An MCSR poster session was held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences in Biloxi last month. The Friday morning session featured interesting posters by four researchers.

Dr. Mona Norcum, Professor of Biochemistry at the University Medical Center, presented a poster describing her work in three-dimensional reconstruction of protein structures (JPEG). Dr. Svein Saebo, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Mississippi State, presented a poster entitled "Low Scaling Methods for Electron Correlation." (JPEG) Brandon Bogard presented a poster on oceanographic forecasting system validation, on behalf of Dr. Germana Peggion, Research Scientist in Oceanographic Modeling at the University of Southern Mississippi (JPEG Closeup JPEG ). Finally, Luis A. Parra, Ph.D. student in the Graduate Program in Scientific Computing at the University of Southern Mississippi, presented, on behalf of Dr. Dexuan Xie and two other Ph.D. students (Jun Xie and Huiqing Yang), a poster on three parallel computing projects going on at that university

In addition, MCSR consultant Haibo Wang, and student consultant Yanhai Sun, presented a poster detailing their experience installing and testing two parallel database servers on MCSR's Beowulf cluster computer. (JPEG)

The specific posters and credits are listed below:

Norcum, M.T.. Use of Parallel Resources at MCSR for Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Protein Structures. HTML
Saebo, S.. Low Scaling Methods for Electron Correlation. PPT Slides
Peggion, G. Validation of MODAS-NRLPOM Forecasting System.
Parra, L., Xie, J., Yang, J., and Xie, D. Parallel Computing Projects at USM. PDF
Sun, Y. and Wang, H. Experience with Parallel Database Servers on Distributed Computing Platforms. PDF
Wang, H. Parallel Computing with NWChem and MPQC.