HPC Happenings
The XSEDE Student Engagement Program - Call for Summer Projects
Submission Deadline - March 7, 2013
çThe XSEDE Student Engagement Program is seeking projects that will engage undergraduate and graduate students in meaningful research and development activities while utilizing the capabilities of XSEDE, a national network of high-performance computing resources and infrastructure. Working in a mentor-student environment, projects should address interesting science and/or parallel computation problems across all fields of study. We encourage projects that reinforce classroom learning and provide students with an immersive, hands-on, “real world” experience. If you are a scientist, faculty member, researcher, or user and have a project you think would meet the above criteria, please submit your job description online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/StuEngProjects.
XSEDE13 Submission Deadlines Approaching
XSEDE13 is being planned to be a great technical conference along with other exciting events and features. The conference needs your submissions and active participation to make it a success. Please consider making technical submissions to XSEDE13 and share your technical work with others in the community.
SUMMARY:
Call for Submissions:
-- Papers, abstracts, student papers (science and engineering, technology, software, education) and tutorials due Friday, March 8, 2013
-- Visualization, BoFs and poster abstracts due Friday, April 12, 2013
For more information, please visit https://www.xsede.org/web/xsede13/call-for-participation.
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) Spring Training
March 25-27, 2013 – Knoxville, Tennessee
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will offer three distinct one-day workshops to enhance the skills of students and researchers in various areas in the wide field of high-performance computing (HPC). Join us in East Tennessee to broaden your practical knowledge and experience using some of the latest in HPC hardware and software! Registration for all three of the one-day workshops will be through XSEDE’s training system, which will require a quick-and-easy XSEDE portal registration if you are not already in the system. Once you have logged in to your XSEDE portal account, you can register for these workshops here or simply look for the Course Calendar under the Training menu. For more information, please visit http://www.nics.utk.edu/spring-workshop-2013. To register, please visit https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar.
You're Invited! “Stampede” Dedication, March 27, 2013
The Texas Advanced Computing Center extends an invitation to join the celebration for the official dedication of Stampede - A World-Class Supercomputer to Enable Scientific Discoveries. Details can be found at http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/stampede-dedication-save-the-date.
Hotel Reservations Now Open for SC13
SC13 hotels are located in the downtown Denver area, with thousands of rooms within walking distance of the Colorado Convention Center. Remember that SC-arranged hotel rooms are popular. The hotel reservation site can be found at http://sc13.supercomputing.org/content/hotels?goback=.gde_1775643_member_217726620.
HPC Call for Participation
Extreme Scaling Workshop - Call for Submissions
August 15-16, 2013 – Boulder, Colorado
Submission Deadline – May 15, 2013
The NSF funded Blue Waters and eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) projects are hosting the seventh in a series of Extreme Scaling workshops. Systems such as Blue Waters, Stampede, and Titan take a major step from modest scale, heterogeneous test beds and prototypes to world-class, extreme-scale heterogeneous computing systems. This workshop is set up so that science and engineering teams gain an understanding of how to effectively utilize large numbers of accelerated nodes to advance their applications while still having time to exchange and learn best practices. The dissemination of information will occur through presentations, discussions, and workshop proceedings that will include recommendations from the presenters and participants who have had experience with these technologies. Scientists, engineers, scholars, and high-performance technologists from colleges, universities, laboratories, industry, HPC centers, and other organizations conducting related to this type of work are encouraged to submit presentations. Workshop proceedings will be produced that will include the accepted papers and white papers and a summary of recommendations from the discussions among the presenters and participants. Send submissions to Scott Lathrop at lathrop@illinois.edu by May 15, 2013. Notice of acceptances will be issued by June 1, 2013. Further information on this year's Extreme Scaling Workshop can be found at https://www.xsede.org/web/xscale/xscale13.
IEEE Cluster 2013 – Call for Participation
September 23-27, 2013 - Indianapolis, Indiana
Submission Deadline – May 18, 2013
IEEE Cluster 2013 conference organizers are seeking input from the high performance computing community, in an effort to make the "Clusters and Cyberinfrastructure Strategy event as informative as possible. Conference organizers are particularly interested in content related to:
* Current and future directions in cluster technology
* Clusters driving innovation in industrial and academic research
* Clusters in education and outreach
* Clusters and clouds in cyberinfrastructure strategy
* Clusters in distributed visualization
To learn more about Cluster 2013, please visit http://pti.iu.edu/ieeecluster-2013/. For complete submission information and guidelines, please visit http://pti.iu.edu/ieeecluster-2013/.
Upcoming Webinars
Introduction to Scientific Visualization using Paraview: Dr. Vetria Byrd, Clemson University
March 7, 2013 – 10;30AM PT, 12:30PM CT, 1:30PM ET
Hosted by Rice University
This webinar provides high level introduction to scientific visualization using ParaView. ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform parallel data analysis and visualization application built upon the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) Library. The webinar will feature demonstrations of how to read in data and create some commonly used plots using the visualization tool. One of the goals of the XSP is to provide students opportunities to learn more about high performance computing and the digital services that XSEDE offers to scientists. To register, please visit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDhvZUVlck5PMndibGRXbEtsNFNzU3c6MQ#gid=0.
Upcoming Conferences and Workshops.
SEA Software Engineering Conference 10`3
April 1-5, 2013 – Boulder, Colorado
Registration Deadline – March 18, 2013
Software Engineering Assembly is organizing a technical conference to keep software engineers up-to-date and to foster networking and collaboration within UCAR/NCAR and with our peer institutions. The conference is intended as a forum for broad discussion on multiple aspects of software engineering, and includes sessions on diverse topics relevant to software engineering theory and practice. The conference is intended to appeal to software engineers working at UCAR/NCAR and at other institutions developing software focused on scientific disciplines (e.g. NOAA, NIST, NREL, Universities, SWRI, NASA, DOE, other supercomputing centers, IGES, USGS, etc.) For more information, please visit http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=1182089. The UCAR
Educator Opportunities and Information
Registration and Housing Now Open for CSTA's Annual Conference
July 15-16, 2013 - Quincy, Massachusetts
The CSTA annual conference is a professional development opportunity for computer science and information technology teachers who need practical, classroom-focused information to help them prepare their students for the future. Take advantage of this opportunity for relevant professional development!
· Explore issues and trends relating directly to your classroom
· Network with top professionals from across the country and around the world
· Interact with other teachers to gain new perspectives on shared challenges
Some of this year’s session topics include:
· AP Computer Science
· CSTA's K-12 Computer Science Standards
· Equity & Diversity
· Mobile Applications
· Robotics
For more information and to register, please visit http://csta.acm.org/ProfessionalDevelopment/sub/CSTAConference.html.
S4HS 2013 at Carnegie Mellon University
July 31 - August 2, 2013 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University is running its 8th Annual CS4HS (Computer Science for High School) summer workshop at their main campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The workshop includes activities that help high school teachers understand the breadth of computer science beyond Java programming. (Teachers in K-8 are welcome to apply if they are teaching computing related courses and wish to expand their offerings soon.) We provide hands-on activities that teachers can use in their classrooms to show their students how to use computational thinking principles to solve problems, explore the use of robots and other software to solve real-world problems, and learn more about the various fields of study within computer science including machine learning and human computer interaction. Teachers will visit the local Google office in Pittsburgh to speak with Google engineers about how to help prepare their students for jobs in the computing industry, and there will be an open forum to discuss ways to improve the perception and relevance of computing in K-12. For more information, please visit http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cs4hs/summer13/.
Inspiring New Computer Science Videos
To help inspire kids to learn computer science, some of our greatest tech heroes have come together to record a short video message about how learning to code has influenced their lives and opened up doors. The message has received rave reviews in tests with students. For your convenience, Code.org has created 1-minute, 5-minute, and 9-minute versions of the video. To view the video, please visit http://code.org/teach.
Student Engagement and Information
XSEDE Scholars Application Process Now Open
Application Deadline – April 1, 2013
The XSEDE Scholars Program is a yearlong program for U.S. students from underrepresented groups in computational sciences. 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. Underrepresented minority undergraduate or graduate students, studying at research institutions, who are interested in the computational sciences, are especially encouraged to apply. The online application is located at Bit.ly/xsedescholars.
The e-Mentoring Network in the Mathematical Sciences Blog
The e-Mentoring Network in the Mathematical Sciences Blog is designed to address relevant questions that students, postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty may have regarding their own advancement in mathematics. Topics can be: considering graduate school, choosing a graduate program, leveraging REU work experience during the academic year, the benefits of a professional society for graduate students, how to measure a successful post-doc position, preparing for tenure review, and much more. Please visit http://blogs.ams.org/mathmentoringnetwork/.
Information Clearinghouse for REUs and Graduate School
If you an undergraduate interested in pursuing research this summer, you can find out about paid summer 2013 undergrad research placements at http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/Undergrads.asp, where there are over 800 opportunities listed.
NCAR Summer 2013 Undergraduate Opportunities
The SIParCS Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) offers graduate students and undergraduate students (who have completed their sophomore year by summer) significant hands-on R&D opportunities in high performance computing (HPC) and related fields that use HPC for scientific discovery and modeling. For more information, please visit http://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/siparcs.
Finding Financial Support for Graduate School
For those who plan to apply to graduate school, please visit http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/Grad.asp to find out more about financial support for graduate studies. This link includes information about Bridge to the Doctorate, IGERT and NSF Grad Research Fellowship programs that provide generous stipend and tuition support for students through the National Science Foundation.
One Stop Shopping Initiative (OSSI) Student Online Application for NASA Internships, Fellowships, and Scholarships
OSSI is a NASA-wide system for the recruitment, application, selection and career development of undergraduate and graduate students primarily in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. Opportunities for students in other disciplines are available. For more information, please visit https://intern.nasa.gov/content/internship-information/one-stop-shopping-initiative-ossi-student-online-a/index.html.
Calling All Graduate Students- Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge
Submission Deadline – April 15, 2013
Our world is changing faster than ever before--technology is developing at an unprecedented rate and the world faces extraordinary challenges with solutions based in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). What is needed to prepare STEM graduate students to meet these modern day challenges? Fundamental changes are also occurring in the career options for STEM professionals. What is necessary to navigate the career pathways of the future? The Division of Graduate Education at the National Science Foundation challenges STEM graduate students across the nation to submit innovative ideas to prepare them for tomorrow’s opportunities and challenges. Entries are solicited for ideas with the potential to improve graduate education and professional development. Ideas can be directed toward, for example, students, faculty, departments, institutions, professional societies, and/or federal agencies. Make your voice heard on STEM graduate education! For more information, please visit http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/gradchallenge/about.html.
Faculty Opportunities
Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering
Proposal Submission Deadline – May 22, 2013
This solicitation aims at introducing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology through a variety of interdisciplinary approaches into undergraduate engineering education. The focus of the FY 2013 competition is on nanoscale engineering education with relevance to devices and systems and/or on the societal, ethical, economic and/or environmental issues relevant to nanotechnology. Related funding opportunities are posted on the web site for the National Nanotechnology Initiative, www.nsf.gov/nano. In addition, research and education projects in nanoscale science and engineering will continue to be supported in the relevant NSF programs and divisions. For more information, please visit http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13541/nsf13541.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click.
Career Opportunities
University of Central Florida Postdoctoral Associate
STOKES Advanced Research Computing Center
The University of Central Florida (UCF) is investing in a research network to meet the requirements of the Internet2 Innovation Platform (software-defined networking, 10GE, and establishing a research DMZ). The Innovation Platform will support research using the STOKES Advanced Research Computing Center at UCF (see www.ist.ucf.edu). The primary function of the position is supporting integration of the Innovation Platform into UCF¹s research computing infrastructure, including the STOKES high performance computing cluster, proposing and conducting research using the Innovation Platform, and work with users on collaborative research efforts. For more information and to apply, please visit https://www.jobswithucf.com/postings/34658.
Florida State University Offers Three HPC Positions
The Florida State University recently restructured its shared-HPC facility to better reflect its broad mission and to improve support for computational and data intensive research. The name of the new organization is the FSU Research Computing Center. We now seek three talented individuals to join a team of five other professionals to support a broad portfolio of research computing related services. A brief description of each position is given below. Please contact Jim Wilgenbusch (wilgenbusch@fsu.edu) if you have questions about these positions.
1. Application Support Specialist
You can view and apply for this job at: https://jobs.omni.fsu.edu/psp/sprdhr_er/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRS.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?JobSeekers_ApplyForAJob=35365&Seq=1
2. Systems Administrator
You can view and apply for this job at: https://jobs.omni.fsu.edu/psp/sprdhr_er/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRS.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?JobSeekers_ApplyForAJob=35367&Seq=1
3. Support Coordinator
You can view and apply for this job at: https://jobs.omni.fsu.edu/psp/sprdhr_er/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRS.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?JobSeekers_ApplyForAJob=35368&Seq=1
