by U-M MICDE | Mar 20, 2015 | Events
The XSEDE15 Call for Participation, covering all aspects of participation in the conference, has been extended to April 6. The XSEDE15 Conference, to be held in St. Louis on July 26-30, will showcase the discoveries, innovations, and achievements of those who use,...
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 18, 2015 | Educational, Events
XSEDE, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, is accepting research allocation requests for the period July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. The submission deadline is April 15, 2015. Requests must be submitted through the XSEDE user portal. Before...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 18, 2015 | Educational, Events
Shuo Xiang, a data scientist at Pinterest, will deliver a seminar titled “Data Engineering on Spark.” Date: Friday, March 27 Time: 1 p.m. Location: Henderson Room, Michigan League Abstract: We are collecting and processing vast amount of data nowadays and we have...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 18, 2015 | Educational, Events
XSEDE along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center are pleased to announce a one day Big Data workshop, to be held April 7, 2015.This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark. Please bring your laptop to work on the exercises. Access accounts will be...
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 Opportunities
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 24, 2015 | Events, News
The ARC cluster Flux and Engineering cluster Nyx will be unavailable for jobs March 28th at 10:00pm. There is an emergency update to the ITS Value Storage systems on that date. http://status.its.umich.edu/outage.php?id=93178 Flux and Nyx rely on Value Storage and thus...
