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November 9 | Herman B Wells Library

• 9:30-11am Peebles Memorial Lecture - Featuring Discoveries enabled by IU Cyberinfrastructure
• 11am-3:00pm Research Services Expo

We'll be celebrating the launch of Big Red II+, the newest addition to IU advanced cyberinfrastructure, by giving away premium IU umbrellas to the first 100 attendees to visit six of the stations at the expo.

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Information about the Peebles Memorial Lecture Series

"PIPES" enables virtual reality developers to simulate environmental conditions such as; wind, heat, or smell.

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The organisms studied here are at the base of the food chain and serve a vital role in ocean environments.

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Erica Hayes produced a naturalistic map of the locations in the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

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HydroClim will provide valuable information for researchers, natural resource management professionals, government agencies and the public.

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As a result of this work, Cummins has considerably improved its designs and understanding of fluid behaviors.

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This event drew together the local community of makers of all ages.

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The aim is to build algorithmic understanding and basic coding skills before scaling up analyses.

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The Indiana Imaging and Biomarker Neurorepository has generated over 1000 scans from almost 1000 participants.

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Visualizations produced in this project helped to demonstrate potential deficiencies in the curing process.

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Improved project space, customized metadata, streamlined publishing with several repository choices, and better tracking of user publication requests.

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Unique courses in visualization and science gateway architecture.

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IU’s Science Gateways group led students from across the globe through the GSOC program.

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Thomas is now a web archivist at the Library of Congress.

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A set of recommendations were developed that will help guide Campus Bridging into the future.

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XNAT has allowed the group to bring up scans during the meetings and use the additional information to come to a more accurate consensus.

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A multimodal site was created to accommodate the array of media integrated into the project.

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Flights from April 18 – May 21, 2016 resulted in 29TB of data collected.

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The success of these simulations allows for deeper analyses of tropical cyclone development.

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Training programs such as this are integral to supporting a broad scope of biological questions.

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During the site visit, XSEDE and UTEP staff worked together to bring up a total of 70 compute nodes.

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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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October 25, 2016 | 9am EDT

These toolkits are designed to allow System Administrators to add on to existing clusters or to build new ones from scratch.

CRI staff will provide a brief introduction of the group goals and a brief description of the toolkits currently on offer – including the XSEDE-Compatible Basic Cluster (XCBC) and the XSEDE National Interoperability Toolkit (XNIT).

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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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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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CACR offers monthly seminars on issues of cybersecurity.

• October 20: NCSU's Jessica Staddon - Privacy Incidents, News and News About Incidents

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IU Libraries offer a wealth of workshops and seminars to aid researchers, including over 20 opportunities this month.  Here is a sampling:

• October 14 & 28: R Literary Analysis
• October 19: Strategies for Creating Open Digital Proejcts
• October 21: IQ-Tables & Touch-Enabled Software Workflows
• October 31: Stop Motion Animation
• November 4: Avalon's Role in the Digital Collections Ecosystem

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SoIC offers a variety of colloquiums ranging from big data and security to intelligent & interactive systems and much more.

• October 14: Neel Sundaresar, Microsoft
• October 20: Shaun Grannis, Regenstrief Institute
• October 21: Kristina Hook, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology
• October 21: Scott Swinford, Perscio COO
• October 21: Alex Leavitt, Facebook
• October 21: Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University
• October 27: Dr. John Chaston, Brigham Young University
• October 28: Peter Dodds, University of Vermont
• October 28: Jimeng Sun, Georgia Tech
• October 28: John Reppy, University of Chicago
• November 3: Cindy Bethel, Mississippi State University
• November 4: Anurag Garg, DATTUS Inc CEO
• November 4: Feng Qian, IUB

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Systems Administration
Maintenance windows:

• Big Red ll: First Tuesday each month, 7am-7pm EDT
• DC2/DCWAN: First Tuesday each month, 7am-7pm EDT
• Mason: First Tuesday each month, 7am-7pm EDT
• Karst: First Tuesday each month, 7am-7pm EDT
• RDC: First Tuesday each month, 7am-7pm EDT
• Scholarly Data Archive: Sundays, 7-10am EDT
• Research File System: Sundays, 7-10am EDT
• Emergency downtimes: See IT Notices: http://itnotices.iu.edu
  

How to contact us and get help
Do you have questions about IU's cyberinfrastructure or need help? Try these resources:

• How to do things: IU Knowledge Base: http://kb.iu.edu
• Overview of IU's cyberinfrastructure: http://rt.uits.iu.edu/ci/index.php
• Other issues, outages, who can help, email: researchtechnologies@iu.edu

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