Visit the IU SC07 research exhibit "Foundations for Innovation: Gateways to Insight" November 13-15 in Reno, Nevada to explore IU's advanced cyberinfrastructure and learn how IU-developed science gateways are helping researchers move from computation and data collection to insight and discovery.
For more information, see http://supercomputing.iu.edu/index.php
On October 12, Indiana University officials broke ground on a new data center, designed to protect technological assets such as IU's supercomputers and Bloomington network hub from natural disasters up to an F5 tornado. With a 5 megawatt power supply, the 82,700 square foot building will also offer space and flexibility to help IU compete in the global arena. The data center is planned for completion in January 2009.
More information is available at
http://uitsnews.iu.edu/?p=1033
IBM is establishing a worldwide center for developing products and applications using its advanced Cell chip technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). This is the first such IBM facility on a college campus. IBM plans to staff the new 2,000-square-foot Future Technology Solution Design Center located in the university's Informatics and Communications Technology Complex with five professional staff.
The Cell processor is an advanced chip developed in partnership by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, with up to nine processor cores that allow it to operate at speeds of up to 5GHz. Its ability to process large amounts of information, coupled with high bandwidth communication capabilities, allow developers to place massive amounts of processing power into relatively small devices.
For more information, see:
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/6423.html
The "Open Grid Computing Environments" (OGCE) project has been awarded a $1.69 million grant by the National Science Foundation, to develop user-friendly software tools providing better access to the world's most advanced supercomputers and data storage facilities, to run computational experiments more efficiently.
The OGCE project will be led by Marlon Pierce of the IU Pervasive Technology Labs (PTL); Dennis Gannon, science director of PTL and professor for the School of Informatics; and Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, TeraGrid director for Science Gateways.
Researchers with the OGCE project seek to develop software that can easily be used by new groups to create their own gateways. Much like a commercial Web portal such as Amazon.com, that allows users to
browse and purchase products, a science gateway provides access to online resources for scientists. Gateways provide capabilities such as personalized views of computing resources, collaborative search tools, and mechanisms for archiving and sharing results.
For more information, see
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/6531.html
UPDATE: Time and Place MOVED!
Thursday, November 1st, 12:30-1:30
ICTC 497 and IMU Sassafrass Room
Research Technologies Round Table: "Implementing Big Red"
The purchase order for IU's Big Red was placed on 7 April 2006; on 28 June 2006, it had earned the 23rd place on the Top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. It has since expanded from 20 to 30.7 TFLOPS.
Craig Stewart, Associate Dean for Research Technologies, will discuss the basic architecture of Big Red, its implementation and management systems, and the performance characteristics of the system in some detail. He will also discuss the challenges of supporting and using a very large Linux cluster based on IBM's Power architecture in the context of the TeraGrid, which is heavily dominated by clusters running Intel instruction sets, and some of the science results obtained with Big Red, including weather prediction and protein structure.
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Wednesday, November 28, 12:30-1:30pm -- ICTC 497 & IMU Walnut Room
RT Round Table: "Statistical and Mathematical Computing"
The Center for Statistical and Mathematical Computing (the Stat/Math Center) supports statistical and mathematical software packages for research and instruction at Indiana University. This software is made available in the Student Technology Centers and on the research systems Big Red, Libra, and Quarry. In addition, the Center makes several statistical and mathematical software packages available for departmental or personal workstations at rates well below the normal educational discount price set by vendors; installation, trouble shooting, and maintenance support are included.
The Stat/Math Center also provides consulting support for these programs. Introductory classes are also available through the Center. Documentation, both vendor- and locally-developed, is also provided.
Outages
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System Date Time [EDT]
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Libra 10/04-05 16:00-02:45
GPFS 10/07 16:26-22:16
GPFS 10/16-17 20:00-00:07
GPFS 10/19-20 17:54-02:26
GPFS 10/20 08:47-12:25
GPFS 10/23-24 23:00-09:00
GPFS 10/25-26 24:00-00:47
Planned maintenance
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The maintenance window for all systems is the first Tuesday of
each month, 7am - 7pm EDT.
If you have questions pertaining to IU's cyberinfrastructure, or you are encountering some difficulty, there are several ways to obtain help.
An introduction and overview titled "Indiana University's CyberInfrastructure: The least you need to know" has been updated and is available at http://rc.uits.iu.edu/education_and_training/ .
The IU Knowledge Base (http://kb.iu.edu) is an excellent source of help on how to do things.
If you have problems which the KB does not enable you to solve, questions about system outages, or if you just have a problem and you don't know who to contact, send email to researchtechnologies@iu.edu.
