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SC 25
SC 25

 The Computational Research and Programming Lab (CRPL) returned from SC25 in St. Louis after an exciting week immersed in the world’s premier conference for high-performance computing. SC brings together researchers, students, industry partners, and national labs from around the globe for technical talks, tutorials, posters, Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, and a massive exhibit floor...

Aaron @ Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) 2025
Aaron @ Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) 2025

Aaron just finished up an incredible two weeks at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) 2025. A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored program to develop key skills to design, implement and execute computational science and engineering applications on current and future high performance computing systems. Topics discussed included: numerical algorit...

Saieda's Summer Research - Chameleon Concierge: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) To Enhance Open Testbed Documentation
Saieda's Summer Research - Chameleon Concierge: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) To Enhance Open Testbed Documentation

 Chameleon Concierge uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation to help researchers navigate complex open science testbed documentation. When designing experiments, researchers struggle to find technical solutions across multiple documentation sources, often leading to support tickets or project abandonment. Our custom LLM search service generates accurate, cited responses to natural language ...

Zahra's Summer Internship: Improving Usability and Performance in cc-snapshot
Zahra's Summer Internship: Improving Usability and Performance in cc-snapshot

During Zahra’s 2025 summer internship she had the incredible opportunity to collaborate with mentor Paul Marshall (UChicago) on the cc-snapshot project. This included: Enhancing Usability and Performance in Experimental Environments Management Maintaining an identical setup and reproducing environments is a challenge in high-performance computing (HPC) and ...

Rahul's ISACA Philadelphia Chapter Scholarship
Rahul's ISACA Philadelphia Chapter Scholarship

The ISACA Philadelphia Chapter Scholarship is awarded to five students in the Greater Philadelphia area who are pursuing an associate, bachelor’s, or master’s degree in fields related to Information Systems, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, IT Audit, IT Compliance, or IT Governance. ...

CGO 2025
CGO 2025

Saieda Ali Zada, Zahra Temori and Zachariah Sollenberger participated in the FastCode Challenge program co-located with CGO/PPoPP/HPCA/CC 2025 conference. Saieda, Zahra, and Zachariah attended CGO/PPoPP/HPCA/CC 2025 conference as student volunteers. We attended sessions on programming language, compilers and LLMs and met researchers working in this area. ...