Petascale Day -- 10.15

NCSA staff enjoying a breakfast of "flop"jacks.

Brett Bode of NCSA's Advanced Digital Services talks about "What's a Quadrillion?"

Guests were treated to a showing of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory's show of "Dynamic Earth."

A visualization demo given by staff from NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory.

NCSA staffers Vicki Halberstadt and Patty Roth at the greeting table in the National Petascale Computing Facility's lobby.

NCSA staffers Jeremy Enos and Susan McKenna fielding questions about the NPCF's electrical infrastructure.

NCSA staffer Craig Steffen fielding questions on the NPCF's cooling system.

NCSA staffers Cristina Beldica and Brett Bode fielding questions in the NPCF's supercomputer viewing room.

NCSA staffers Galen Arnold and Paul Wefel fielding questions in the NPCF's data center.

University of Illinois physics professor Mark Neubauer gives his talk on the Higgs Boson.

University of Illinois atmospheric research scientist Brian Jewett talks about modeling tornadoes.

Volunteers not photographed

Many other NCSA staff members volunteered to make Petascale Day a success: Trish Barker, Martin Biernat, Evan Burness, Jeff Carpenter, A.J. Christensen, Donna Cox, Kelly Delahanty, Tom Durbin, Peter Enstrom, Barb Jewett, Steve Kleinvehn, Stuart Levy, Rui Liu, Beth McKown, Liz Murray, Judy Olson, Sudhakar Pamidighantam, Paula Popowski, Nicole Schiffer, John Towns, Tedra Tuttle, Madhu Vellakal, and Frank Wells.