The Open Science Grid (OSG) is distributed computing infrastructure
for large-scale scientific research, built and operated by a
consortium of universities, national laboratories, scientific
collaborations, and software developers. The OSG enables scientists
to seamlessly harness grid-computing resources worldwide, and
interoperates with multiple other grid infrastructures.
Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure News
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MyOSG was developed to aggregate information from many OSG systems,
including administrative, accounting, status, monitoring services,
and ticket tracking tools. Guided by the theory that each individual
using OSG has a unique view which they were interested in, the
decision was made to use the Universal Widget API specification
developed by NetVibes, which allows generic widgets to be created
that users can integrate with their personal workflow: MyOSG use is
based on individual preferences. The information can then be easily
exported to a number of tools for display, including iGoogle,
iPhone, Apple Dashboard, Windows Vista, and MySpace.
MyOSG is available at
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Leaders from Technische Universitat Dresden (TUD) and Indiana
University have announced a formal agreement of friendship and
cooperation related to ongoing research in high performance
computing and informatics. The first new project announced between
the two universities is to work on approaches to biological data
management and trans-Atlantic data transfer, that will allow
international teams of life scientists and medical researchers to
share large vital data sets quickly and easily.
IU and TUD have a long history of collaboration, including winning
together three major computing challenge awards at the international
SuperComputing conference sponsored by the Association for Computing
Machinery. The most recent victory was in 2008, when a team made up
of four undergraduate students from each won a competition to most
effectively run a set of scientific computer applications on a small
supercomputer cluster. For more information see
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PearlDiver Technologies Inc., creator of what is believed to be the
largest fully HIPAA-compliant, publicly available and searchable
database of patient records in the nation, will use IU's Big Red
supercomputer for advanced data analysis. Big Red's computational
power will analyze outcomes from millions of patients to condense
findings into information readily available to medical providers
and policy makers.
PearlDiver's use of Big Red is enabled by the Indiana Initiative
for Economic Development (IIED), a program that fosters technology
development and job growth in the state of Indiana.
For more information, see
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With oversubscribed undergraduate courses in computer security and
national job opportunities in cybersecurity climbing to near the
top of all information technology offerings, the IU School of
Informatics will begin a Master of Science in Security Informatics
program this fall.
For more information, see
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The work of Indiana University Rudy Professor of Informatics
Alessandro Vespignani, an internationally recognized expert on the
statistical analysis and computer modeling of epidemics, has
attracted national attention. Dr. Vespignani's computation has also
been noticed by local researchers, as it consumed a big chunk of
the computing cycles on IU's Big Red supercomputer.
For more information see
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Indiana University is looking for experienced individuals to fill
multiple positions in cloud computing, grid computing, and message-
oriented middleware development. The positions call for expertise in
Web service software development, developing Java Messaging Service
applications and related enterprise event bus technologies,
experience with distributed systems, sensor webs, and/or audio-video
systems research and advanced development.
For more information, search for Job #401 at
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The HUBzero Platform, developed by Purdue University and currently
being used by nanoHUB and the Indiana Clinical and Translational
Sciences Institute, is a web framework that allows the easy
creation of an entire scientific portal.
HUBzero contains a powerful simulation and modeling tool, and any
standard desktop tool that runs under Linux/X11 can be deployed in
a matter of hours. Batch-oriented simulation codes that don't have
a graphical interface can be deployed as well, and a graphical
interface for such codes can be created by using the Rappture
Toolkit within HUBzero.
This one-day, hands-on workshop will teach you how to create
scientific simulation tools using the Rappture toolkit and how to
deploy the tools on a site powered by HUBzero.
When: August 21, 2009, 9am-5pm
Where: Main site: IUPUI - ICTC Building Room 407
Satellite site: IUB - Wrubel Computing Center Room 110
Prerequisites: A laptop with a modern web browser and Java 6, and
familiarity with programming in MATLAB, C, or Fortran.
Seats are limited, so register as early as possible at
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The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computer (Cluster
2009) will meet 31 August - 4 September in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The organizers expect to be able to support up to 75 students with
registration fees and subsidized hotel costs.
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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
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.
* Simon Hall Gill Conference Center Anteroom
* Monday, June 8 11am-1pm
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Research Technologies Round Table
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- When: Thursday, July 23, 12:30-1:30pm
- Where: IUB - IMU Walnut Room, IUPUI - ICTC Room 497
- Live URL: http://tinyurl.com/cmn9s6
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The Libra Cluster, which has been in service since 2005, 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 remains in service.
If you have questions, 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
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The maintenance window for Big Red 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.
