The LSU Center for Computation & Technology “green” booth will arrive in Portland, Ore., next week for the Supercomputing 2009 exhibition with reusable posters and videos showcasing research projects made possible through supercomputing along with Famper, a pipeline robot from the University Robotics Research Laboratory.The exhibit will be open Monday through Thursday, and the entire conference will run Saturday through Friday.University representatives have attended since the CCT’s inception in 2004, according to Kristen Sunde, CCT communications director.”This year, the thing that will be a little bit different … [is] we’re going to be a green conference,” Sunde said. “They’ve asked anyone who’s going to be exhibiting there to do a green booth.”A supercomputer harnesses the power and processing capabilities of several desktop computers. They are traditionally used for physics, chemistry and engineering research or any research that requires processing large amounts of data. To accommodate the conference’s requests, CCT will distribute electronic copies of its magazine and use reusable posters and videos. Additionally, Famper will demonstrate his advantages in navigating pipelines at the CCT booth. “He’s designed so he can crawl through pipelines and send data back remotely,” Sunde said. “We’re going to have a display set up at Supercomputing with some tests put together [so attendees] get a sense of what it looks like.”University research scheduled to be highlighted at the conference includes research into the application of high performance computing for video design along with information about managing data on supercomputers. According to Sunde, between 15 and 20 people will work for the exhibit. About an additional 10 people from the University will attend the conference.The University registered to have an exhibitor booth, she said. There will be more than 100 exhibitors present. “CCT hosts an LSU booth to talk about what the big research projects were in the last year,” Sunde said. “A lot of professors will go there to present research and participate in the sessions … It’s considered the premier conference on supercomputing.”- – – -Contact Lindsey Meaux at [email protected]