by U-M MICDE | May 10, 2016 | General Interest, News
Statement from S. Jack Hu, U-M Vice President for Research: I’m very pleased to announce that Prof. Krishna Garikipati (Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics) has been appointed the new Director of the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering...
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
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 | 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 | 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...
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
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 | Dec 1, 2015 | News
Nitro, a high-throughput job scheduler from Adaptive Computing, is now available on Flux. Nitro is designed to schedule thousands to millions of tasks very quickly, working in conjunction with the existing Torque scheduler. Nitro speeds up the process of scheduling...
by U-M MICDE | Dec 1, 2015 | News
The School of Public Health will now share the costs of access to the Flux shared computing cluster with its researchers. The Medical School, the College of Engineering, and the College of Literature, Science and the Arts also share costs of Flux access. Updated rates...
by U-M MICDE | Nov 5, 2015 | General Interest, News
A “big data brain trust” has been established by the National Science Foundation to bring together industry, government and academia to accelerate this emerging field and harness it to solve some of society’s toughest problems. The University of Michigan will play a...