The efforts of IU faculty members to create educational software
nine years ago paid off as the University's largest commercial
transaction. Blackboard Inc., an educational software provider,
announced last week it will purchase ANGEL Learning, the
educational software produced from IU technology, for $100 million.

ANGEL Learning software serves as an educational tool for students
and teachers to track academic progress and manage teaching and
learning goals. The software offers products varying from
technology to computer-generated material.

Because the University produced the software almost a decade ago,
it has continued to invest in ANGEL Learning's research and
technology. Along with IU investments in ANGEL Learning and
Research and Technology Corporation, the University will gain
$23 million in proceeds from the sale, which will be reinvested
for technological research and innovative programs.

Read more:

http://homepages.indiana.edu/web/page/normal/10948.html

The National Science Foundation (NSF), recognizing the importance
of attracting and retaining talented young individuals in the
computing research and education enterprise, has asked for help.

* The new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) project supports
appointment of up to 60 CIFellows in organizations dedicated to
advancing computing. To be eligible to apply for CIFellows support,
applicants must have completed their Ph.D.s between May 1, 2008 and
August 31, 2009. Please note that time is of the essence --
applications are due by June 9, 2009. More information about the
CIFellows project is available at

http://cifellows.org/

* The Graduate Research Fellowships program has been doubled this
year, and it appears that there is not a sufficient numbers of
qualified applications at this time. Please encourage promising
undergraduates and first year graduate students to submit an
application. More information on this program is available at

http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201

* The Research Experiences for Undergraduates program has been
increased by approximately 50%. More information can be found at

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517

A workshop on the DOE Advanced Computational Software (ACTS),
"Leveraging the Development of Computational Science & Engineering
Software Through Sustainable High Performance Tools," will be held
August 18-21, 2009 in Berkeley, CA. The four-day workshop will
present an introduction to the ACTS Collection for application
scientists whose work includes a combination of large computations,
complex software integration, distributed computing, and robust
numerical algorithms.

This workshop is open to computational scientists from industry,
academia and national labs. Registration fees are fully sponsored
by the DOE's Office of Science. In addition, DOE will sponsor
travel expenses for a limited number of graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows. This support includes transportation, lodging,
breakfasts, lunches and workshop materials.

The application submission deadline is June 26, 2009. For more
information see

http://acts.nersc.gov/events/Workshop2009/

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:

http://www.ppam.pl/pbc

* 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.html

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