by U-M MICDE | Mar 18, 2015 | Educational, Events
This short webinar will introduce users to the process of writing a proposal to secure an allocation on XSEDE, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, and cover the elements that make a proposal successful. This webinar is recommended for users...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 17, 2015 | Educational, Events
Algorithmic adaptations to use next-generation computers closer to their potential are underway throughout scientific computing. Instead of squeezing out flops – the traditional goal of algorithmic optimality, which served as a reasonable proxy for all associated...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 16, 2015 | Educational, Events
Many people bandy about the notion of “parallelism,” saying such things as, “This optimization makes my application more parallel,” with only a hazy intuition about what they’re actually saying. Others cite Amdahl’s Law, which provides bounds on speedup due to...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 15, 2015 | Educational, Events, Funding
Program: The Data Incubator is an intensive six-week fellowship that prepares masters, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM + social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is supported by sponsorships from dozens of employers across multiple...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 5, 2015 | Educational, Events
Dr. Rosalind Picard, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present a talk titled “Emotion Technology, Wearables, and Surprises,” at 4:30 p.m. on March 23 in the Beyster Buidling on...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 23, 2015 | Educational, Events
The U-M Department of Biostatistics is holding the Undergraduate Summer Institute in Biostatistics from June 1 – 26, 2015. The theme is “Transformational Analytical Learning in the Era of Big Data,” and applications are being accepted through March...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 11, 2015 | Educational, Events
U-M is hosting a telecast of an upcoming training workshop on MPI programming sponsored by XSEDE along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The two-day MPI workshop will be held March 4-5, 2015. The U-M...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 11, 2015 | Educational, Events
Mario Juric is a Washington Research Foundation Data Science Professor of Astronomy at the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington, and a Senior Data Science Fellow of the University of Washington eScience Institute. He is also theData Management...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 10, 2015 | Educational, Events
The Science of Cyberinfrastructure: Research, Experience, Applications and Models (SCREAM-15) conference in Portland, Oregon, July 16 is seeking submissions for papers. The deadline is Feb. 23. Visit the conference’s call for papers page for more details. Topics...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 5, 2015 | Educational, Events
Users of high performance computing resources are invited to meet Flux operators and support staff in person at an upcoming user meeting: Room 1180, Duderstadt Center, Friday, Feb. 6, 2 – 5 p.m. There is not a set agenda; come at anytime and stay as long as you...
