library. Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California AI Resource (CENIC AIR) got quite a bit of mention, as did San Diego Supercomputer Center's cyberinfrastructure professional program (SDSC's CIP Fellows), and the California State University system's Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (CSU SCIPE). Food wasn't too bad, basic chicken, mashed potatoes, and salad, and the campus tour was careful to only take us on the eastern (aka: newer) side of the campus.

Ended up being quite nice to see what our California State University (CSU) colleagues were doing; University of California San Diego (UCSD) and SDSC also had a good turnout. Very little groundbreaking or new, but it is always good to see how other universities are focusing and executing on research computing and HPC. Gerard had some professors and their graduate students present their research later in the afternoon as well, which was actually very useful to talk to them about the actual details of their workflows, both software, hardware, and HPC environment, as well as their understandings of scalability and performance with regard to their research.

Stopped by Lucky BBQ in Rowland Heights on the way home; they're okay for skewers. Not as generous nor grilled table-side like Feng Mao, and the eggplant was a bit slow to come out considering how decidely not-busy they were. The presentation with tea lights was also kind of gimmicky.