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Attend HPC Summer School in Ireland

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The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) have collaborated to offer the third European-U.S. Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences.

What:  2012 European-U.S. Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences
When:  June 24-28, 2012
Where:  Dublin, Ireland
More information:  xsede.org/web/summerschool12/

Goals of the summer school are for attending graduate students and postdoctoral students to gain greater knowledge about high performance computing (HPC) and its applications in multiple fields of science and engineering and to foster new collegial friendships and partnerships among the international presenters and attendees.

The expense-paid program will benefit scholars from European and U.S. institutions who currently use HPC to conduct research.

XSEDE Webcast: Data Management – Dec 15

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Data Management Planning and Execution Webcast

When: December 15, 2011

Time: 2 pm – 4 pm

Audience: This course is designed for researchers, faculty, graduate and undergrad students conducting research that involves generation of digital data.

Registration: https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar/-/training/class/

Please note: Registration closes at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, December 13. The class size is restricted to 100 registrants and there are approximately 25 spots left as of this posting.

This course will introduce best practices in data management, both before and after the generation of research data, helping researchers meet the requirements of government funding agencies with regard to data management and open access, improve the efficiency of the research process, and aid the long-term preservation and reuse of digital data.

We will briefly describe the resources in XSEDE that are most relevant to the practice of data management, and show how the hierarchy of storage resources common across XSEDE SPs facilitates management of research data.

Please submit any questions you may have via the Consulting section of the XSEDE User Portal to the XSEDE Help Desk.

Campus HPC resources: TeraGrid support, GPUs, and MPI

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Faculty interested in learning about the TeraGrid and getting HPC resources from them off campus (e.g., compute, data archive, or visualization services) should contact Brock Palen.

Flux has 8 GPUs available for testing. The GPUs are available at no additional cost to Flux users. Users who wish to use it should see:
http://cac.engin.umich.edu/resources/software/cuda.html

In Flux, we also have increased the number of supported CPUs for MPI debugging from 16 to 64 CPUs at a time.

TACC Hosts 5th Annual Summer Supercomputing Institute

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The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) will host the fifth annual, five-day Summer Supercomputing Institute in Austin, Texas, from August 1-5, 2011.

For more details and to apply online please visit the Summer Supercomputing Institute web page: http://portal.teragrid.org/course-calendar

The TACC Summer Supercomputing Institute will provide researchers with an intensive introduction to TACC’s computing resources. The Institute is appropriate for all levels of researchers, faculty, staff, and graduate students, from new users of advanced computing technologies to those who have research projects requiring powerful computing, visualization, storage, or software.

* Applications Seminars: Leading computational researchers will discuss their work, including examples of how they are applying TACC’s resources such as _Ranger, Lonestar, Longhorn, and Spur._
* One-on-one Consulting: During the Institute, TACC staff will assist participants in applying the techniques and technologies covered in the Institute to their own applications.
* Researchers across Disciplines: Users across multiple disciplines are encouraged to apply, including Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Geology, Geophysics, Computer Sciences, Biosciences and Nanosciences.
* MSI Participation: TACC encourages participation from all Minority Serving Institutions, including Hispanic Serving Institutions and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

TACC staff will deliver presentations and lead interactive labs focused on using TACC’s resources and technologies, including:
* _Ranger:_  Sun Constellation Linux Cluster;
* _Lonestar:_ Dell Linux Cluster;
* _Longhorn_: Dell/NVIDIA Visualization and Data Analysis Cluster;
* _Spur:_  Sun Remote Visualization Cluster;
* _Ranch:_ Petabyte archival facility;
* Developing parallel programs with OpenMP and MPI;
* Analyzing and optimizing application performance; and
* GPGPU programming.

Important Dates:
* June 10, application deadline
* June 17, notifications sent to applicants
* June 24, payment ($150) deadline for accepted applicants (covers lunch, snacks and course materials)

Refund Policy: Accepted applicants needing to cancel must do so by Tuesday, July 26, in order to receive a refund.

For more information about the TACC Summer Supercomputing Institute, please contact Chris Hempel, TACC Director of User Services, Email: hempel@tacc.utexas.edu; Phone:512-475-9479.

TeraGrid 2011: Call for Submissions

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The TeraGrid 2011 conference “Extreme Digital Discovery” is accepting paper and abstract submissions through April 15th. Tutorial proposals are due May 6th. You do not need to be affiliated with the TeraGrid to submit or to attend.

The TeraGrid 2011 conference will showcase the capabilities, achievements, and impact of the TeraGrid in research and education. The conference will also mark the beginning of the National Science Foundation’s eXtreme Digital Resources for Science and Engineering program and will give scientists and engineers information on the resources and services to be provided through this successor to the TeraGrid.

The call for submissions is here: https://www.teragrid.org/web/news/tg11_call_submissions. Conference proceedings will be published by ACM.

The conference will be held July 17-21, 2011, at the Marriott Downtown Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah.

www.teragrid.org/tg11/

Consider TeraGrid resources, with CAC support!

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While the Flux Project (http://cac.engin.umich.edu/resources/systems/flux/index.html) is a major improvement in the availability of HPC resources on campus the CAC would like to mention other HPC resources available to researchers.

TeraGrid (www.teragrid.org) is a free HPC resource funded by NSF. Awards of CPU time are granted to researchers who request them on a wide collection of resources.

TeraGrid grants most requests with some sort of an award. There are two award types:

  • Startup/Education (200,000 CPU Hours or less)
  • Research Allocations (Up to Unlimited CPU Hours)

The CAC provides tools to TeraGrid users to interoperate between Flux and TeraGrid resources and supports users of TeraGrid on campus.

Those interested in applying for TeraGrid time should see: http://cac.engin.umich.edu/resources/teragrid/

You can also contact the CAC with questions or for a presentation at cac-support@umich.edu


					

		
		
	


				
					
	

		

						
TeraGrid Storage available on Flux/Nyx

			
						

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The Center for Advanced Computing in the College of Engineering is pleased to announce the availability of the Indiana University Data Capacitor on the Flux and Nyx login nodes.


The IU Data Capacitor (DC) is a resource that can be allocated to you via TeraGrid.  There is more information in the TeraGrid KnowledgeBase (http://bit.ly/fNyuni) at on IU’s own web pages (https://pti.iu.edu/dc/), but in summary the DC is a 339TB Lustre file system (similar to /nobackup) that is shared among a number of TeraGrid resources.  It is intended for short-term use for working data (files older than 14 days in the scratch area or older than 30 days in the group project area may be deleted) that needs to be shared between TeraGrid computational resources and the U-M Flux/Nyx resource.


Our access to the DC is via high-speed networks to IU and we have demonstrated writes as fast at 1Gb/s over the wide-area network.  Our hope is that this eases your use of TeraGrid resources by easing the data transfer burden.


To apply for space on the Data Capacitor, request it on the TeraGrid POPS form (https://pops-submit.teragrid.org/) as “DC-WAN”; for more information see https://www.teragrid.org/web/user-support/data_resources.


If you have questions about applying for a TeraGrid allocation (Data Capacitor or other resources), please let us know at tg-support@umich.edu

					

		
		
	


				
					
	

		

						
CI Days Video Online

			
						

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Find out what you missed if you didn’t attend CI Days. Evaluations of the event were very positive, and ORCI is making plans for another CI Days next year. We will have smaller events and workshops in the meantime, and we will keep you posted!


News story on the OVPR website: http://research.umich.edu/ci/cidays2010/


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Save the Date for UM’s CI Days: November 2 & 3, 2010

			
						

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The upcoming free conference “Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Days: Innovating Research and Learning Through Cyberinfrastructure” will be held the evening of Tuesday, November 2, and all day Wednesday, November 3.


Join us to learn and explore ways you can use CI in your research and teaching. The diverse agenda is for all levels of experience, covering services and resources at U-M and beyond. CI Days will feature:


    

  • A      poster-session highlighting CI-enabled research projects on campus:      Awards for best student posters!
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  • Presentations by nationally      renowned leaders
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  • Introductions to campus and national resources
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  • Panels on best practices and current trends
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  • Information about additional educational      opportunities in CI
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  • Opportunities to meet colleagues with similar      interests and form cross-campus connections with potential collaborators
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Do you have CI-related research or a project you can share? 

Please sign up to present a poster and share your work: http://arc.research.umich.edu/cidays/submit_poster/


Further details about the event and registration are available at http://arc.research.umich.edu/cidays


What is CI? Cyberinfrastructure (CI) refers to a platform of technological and human support for advanced, integrated computation and information resources in service of research and learning. It includes such services and resources as:


    

  • High-performance computing (e.g., simulations,      modeling, etc.)
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  • Cloud computing for research
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  • Advanced data management, sharing, and storage
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  • Data collection techniques enabled by advanced      information technologies
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  • Advanced visualization
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  • Network-mediated collaboration tools
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  • Computer-mediated instrumentation/sensor networks
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  • Web portals/middleware
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