The Indiana Initiative for Economic Development (IIED) is an
economic development program designed to foster technology
development and job growth in the state of Indiana. The Initiative
makes advanced computing technology and expertise available at no
cost to companies whose proposals advance the Indiana economy,
foster high-tech job creation in Indiana, and show promise in
creating new technologies. The Initiative is a partnership among
IBM, Indiana University, Purdue University, and the Indiana
Economic Development Corporation (IEDC).
The main element of the universities' contribution to the
Initiative is the use of the Big Red IBM Blade Center cluster,
housed on IU's Bloomington campus, one of the most powerful
computers in the world. Use of this computer is offered to
Indiana's industries, free of charge, for research and
development that qualifies under the Initiative's guidelines.
The program addresses two major entry barriers to industrial high
performance computing (HPC) - the high cost of hardware, and hard
to find expertise. The majority of current industrial HPC users are
large companies in aerospace, automotive, biopharmaceutical and
energy sectors. The greatest potential for reaping benefits of
technical computing lies in the numerous medium and small companies
who might benefit from the use of high-end multiprocessor computers
to design, test or improve their commercial products.
Danko Antolovic is the contact for IIED. He can be reached by
sending email to IndustrialResearchPartnership@iu.edu. The
Initiative’s web site is at
http://www.iiecdev.org/
Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure News
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated the Regenstrief
Institute's medical informatics group as the world's first WHO
Collaborating Center for Medical Informatics. The institute is
housed on the campus of the Indiana University School of Medicine
in Indianapolis.
The four-year designation, given for the "design, application, and
research of medical information systems," is recognition of the
international leadership and depth of expertise of the Institute's
medical informatics group in the innovative use of information
technology within medicine. This formal designation enables the WHO
to more directly draw upon these capabilities by making the
Institute part of a larger international collaboration of experts.
For more information, visit
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HP has just announced a new grant opportunity titled HP Innovations
in Education. HP seeks proposals from school districts and higher
education institutions in the US that are using technology to
enhance teaching and improve student academic success.
For secondary schools (middle school and/or high school) the focus
is on math and science. For colleges and universities, the focus is
on engineering, computer science, and information technology. Each
award, valued at more than $240,000, consists of cash, technology,
and professional development.
Proposals should describe how technology will be used to enable
innovations in four areas: Leadership Capacity, Digital Learning
Environments, the Student Design & Research Experience, and High-
Tech Career Awareness. Applications are due March 30.
For more information visit
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Indiana University is hosting an NSF-sponsored workshop on
"Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability" March 25-27, 2009.
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.
For more information, and to submit position papers, see
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The 2009 TeraGrid Conference will showcase the capabilities,
achievements, and impact of the TeraGrid in research and education
through presentations, posters, visualizations, and more. The
conference will also provide information and training to enable
current and future users to achieve maximum impact.
Submissions for science results, technology developments, posters,
visualization showcase and tutorials are now being accepted. An
Education, Outreach and Training track will be announced during
the first week of March. Each track has different goals and
requirements.
* Submissions for the Science Track should articulate the
scientific problem; describe the scientific and computational
methods (algorithms, techniques, software) and TeraGrid resources
used; present results, impact of the TeraGrid, and future plans.
Work previously published in another venue or presented at another
conference may be submitted. Abstracts due: March 20.
* Submissions for the Technology Track should present technology
developments and capabilities that enable increased performance,
capability, productivity, and/or reliability of TeraGrid users,
applications, and resources. Submissions should describe the
technology in detail, discuss achieved or potential impact, and
articulate future plans. Submissions must describe new, previously
unpublished work. Papers due: March 20.
* The Visualization Showcase provides a digital gallery of imagery
associated with the TeraGrid's most exciting results. Submissions
should have used TeraGrid resources to generate data, to produce
the visualization, or both, and should be the result of work
accomplished within the past year. Abstracts due: April 24.
* Posters should present new results or promising work in progress
dealing with the use of the TeraGrid for scientific research and/or
the development of new technologies for scientific computing.
Submissions not accepted for the Science or Technology Track can be
re-submitted as posters. Abstracts due: May 1.
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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.
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.
* Monday, March 30, 11:00am-1:00pm
* Simon Hall Anteroom (outside the Gill Conference Center), IUB
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Research Technologies Round Table
Jefferson Davis will discuss Matlab and Distributed Computing
While Matlab was not conceived as a parallel programming tool, many
users want to parallelize bits and pieces of Matlab code. The
Matlab Distributed Computing Server (DCS) can help. The talk will
cover:
- DCS availability and how to configure users settings.
- Prototyping parallelized code.
- What sorts of improvements can be seen with the DCS.
- Limitations and license restrictions of the DCS.
- When: Thursday, March 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/buen9l
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Digital Library Brown Bag Series
All presentations are in Wells Library E174, from 12:00-1:00pm.
More info: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/education/brownbags/
* Digital Library Program update
The Digital Library Program has dozens of active projects. Large,
grant-funded projects such as EVIA and Variations are well known,
but many projects are smaller and more locally focused. This
presentation will provide an overview and status report on these
smaller projects.
- Stacy Kowalczyk and Jon Dunn
- Digital Library Program
- March 4, 2009
* What you see isn't always what everyone gets:
web accessibility at IU
- Julie Hardesty and Margaret Londergan
- Digital Library Program/Adaptive Technology Center
- March 11, 2009
* Isaac Newton's alchemical symbols
- Wally Hooper and Tim Bowman
- Digital Library Program/School of Library and Information Science
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* Libra Cluster to retire Spring 2009
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
https://kb.iu.edu/data/axst.html
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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
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.
