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Back to school edition, August 2016 |
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IU plays key role in $15M multi-partner NSF project |
IU will lead the Extended Developer Support component of the new Science Gateway Community Institute award, providing expert developers to projects (for up to one year) requesting assistance and demonstrating the potential to achieve the most significant impact on their research communities.
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HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) awards four ACS projects |
HTRC awarded the second round of Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. For the first time, HTRC accepted proposals requesting non-consumptive, computational access to in-copyright materials for research purposes, marking a significant milestone for the HathiTrust.
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IU, NSWC Crane to collaborate on cybersecurity |
Protecting computers from hackers is very different than the Department of Defense preventing terrorist attacks, but the connection between national security and cybersecurity is a lot closer than you think—at least at Indiana University.
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SEAD 2.0 announced |
The Sustainable Environment for Actionable Data (SEAD) will continue at IU with an improved project space, customized metadata, streamlined publishing with several repository choices, and better tracking of user publication requests. The IU Data to Insight Center highlights the newly designed SEAD publishing pipeline.
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SC16 workshops announced |
The international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis workshops has various deadlines in August and September. SC16 includes full- and half-day workshops that complement the overall technical program events, aimed at training practitioners and researchers in a particular subject area. Included is a new workshop co-led by Indiana University, the “HPC Systems Professional Workshop.”
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Learning Opportunities |
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Supercomputing for Everyone Series: Faster Work, Safer Storage (an introduction) |
Wells Library, Room W144 – IU Bloomington
1pm – 5pm | Wednesday, September 21, 2016
ICTC, Room IT121 - IUPUI
1pm – 5pm | Thursday, September 22, 2016
This course, formerly called “Intro to HPC@IU,” introduces IU faculty, staff, and students to high performance computing and the resources available to them at IU. This hands-on course will cover the basics of using IU’s supercomputing systems, from logging in, to job creation and submission.
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Unix: The Basics |
We highly recommended taking this course before attending "Faster Work, Safer Storage." Offered by UITS IT Training.
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Supercomputing for Everyone Series: Intermediate Parallel Programming for Supercomputers |
ICTC, Room IT121 - IUPUI
9am – 5pm | Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Wells Library, Room W144 – IU Bloomington
9:30am – 5:30pm | Friday, October 21, 2016
Learn how to decide between the three primary methods of parallelization for a particular problem, and identify the pros and cons of both synchronous and asynchronous parallel algorithms. Completion of "S4ES: Introduction to Parallel Programming for Supercomputers" is a prerequisite.
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Conferences and Events |
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Data Quality in a Big Data Era—at Indiana University |
IU and the Midwest Big Data Hub are hosting a two-day workshop for the benefit of early career researchers across domains. The objective of the workshop is twofold: firstly, to bring together diverse perspectives on data quality; and, secondly, to begin harmonizing views and identifying foundational issues that will serve to motivate a larger follow-on workshop.
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Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2016 |
Now in its 15th year, the Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium is the oldest annual event of its kind in an EPSCoR jurisdiction. The symposium includes a poster session and reception, vendor exposition, and seminars centered around topics in high performance computing.
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SC16: November 13-18, Salt Lake City |
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis returns- this year to Salt Lake City. SC16 aims to attract new and diverse groups of HPC professionals and students with the goal of sparking new conversations, new connections and new ideas.
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data |
Big data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately society itself. IEEE Big Data 2016 will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest results in big data research, development, and applications.
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Events Calendar |
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