November 7, 2013 – 11:00am- 12:00pm CDT Second in a series of webinars presented by Globus Online and ESnet HPC administrators working at laboratories, colleges and universities are invited to join this webinar tackling the problems and solutions to managing big data in academic settings. The webinar participants will describe how research computing administrators can deliver a...
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HPC Happenings Blue Waters Supercomputer Available for Educational Projects As part of the Blue Water project, up to 1 percent (or 1.8 million node-hours) per year of the system's computational capacity is available for educational uses, including semester-long courses, workshops, and institutes. These Education Allocations are intended to broaden the impact of Blue Waters and...
Read More About HPC Research and Education News for the Week of October 28, 2013 Sponsored by XSEDE »

  XSEDE is releasing a set of software that enables researchers and campus-based IT managers to build a “basic XSEDE-compatible computing cluster” from scratch, conveniently. This capability is provided by a bundle of software called a “ROCKS Roll.” ROCKS ( http://www.rocksclusters.org/ ) is a tool that automates the process of building a cluster from a pre-defined set of software....
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The Great Plains Network (GPN) announces the first three speakers for the Fall, 2013, web-based Professional Development Program: * Friday, August 23, 2013 at 10AM Central: Philippe Hanset, eduroam-US Project Leader, will discuss Eduroam, the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community, allowing students, researchers...
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Upcoming Conferences. Workshops and Festivals OGF34 March 12-15, 2012 – Oxford, England OGF Event Programs seek to strengthen existing, and engage new, user communities within OGF, provide a forum to foster new relationships and collaborations based on common interests, and develop best practices and technical specifications related to distributed systems, grids and clouds. In...
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