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SDSC Summer Institute (SI) 2016: HPC for the Long Tail of Science Takes Place in August

4/12/16 10:26 AM

August 1 – 5, 2016 - San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, California

Applications Deadline - May 6, 2016

Notification - May 27, 2016

The SDSC Summer Institute (SI) 2016: HPC for the Long Tail of Science will provide a week of education and training in High Performance and Data Intensive Computing. The first half consists of plenary sessions covering essential skills including data management, running jobs on SDSC resources, reproducibility, database systems, characteristics of big data, techniques for turning data into knowledge, software version control and making effective use of hardware. This will be followed by a series of parallel sessions that allow attendees to dive deeper into specialized material that is relevant to their research projects and covering topics in Spark, The SDSC Summer Institute targets individuals interested in data science and computational science - especially current and potential users of SDSC's data-intensive resources. For complete information, please visit

https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/2016sdscsi/358854/.

By Ange Diane Mason

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