Monthly Archives: April 2012

Google Lecture Recap and Recording: Science in the Cloud

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Dan Atkins uses his iPad to take a picture of Joe Hellerstein addressing the audience in Chesebrough Auditorium.

What does it mean to do science in the cloud, and where is it going? These questions were the topic of a public lecture delivered by Google’s manager for computational science, Joe Hellerstein. During his visit to Ann Arbor on April 26, Hellerstein addressed a crowd of 100 faculty, staff and students, providing a high-level overview of current Google cloud services and hinting at directions Google may take in the realm of computational science. Due to a blanket non-disclosure agreement with the university, Hellerstein limited his comments in the general forum, but offered to meet privately with researchers interested in hearing more details.

Prior to the lecture, Hellerstein took part in pre-scheduled meetings with select U-M researchers who are currently positioned to make immediate use of cloud tools in possible pilot collaborations.

In his talk, Hellerstein discussed how the science community can leverage Google’s experience over the last 10 years with massive data sets and building scalable infrastructure. “The starting point [of Google cloud services] may be more cycles, or cheaper cycles. But what it leads to rapidly is a fundamental change in the way we do discovery. We have an opportunity for sharing, reproducibility, and collaboration that we don’t have today with our normal mechanisms,” said Hellerstein. He went on to provide case studies of how scientists at Google are using cloud tools, and he shared his thoughts on possible opportunities that could stem from using the cloud for scientific discovery.

More than 100 faculty, staff and students gathered to learn more about Google's cloud tools for computational science.

The slides and audio from Hellerstein’s public lecture are available here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EarthCube Updates

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This is the program update for April 26, including information on funded projects, upcoming presentations, information on the roadmaps, an update on the June Charrette, and highlights from the community groups. Have questions or comments? Please get in touch with the EarthCube team at earthcube@nsf.gov.

Funding Update

As a result of the first round of Expressions of Interest, a series of awards have been made (information available here). These include community groups forming around essential components of EarthCube (Data Mining, Data Access, Data Discovery, Governance, Workflow, and Semantics). A second set of proof-of-concept awards were also made to support demonstration of possible components of EarthCube. All of the groups are open to participation by anyone with ideas to offer can be joined online if you’d like to be part of the ongoing conversations and activities. A list of scheduled phone calls and events can be found online.

To assist in the tracking of the groups, there will be a weekly posting of updates via email through the site contact list and on the EarthCube website: please see the bottom of this email for this week’s summary.

In addition, a file containing the combined set of Expressions of Interest for the final target date has been posted online. Individual submissions will be updated on this page over the next week.

EGU Presentation April 26

If you’re attending the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012 in Vienna, Austria, EarthCube Cliff Jacobs will provide an update on EarthCube in session ESSI2.7 at 15:30 on Thursday, 26 April. In addition, on that same day, from 19:00–20:00 in Room 2, Cliff Jacobs will be giving an updated on the U.S. EarthCube efforts. More information is available here.

Roadmaps

One of the primary tasks of the funded projects is to develop roadmaps in preparation for the June 2012 Charrette. Guidance documents for preparing Community Group roadmaps and Concept Groups roadmaps have been posted (http://earthcube.ning.com/profiles/blogs/roadmap-guidance-documents). These groups are open to all participants, if you believe you can contribute to sharping the roadmaps in any or all of the points of the guidelines, please participate in the discussions by joining the groups online.

June 2012 Charrette Update

The next EarthCube community meeting will be held June 12-14. The goal of the meeting is be to create robust drafts of community-derived roadmaps for the funded community groups and to discuss and provide input into the roadmaps for the present concept award portfolio. After the meeting, all roadmap documents will be posted for public comment to allow the broadest possible input from the community and all interested parties. The final versions of the community group road maps will be made public in mid to late summer in preparation for continued funding. Roadmaps, deemed by NSF to be representative of community input and addressing guidance provided, will form the basis of additional funding in late 2012 or early 2013.

The event will begin at 9am on June 12, and will run until 4pm on June 13. The meeting will be open to all participants. Similar to the November 2011 Charrette, you will be able to participate either onsite (at a hotel in Arlington, VA, limited to approximately 140 participants) or virtually (via WebEx and other online technologies). Participants for the onsite component of the meeting will be responsible for the cost of their attendance, which will include a registration fee. Full or partial support of the attendance of early career scientists and junior faculty will be made available.

Additional information about the meeting will be posted online as details are made available.

Group Updates

To help cross-project coordination, each funded group will be posting a brief update as part of this weekly newsletter. This week we’re starting with just information from the community groups, but in following weeks these notes will include information from the concept awards as well. Enjoy.

For general information on all the current awards, including links to join the group discussions, please see this page.

Governance Community Group

Group website: earthcube.ning.com/group/governance
Workshops & Meetings Hosted (all are open to the public; agendas and WebEx call-in posted to the website):

  • Four formal Steering Committee (SC) Calls/Webinars
  • One SC Workshop in Denver, CO with virtual component
  • Two virtual Plenary Sessions
  • Weekly SC calls on Fridays at 10am PDT/1pm EDT
  • Current Research on Existing Governance Structures (all finished summaries are posted on the website):
  • Finished research on EarthCube White Papers and EoIs focused on governance and system-wide design
  • Finished research on Project Mohole and Weill & Ross IT Governance
  • Actively seeking suggestions from the community on other references to review

Current Focus

  • Organizing community-wide focus groups to address components of the Roadmap
  • Call for group participation is posted on the website site
  • An initial outline is available through Google Docs

Activities Planned:

  • April 27 SC Call, WebEx and Agenda will be posted on the website
  • First focus group sessions week of April 30

Other Information:

  • Coordinating an EarthCube Vimeo site in order to facilitate the recording of and viewing of virtual sessions across the EarthCube community

Semantics and Ontologies Community Group

Group website: earthcube.ning.com/group/semantics-and-ontologies
Hassan Babaie of the Semantics Group submitted request for session at AGU meeting this fall: Session Proposal (ID: 1398610) entitled: “Semantic Web and ontologies in Earth science”
Virtual WebEx conference was held on 24th April. Summary report being prepared by Krzysztof Janowicz (jano@geog.ucsb.edu) of UC Santa Barbara

Face to face workshop agenda, including speakers and panel members who have volunteered to lead community discussions addressing the elements of the Roadmap identified by NSF, has been finalized (April 30-May1). The workshop will have WebEx capabilities for virtual interaction with the broader community.

Workflow Community Group

Group website: earthcube.ning.com/group/workflow
We have set up an additional web site describing events and activities in the group, with all the documents that the group is creating as public so anyone in the community can edit and contribute.

We have posted a set of questions to the community concerning workflow technologies, as a vehicle to collect input and project what issues we are most interested in capturing in the roadmap report.

We agreed to set up weekly invited presentations from significant constituents of the geosciences community as identified in the EoIs and selected to the Governance Forum, which will address the Workflow Questionnaire prepared by the group.

Data Mining Community Group

Group website: earthcube.ning.com/group/data-discovery-mining-integration
Webex meeting held April 13th to discuss logistics, see use case presentation and determine best ways to obtain needs for data mining. Anne Wilson presented use case, “Towards a DDMA Reference Architecture.”
Rahul Ramachandran reviewed data mining EOIs and created a first cut at needed questions for obtaining information about data mining tools, “Data Mining Tools Review Criteria”

Webex meeting held April 20th including a discussion of the EOI review, a use case presentation, logistics and the EarthCube Roadmap for Mining. Joseph Baker presented use case, “Mining the SuperDARN Geospace Facility Database Using Spatio-Temporal Process Discovery Algorithms.”

A session proposal was submitted to the AGU Fall meeting entitled “A Community Roadmap for Discovery, Access, and Mining of Geosciences Data.”

A Google Docs site was set up as a working area to collaboratively develop needed documents for the group. A Google groups site was also set up to serve as a data repository so that DDMA Mining developed materials, background materials, meeting notes, etc. would be easy to find in one central location. The DDMA area on the ning site is being used to post notices and activities, and references documents on the Google sites as needed.

The DDMA Mining group will meet via Webex on Fridays from 2:00 – 3:00 CDT, just prior to the DDMA Access group Webex. The next several Webex sessions will include use case presentations and discussions

The DDMA Mining group is currently addressing ways to obtain information about mining tools, current capabilities, needs and challenges from the widest audience possible. One particular area of focus is encouraging effective communication and understanding between geoscientists and data mining experts.

Data Access Services Community Group

Group website: earthcube.ning.com/group/data-discovery-mining-integration
Webex meeting held April 13th was a kick-off meeting. Tanu Malik presented (i) goals of the workshop, (ii) broad topics on agenda, (iii) items on the roadmap document, and (iv) a tentative timeline. Members of the community identified their roles in the workshop and discussed a few use-cases to begin with.

Webex meeting held April 20th covered the state-of-the-art through two use-cases, Robert Jacob, Argonne National Laboratory on “Sharing big data with a few colleagues” and Ruth Duerr, National Snow and Ice Data Center on “User Access Issues at the National Snow and Ice Data Center” Robert demonstrated several access control issues in harnessing resources across institutions and presented a few alternatives. Ruth presented issues faced by data centers in making large amounts of data public.

Anne Wilson from University of Colorado also presented the vision for her Reference Architecture. (Anne had presented the RA in the previous Discovery group meeting) Anne will use the RA to document processes that each sub-group is using to get the necessary technical and conceptual end-user requirements.

A session proposal was submitted to the AGU Fall meeting entitled “A Community Roadmap for Discovery, Access, and Mining of Geosciences Data.”

A Google Docs site was set up as a working area to collaboratively develop needed documents for the group. A Google groups site was also set up to serve as a data repository so that DDMA Access developed materials, background materials, meeting notes, etc. would be easy to find in one central location. The DDMA area on the ning site is being used to post notices and activities, and references documents on the Google sites as needed.

The DDMA Access group will meet via Webex on Fridays from 3:00 – 4:00 CDT, just after to the DDMA Mining group Webex. The next several Webex sessions will include use case presentations and discussions.

The DDMA Access group is currently addressing ways to fit all the use cases into a conceptual model and find issues that lie at the interface of discovery mining, and other groups.

Data Discovery Services Community Group

Group website: earthcube.ning.com/group/data-discovery-mining-integration
Weekly webex for Data Discovery occurs every Wednesday, 12-1PM Pacific time. Ning site has the webex information.
Meetings have been held so far on Wed April 11th, 18th, 25th,

  • April 11th: Kickoff, discuss logistics, plan for report due in June, plan for subsequent meetings.
  • April 18th: Presentation by Steve Richards on metadata standardization and catalog federation in USGIN and NGDMS.
  • April 25th: Presentation by Amarnath Gupta on the NIH-funded Neurosciences Information Framework (NIF) project.

Decided to adopt a “reference architecture” approach for laying out the roadmap for DDMA activities. Anne Wilson will lead this effort.

A session proposal was submitted to the AGU Fall meeting entitled “A Community Roadmap for Discovery, Access, and Mining of Geosciences Data.”

A Google Docs site has been set up as a working area for sharing documents including, meeting minutes, reference docs, and the roadmap report.

The DDMA area on the ning site is being used to post notices and activities, and references documents on the Google sites as needed.

The DDMA Discovery group will continue to meet via Webex on Wednesdays from 12-1PM Pacific time (2-3PM Central; 3-4PM Eastern). The next session on May 2nd will include a presentation fromRobert Gibb, New Zealand about a cloud-based approach for discovery and access. We are also lining up presentations from some industry representatives.

Issues being addressed: Linking to the broad community of geoscientists; Developing a common roadmap for EarthCube data activities (DDMA).

Brokering Concept Award

Group website: earthcube.ning.com/group/brokering
Held a strategy meeting on 23 April where the Brokering Framework Principles were presented and the features of an example broker described.

The NSF guidelines for road map development were discussed, focusing on three topics: challenges, requirements and solutions.

The meeting was an chance for the Brokering Concept Activity to become more familiar with the needs, interests and attitudes of its partners. Excellent feedback from the partners highlighted the benefits and challenges for brokering in EarthCube.

For more information visit EarthCube’s webpage.

Canceled – Google Chief Economist to Speak May 8

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Regretfully, Dr. Hal Varian’s visit scheduled for Tuesday, May 8 at 2:00 p.m. on the topic of  “Nowcasting Economic Indicators with Search Engine Data” has been canceled.

Dr. Varian was on the faculty at the University of Michigan in the Department of Economics from 1977 to 1995, when he moved to Berkeley to be dean of their School of Information, Management, and Systems.  Since 2007, Dr. Varian has been Chief Economist at Google.

 

CFP and Workshop on Resiliency in HPC in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids

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The fifth Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids will be held in conjunction with the 18th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2012) on Rhodes Island, Greece, on August 27-31, 2012.

The paper submission deadline is Friday, June 1, 2012.

Details:

Clusters, Clouds, and Grids are three different computational paradigms with the intent or potential to support High Performance Computing (HPC). Currently, they consist of hardware, management, and usage models particular to different computational regimes, e.g., high performance cluster systems designed to support tightly coupled scientific simulation codes typically utilize high-speed
interconnects and commercial cloud systems designed to support software as a service (SAS) do not. However, in order to support HPC, all must at least utilize large numbers of resources and hence effective HPC in any of these paradigms must address the issue of resiliency at large-scale.

Recent trends in HPC systems have clearly indicated that future increases in performance, in excess of those resulting from improvements in single- processor performance, will be achieved through corresponding increases in system scale, i.e., using a significantly larger component count. As the raw computational performance of these HPC systems increases from today’s tera- and peta-scale to next-generation multi peta-scale capability and beyond, their number of computational, networking, and storage components will grow from the ten-to-one-hundred thousand compute nodes of today’s systems to several hundreds of thousands of compute nodes and more in the foreseeable future.

This substantial growth in system scale, and the resulting component count, poses a challenge for HPC system and application software with respect to fault tolerance and resilience. Furthermore, recent experiences on extreme-scale HPC systems with non-recoverable soft errors, i.e., bit flips in memory, cache, registers, and logic added another major source of concern.

The probability of such errors not only grows with system size, but also with increasing architectural vulnerability caused by employing accelerators, such as FPGAs and GPUs, and by shrinking nanometer technology. Reactive fault tolerance technologies, such as checkpoint/restart, are unable to handle high failure rates due to associated overheads, while proactive resiliency technologies, such as migration, simply fail as random soft errors can’t be predicted. Moreover, soft errors may even remain undetected resulting in silent data corruption.

Important dates:

  • Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2012.
  • Notification deadline: June 29, 2012.
  • Camera ready deadline is after the workshop.

Submission guidelines:

  • Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format via EasyChair.
  • Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 pages, including figures, tables and references using Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format.
  • Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review.
  • All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.
  • Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal.
  • Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference.
  • Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer’s LNCS as post-conference proceedings.
  • At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings.
  • Authors may contact the workshop program chair for more information.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Reports on current HPC system and application resiliency
  • HPC resiliency metrics and standards
  • HPC system and application resiliency analysis
  • HPC system and application-level fault handling and anticipation
  • HPC system and application health monitoring
  • Resiliency for HPC file and storage systems
  • System-level checkpoint/restart for HPC
  • System-level migration for HPC
  • Algorithm-based resiliency fundamentals for HPC (not Hadoop)
  • Fault tolerant MPI concepts and solutions
  • Soft error detection and recovery in HPC systems
  • HPC system and application log analysis
  • Statistical methods to identify failure root causes
  • Fault injection studies in HPC environments
  • High availability solutions for HPC systems
  • Reliability and availability analysis
  • Hardware for fault detection and recovery
  • Resource management for system resiliency and availability

HPC Workshop at CUNY on June 5-6

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The City University of New York (CUNY) is offering a two-day workshop on “Accelerators in High Performance Computing and Computational Science.” Dr. Steven Scott, chief technology officer, Tesla-NVIDI, will be the keynote speaker.

Date: June 5-6, 2012
Location: College of Staten Island, City University of New York

The use of “accelerators” such as GPUs, FPGAs, and Intel MIC is a transformational force in high performance computing enabling scientists, engineers, and researchers in industry and academia to accelerate research and mission-critical applications. Topics to be covered include trends in the development of accelerator hardware and programming models and presentations on state-of-the-art applications in the following domains:

  • Biosciences
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Finance
  • Mathematical and Physical Sciences
  • Multimedia

There is an attendance fee for meals of: $15 for CUNY students, $25 for CUNY faculty/staff/alumni, $50 Non-CUNY attendees. (Valid ID required for CUNY discount). A continental breakfast and a lunch will be provided.

Advance registration is required. To register, please visit: http://www.csi.cuny.edu/cunyhpc/registration.php

If you have any questions, please email us at: HPCWorkshops@csi.cuny.edu

This workshop is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Research Foundation of the City University of New York.

ORCI Sessions at Enriching Scholarship: Get Started with CI; Using the Cloud

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Getting Started with Cyberinfrastructure (CI): Insights From a Panel of Students

This panel of graduate students is ideal for a student or faculty member who is contemplating all there is to learn about CI. Each student will describe why and how they got started with using CI, what background knowledge or experience they brought to the learning process, and where they went for support. The panel will identify courses, workshops, websites, and other resources they used for learning about CI.

Date and Time:  Thursday, 5/10, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Location: Gallery Lab (100), Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 South University, Central Campus
Session level: All
Sponsor(s): Teaching and Technology Collaborative
Presenters: Abe Gong, Heidi Phillips, Stephanie Stenzel

Getting Started With The Cloud

This session is currently full. Register anyway! Registering puts you on the waitlist and you will automatically move up as people drop.

Traci Ruthkoski, from the Office of Research Cyberinfrastructure, will describe methods for integrating cloud technologies into teaching environments while giving an overview of basic cloud structure and terminology. As part of her presentation, she will describe a case study where UM undergraduate students in an honors seminar used the cloud for data analysis.

Date and Time: Thursday, 5/10, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Location: Gallery Lab (100), Hatcher Graduate Library
913 South University, Central Campus
Session level: All
Sponsor(s): Teaching and Technology Collaborative
Presenter: Traci Ruthkoski

Check Out the Collaboration Success Wizard and Participate

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Gary and Judy Olson, formerly of U-M and now at UC-Irvine, are seeking participants for the Collaboration Success Wizard, an on-line diagnostic survey for geographically distributed collaborations. The survey probes factors that may strengthen or weaken the collaboration. The Wizard provides both personal and project-level reports to help build successful and productive collaborative projects. Learn more about this project at  hana.ics.uci.edu/wizard.

How does the Wizard work?

Once a project is approved to participate, we send invitation e-mails to all the project members. The Wizard is an online survey that takes about 30 minutes. Each individual involved in the project should take the survey independently. The more project members who take the survey, the better the data! And yes – it’s free!

What’s in it for participants?

At the end of the survey each participant can see a wizard-report-blurred.gifpersonalized individual report that contains feedback based on their answers and our research. This report is available immediately, and summarizes both the strong points and the issues at risk for the target collaboration.

If multiple members of the same project complete the Wizard, we are willing to provide a report to the group about the overall character of the project. This can be very helpful, especially for more complex projects that involve multiple disciplines and organizations. To protect individual privacy, this report does not identify specific people, but gives aggregate findings about the project as a whole.

How to participate?

An application form is available through the link below. It requires you to describe your collaboration in enough detail so we can determine if the Wizard is an appropriate instrument. If approved, we will send you information about how to access the Wizard.

Apply Now!

If you have any questions about the Wizard, please e-mail Hana-CSW@ics.uci.edu.

 

 

Extreme Scaling Workshop – Registration Now Open

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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ Blue Waters and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) projects are hosting the annual Extreme Scaling Workshop on July 15-16, 2012, in Chicago.

Petascale systems provide computational science teams with effective, scalable, sustained computing platforms. The research community expects these systems to provide sustained petascale performance on a broad range of science and engineering applications and algorithms, from applications that are compute-intensive to those that are data- and memory-intensive.

The workshop will address algorithmic and applications challenges and solutions in large-scale computing systems with limited memory and I/O bandwidth. The presentations and discussions are intended to assist the computational science and engineering community in making effective use of petascale through extreme-scale systems, across the spectrum of local campus-scale systems to national systems.

Workshop Audience
Scientists, engineers, and high-performance technologists from colleges, universities, laboratories, industry, HPC centers, and other organizations conducting related work are encouraged to attend. Workshop participants will address the issues and will help identify current activities and future needs in order to help the overall computational science community make effective use of petascale through extreme-scale systems, and across the spectrum of local systems through national/international systems.

The continued growth in the number of cores per chip and accelerator-based hybrid systems requires expanded application-driven requirements for new computational models and methods, improved parallel programming algorithms, software development for parallel and distributed systems and application flexibility. Similarly, memory bandwidth limitations and increased challenges of data movement require significantly greater effort in fundamental approaches to application methods.

Achieving the full potential of these new systems, with all their advanced technology components, requires additional effort on the part of the science teams. Fortunately, these efforts are completely aligned with what science teams have to do in order to use almost any system over the next decade.

Workshop Agenda
The workshop begins at noon on Sunday, July 15, and ends at 5 p.m. on Monday, July 16. The event includes a keynote on Sunday afternoon, along with a series of 90-minute sessions that include two presentations and a discussion of the issues raised in the presentations. After the workshop, proceedings—including the papers, presentations, and a summary of the discussions—will be made available via the ACM Digital Library.

The list of talks and presenters is posted on the workshop website: xsede.org/web/xscale/agenda.

Workshop Registration
A workshop fee of $125 helps cover the cost of meals, including lunch and dinner on Sunday, and breakfast and lunch on Monday, along with breaks each day.

Housing
The workshop and accommodations are at the Radisson Hotel Chicago O’Hare, 1450 E. Touhy Ave., Des Plaines, IL, at a nightly room rate of $100 plus taxes. All costs associated with housing and travel are the responsibility of the participants. Use this link to make hotel reservations and receive the conference rate: http://www.radisson.com/extremescalingworkshop.

This workshop is being offered in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC.

CONTACT:
For more information, contact Scott Lathrop, NCSA, at lathrop@illinois.edu.

ABOUT BLUE WATERS:
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ Blue Waters project, supported by the National Science Foundation, will deliver a petascale supercomputer capable of sustained performance of 1 petaflop and with multi-petabyte data capabilities. As one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Blue Waters will enable science and engineering breakthroughs that improve our world. For more information, see ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/

ABOUT XSEDE:
XSEDE, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, is the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world. It is a single virtual system that scientists and researchers can use to interactively share computing resources, data, and expertise. XSEDE integrates the resources and services, makes them easier to use, and helps more people use them. The five-year, $121 million project is supported by the National Science Foundation, and it replaces and expands on the NSF TeraGrid project.

NextGen Technology Panel – May 10

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What’s next for IT in the classroom and across campus? Join campus technology leaders for a panel discussion about their plans for investing in the next generation of technologies that will better support U-M in the future.

The panel participants are Laura Patterson, U-M CIO, Dan Atkins, associate VP for research cyberinfrastructure, Barry Fishman, associate professor of education, and Paul Courant, university librarian and dean of libraries.

The session will be held on Thursday, May 10, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm as part of Enriching Scholarship. Please register if you’d like to attend in person.

Or, join the conversation via Google Hangout, a new way to spontaneously meet online using voice and video. Hangout participants will take part via this exciting Google App for Education now available to all members of the U-M community.

We invite all participants to send questions in advance by emailing contact.nextgen@umich.edu (Subject line: CIO Panel).

Date and Time: Thursday, May 10, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm

Location: Main Gallery (100), Hatcher Graduate Library
913 South University, Central Campus

Please note, we also encourage those interested in the NextGen panel to consider the Getting Started with CI session.

Google’s Upcoming Lecture Will be Webcast

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This Thursday, April 26, Google’s Manager for Computational Discovery for Science, Joe Hellerstein, will discuss Google’s upcoming resources for computational research. The lecture will take place at 2:00 pm at Chesebrough Auditorium in the Chrysler Center.

Products soon to be released to U-M researchers include:

  • massive computing and storage capabilities
  • services to make powerful research tools both more widely available and easier to use
  • scalable web services that enable access to research code, scientific tools and methods

Title: Google Cloud Services and the University of Michigan

Abstract: Google is rapidly developing its capabilities as a provider of cloud services. I provide an overview of the directions Google is pursuing with its cloud products. This is addressed to the University of Michigan as an enterprise. The remainder of the talk will provide details of the exacycle computing service that harnesses the Google infrastructure to create a top 10 supercomputer. I will provide details of one project underway that does molecular dynamic simulations to better understand certain drug pathways.

We are on the brink of a potentially revolutionary era of computing, and Google has asked for University of Michigan to collaborate in this effort. Please join us for more information!

Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

Webcast directions and link:

  • Please visit this site prior to the meeting to download the add-in, test your flash player, and test your connection speed.
  • You do not need to pre-register to view the webcast, however only the first 200 participants may enter.
  • On the day of the event, click this link 5-10 minutes before the program starts to take you to the webcast:  http://univofmichigan.adobeconnect.com/google2/
  • Select the “Enter as a Guest” option
  • Type your uniqname.
  • Then click “Enter Room.”

We are not taking questions for this webcast.