October 16, 2006 — NCMIR’s “Computational Oral and Speech Science on E-science Infrastructure” team will face off against other finalists in the SC06 High Performance Computing (HPC) Analytics Challenge, during a special session of the annual Super Computing Conference on November 14th.  SC06 is the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage. SC06 will be held November 11-17, 2006, in Tampa, Florida.

NCMIR’s entry was among three finalists chosen in this year’s competition. Teaming up with collaborators from Osaka University’s Dental Hospital and Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Steve Peltier and other NCMIR colleagues intend to demonstrate how a new computer speech infrastructure will enable scientists and clinicians to access a clinical index of disease prognostics for use in medical and dental clinics.

“The benefit of the HPC Analytics Challenge contest is to provide a forum for researchers, engineers, and analysts to showcase data-intensive applications that solve real-world, complex problems," said Donald Jones, of PNL and co-chair of the HPC Analytics Challenge.

SC06 is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (ACM SIGARCH). For more information, see http://sc06.supercomp.org/