IU Pervasive Technology Institute

Pervasive Technology Institute

August 2017

Current and archive issues

Highlight

IU researchers awarded access to Microsoft cloud to advance neuroscience, big data training

Funded projects will support research at Indiana University developed through the Midwest Big Data Hub.

Noteworthy

IU PTI draws global attendees to Lustre Group meeting

Users of the supercomputing file system software connect with colleagues, elect officers to OpenSFS board, including IU’s own Ken Rawlings as secretary.

IU projects shine at 2017 Plant and Animal Genome Conference

Jetstream and NCGAS coordinate, collaborate, and dazzle at the 2017 Plant and Animal Genome Conference.

Supercomputing access with Karst Desktop

Researchers: Are you frustrated by Unix-like command-line environments? The Karst Desktop service lets you connect remotely to IU’s Karst research supercomputer with an app running on your personal computer (Windows, OS X, or Linux).

Chemistry students learn using Chemcompute and Jetstream

The NSF-funded Jetstream project supports thousands of students learning chemistry.

RENCI and CACR partner on NSF project enabling safe and secure data sharing

CACR will offer expert guidance on cybersecurity and privacy challenges.

Hit your data targets with DAART

IU has developed a graphical tool called the Data Archive And Retrieval Tool (DAART) to help researchers manage their high performance computing resources.

Viewing the universe (and more!) with ImageX

The IU Pervasive Technology UITS Research Technologies' Scalable Compute Archive group, has expanded the Image Explorer (ImageX) for more general-purpose scientific use..

Trinity and NCGAS partnership thrives as software popularity continues to grow

The Broad Institute’s messenger RNA (mRNA) assembler, Trinity, is one of the most popular tools for assembling short reads of mRNA into the transcripts produced by an organism.

Learning Opportunities

Unix: The Basics

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.

Supercomputing for Everyone Series: Faster Work, Safer Storage (an introduction)

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.

Supercomputing for Everyone Series: Introductory Parallel Programming for Supercomputers

ICTC, Room IT121 - IUPUI
9am – 5pm | Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Wells Library, Room W144 – IU Bloomington
9am – 5pm | Friday, February 10, 2017

Learn about threads and message passing to harness multiple processors for accomplishing a single task. This workshop includes a lecture and hands-on lab and is led by UITS Research Technologies.

Supercomputing for Everyone Series: Intermediate Parallel Programming for Supercomputers

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.

Conferences and Events

HPCSYSPROS Workshop at SC17

Submissions are encouraged that discuss all aspects of HPC systems design, implementation, maintenance, and security.

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Research Data Management Implementations Workshop:
September 14-15, Arlington, VA

RDMI is designed to focus on implementations of solutions for managing the storage of research data and encourage open discussion of available strategies for data management in specific fields based on actual case studies. Position and experience papers are due August 14.

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Science Gateways Bootcamp:
October 2-6, Indianapolis, IN

Hands-on activities for strategies to help you articulate your work to key stakeholders and create strong development, operations, and sustainability plans.

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SC17: November 12-17, Denver, CO

The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis returns- this year to Denver, Colorado. The theme for SC17 is hpc connects.

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Events Calendar

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Administrivia

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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This is an official publication of Indiana University and is produced by University Information Technology Services, Indiana University.

UITS Research Technologies is a cyberinfrastructure and service center affiliated with the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute.