WebST 2016 is a research training event addressed to graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the critical, multidisciplinary and fast developing area of web studies, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation from computing and...
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The International HPC Training Consortium is organizing a workshop entitled "Third SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training" to be held at the SC16 Conference on Monday, November 14, 2016 from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM. The goal of this workshop is to engage individuals around the globe to share expertise and best practices for in-person, web-based and asynchronous HPC training for the...
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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...
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December 3, 2015 – Varies Locations XSEDE, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois will be presenting an OpenACC GPU programming workshop on December 3, 2015. OpenACC is the accepted standard using compiler directives to allow quick development of GPU capable codes using standard languages...
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December 4, 2015 – Urbana – Champaign, Illinois This course focuses on the technologies for Big Data management by introducing a suite of state-of-the-art distributed databases, specifically, MongoDB, Cassandra and Redis. In particular, we will discuss what distributed databases are, when and how to use them, and what are the key differences among them. We will showcase the...
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HPC in the News   Plants + HPC at NCSA Many fields of research are seeing changes in how that research is conducted thanks to advances in technology. Plant science is one of those, and NCSA is playing a role in two large projects. Historically, successful trait selection in plant breeding has involved manual measurement of individual plants. This...
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HPC in the News Nominations Closing Soon for NVIDIA Global Impact Award Nomination Deadline – October 30, 2015 Researchers worldwide are invited to submit their innovations for the 2016 NVIDIA Global Impact Award – an annual grant of $150,000 for groundbreaking work that addresses the world’s most important social and humanitarian problems. The award will go to an institution...
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Undergraduate biology labs are designed to prepare students for real-life biology work. These labs usually involve tried and true exercises like animal dissections, investigating enzymes, and microscope work. While traditional lab work is important, the field is rapidly evolving with the proliferation of big data and burgeoning technology. Computation and biology are now inextricably linked,...
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October 7, 2015 -  12:00pm CT Categories: Training, Education & Outreach, General User News This short webinar will introduce users to the process of writing an XSEDE allocation proposal, and cover the elements that make a proposal successful. This webinar is recommended for users making the jump from a startup allocation to a research allocation, and is highly recommended...
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  HPC in the News            SDSC's Comet System Offering Virtual Clusters in Current Research Allocation Submission Period September 15 - October 15, 2015 This is a reminder to those who are submitting a research allocation request in the current submission period. SDSC's Comet system is offering a new...
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