by U-M MICDE | Oct 20, 2017 | General Interest, Happenings, News
High-resolution satellite data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 are revealing the subtle ways that carbon links everything on Earth – the ocean, land, atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems and human activities. Scientists using the first 2 1/2 years of...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | General Interest, News
Over the past several months, a huge amount of data (491 TB) has accumulated in the /scratch directory on the Flux computing cluster. /scratch is meant for data relating to currently running jobs, and the buildup of data is threatening the performance of Flux for all...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | General Interest, News
By Patty Giorgio, ITS Communications Research at the University of Michigan is a $1.3 billion enterprise, according to the 2014 Annual Report on Research. An increasing amount of this research involves moving large data sets, between researchers locally, nationally,...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | Educational, General Interest, News
Aside from maybe a football game, where on the U-M campus can you go to see Sociology, Physics, Communications, Math, Education, Nursing, Economics, and Engineering students all in one place?At least for a week this June, the answer was the third annual Big Data...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | Educational, Events, News
University of Michigan researchers and staff took part in demonstrations, talks and a “Parallel Computing 101” tutorial as part of the University’s presence at the Supercomputing 15 conference Nov. 15-20 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin,...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | General Interest, News
Undergraduates working on research that requires high performance computing resources can now use the Flux HPC cluster at no cost. Flux is the shared computing cluster available across campus, operated by Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | General Interest, News
Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS) has launched a new initiative aimed at facilitating uninterrupted data flow to meet the needs of researchers across campus. Faculty and researchers experiencing problems with data flow to or from their...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | General Interest, News
U-M researchers who manage and analyze large volumes of data protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) now have a new secure computing tool at their disposal: the HIPAA-aligned “Armis” high performance computing cluster. Armis...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 18, 2017 | General Interest, News
MICDE faculty members Paul Zimmerman (Chemistry) and Michael Cafarella (Computer Science), and MIDAS faculty member Honglak Lee (Computer Science) have been awarded 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships, which seeks to stimulate fundamental research by early-career...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 12, 2017 | News, Research
IBM is showcasing the current research developed with ConFlux, our ground-breaking cluster that uses IBM’s HPC and storage technology to enable scientists to draw on huge volumes of bid data and use machine learning to create reliable models for...
