by U-M MICDE | Mar 26, 2018 | Events, General Interest, Happenings, News
Approximately 50 posters from post-docs and graduate students across campus entered the Poster Competition at the 2018 MICDE Symposium on March 22, 2018. We’re proud to announce the winners: First Place ($500): “Modeling and Enhanced Sampling of...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 6, 2018 | General Interest, Happenings, HPC, News
ARC-TS has installed 15 new compute nodes into the ConFlux cluster. These nodes have the same 20 cores CPU as the original set, but with 256 GB of RAM instead of 128 GB. Neither the original nodes nor the newly added ones contain any GPUs As a result, jobs should...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 6, 2018 | Educational, Events, General Interest, Happenings, HPC, News
A series of training workshops in high performance computing will be held Feb. 12 through March 6, 2018, presented by CSCAR in conjunction with Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS). Introduction to the Linux command Line This course will...
by U-M MICDE | Jan 11, 2018 | Educational, General Interest, News
We have over 80 students between our Ph.D. in Scientific Computing and the Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery and Engineering. The students come from five different schools and colleges, and 30 percent are women. We also have partnered with the...
by U-M MICDE | Jan 11, 2018 | Educational, General Interest, News
Over the past year, MICDE’s educational programs and activities have experienced tremendous growth. The Graduate Certificate in Computational Discovery and Engineering currently has 50 students enrolled, spanning 19 departments from 5 different schools and colleges....
by U-M MICDE | Dec 15, 2017 | General Interest, HPC, News, Research
Research using machine learning and artificial intelligence — tools that allow computers to learn about and predict outcomes from massive datasets — has been booming at the University of Michigan. The potential societal benefits being explored on campus are numerous,...
by U-M MICDE | Nov 27, 2017 | General Interest, Happenings, HPC, News
Several University of Michigan researchers and professional IT staff attended the Supercomputing 17 (SC17) conference in Denver from Nov. 12-17, participating in a number of different ways, including demonstrations, presentations and tutorials. U-M participation...
by U-M MICDE | Nov 27, 2017 | General Interest, News
Sharon Broude Geva, the Director of Advanced Research Computing at the University of Michigan, has been re-elected vice-chair of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC). Founded in 1989, CASC advocates for the use of advanced computing technology to...
by U-M MICDE | Nov 7, 2017 | Feature, General Interest, Happenings, HPC, News
A new partnership between the University of Michigan and Cavium Inc., a San Jose-based provider of semiconductor products, will create a powerful new Big Data computing cluster available to all U-M researchers. The $3.5 million ThunderX computing cluster will enable...
by U-M MICDE | Nov 1, 2017 | Data, Educational, Flux, General Interest, HPC, News
CSCAR now provides walk-in support during business hours for students, faculty, and staff seeking assistance in getting started with the Flux computing environment. CSCAR consultants can walk a researcher through the steps of applying for a Flux account, installing...
