Events Regarding HPC, Big Data, Computational Science and More!
Spring/Summer internship on GPUs and distributed optimization
March 4th
CS Department, Boston College
Professor at Boston College is looking for people interested in working on optimization and GPUs. It would be a paid position where the person would work full time and have an office at Boston College. Those interested must have a good mathematical background in optimization and linear algebra as well as knowledge of CUDA
For more information on internship, visit HPC/GPU Supercomputing Group
For more information on the research, visit http://www.jbento.info/
Spark-as-a-Service demonstration by Qubole and Big Data Applications by DataXu
March 5th, 6-9pm
281 Summer St, 4th floor, Boston, MA
Spark has the potential to “run programs up to 100 times faster than Hadoop MapReduce in memory, or 10 times faster on disk.” according to stats on Apache.org. And with the Qubole Data Service (QDS) Spark as a Service offering, ad-hoc users can launch Spark clusters in minutes. In this presentation Ashish will provide a broad overview of Qubole and how Spark as a service fits into the platform. This will be followed by a hands-on demonstration from Praveen Seluka, that will cover combining data from various sources, including Spark, and using QDS’ query editor and visual query builder to give developers and data scientists an easy and immediate way to access Spark data.
For more information and to RSVP, visit here
Advancing Research Computing on Campuses: Best Practices Workshop
March 17th - 19th
Clemson, South California
This workshop is presented in partnership with Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research and Education Facilitators (ACI-REF) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Professionals involved in operating and supporting campus shared research computing infrastructure are invited to join in this workshop event and share experiences and expertise.
Proposed topics include:
- Best practices for running advanced computing resources in a higher education environment
- The condo model
- Business models
- Collaboration with researchers
- Return on investment
- Interactions with national data centers and infrastructures
To learn more about this workshop, visit ARCC Workshop
Linux Cluster Institute (LCI) Workshop
May 18th-22nd
University of Oklahoma, CCE Forum
Norman, Oklahoma
If you're a user of HPC or are responsible for maintaining an HPC resource, this is the workshop for you!
In just five days you will learn:
- How to be an HPC cluster system administrator
- How to be an effective HPC cluster user
- The key issues of HPC
- Current and emerging HPC hardware and software technologies
For more information, visit Linux Cluster Institute (LCI) Workshop
ACI-REF Virtual Residency Workshop 2015
May 31, 2015 at 6:00 PM - June 6, 2015 at 12:00 PM (CDT)
The University of Oklahoma
Bizzell Memorial Library
401 W. Brooks St.
Norman, OK 73019
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research & Education Facilitators (ACI-REF) will be holding a workshop at the University of Oklahoma. Applications available for those participated online as well as in person.
To apply to the workshop, visit ACI-REF Virtual Residency Workshop 2015