Environmental scientists studying the world's shrinking polar ice
sheets will soon get a substantial boost in computing power thanks
to IU's Polar Grid Project. Funded by a $1.96 million grant from the
National Science Foundation, Indiana University and Polar Grid
partners Elizabeth City State University and the NSF's Center for
Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, headquartered at the University of
Kansas, are poised to deploy this week a collection of customized
computational resources to Antarctica that will allow scientists to
more securely and efficiently process data collected during field
expeditions. For more information, see
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/print/8867.html
and
http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/bem/productions/polargrid/PolarGrid_Video....
Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure News
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Indiana University will host the 2008 Chinese-American
Network Symposium (CANS) in Indianapolis October 20-22.
This event brings together leading networking experts
from the United States and China to exchange information,
technical knowledge, and best practices for managing
advanced international networks.
IU's relationship with China dates back over a century
and includes partnerships with many of the top Chinese
universities. As CANS has grown in size and scope, it
has fostered creative collaborations among educational
and research institutions and the business sectors of
both nations that have generated major advances in
networking technology and infrastructure development.
For more information see the CANS home page
http://www.canscouncil.net/
or the meeting page at
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Lunch time with SysAdmins - Talk to the experts!
You're invited to stop by and visit with the system administrators
who run IU's supercomputers, Big Red and Quarry, two of the most
powerful supercomputers in the world. Ask questions, share ideas,
or just chat in an informal setting. This is an opportunity for
you to learn how these centralized research computing resources
can help support your work.
* Thursday, October 9th, 11:00am-1:00pm
* IMU - Commons Literature Desk, IUB
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Research Technologies Round Table
Web Services and the Web Service Resource Framework:
An introduction with simple examples
This presentation will introduce Web Services, and then present
its "extension," the Web Services Resource Framework, which allows
web resources to "maintain state" by storing data accessible via
operations standardized within the framework.
When: Wednesday, October 29th, 12:30-1:30pm
Where: IUB Radio-TV building, room 180, and IUPUI ICTC room 497
Live URL: mms://wms.indiana.edu/rt_round_table
Archive: mms://wms.indiana.edu/ip/vic/rt_round_table_20081029.wmv
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Digital Library Brown Bag Series
All presentations are in Wells Library E174, from 12:00-1:00pm.
October 1, 2008
Semantic Web: Past, Now, Future
Prof. Ying Ding
School of Library and Information Science
October 15, 2008
Digital Journeys in Pursuit of an Elusive Traveler:
Tracking the Life and Photographs of Charles Cushman
Prof. Eric Sandweiss
Department of History
October 29, 2008
Digital Video Scholarship:
Issues collecting and using Field Work Video
Will Cowan
Digital Library Program -
For medium and large Teragrid allocations, the next submission
deadline is October 15th, midnight local time.
Information on getting started with the Teragrid is available at
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The AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship senior
undergraduate, graduate and post graduate science and engineering
students at media sites nationwide to work as science reporters for
ten weeks, to increase communication skills in student scientists.
From grant writing to interaction with their community, these skills
will benefit a student's career and increase public understanding of
science and technology.
The deadline for applications is January 15, 2009. For more
information, visit
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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.
The deadline for proposals of posters, demos and exhibits has been
extended to October 7th.
For more information please visit the conference Web site at
http://escience2008.iu.edu/
Call for Papers - Grid Computing Environments 2008 (GCE08) -
The Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) of the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is hosting the
10th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered
Computing in Boulder, March 9-12, 2009.
This year's conference examines how future large-scale system
design will address the balance between inter- and intra-node
parallelism.
Those interested in technical presentations for consideration
should submit a 2- to 3-page abstract. For detailed information on
submitting papers, presentations, or tutorials, please see the
conference Web site:
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The maintenance window for Big Red, Libra and Quarry
is the first Tuesday of each month, 7am - 7pm EDT.
The maintenance window for the Mass Store and Research File System
is every Sunday 7-10AM.
Outage reports are available online at:
* http://racinfo.indiana.edu/hps/research/bigred/outages.shtml
* http://racinfo.indiana.edu/hps/research/libra/outages.shtml
* http://racinfo.indiana.edu/hps/research/quarry/outages.shtml -
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.
