Attend the SC08 Summer Workshop: Introduction to Modeling,
Simulation, and Computational Methods, being held July 28-30, 2008
at Indiana University Northwest, in Gary, IN. The three-day workshop
is designed for faculty from a broad range of disciplines: science,
technology, engineering, mathematics, and also humanities, arts,
and social sciences.
The material covers a broad range of modeling and simulation
techniques, including cellular automota, dynamic systems, agents,
and Monte Carlo methods. An introduction to using large-scale
computational resources will be provided along with credentials
and support for continued use of the computational resources after
the workshop.
Participants are asked to pay a $75 registration fee which will be
refunded upon completion of the workshop. Room, board, most meals
and other costs are covered by the SC Education Program.
Participants must cover their own travel expenses.
To register please visit
http://sc08.sc-education.org/workshops/schedule.php
and choose the workshop held at IU Northwest in Gary, IN.
Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure News
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University Information Technology Services (UITS) has dedicated over
350 terabytes of new storage platforms to support collaborative
research projects mounting Lustre file systems across the TeraGrid
network and other national high speed networks. The ability to use
Lustre over a wide area network (WAN) is a significant advancement
in the ongoing struggle to meet user demand for easier and faster
access to stored research data.
Indiana University has made several notable achievements related to
the use of Lustre over a WAN in the past year. In November, a team
led by Indiana University was awarded first place in the annual
Bandwidth Challenge at the SC07 Conference in Reno, Nevada; using
the Data Capacitor, the IU team achieved a peak transfer rate of
18.21 Gigabits/second (Gb/s) out of a theoretically possible 20 Gbs,
nearly twice the peak rate of the nearest competitor.
For more information, see
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The National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security
announced that Indiana University is among the first universities
to be designated National Centers of Academic Excellence in
Information Assurance Research.
The designation complements IU's selection in August 2007 as a
National Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance
Education. Fred H. Cate, director of the Center for Applied
Cybersecurity Research and distinguished professor of law at the
IU School of Law, Bloomington, said the designation for both
research and education "reflects our twin goals of developing new
knowledge and translating that knowledge into practical benefits
for the public by educating students, professionals, policymakers,
the press and the public."
For more information, see
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/8237.html -
In collaboration with Chinese researchers at the Research Center for
Grid and Service Computing at the Institute of Computing Technology
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and with support from
a grant by the National Science Foundation, the "Places & Spaces:
Mapping Science" exhibit opened on May 17, 2008 at The National
Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. This
will be the debut for the 4th iteration of this 10-year project,
"Science Maps for Economic Decision Makers".
Weixia (Bonnie) Huang, from the Cyberinfrastructure for Network
Science Center at the Indiana University School of Library and
Information Science, travelled with the exhibit and will work with
colleagues to introduce the maps. This is the first major showing
of the exhibit outside of the U.S., and the maps have been
translated into Chinese to aid in the sharing of information.
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Organizing committees for the 2008 IEEE eScience Conference are now
accepting papers and proposals for tutorials; posters, exhibits, and
demos; workshops and special sessions on topics related to eScience,
grid, and cloud computing. The conference is being hosted by Indiana
University in partnership with Microsoft Research and will take
place on December 7-12, 2008 at the University Place Conference
Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.
For more information on topics of interest, submission guidelines
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Research Technologies Round Table
* Science Gateways
* Marlon Pierce
* Thursday, June 26, 12:30-1:30pm
* IUB: Radio-TV Building Room 180
* IUPUI: ICTC Room 497
* Live URL: mms://wms.indiana.edu/rt_round_table
After more than a decade of development, tools for Web-based
access to computing resources and data archives are now very
mature. This month's Roundtable will include discussion of these
Science Gateways and the Grid middleware that they access,
architecture and standards used by the science portal community,
component-based Web portals, Web Services, and workflow (or
service orchestration) tools. Also discussed will be Web 2.0 and
Cloud Computing approaches to resource and data access, and
these tools' eventual merger into Science Gateways and portals.
(Please note the new Radio-TV building location for IUB.
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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.
The IU Knowledge Base (http://kb.iu.edu) is an excellent source of
help on how to do things.
An introduction and overview titled "Indiana University's
CyberInfrastructure: The least you need to know" is available at
http://rtinfo.uits.indiana.edu/documentation/
For more information, go to:
http://rtinfo.uits.indiana.edu/
http://racinfo.indiana.edu/hps/
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.
