Congratulations to IU Jacobs School of Music musicologist Thomas
Mathiesen, who in December 2007 took home his third Deems Taylor
award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
for his work as an editor of the book Music and Ideas in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Mathiesen serves as director for the IU Center for the History of
Music Theory and Literature (CHMTL), a joint venture of the Jacobs
School of Music and the Office of Research and the University
Graduate School. With support from UITS Core Services, which
provides hardware and server administration, Mathiesen and
associate director Peter Slemon maintain the CHMTL Web site
www.chmtl.indiana.edu. The CHMTL site provides scholars from around
the world with electronic access to doctoral dissertations in
musicology and texts on music theory, aesthetics, history and
literature, as well as historical music texts.
Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure News
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For the past four years Indiana University researchers from the
departments of Computer Science, Psychology, Anthropology, Anatomy
and Cell Biology, and Medical and Molecular Genetics have been part
of the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
(CIFASD), funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism. CIFASD, which includes researchers from 21 institutions
in eight countries, was recently renewed for five years.
According to CIFASD Administrative Core Director Ed Riley of San
Diego State University, "Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is a major,
worldwide public health issue and fetal alcohol syndrome is among
the most common known causes of mental retardation in the western
world. The work being done by the CIFASD is an international
collaboration to study this problem using a multidisciplinary
approach and should help define the spectrum of effects resulting
from prenatal alcohol exposure. This includes providing better
diagnostic protocols and an enhanced understanding of the changes in
brain and behavior that occur following prenatal alcohol exposure,
with the hopes of translating these findings into enhanced
interventions."
CIFASD researchers are collecting a wide variety of data, including
results from questionnaires, physical examinations, neuropsycho-
logical test batteries, three dimensional facial images, brain
images, and ultrasound movies. Data are collected at sites around
the world using a variety of methods and then uploaded to the CIFASD
Central Repository at Indiana University. CIFASD researchers can
then use the Central Repository to join data from different
locations and of different modalities. Members of the Research
Technologies' Biomedical Applications group created the Central
Repository and a variety of related software. A member of the
Research Technologies' Advanced Visualization Laboratory developed
the procedure used to capture three dimensional facial images.
The Central Repository for the CIFASD is hosted by the Indiana
University Research Database Cluster, and makes use of the Indiana
University Massive Data Storage System. The IU Research Database
Cluster provides both an Oracle relational database management
system and a Web application hosting environment used by the Central
Repository. The Massive Data Storage System holds backups of the
data in the Central Repository, providing highly resilient disaster
recovery due to its geographically distributed nature.
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Students from the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and
Humanities may be a few years away from owning their own homes, but
six juniors and seniors, with support from Indiana University's
Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL), are able to step into a virtual
kitchen of their own design.
The experience is part of an ongoing AVL project with an advanced
computer class offered at the Muncie residential high school for
gifted and talented students. Students from the program receive
instruction from their computer science teacher, Susie Sechrest,
and expert advice from IU's AVL staff, in creating a virtual
environment of their own imagination. Using programming knowledge in languages such as
Java and C++, the
students work in teams to create a variety of virtual environments,
such as a mad scientist lab, an apartment, and a village. The
students develop their projects in Virtual Reality Modeling Language
(VRML) on a standard personal computer, and then interact with their
creations in immersive 3D in the AVLÕs state-of the-art virtual
reality theater.Sechrest said her students have greatly benefited from their
experience. "I could never relay the amount of information that can
be absorbed through the use of the 3D glasses, the theater, and the
big computer screen," she said. "This experience will stay with the
students for a lifetime."
For more information on the Indiana Academy for Science,
Mathematics, and Humanities, visit
http://www.bsu.edu/academy/For more information on IU's Advanced Visualization Lab,
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Staff from the UITS Research Technologies division have been working
with a graduate level SPEA class this semester. The students are
doing research on "green computing" and are studying efficiency and
energy use in the IU data center. In an effort to learn more about
high performance computing at IU and the people that use those
resources, the students have put together a short survey which takes
less than 5 minutes to complete. To request a copy please email
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June 9-13, 2008 - Las Vegas, NV, USA
The Call for Participation for TeraGrid '08 has been extended, and
all interested individuals and organizations are invited to
participate. New deadlines are:
Paper abstracts (500 words maximum) - March 18, 2008
Full papers (7-10 pages) - April 1, 2008
Proposals for papers on original, innovative work will be received
and reviewed in three tracks: Science, Technology, and Education.
All papers will be peer-reviewed. The Call for Participation is
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Tuesday, March 18, 12:00-1:00pm - MY 209
CGB Roundtable: Marlon Pierce
Tools for Web-based access to computing resources and data archives
have been developed for over a decade and are now very mature. This
talk will briefly review examples of these "gateways" and the
associated grid middleware, and then delve into the architecture and
standards used by the science portal community to develop reusable
software components. Topics to be discussed include component-based
Web portals, Web Services, and workflow (or service orchestration)
tools.
Systems based on heavy-weight "enterprise" standards are being
challenged by lighter-weight "Web 2.0" approaches that incorporate
social networks, gadgets, content syndication, rich client
interfaces (based on the resurgence of JavaScript), and REST-based
services. The talk will review these and discuss the eventual merger
of these technologies into science portals and gateways.
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Thursday, March 20, 11:00am-1:00pm - Business/SPEA Library
Meet the Quarry and BigRed SysAdmins!
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Thursday, March 27, 12:30-1:30pm - IMU Persimmon Room & ICTC 497
RT Round Table: Why optimize my code? It works already!
Ray Sheppard, Acting Manager of the High Performance Applications
group, will discuss compilers and optimization. This talk will
center on when it would be beneficial to spend time optimizing
source code (and when it would not). Discussion of the time spent
vs. gain realized will include case examples from users of Big Red.
Simple tricks which may be used and some of the possible pitfalls to
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The maintenance window for all systems is the first Tuesday of each
month, 7am - 7pm EDT.
Outage reports are available online at:
http://racinfo.indiana.edu/hps/research/bigred/outages.shtml
http://racinfo.indiana.edu/hps/research/libra/outages.shtml
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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://rtinfo.uits.indiana.edu/documentation/ .
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.
