March 25-27, 2009
Indiana University is hosting an NSF-sponsored workshop on
"Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability." The workshop will
focus on sustainable models for use, support, and maintenance of
software that is developed and used in areas related to the NSF
mission. Workshop goals include examination of software evaluation
practices and mechanisms for supporting sustainability via funding
organizations, open source, and commercialization.
The workshop will be held at the University Place Conference Center
on the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis campus in
Indianapolis, Indiana. A welcome reception will be held on the
evening of March 25th. The formal agenda will commence at 8 AM on
the 26th, and close at 3 PM on the 27th.
A number of leaders in software creation and sustainability are
participating by invitation, and between 10 and 20 additional
speakers will be invited on the basis of position papers which are
submitted by February 15th. The entire research community is
invited to submit position papers, following the model of the
"TeraGrid future" process, cf
http://teragridfuture.org/node/190
Students are particularly encouraged to submit position papers.
They should include one additional page indicating how participation
in this conference would aid in their educational and career
objectives. A limited number of $1,000 stipends will be awarded to
student participants who are accepted, to help defray travel costs.
For more information, and to submit position papers, see
http://cisoftwaresustainability.iu-pti.org/
Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure News
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The Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and
Environmental Change (CIPEC) conducts research on the causes and
impacts of deforestation and reforestation. This research involves
the use of various large datasets and the collaboration of
scientists across many departments. They use The Research File
System (RFS) as a repository for satellite imagery and other spatial
data files, to monitor how forest systems are changing.
Professor Tom Evans of the Department of Geography, Co-Director of
CIPEC, writes, "The Research File System has been an incredibly
useful tool for our data management needs. RFS has been an
effective solution for us, given our collaborative mode of
research, and we have been impressed with the data access speed
for both small and large data files compared to our previous
in-house server."
The Research Storage group in the UITS Research Technologies
division manages the Research File System and the Massive Data
Storage System. Which you should use is determined by your data's
size and how often it is updated. You can contact Research Storage
for advice, by sending email to store-admin@iu.edu or visit:
http://rtinfo.uits.iu.edu/storage/
For more information about CIPEC see
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Charles Horowitz, professor of physics at Indiana University, has
been elected to fellowship in the American Physical Society, the
preeminent organization of physicists in the United States.
Horowitz was honored for his contributions to research involving
dense nuclear matter. His work has involved structures on the
surfaces of neutron stars, sometimes covered by liquid oceans and
with 'nuclear pasta' collective structures inside.
UITS is pleased to have provided programming support for Professor
Horowitz' work, including tens of thousands of hours of computing
using special purpose GRAvity PipE ("GRAPE") computers. Read more at
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The Libra Cluster, which has been in service since 2005, will retire
during the Spring 2009 semester. Accounts are available on the newer
Quarry cluster, a general-purpose Unix computing environment. The
Research Database Cluster (RDC) is not included in this retirement,
and will remain in service.
For more details, see
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Bioinformatics is the science of managing, mining, and extracting
knowledge from biological sequences and structures. The goal of
this Workshop is to present the latest research in high–performance
computing applied to bioinformatics.
The Parallel Bio-Computing Workshop will be held in conjunction
with the Seventh International Conference on Parallel Processing
and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2009) in Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland,
September 13-16, 2009.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Bioinformatic databases
* Computational genomics and proteomics
* DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping
* Gene expression and microarrays
* Gene identification and annotation
* Molecular sequence analysis
* Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms
* Protein structure prediction and modelling
* Parallel algorithms for biological analysis
* Parallel architectures for biological applications
* System tools that support high performance bio-computing
Papers should be submitted by April 10, 2009. For more information,
please visit the PBC web page:
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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. The location changes each month.
* Thursday, February 12, 11:00am-1:00pm
* Jordan Hall Atrium, IUB
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Research Technologies Round Table
Keith Lehigh will be discussing security best practices for servers,
desktops and mobile platforms.
When: Thursday, February 19, 12:30-1:30pm
Where: IUB - IMU Maple Room, IUPUI - ICTC Room 497
Live URL: http://tinyurl.com/cmn9s6
Archive URL: http://tinyurl.com/avpvfk
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Digital Library Brown Bag Series
All presentations are in Wells Library E174, from 12:00-1:00pm.
February 11
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Abstract Model
Jenn Riley, Digital Library Program
February 25
Archives of Institutional Memory at IU
Phil Bantin, Indiana University Archives -
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
answers 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.
