Beginning this Fall 2008, the approximately 10,000 students and
visitors to the Brownsburg Challenger Center (BCC) are experiencing
a bit of advanced visualization. Staff at IU’s Advanced
Visualization Lab (AVL) designed and implemented an intuitive
program for interactively examining geologic structures found on the
Moon and Mars.
This effort is part of an ongoing collaboration between the AVL and
the BCC meant to enhance the Center in accordance with their
mission:
"Brownsburg Challenger Learning Center, in partnership with
community leaders and educators, integrates science, math, and
technology to provide a learning experience that incorporates
communications, teamwork, responsible decision-making, and critical
thinking skills. Our mission is to encourage curiosity, discovery,
and the pursuit of lifelong learning."
Indiana University (and specifically the AVL) is one of BCC's
partners. The AVL-provided application lets students interactively
explore high quality visual representations of rocks through an
ease-to-use touchable interface. Specific data about the rocks is
provided on screen via text overlays. Students use the program to
make decisions that ultimately affect the outcome of their visit.
The AVL seeks strategic partnerships such as this under their
community outreach portfolio. For more information on the Advanced
Visualization Lab, visit
http://www.avl.iu.edu
For more information on the Brownsburg Challenger Center,
visit http://challenger.brownsburg.k12.in.us/
Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure News
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Users have requested the ability to verify files uploaded to IU's
Massive Data Storage Service (implemented on HPSS). Research Storage
invites the public to join in beta-testing a new web service which
computes and stores checksums on files uploaded to MDSS.
In the past, if someone wanted to verify that a file was uploaded
correctly and completely to MDSS, the user had to download it and
compare. This required double the time and capacity on the users'
local system.
Research Storage encourages users to provide us feedback, to help
improve this service. More information and documentation of this
feature can be found at
http://kb.iu.edu/data/auxl.html#checksum
The actual service is located at
https://www.mdss.iu.edu/beta
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In collaboration with IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology
professors Mary Ann Frank and Jan Cowan, IU’s Advanced Visualization
Lab (AVL) has created a virtual environment that allows students to
interactively study lighting scenarios. The study of lighting in architectural and
interior design education is diverse. It ranges from energy efficient lighting and
daylighting to studies that assess the effect of illuminance upon
finish materials and color interaction. This often leads to
attempts to squeeze lighting into an already crowded curriculum
and is compounded when efforts are made to develop complex study
models of interior lighting environments. In short, there is often
little time to explore these topics in adequate detail.Utilizing advanced graphics
techniques and interactive virtual environments, students can quickly study many different types of
lighting and their impact on interior spaces. The ability of
rapid but still realistic and accurate exploration has been well
received by the IUPUI Design and Communication students. Fall
2008 marks the third semester of the collaboration.For more information on the project, please visit
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To use TeraGrid resources, you must submit a request for computing
time or data storage space. To make such a request, you need an
understanding of the type of codes you will be running or the amount
and type of data storage you will need, the amount of time you’ll
need to complete the simulations you plan to conduct, and any data
needs that accompany a computing time request. Allocation requests
are subject to a review process, which varies according to the size
of your request.
Researchers may request Startup or Education allocations, or larger
peer-reviewed Research allocations. Applications must be submitted
through the Partnership Online Proposal System ("POPS") at
https://pops-submit.teragrid.org/
The process for requesting start-up allocations is shorter than for
Research requests. These allocations give you roughly 30,000 CPU-
hours, on some of the most advanced hardware in the world.
Larger allocations are handled by the TeraGrid Resource
Allocations Committee (TRAC), which meets quarterly. The next
submission window is December 15 - January 15.
Information on getting started with the Teragrid is available at
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Indiana University will participate in SC08, the premier conference
for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis,
when it opens Monday, November 17, 2008 in Austin, Texas.
IU's presence focuses on Grids and Cyberinfrastructure, Digital Arts
and Humanities, and the Life Sciences. IU’s booth will feature video
of artistic performances during the gala opening Monday the 17th and
at noon each day. The Booth Schedule will be:
The Monday night Opening Gala will feature:
* Scott Deal - Coccoliths
* Margaret Dolinsky - Emotive Portraits
* Stephen Simms and Don Malone - Whorl
Tuesday
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10AM Beth Plale -
Provenance and Preservation in Cloud Computing: Karma
11AM Mu Hyun Baik -
In Search of an Understanding of Alzheimer's Disease -
Computational Study of the Copper Amyloid-≤ Peptide Complex
12PM Music at Lunch:
Informatics Philharmonic
Christopher Raphael
1PM Scott Deal -
Telematic Artistic Endeavors
2PM Scott McCaulay -
Parallel Toolkit for the Organization and Retrieval of
Digital Audio Data
3PM Dave Hancock -
Radiology Workflow: Leveraging HPC in Preclinical Oncology
4PM Travis Gregg -
High-Resolution Audio Recording, Preservation and Access at
Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music
Wednesday
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10AM Beth Plale -
Building beyond LEAD: Impact, Education, and Future Plans
11AM Dan Miller -
Indiana University Data Center
12PM Music at Lunch:
Jacobs School of Music Performance
Joshua Bell, violin and Jeremy Denk, piano
1PM Marlon Pierce -
The Open Grid Computing Environments Portal and Services:
Software for Science Gateways (part I)
2PM Marlon Pierce -
The Open Grid Computing Environments Portal and Services:
Software for Science Gateways (part II)
3PM Dave Hancock -
PolarGrid Cyberinfrastructure: Delivering HPC to the South Pole
4PM Tim Mattox -
Research for Reliable Petascale Performance
Thursday
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10AM Josh Hursey -
Fault Tolerance in High Performance Computing:
MPI and Checkpoint/Restart
11AM Steve Simms -
Facilitating Scientific Workflow with Lustre WAN
12PM Music at Lunch:
Jacobs School of Music Performance
Otto Nicolai's "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
1PM Randy Heiland -
CompuCell3D - An open source cellular modeling framework
2PM Scott Michael -
Planetary Simulations With the Data Capacitor
3PM Russell Duhon -
CIShell, Network Workbench, and the Scholarly Database:
Cyberinfrastructures for Scientific Communities
4PM Suresh Marru -
The LEAD cyberinfrastructure:
A technical view of lessons learned and current plans
The "Cluster Meisters," a team of undergraduates from IUB and
Technische Universitat Dresden, will compete in the 2008 Cluster
Challenge. For more information on the Cluster Challenge see
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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 eScience 2008 conference will feature more than 100 papers, and
sixty posters and demos. Workshops and tutorials are included in the
registration price.
eScience 2008 announces new keynote speakers:
Daniel A. Reed, Edward Seidel, Alexander Szalay, and Rich Wolski!
Don’t forget to register for the “Unconference”, a social event for
registered attendees of the Microsoft e-Science Workshop and the
IEEE eScience conference to mingle and share ideas. The event will
take place in the evening of Tuesday, December 9. It is free for
registered attendees of eScience 2008 but separate registration is
required. Visit the web site to sign up.
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Network outage November 4
There will be a 10 minute Force-10 outage at each campus between
7-10 AM on November 4. This is the normal maintenance day for the
research systems [Big Red, Quarry and Libra], but this will impact
the Data Capacitor and Massive Data Storage System [HPSS].
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MATLAB seminar - Bloomington November 5, Indianapolis November 6
Todd Schultz, Senior Application Engineer at the MathWorks, will
present an introduction to technical and parallel computing with
MATLAB in the Indiana Memorial Union Oak Room, IUB 1-4PM on
November 5, and in ET006 IUPUI 9AM-Noon on November 6.
A complimentary lunch/breakfast will be offered, and late
registrations accepted, half an hour before the seminars. Walk-ins
are welcome, or register early seminar at
http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/seminar19161.html
or
http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/seminar19164.html
for Bloomington or Indianapolis, respectively.
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Digital Library Brown Bag Series
All presentations are in Wells Library E174, from 12:00-1:00pm.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Scholarly Databases
Nianli Ma, Russell Duhon and Prof. Katy Borner
Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, School of Library
and Information Science
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
An Introduction to the Open Archives Initiative
Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE)
Jenn Riley
Digital Library Program
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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.
* Monday, December 1, 11:00am-1:00pm
* Geology Atrium, IUB
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Research Technologies Round Table
We are not going to have the usual"last Thursday" round table in
November or December, but we will have one Wednesday, December 3rd.
Parallel Data Mining on Multicore Clusters
A multicore CPU combines two or more independent microprocessors
("cores") in a single chip. In the future, CPUs will have hundreds
or thousands of cores. This will increase computing power for both
research and commercial applications, but will present significant
programming challenges.
Judy Qiu will discuss parallel data mining on multicore clusters.
Judy received her PhD on "Messaged-based MVC Architecture for
Distributed and Desktop Applications" in Computer Science from
Syracuse University in 2005. She is working for Research Technology
of UITS researching multicore algorithms, software and performance.
When: Wednesday, December 3rd, 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
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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
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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.
