by U-M MICDE | May 10, 2016 | Educational, News
The Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE) is pleased to announce “Methods and Practice of Scientific Computing”, the first graduate course designed and organized by MICDE faculty. The course will be taught in Fall 2016, coordinated by...
by U-M MICDE | Apr 13, 2016 | General Interest, News
Three winners of the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE) Poster Competition, held at the MICDE Annual Symposium, were announced April 7, 2016. They are: First place – Elizabeth Hou, Statistics (A. Hero), LSA “Latent...
by U-M MICDE | Apr 13, 2016 | Educational, Events
A Software Carpentry workshop will be held at the U-M Medical School May 2 and 3. These workshops are free and open to anyone on campus; the sessions are suitable for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Register here. This hands-on workshop will cover...
by U-M MICDE | Apr 13, 2016 | General Interest, News
HOOMD-blue, a University of Michigan-produced software package for particle simulation, was chosen as one of seven benchmark applications to demonstrate the speed of NVIDIA’s new Tesla P100 GPU. HOOMD-blue was developed by Prof. Sharon Glotzer’s research...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 18, 2016 | Educational
Undergraduate groups can now access Flux, U-M’s shared computing cluster, at no cost under the new Flux Academic Use program from Advanced Research Computing (ARC). Flux Academic Use aims to provide undergraduates with experience in high performance computing and...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 7, 2016 | Educational, Events
The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) is hosting a data science summer camp for juniors and seniors in high school, from July 18 – 22, 2016. Students in the camp, titled “From Simple Building Blocks to Complex Shapes: A Visual Tour of Fourier...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 7, 2016 | Events
The Modular Data Center, which houses the Flux HPC cluster, will be without power starting from 6 a.m. to approximately 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, for preventative maintenance of electrical infrastructure on North Campus. Additional networking maintenance for...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 17, 2016 | General Interest, News
Sharon Broude Geva, Director of Advanced Research Computing (ARC), will deliver a keynote address at PRACEdays16 in Prague, Czech Republic in May. PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has 25 member countries; its mission is to enable high impact...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 17, 2016 | General Interest, News
As part of regular upgrades to our high performance computing resources, Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS) has increased the capacity of the Flux HPC cluster. These newest (seventh generation) nodes include: 167 Standard Flux nodes with...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 17, 2016 | General Interest, News
The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) is pleased to announce the second competition for MIDAS Challenge Thrust awards. These awards are intended to stimulate research in key areas identified at our inaugural symposium last fall, and will lay the foundation...