Mini symposia, presentations, and discussion on recent developments in parallel computing. Abstracts are due January 29.

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National Center for Genome Analysis Support attended PAG XXVI in San Diego January 13-17. Their collaborative work with staff, faculty, and affiliates was highlighted in more than 8 presentations.

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Longtime employee leads team that manages the advanced IT systems and tools crucial to research and education discovery.

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Jetstream will be holding a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program in summer of 2018. Deadline to apply is January 31.

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Mason, Indiana University's large memory computer cluster, was retired on January 1, 2018.

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Geoffrey Fox to lead grant to advance nanoscale devices to improve human health, including fighting cancer.

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PTI's Chauncey Frend builds patent-pending cy.PIPES system to allow developers to control immersive environmental conditions.

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Medical genomics researchers at Indiana University are making great strides in helping medical researchers and clinicians to better understand the genetic underpinnings of drug addiction and alcohol dependence.

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The new Pathfinder service was developed to aid researchers in finding the HPC resources that best fit their needs.

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A 90,000-square-foot concrete building designed to withstand an EF5 tornado, is home to the university’s supercomputers and administrative data.

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IU and Dell team up to build a new high performance computing cluster at Slippery Rock University.

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Available live in person and live via videoconferencing

Tuesdays starting Jan. 23, 2018 (through Tue. May 1, 2018)
1:30pm (ET) / 12:30pm (CT) / 11:30am (MT) / 10:30am (PT) / 9:30am (AT) / 8:30am (HT)
* Live in person on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus
* Live via videoconferencing worldwide

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ICTC IT121 (IUPUI)
Noon-4pm | Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Wells Library W144 (IU Bloomington)
Noon-4pm | Friday, February 9, 2018

We highly recommended taking this course before attending "Faster Work, Safer Storage."

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Wells Library W144 (IU Bloomington)
1-5pm | Thursday, February 15, 2018

ICTC IT121 (IUPUI)
1-5pm | Friday, February 16, 2018

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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Wells Library (IU Bloomington)
1.5 hours per day | March 27 & 29, April 3 & 5

Staff of the National Center for Genome Analysis Support will lead this workshop on R, with a genome sequence case-study using the Jetstream resource.

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ICTC IT121 (IUPUI)
9am-5pm | Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Wells Library W144 (IU Bloomington)
9am-5pm | Friday, April 6, 2018

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.

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ICTC IT121 (IUPUI)
9am-5pm | Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Wells Library W144 (IU Bloomington)
9am-5:30pm | Friday, April 13, 2018

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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Introductory Workshop at University of Nebraska - Holland Computing Center, Lincoln, NE, US
May 14-18 | Register by April 23 for early-bird rates

Intermediate Workshop at Yale University, New Haven, CT, US
August 13-17 | Register by July 23 for early-bird rates

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The UnCamp showcases innovative research, enables hands-on coding and demonstration sessions, and builds community around themes of computational text analysis, digital humanities, and digital pedagogy.

January 25-26 | Berkley, CA, US

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Mini symposia, presentations, and discussion on recent developments in parallel computing. Abstracts are due January 29th.

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Now in its 17th year, the Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium is the oldest annual event of its kind in an EPSCoR jurisdiction offering an introduction to supercomputing as well as facilities and research.

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CACR offers monthly seminars on issues of cybersecurity.

• Jan 11: Cybersecurity for Challenging Environments, Robert Templeman, NSWC Crane
• Feb 8: Cybersecurity and Women, co-hosted with CEWiT, Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University

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CCoE offers monthly seminars tailored to the NSF science community.

• Jan 29: Security Program at LSST, Alex Withers
• Feb 26: SMARTDATA Blockchain, Murat Kantarcioglu
• Mar 26: Data Profenance for Mobile Devices, Leon Reznik

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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 of noon-1:30pm offerings:

• Jan 19: Intro to 3D Visualization, Mike Boyles
• Jan 26: Intro to R, Tassie Gniady
• Feb 2: Augmented Reality, Chauncey Frend
• Feb 9: Text Analysis of Kurt Vonnegut with the HathiTrust Research Center, Robert McDonald and Tassie Gniady
• Feb 16: Virtual Reality, Bill Sherman
• Feb 23: R for Twitter, Tassie Gniady
• Mar 2: Advanced Media, Chris Eller
• Mar 23: Network Graphs, David Kloster
• Mar 30: 3D Object Acquisition and Printing, Jeff Rogers

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

• Jan 18: Jian Ma, Carnegie Mellon Univ
• Jan 19: James Hendler, Tetherless World Chair of Computer, Web, and Cognitive Sciences, RPI
• Jan 26, Avrim Blum, Toyota Technology Institute of Chicago
• Feb 2: Virginia Eubanks, University of Albany, SUNY
• Feb 2: Chris Martin, Indy Zoo, CISAB
• Feb 9: Lionel Robert, School of Information, Univ of Michigan
• Feb 16: Peng Wong, Chief Data Science Officer - Omeda
• Feb 16: Nick Street, University of Iowa
• Feb 23: Bruno Miguel Tavares Goncalve, NYU
• Feb 23: Eran Halperin, Univ of California, LA
• Mar 2: James 'Jimi' Shanahan, NativeX
• Mar 23: Adam Smith, Boston Univ

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Systems Administration
Maintenance windows:

• Big Red ll, Big Red II+, Carbonate, Karst, DC2/DCWAN, Geode:
  Second Sunday each month, 7am-7pm EDT
• RDC: First Tuesday each month, 7am-7pm EDT
• Scholarly Data Archive: Sundays, 7-10am EDT
• Geode: 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: https://kb.iu.edu/d/apes
• Other issues, outages, who can help, email: researchtechnologies@iu.edu

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