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ANSYS Seminars and Workshops – CFD and Structural Mechanics, March 26-27, 2013

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Cost: Free with Lunch Provided
Location: Duderstadt Center

The presentations on Computational Fluid Dynamics and Structural Mechanics will allow U-M faculty and students to engage one-on-one with ANSYS experts and to learn the many ways in which ANSYS simulation tools are being used both in academia and the industry to solve complex and challenging engineering problems. These seminars will consist of presentations and hands-on workshops using the software.

March 26, 2013: Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • 10:00 am-12:00 pm: Computational Fluid Dynamics Seminar, 1180 Duderstadt Center
  • 1:00 pm-4:00 pm: Computational Fluid Dynamics Workshop, Duderstadt Center Windows Training Room 1 & 2

March 27, 2013: Structural Mechanics

  • 9:00 am-10:15 am: Structural Mechanics Seminar, Duderstadt Center Windows Training Room #2
  • 10:15 am-12:00 pm & 12:45 pm-2:00 pm: Structural Mechanics Workshops, Duderstadt Center Windows Training Room #2

Click here for additional details.

Registration is required. Please register at http://www.ansys.com/umichigan.

Information on how to obtain the new $25 student version will also be made available.

XSEDE Student Scholars Program: Applications Due by Monday, April 1, 2013

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The XSEDE, (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) Scholars Program is a year-long program for US students from underrepresented groups in computational sciences directed by Dr. Richard Tapia, Rice University professor and 2011 National Medal of Science recipient.

The program provides opportunities to learn more about high performance computing and XSEDE resources, network with cutting-edge researchers and leaders, and belong to a cohort of student peers to establish a community of academic leaders.

XSEDE 2013-14 Scholars will receive a travel grant to attend the XSEDE13 conference in San Diego, July 22-25, 2013 and will participate in at least six online technical training and mentoring webinars with other scholars throughout the year.

The online application is located at: http://bit.ly/xsedescholars  [NOTE: No / at the end.] Underrepresented minority undergraduate or graduate students, studying at research institutions, who are interested in the computational sciences, are especially encouraged to apply.

Application deadline: Monday April 1, 2013

For more information, contact program manager, Ruth Kravetz, at rkravetz@rice.edu or visit https://www.xsede.org/xsede-scholars-program

 

R&D Staff Scientist Position in Computational Fluid Dynamics – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) in the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) seeks to hire a Computational Scientist in the area of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to serve as a liaison between the OLCF and the users of the OLCF computing resources

This position is posted at the ORNL job site.

BWF Career Awards Available – Apply by Sept 4

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The Burroughs Wellcome Fund‘s (BWF) Career Awards at the Scientific Interface provide $500,000 to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service. These awards are intended to foster the early career development of researchers who have transitioned or are transitioning from undergraduate and/or graduate work in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences, and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. These awards are open to U.S. and Canadian citizens or permanent residents as well as to U.S. temporary residents.

Preproposal Application Deadline: September 4, 2012 by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time

For more information, visit www.bwfund.org/pages/558/Career-Awards-at-the-Scientific-Interface/

XSEDE12 Coming to Chicago July 16-19

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XSEDE12 is the inaugural conference for science, education, outreach, software, and technology related to the National Science Foundation’s eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment. This event will take place on July 16 to 19 at the InterContinental (Magnificent Mile) in Chicago.

For details and to register, visit xsede.org/web/xsede12/welcome.

For more information, contact Susan McKenna, XSEDE media communications coordinator.
Phone: 217-265-5167
Email: mckennas@ncsa.illinois.edu

This conference will feature a diverse slate of international speakers, ranging from some of the best computational scientists in the world to some of the most innovative leaders working to bring about profound societal change through technological leadership.

Gayatri Buragohain is an electronics engineer by education, an expert on information and communication technologies for non-profits, and a passionate advocate of equal participation of women in technology. She is the founder of the non-profit Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT), based in New Delhi, India, which focuses on advocating the equal participation of women not just in using technology but also in the making of and decision-making around technology. For her dedication in promoting women in technology, she was awarded the Change Agent Award by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology in 2010. Buragohain also runs the company Joint Leap Technologies, which provides tech services to non-profits.

Thomas Eickermann has been with the Juelich Supercomputing Centre since completing his PhD in physics at the University of Düsseldorf in 1994. His activities cover system administration, grid computing, and networking. In 2002, he became head of the communication systems division of JSC. His plenary talk will describe “PRACE – The European HPC Research Infrastructure.” Since its creation in 2010, PRACE has grown to 24 member states. It provides access to a set of high-end Tier-0 HPC systems for the European research communities and offers supporting services such as application enabling and training.

James L. Kinter III is director of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) where he manages all aspects of basic and applied climate research conducted by the center. His research includes studies of climate predictability on seasonal and longer time scales. Kinter has been using supercomputers since 1982, beginning with the Texas Instruments ASC and the Control Data Corporation Cyber 205, and has served as principal investigator on computational projects awarded over 200 million CPU-hours over that period for cutting-edge climate simulations and numerical experiments. He has served on several national review and advisory panels for both scientific research programs and supercomputing programs for computational climate modeling. His plenary talk will address the benefits and challenges of high spatial resolution in climate modeling.

John Towns is the principal investigator for the XSEDE project and leads other cyberinfrastructure projects at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He comes from a background in computational astrophysics with a focus on application performance analysis.

The conference also will feature a keynote address from distinguished mathematician, professor, and diversity advocate Richard Tapia.

 

 

Summer Workshops on Computational Resources for the Classroom

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Summer computational workshops offered to educators through National Computational Science Institute and XSEDE.

Several workshops are being held around the country this summer, aimed at educators who want to introduce or expand the use of computational resources in their classrooms. Faculty who are teaching at the college level, especially from Minority-Serving Institutions, are encouraged to apply. Applications from secondary school teachers in appropriate disciplines will be accepted on a space-available basis.

A limited number of travel scholarships are available to interested faculty. The scholarships will provide partial or full reimbursement of travel costs to and from the workshops and/or local housing costs. Preference will be given to faculty from institutions that are formally engaged with the education program of XSEDE — Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment — and those institutions that can provide some matching travel funds. Recipients are expected to be present for the full workshop.

Those interested in a travel scholarship should register for the desired workshop, and then create an account and complete the scholarship application.

As part of its education program, XSEDE is co-sponsoring these workshops with the National Computational Science Institute to provide professional development for faculty interested in integrating computational science education into their classes and curriculum. XSEDE also is working with institutions interested in creating formal undergraduate and graduate degree, certificate, and concentration programs in computational science.

Workshop list, including details and application links:
computationalscience.org/workshops2012

ABOUT NCSI:
The National Computational Science Institute provides workshops covering a wide range of subjects relating to computational science. These workshops are for educators at all levels, giving them ideas and resources to use in their classrooms.
NCSI: computationalscience.org

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.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.