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| Noteworthy |
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| Learning Opportunities |
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Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships - applications due February 3, 2017
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Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships provide PhD students with a year of support, including a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, an allocation of up to 50,000 node-hours on the powerful Blue Waters petascale computing system, and funds for travel to a Blue Waters Symposium to present research progress and results.
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Unix: The Basics
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| We highly recommended taking this course before attending "Faster Work, Safer Storage." Offered by UITS IT Training. We purposefully offer it the morning of "Faster Work, Safer Storage" in the same location.
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Supercomputing for Everyone Series: Faster Work, Safer Storage (an introduction)
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Wells Library, Room W144 – IU Bloomington
1pm – 5pm | Wednesday, February 1, 2017
ICTC, Room IT121 - IUPUI
1pm – 5pm | Thursday, February 2, 2017
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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Supercomputing for Everyone Series: Intermediate Parallel Programming for Supercomputers
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ICTC, Room IT121 - IUPUI
9am – 5pm | Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Wells Library, Room W144 – IU Bloomington
9am – 5pm | Friday, February 24, 2017
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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SC16: November 13-18, Salt Lake City
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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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2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data
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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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| PTI-Related Seminar Series' |
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Scholars' Commons Workshops & Digital Brown Bag Series
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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:
- November 11: 3D Photogrammetry
- November 15: 3D Maps for ArcGIS
- November 18: Network Graphs
- November 30: Up and Running with the HathiTrust Research Center
- December 2: Advanced Media
- December 7: Indiana Geological Survery & Digital Collections Service
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School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) Colloquium and Events
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SoIC offers a variety of colloquiums ranging from big data and security to intelligent & interactive systems and much more.
- November 10: Sean Mooney, University of Washington
- November 11: Maria Wolters, Center for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh
- November 11: Dan Putler, Chief Scientist, Alteryx
- November 11: Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University
- November 11: John Paolillo, Associate Professor of Informatics
- November 11: 3D Bioprinting as a Bio-Informational Technology
- November 16: Orion Penner, Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne
- November 17: Yunlong Liu, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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| Events Calendar |
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| Administrivia |
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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:
More ways to get PTI and UITS-RT news
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http://itnews.iu.edu
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http://www.youtube.com/user/IUPTI
This is an official publication of Indiana University and is produced by University Information Technology Services, Indiana University.
Copyright 2016, The Trustees of Indiana University. Please credit UITS when referring to or using information in this publication.
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UITS Research Technologies is a cyberinfrastructure and service center affiliated with the Indiana University
Pervasive Technology Institute.
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