Sandia/UNM CARC Tour, March 7, 2011

Announcement

Sandia National Labs and UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing will host a tour day for participants in the Supercomputing Challenge on Monday March 7th, 2011. Students are eligible to come to the tour day if their team has submitted an interim report and participated in the project evaluations. Participants of the Sandia tour MUST be US citizens.

Teams from Annunciation Catholic School, Freedom High, Los Alamos Middle School, Mayfield High, McCurdy School, Melrose High and Onate High toured Sandia National Laboratories.

Meeting Place

Those going on the Sandia Tour will meet at the Holiday Inn Express in Albuquerque located on Hotel Avenue. Hotel Avenue is just south of Lomas (between Lomas and I-40) and East of Eubank. The address is: 10330 Hotel Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87123-1256. The phone number is 505-275-8900.

Meeting Time

Meeting time is at 7:30 am and should be back at the hotel around 4:00 pm.

Sandia Schedule

7:45-8:15 Badging at Hotel
8:15-8:45 Travel from Hotel to Sandia Labs, Solar Tower
9:00-10:00 Solar Tower tour with David Gill
10:00-10:15 Transport back to WIF
10:15-11:00 Viz demos with Warren Hunt
11:00-11:10 Walk to 880
11:10-12:00 Tour of Computing Annex with Sophia Corwell, Kathy Chavez and David Martinez
12:10-1:00 Lunch-Building 880 (X10)
1:15-2:15 MESA Fabrication tour with Carol Sumpter
2:15-2:30 Buss to ACRR
2:30-3:15 ACRR with Ron Knief and Craig Drake
3:15 Return to Bus
3:30 Return to Holiday Inn Express

Sign up details

The Sandia Tour is limited to US citizens. Registration will be on a first come first served basis. There is financial support available for lodging for those schools traveling long distances (so they can spend the night on Sunday). We will meet off-base and be bused on base. We will meet at 7:30 AM at the hotel. Read over the details for visiting Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov/about/locations/newmexico/index.html.

Lunch will be provided.

The following information is needed for every participant for the Sandia Tour:

Name
Date of Birth
City and State of Birth
School Name
School Address
Team Number

A Social Security Number is necessary to get visitor badges for access to Sandia National Labs Technical Areas; however, the Challenge will provide your Social Security Number. If you did not provide your Social Security Number to the Challenge during registration, you will need to make arrangements to get that information to us.

It is ESSENTIAL that all participants wishing to go on the tour bring a photo ID to be admitted to Kirtland Air Force base and be badged by Sandia National Labs.

Please only make a reservation if you will be able to attend as space is limited. Please make your reservation by Friday, February 18, 2011 to allow enough time for processing information at Sandia's badge office. Email the registration information to sandiatour11 at challenge dot nm dot org.

The tour of UNM is open to anyone and there isn't a size limit. If you would prefer the UNM tour over the Sandia tour, email consult challenge dot nm dot org with the students' and teachers' names and school. Let Consult know if housing is required.

UNM Tours: Computing Research at UNM, Monday, March 7, 2011

Teams from Jackson Middle School and Picacho Middle School toured UNM.

Description

UNM tour highlights include the ARTS Lab which supports media, film, science visualizations and game technology; Electrical and Computer Engineering Department; Computer Science; and the Center for Advanced Research Computing which is a center for high performance computing and has a Gateway to the state's supercomputer Encanto. The Gateway will have all of the software that Challenge teams needs to share their work with each other and to run software that runs in 3D formats.

Meeting Place

Meeting Time

Meeting time is at 8:30 am and should be finished around 3:00 pm.

UNM Schedule

8:15 Arrive at CHPC
8:30 Tour Visualization Lab
9:30 Tour CHPC and Machine Room
10:15 Tour of ARTS Lab
11:45 Lunch in Centennial Engineering Center with the Computer Science Department Faculty.
1:00-3:00 Learning about Engineering programs
3:00 Departure