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Apply to use Blue Waters through the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation: Due Oct. 31

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The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) has been allocated 50 million core hours annually as part of the Blue Waters project. This allocation provides the GLCPC member institutions (including the University of Michigan) with an unprecedented opportunity to advance their programs in computation-, data-, and visualization-intensive research and education.

This call for proposals (CFP) describes the process for submitting a proposal to the GLCPC Allocations Committee for allocations on the Blue Waters system: http://www.greatlakesconsortium.org/bluewaters.html.

ORCI would like to encourage U-M researchers to apply, so please contact us if you would like additional information and share this opportunity with colleagues!

Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Internship Program: Application deadline 3/31

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Who:

Shodor (A national resource for computational science education) is actively recruiting undergraduate faculty and students:

  • Undergraduate faculty who would like to mentor an undergraduate student in a year-long internship in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics that involves teaching or researching the use of high-performance computing in studying problems in these fields.
  • Undergraduate students interested in participating in a year-long science or engineering internship. Students must be enrolled as undergraduates through Spring 2012 at a U.S. degree-granting institution.

What:

Support is provided by the NSF-funded Blue Waters Project for sustained petascale computing to support year-long undergraduate internship experiences involving the application of high-performance computing to problems in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics. The program provides a student stipend totaling $5000, a two-week intensive high-performance computing workshop, and travel to the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle.

This program provides support for undergraduate internship activities at any accredited degree granting institution in the United States. The internships awarded through this program may be to students working with a faculty mentor on their home campus, or at another campus. Interested faculty need to create a position description through our site, and can specify a particular student that the position is intended for, or may select a qualified applicant with Blue Waters support through our program.

Promotional Material:

A PowerPoint slide is available to let students know about the program (if your browser or e-mail client appends a “.doc” suffix to this file, you will need to remove that suffix to open the file with PowerPoint). In addition, poster-sizedand handout-sized flyers are available (in pdf format) to inform students and colleagues about this program.

When:

Student applications and intern position descriptions from faculty must be submitted by March 31, 2011. Be sure to click the “Submit” button at the bottom of the web form to be entered into our system. Review and selection will be conducted in early April, with notifications being made by April 15.

A two-week workshop will be held May 29 through June 10. Interns are expected to work full-time over the Summer, and as their schedule allows during the academic year. Work plans will need to be arranged by the student and faculty mentor, and approved by the Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Education Program.

How:

Through our website:

  • Faculty should create descriptions of undergraduate internship positions they have available, indicating either that the position is intended for a particular student applicant, or that it is open to qualified applicants.
  • Eligible undergraduate students are asked to submit an application for consideration. There is an area on the form where students can identify a faculty member as a mentor. Students who have taken the initiative to arrange an internship with a faculty mentor are more likely to be selected for this program than students that have not.

News and Internship support from GLCPC

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UM is a founding member of the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC), a non-profit multi-institutional effort to promote petascale computing and applications. Here are several new GLCPC activities and initiatives.

(1) GLCPC NEWS MAILING LIST

We recently created a group email list for people at all the member institutions interested in receiving GLCPC news about high-performance computing and Blue Waters. Anyone can subscribe (or unsubscribe) to this GLCPC-NEWS list.

To subscribe to this GLCPC NEWS list, send email to: majordomo@ncsa.illinois.edu
Do not put anything in the Subject line.
In the body, type: subscribe glcpc-news

To unsubscribe, follow the above instructions, but in the body, type: unsubscribe glcpc-news

(2) BLUE WATERS QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER, DECEMBER 2010

The December 2010 issue of the Blue Waters Quarterly Newsletter is available.  It highlights the work of the PRAC teams, with an article on the Chemistry Group at Iowa State University. The Newsletter also includes articles on: DOE’s Simulations Summit, Blue Waters Libraries, DOE INCITE Awards, NSF HPC Workshop, SC10, and the GLCPC. This issue, and previous issues, can be downloaded from the Blue Waters website <http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/newsletters.html>.

(3) BLUE WATERS UNDERGRADUATE PETASCALE INTERNSHIPS

Shodor, a GLCPC member institution, is a national resource for computational science education. Under its direction, the NSF Blue Waters project will be funding 17 undergraduate research internships again this year. This program provides for: 1) a $5000 stipend for the student over the course of the year; 2) travel,  accommodations, meals and participation in a two-week intensive Petascale Institute at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); and, 3) travel to the SC11 conference in Seattle in November. Because this program is run nationally, Shodor is soliciting student applications from across the country. In addition, Shodor is seeking faculty with research or educational projects involving high-performance computing to post intern positions through its site. Positions can be created for a particular student, or open to qualified applicants. To learn more about the Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Education Program (BW-UPEP), and for information on how you can become involved, please visit Shodor’s website at <http://shodor.org/petascale/participation/internships/>. Questions can be sent to <jeffk@shodor.org>.

Blue Waters offers undergraduate research internships

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A great opportunity to recommend to your students (or an opportunity for faculty to mentor an undergrad):

The Blue Waters program is sponsoring 17 undergraduate research interns in 2010. The goal is to engage undergraduate students in petascale computing research, development, and education projects. Students selected through an application process will be provided with a full-year internship that includes summer and academic year support totaling $5,000. The students will become members of a petascale research group. The students will work within a research or education team, and will be provided multiple opportunities to interact with all of the other students during their internships. The students will also be asked to attend an SC Education Program to report on their research experience.

For more details, see the program flyer.

To apply: http://computationalscience.org/upep/applications

Faculty who would like to mentor an intern can do so through the Undergraduate Petascale Education Program site: http://computationalscience.org/upep/faculty

In person! Get your questions about Blue Waters petascale computing answered

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Representatives from Blue Waters petascale computing project are visiting the U-M campus for a public information and Q&A session as well as private meetings with small groups who have more specific needs and issues (see additional info below). For more on Blue Waters, see our previous post.

Visiting on Wednesday, February 17, 2010, will be:

  • Bill Kramer, Blue Waters Deputy Director (More on Bill: Rock Stars of HPC: Bill Kramer)
  • John Ziebarth, Senior VP and Chief Operating Officer, Krell Insititute, and member of the Board of Directors, Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation

The public information session will be held from 1:30 to 3:00 pm in Johnson Room A, Lurie Engineering Building, North Campus. [NEWS: Slides from the presentation are now available.]

If you are interested in a private meeting on the 17th, please contact Dr. Katherine Lawrence (kathla@umich.edu) in the Office of Research Cyberinfrastructure. Please indicate when during the day (between 9 and 5) you are available to meet.

Professor Sharon Glotzer (sglotzer@umich.edu) is serving as the UM liaison to the Blue Waters project.

Additional info: The purpose of the visit is to talk about opportunities for UM faculty and students to engage in the development of codes for petascale platforms such as Blue Waters.  NSF is seeking proposals for the Petascale Computing Resource Allocations solicitation (PRAC, due March 17), and NCSA is seeking to encourage and help with proposals led by faculty at UM.  UM is a founding member of the GLCPC and as such we are partners on NSF’s $195M grant to NCSA for the construction of a 10 Pflop machine.

This is an excellent opportunity to get assistance with, and access to, petascale resources. Please help to spread the word by sharing this info your (potential or otherwise) petascale-inclined colleagues.

Interested in petascale computing? Check out Blue Waters.

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Blue Waters will be the the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open scientific research and will be the first system of its kind to sustain one petaflop performance on a range of science and engineering applications. The project is now actively soliciting researchers to participate in the next and final round of allocations prior to the machine coming online in 2011. In order to receive an award of time on Blue Waters through the National Science Foundation allocation process, teams must receive a pre-allocation through the current Petascale Computing Resource Allocations (PRAC) process. The next round of PRAC proposals are due March 17, 2010, and information about the solicitation is available on the NSF website.

Bill Kramer, the deputy project director and co-principal investigator, will be visiting the UM campus in January or February 2010, and if you are interested in meeting with him during his visit please contact us, Professor Sharon Glotzer (sglotzer@umich.edu) who is serving as the UM liaison to the Blue Waters project, or Dr. Katherine Lawrence (kathla@umich.edu) in the Office of Research Cyberinfrastructure. The Blue Waters project has an extensive education and outreach program to help people understand how to make use of this facility, and it also has a facility to help people craft proposals. The architecture supports both computer- and data-intensive applications. We encourage those interested in applying to review the 18 projects that have already been reviewed and approved for allocations.

BREAKING NEWS: Feb. 1 webinar to provide overview, proposal writing tips for access to NSF’s sustained petascale Blue Waters supercomputer.

On Feb. 1, NCSA will host a two-hour webinar to provide details about the Blue Waters system, an overview of the PRAC program, and tips on writing successful PRAC proposals. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions.
Presenters will include Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, and Blue Waters staff.

The webinar will begin at 12 noon EST (11 a.m. CST) on Feb. 1. To participate, go to  https://eval.webex.com/eval/onstage/g.php?d=929809225&t=a and use the event password “prac.” No advance registration is required.
For more information on Blue Waters and the PRAC program, see:
http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/
http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/prac.html

Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE) call for participation

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The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE) is pleased to announce and actively seeking participation in Summer School 2010.

In 2009, the VSCSE offered two Summer School workshops to interested graduate students:

Scaling to Petascale
August 3–7, 2009
http://www.vscse.org/summerschool/2009/scaling/

Many-Core Processors
August 10–14, 2009
http://www.vscse.org/summerschool/2009/manycore/

Six sites (CCT/LSU, EVL/UIC, NCSA/UIUC, NICS, OSC/OSU, UMich) participated in these workshops. It is anticipated that we will offer three such workshops in the summer of 2010:
http://www.vscse.org/summerschool/2010/workshops.html

We hope to scale up the number of participating sites next year. To participate in Summer School 2010, a site provides a high-definition classroom that meets a minimal set of technical requirements:
http://www.vscse.org/summerschool/2010/tech-requirements-draft-01.doc

Prior to the workshops, participating sites work together to meet the requirements of the distributed classroom model described in the above document.

Planning for next summer’s workshops has already begun. If you (i.e., your site) is interested in participating in 2010, please indicate your interest by completing the following doodle:
http://www.doodle.com/wzsgd44pau6kbmzv

If you know of other sites that might be interested, please forward this link and suggest they contact the e-mail address below to register their intent. In January, we will select the participating sites for Summer School 2010.

Thanks for your interest in the Virtual School!

Tom Scavo
Program Coordinator, VSCSE
info@vscse.org

NCSA video: Behind Blue Waters

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Deputy Project Director Bill Kramer describes working with scientists and engineers around the country on Blue Waters and talks about how new research teams can get involved. These relationships will help make Blue Waters the first supercomputer to achieve sustained-petaflops performance on a range of scientific research when the system comes online in 2011.

Watch the interview.

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/Video/2009/kramer.html

Any UM faculty interested in making use of the Blue Waters sustained petascale computing system please let Dan Atkins know so that we can facilitate interaction with the planning and preparation activities.