Indiana University has established the Pervasive Technology
Institute with a $15 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc.
The institute consolidates the achievements of the Indiana
Pervasive Computing Research Initiative, established at IU in 1999
with Lilly Endowment funding, which led in part to the development
of the Pervasive Technology Labs and the School of Informatics.
The Institute will further advanced information technology and
informatics innovations and translate the benefits to researchers,
educators, students and society. The Institute will have facilities
on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses of the university.
The Pervasive Technology Institute is a collaborative effort of the
Office of the Vice President for Information Technology, School of
Informatics, Mauer School of Law, and Office of the Vice President
for Engagement. PTI will be made up of three research centers:
* The Digital Science Center will focus on creating an intuitively
usable cyberinfrastructure with tremendous capabilities for
supporting collaboration and computation.
* The Data to Insight Center will create new tools to understand
and gain insight from the vast quantities of data now produced in
digital form. For example, the Center will create new tools to
predict the course of severe weather with supercomputers and put
those tools into the hands of forecasters.
* The Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research will lead the
creation of IT security policy, security monitoring tools and
secure applications in critical areas of cyberinfrastructure,
including personalized health.
The Pervasive Technology Institute will incorporate the labs
established as part of PTL, and components from the University
Information Technology Services Research Technologies division.
The web page for the Pervasive Technology Institute is at
http://pti.iu.edu/
Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure News
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Indiana University's Data Capacitor, designed to store and
manipulate massive data sets and based on the Lustre filesystem, is
being used across the wide area network of the TeraGrid to enable
projects ranging from investigating planetary origins to measuring
the melting polar icecaps of Earth.
For success stories and more details, see
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The spring 2009 issue of Indiana University's Research & Creative
Activity magazine showcases the science, art, and scholarship of
networks, a new field of research is that expanding rapidly.
Interpreting its theme broadly, this issue addresses the physical,
biological, digital and social networks that connect us, from
Antarctica's glaciers to Mexico's ancient trade routes to the
Internet's virtual worlds.
Research & Creative Activity magazine is published semiannually by
IU's Office of the Vice Provost for Research. The magazine's Web
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All public and private schools, universities, businesses and
nonprofit organizations are invited to drop off e-waste Thursday,
April 30, and Friday, May 1, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the IUB and
IUPUI campuses. The program will be open to the general public on
Saturday, May 2, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
In Bloomington, the collection event will take place in the parking
lot to the north of Memorial Stadium. The drop-off location for
Indianapolis will be the parking lot directly south of the Indiana
State Fairgrounds, at the corner of 38th Street and Coliseum Avenue.
Complete information, including maps, hours, and a list of accepted
items, is available at indiana.poweron.com. Businesses and other
organizations are asked to register in advance at
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Migrating High Performance Computing (HPC) science and engineering
software to multi-core, heterogeneous petascale computers poses
many challenges. One is to expand the knowledge of our technical
workforce so that they can make efficient use of such systems.
A questionnaire has been created, to seek your advice on these
topics. We expect to compile the results and circulate them to
the HPC community. Please visit
http://www.rrscs.org/survey/petascale.shtml.
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This workshop will bring together people who are developing new
areas of logic coming from quantum computation, and also people who
are interested in related projects coming from philosophical logic,
mathematics, and theoretical computer science.
The workshop will be held on Monday and Tuesday, May 11-12, 2009,
Lindley Hall 101 and 102 on the IU-Bloomington campus. For more
information, see
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The Supercomputing 2009 Education Program summer tutorial workshop
series will host a series of *FREE* weeklong summer tutorial
workshops, running from mid-May through mid-August across the US.
These tutorial workshops will cover not only how to do various
kinds of computational science & engineering as well as parallel
computing, but also how to teach these topics, and how to use
computational methods in teaching.
SC09 Summer Tutorial Workshop Schedule:
* May 17-23: Oklahoma State: Computational Chemistry for Educators
* May 25-30: Calvin College: Intro to Computational Thinking
* June 7-13: U Cal Merced: Computational Biology for Educators
* June 7-13: Kean U: Parallel Programming & Cluster Computing
* June 14-20: Widener U: Computational Physics for Educators
* July 5-11: Atlanta U: Introduction to Computational Thinking
* July 5-11: Louisiana State: Parallel Programming & Clusters
* July 12-18: U Florida: Comp Sci in the Grades 6-12 Classroom
* July 12-18: Ohio Supercomputer Center: Computational Engineering
* Aug 2- 8: U Arkansas: Introduction to Computational Thinking
* Aug 9-15: U Oklahoma: Parallel Programming & Cluster Computing
If you want to apply to register, it's important that you do so
as soon as possible. Preference will be given to teaching faculty
(or soon-to-be-faculty) who expect to use the workshop content in
their own teaching. The registration webpage is:
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The National Computational Science Institute, in collaboration with
the NCSA Blue Waters project and other national HPC programs, is
launching a coordinated effort to prepare current and future
generations of students with the computational thinking skills,
knowledge and commitment to advance scientific computing through
the use of high performance computing (HPC) resources and
environments.
To achieve these goals, the Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale
Education Program (uPEP) is launching three programs for engaging
the national community. The three programs are:
* Undergraduate Materials Development by undergraduate faculty
* Research Experiences for undergraduates
* Professional Development Workshops for undergraduate faculty
For more information, 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. TG'09 will be
held June 22-25 in Arlington, VA.
For more information see the TG'09 web site:
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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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* Workshop: Performance Analysis with Vampir
Vampir is a performance analysis tool developed by the Center for
Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at the
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. It can be used to diagnose
performance problems of serial and parallel applications. Vampir
is available on the BigRed and Quarry HPC systems at IU.
The workshop is organized jointly by ZIH and IU's High Performance
Applications (HPA) group. In the morning, ZIH will present an
overview of the classical Vampir and the new VampirServer version.
In the afternoon, HPA will show recent examples of performance
problems that were analyzed with Vampir.
Example traces will be provided and every participant can gain
first-hand experience using the tool. Workstations will be
provided for the afternoon session.
The workshop will be held on May 5th, in the Wrubel Computing
Center on the IU Bloomington campus. Please RSVP to Penny Studley
<pstudley@indiana.edu> to receive further information.
Seating for the workshop is limited, and will be assigned on a
first-come first-served basis.
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* Research Technologies Round Table
George Turner - Research Technologies Queueing System
Thursday, May 28th
12:30-1:30
IMU Maple Room
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* Libra Cluster to retire June 30th
The Libra Cluster, which has been in service since 2005, will be
retired on June 30, 2009. 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.
The following software will be disabled on Libra on June 1, 2009:
- The NAG Programming Libraries, Visualization and Tools, the IMSL
Libraries and the Climate Data Operators (CDO) are now available on
Quarry;
- Simwalk2 and Merlin are now available on BigRed.
If you have questions about compilers, programming, subroutine
libraries, or debuggers, contact the High Performance Applications
team, hpahelp@indiana.edu.
For more details, and advice on how to transfer your files from
Libra to Quarry, see:
https://kb.iu.edu/data/axst.htmlThe 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
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.
