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Calendar - July 2009

Research Technologies Round Table:
Open Science Grid Website: Configurable and Customizable Widgets to Display Find out more about MyOSG.

When: Thursday, July 23, 12:30-1:30pm
Where: IUB - IMU Walnut Room, IUPUI - ICTC Room 497

Posted on: 07/01/2009 | 0 comments

Indiana University is looking for experienced individuals to fill multiple positions in cloud computing, grid computing, and message- oriented middleware development. The positions call for expertise in Web service software development, developing Java Messaging Service applications and related enterprise event bus technologies, experience with distributed systems, sensor webs, and/or audio-video systems research and advanced development. For more information, search for Job 401 at https://ola.indiana.edu/joblisting/index.cfm.

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PearlDiver to use Big Red

PearlDiver Technologies Inc., creator of what is believed to be the largest fully HIPAA-compliant, publicly available and searchable database of patient records in the nation, will use IU's Big Red supercomputer for advanced data analysis. Big Red's computational power will analyze outcomes from millions of patients to condense findings into information readily available to medical providers and policy makers.

PearlDiver's use of Big Red is enabled by the Indiana Initiative for Economic Development, a program that fosters technology development and job growth in the state of Indiana. Read more...

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MyOSG allows users to quickly select and filter information

The Open Science Grid (OSG) is distributed computing infrastructure for large-scale scientific research, built and operated by a consortium of universities, national laboratories, scientific collaborations, and software developers. The OSG enables scientists to seamlessly harness grid-computing resources worldwide, and interoperates with multiple other grid infrastructures.

MyOSG was developed to aggregate information from many OSG systems, including administrative, accounting, status, monitoring services, and ticket tracking tools. Guided by the theory that each individual using OSG has a unique view which they were interested in, the decision was made to use the Universal Widget API specification developed by NetVibes, which allows generic widgets to be created that users can integrate with their personal workflow: MyOSG use is based on individual preferences. The information can then be easily exported to a number of tools for display, including iGoogle, iPhone, Apple Dashboard, Windows Vista, and MySpace.

The Research Technologies Round Table will discuss MyOSG this month.

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IU announces new Security Informatics master's degree

With oversubscribed undergraduate courses in computer security and national job opportunities in cybersecurity climbing to near the top of all information technology offerings, the IU School of Informatics will begin a Master of Science in Security Informatics program this fall. Read more...

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IU and Technische Universitat Dresden announce collaboration

Leaders from Technische Universitat Dresden (TUD) and Indiana University have announced a formal agreement of friendship and cooperation related to ongoing research in high performance computing and informatics. The first new project announced between the two universities is to work on approaches to biological data management and trans-Atlantic data transfer, that will allow international teams of life scientists and medical researchers to share large vital data sets quickly and easily.

IU and TUD have a long history of collaboration, including winning together three major computing challenge awards at the international SuperComputing conference sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery. The most recent victory was in 2008, when a team made up of four undergraduate students from each won a competition to most effectively run a set of scientific computer applications on a small supercomputer cluster. Read more ...

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Free HUBzero Rappture Toolkit Workshop at IUPUI/IUB in August

The HUBzero Platform, developed by Purdue University and currently being used by nanoHUB and the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, is a web framework that allows the easy creation of an entire scientific portal.

HUBzero contains a powerful simulation and modeling tool, and any standard desktop tool that runs under Linux/X11 can be deployed in a matter of hours. Batch-oriented simulation codes that don't have a graphical interface can be deployed as well, and a graphical interface for such codes can be created by using the Rappture Toolkit within HUBzero.

This one-day, hands-on workshop will teach you how to create scientific simulation tools using the Rappture toolkit and how to deploy the tools on a site powered by HUBzero.

When: August 21, 2009, 9am-5pm
Where: Main site: IUPUI - ICTC Building Room 407
Satellite site: IUB - Wrubel Computing Center Room 110
Prerequisites: A laptop with a modern web browser and Java 6, and familiarity with programming in MATLAB, C, or Fortran.

Seats are limited, so register as early as possible.

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Call for student participation in Cluster 2009

The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computer (Cluster 2009) will meet 31 August - 4 September in New Orleans, Louisiana. The organizers expect to be able to support up to 75 students with registration fees and subsidized hotel costs. Read more...

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Indiana University leads the fight against swine flu

The work of Indiana University Rudy Professor of Informatics Alessandro Vespignani, an internationally recognized expert on the statistical analysis and computer modeling of epidemics, has attracted national attention. Dr. Vespignani's computation has also been noticed by local researchers, as it consumed a big chunk of the computing cycles on IU's Big Red supercomputer. Read more...

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Calendar - June 2009

Lunch time with SysAdmins - Talk to the experts!

You're invited to stop by and visit with the system administrators who run IU's supercomputers, Big Red and Quarry, two of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Ask questions, share ideas, or just chat in an informal setting. This is an opportunity for you to learn how these centralized research computing resources can help support your work. The location changes each month.

When: Monday, June 8 11am-1pm
Where: Simon Hall Gill Conference Center Anteroom

There will be no Research Technologies Round Table in June.

Posted on: 06/01/2009 | 0 comments

2009 TeraGrid Conference

The 2009 TeraGrid Conference will showcase the capabilities, achievements, and impact of the TeraGrid in research and education through presentations, posters, visualizations, and more. The conference will also provide information and training to enable current and future users to achieve maximum impact. TG'09 will be held June 22-25 in Arlington, VA.

For more information see the TG'09 web site.

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Training and Education Opportunities

NSF expands support for undergraduates, graduates, and postdocs

The National Science Foundation (NSF), recognizing the importance of attracting and retaining talented young individuals in the computing research and education enterprise, has asked for help.

The new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) project supports appointment of up to 60 CIFellows in organizations dedicated to advancing computing. To be eligible to apply for CIFellows support, applicants must have completed their Ph.D.s between May 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009. Please note that time is of the essence -- applications are due by June 9, 2009. Read more...
The Graduate Research Fellowships program has been doubled this year, and it appears that there is not a sufficient number of qualified applications at this time. Please encourage promising undergraduates and first year graduate students to submit an application. Read more...
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates program has been increased by approximately 50%. Read more...

Ready, set, robots: IU summer technology workshop for teens

Indiana high school students with an interest in computers and networking can work side by side with IU technology professionals to build a robot and compete against other teams during a hands-on workshop sponsored by the IU Pervasive Technology Institute.

Researchers from the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research's Advanced Network Management Lab (ANML) will lead the third annual Summer Technology Workshop. The program will introduce terms and concepts related to system control, security, and programming. Participants will learn how those concepts can be applied to the robot, and also how an illegitimate user might attempt to reprogram a robot for malicious purposes. Participants will learn how network security professionals identify and prevent similar malicious activities.

The workshop takes place on Friday, June 19 from 9:30am to 3:30pm. Registration is open to students entering Indiana high school this fall. There is no cost for registration, but space is limited to twelve students. Lunch will be provided.

To register for the conference, please call (812) 855-9220 or email reachptl@indiana.edu

Advanced Computational Software Workshop

A workshop on the DOE Advanced Computational Software (ACTS), "Leveraging the Development of Computational Science & Engineering Software Through Sustainable High Performance Tools", will be held August 18-21, 2009 in Berkeley, CA. The four-day workshop will present an introduction to the ACTS Collection for application scientists whose work includes a combination of large computations, complex software integration, distributed computing, and robust numerical algorithms.

This workshop is open to computational scientists from industry, academia and national labs. Registration fees are fully sponsored by the DOE's Office of Science. In addition, DOE will sponsor travel expenses for a limited number of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This support includes transportation, lodging, breakfasts, lunches and workshop materials. The application submission deadline is June 26, 2009. Read more...

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HPC Training and Education Survey

Migrating science and engineering software to multi-core, heterogeneous petascale computers poses many challenges. One is to expand the knowledge of our technical workforce so that they can make efficient use of such systems.

A questionnaire has been created to seek your advice on these topics. The results will be compiled and circulated to the HPC community. To participate, please visit http://www.rrscs.org/survey/petascale.shtml .

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IU educational software sold for $100M

The efforts of IU faculty members to create educational software nine years ago paid off as the University's largest commercial transaction. Blackboard Inc., an educational software provider, announced last week it will purchase ANGEL Learning, the educational software produced from IU technology, for $100 million.

ANGEL Learning software serves as an educational tool for students and teachers to track academic progress and manage teaching and learning goals. The software offers products varying from technology to computer-generated material.

Because the University produced the software almost a decade ago, it has continued to invest in ANGEL Learning's research and technology. Along with IU investments in ANGEL Learning and Research and Technology Corporation, the University will gain $23 million in proceeds from the sale, which will be reinvested for technological research and innovative programs.

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NSF grant to support research on quantum computing

Indiana University Bloomington faculty member Amit Hagar has received a National Science Foundation Scholar Award to support research related to quantum computing, a potentially revolutionary field whose development has excited scientists.

Hagar, an assistant professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in the College of Arts and Sciences, will undertake a project titled "The Complexity of Noise: A Philosophical Outlook on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation."

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IU/Purdue collaboration in virtual reality

Staff from IU's Advanced Visualization Laboratory have worked with Professor Sorin Matei of Purdue University to develop an extension of the Visible Past project. The new prototype builds upon an existing digital model of an Omaha Beach battlefield developed by Dr. Matei, as well as the open X3D data standard and the free instantreality renderer. The goal of the effort was to transform the 3D model into a gateway to a spatially oriented gWiki platform developed by Dr. Matei.

For more information, see the AVL and Visible Past Web pages.

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Calendar - May 2009

Workshop: Performance Analysis with Vampir

Vampir is a performance analysis tool developed by the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. It can be used to diagnose performance problems of serial and parallel applications. Vampir is available on the BigRed and Quarry HPC systems at IU.

The workshop is organized jointly by ZIH and IU's High Performance Applications (HPA) group. In the morning, ZIH will present an overview of the classical Vampir and the new VampirServer version. In the afternoon, HPA will show recent examples of performance problems that were analyzed with Vampir.

Example traces will be provided and every participant can gain first-hand experience using the tool. Workstations will be provided for the afternoon session.

The workshop will be held on May 5th, in the Wrubel Computing Center on the IU Bloomington campus. Please RSVP to Penny Studley to receive further information. Seating for the workshop is limited, and will be assigned on a first-come first-served basis.

Research Technologies Round Table

George Turner will discuss Research Technologies Queueing Systems.

Thursday, May 28th 12:30-1:30
IMU Maple Room [IUB], ICTC 497 [IUPUI]
Live URL: http://tinyurl.com/cmn9s6
Archive URL: http://tinyurl.com/buen9l

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Undergraduate Petascale Education Program

The National Computational Science Institute, in collaboration with the NCSA Blue Waters project and other national HPC programs, is launching a coordinated effort to prepare current and future generations of students with the computational thinking skills, knowledge and commitment to advance scientific computing through the use of high performance computing (HPC) resources and environments.

To achieve these goals, the Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Education Program (uPEP) is launching three programs for engaging the national community. The three programs are:

Undergraduate Materials Development program for undergraduate faculty
Research Experiences for undergraduates
Professional Development Workshops for undergraduate faculty

For more information, see http://computationalscience.org/upep

Posted on: 05/01/2009 | 0 comments

Free summer faculty workshops

The Supercomputing 2009 Education Program summer tutorial workshop series will host a series of *FREE* weeklong summer tutorial workshops, running from mid-May through mid-August across the US.

These tutorial workshops will cover not only how to do various kinds of computational science & engineering as well as parallel computing, but also how to teach these topics, and how to use computational methods in teaching.

SC09 Summer Tutorial Workshop Schedule:

May 17-23: Oklahoma State: Computational Chemistry for Educators
May 25-30: Calvin College: Intro to Computational Thinking
June 7-13: U Cal Merced: Computational Biology for Educators
June 7-13: Kean U: Parallel Programming & Cluster Computing
June 14-20: Widener U: Computational Physics for Educators
July 5-11: Atlanta U: Introduction to Computational Thinking
July 5-11: Louisiana State: Parallel Programming & Clusters
July 12-18: U Florida: Comp Sci in the Grades 6-12 Classroom
July 12-18: Ohio Supercomputer Center: Computational Engineering
Aug 2- 8: U Arkansas: Introduction to Computational Thinking
Aug 9-15: U Oklahoma: Parallel Programming & Cluster Computing

If you want to apply to register, it's important that you do so as soon as possible. Preference will be given to teaching faculty (or soon-to-be-faculty) who expect to use the workshop content in their own teaching. The registration webpage is http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops2009

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Workshop: Quantum Logic Inspired by Quantum Computation

This workshop will bring together people who are developing new areas of logic coming from quantum computation, and also people who are interested in related projects coming from philosophical logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science.

The workshop will be held on Monday and Tuesday, May 11-12, 2009, Lindley Hall 101 and 102 on the IU-Bloomington campus. For more information, see http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/qliqc/

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HPC Training and Education Survey

A questionnaire has been created, to seek your advice on these topics. We expect to compile the results and circulate them to the HPC community. To participate, please visit http://www.rrscs.org/survey/petascale.shtml Your contribution would be appreciated.

Posted on: 05/01/2009 | 0 comments

IU offers free electronic waste collection days

All public and private schools, universities, businesses and nonprofit organizations are invited to drop off e-waste Thursday, April 30, and Friday, May 1, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the IUB and IUPUI campuses. The program will be open to the general public on Saturday, May 2, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

In Bloomington, the collection event will take place in the parking lot to the north of Memorial Stadium. The drop-off location for Indianapolis will be the parking lot directly south of the Indiana State Fairgrounds, at the corner of 38th Street and Coliseum Avenue.

Complete information, including maps, hours, and a list of accepted items, is available at indiana.poweron.com. Businesses and other organizations are asked to register in advance.

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IU Research magazine explores the brave new world of networks

The spring 2009 issue of Indiana University's Research & Creative Activity magazine showcases the science, art, and scholarship of networks, a new field of research is that expanding rapidly.

Interpreting its theme broadly, this issue addresses the physical, biological, digital and social networks that connect us, from Antarctica's glaciers to Mexico's ancient trade routes to the Internet's virtual worlds.

Research & Creative Activity magazine is published semiannually by IU's Office of the Vice Provost for Research. For more information visit the magazine's Web site.

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IU Data Capacitor, Lustre WAN and TeraGrid enable collaboration

Indiana University's Data Capacitor, designed to store and manipulate massive data sets and based on the Lustre filesystem, is being used across the wide area network of the TeraGrid to enable projects ranging from investigating planetary origins to measuring the melting polar icecaps of Earth. Read success stories and more details.

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Pervasive Technology Institute launched

Indiana University has established the Pervasive Technology Institute with a $15 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. The institute consolidates the achievements of the Indiana Pervasive Computing Research Initiative, established at IU in 1999 with Lilly Endowment funding, which led in part to the development of the Pervasive Technology Labs and the School of Informatics.

The Institute will further advanced information technology and informatics innovations and translate the benefits to researchers, educators, students and society. The Institute will have facilities on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses of the university.

The Pervasive Technology Institute is a collaborative effort of the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology, School of Informatics, Mauer School of Law, and Office of the Vice President for Engagement. PTI will be made up of three research centers:

The Digital Science Center will focus on creating an intuitively usable cyberinfrastructure with tremendous capabilities for supporting collaboration and computation.
The Data to Insight Center will create new tools to understand and gain insight from the vast quantities of data now produced in digital form. For example, the Center will create new tools to predict the course of severe weather with supercomputers and put those tools into the hands of forecasters.
The Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research will lead the creation of IT security policy, security monitoring tools and secure applications in critical areas of cyberinfrastructure, including personalized health.

The Pervasive Technology Institute will incorporate the labs established as part of PTL, and components from the University Information Technology Services Research Technologies division.

Visit the Pervasive Technology Institute's web page.

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Calendar - April 2009

Research Technologies Round Table (rescheduled)

Using Matlab's Distributed Computing Server

Jefferson Davis
Research Technologies Stat/Math Center

While Matlab was not initially conceived as a parallel programming tool, many users want to parallelize bits and pieces of Matlab code. The Matlab Distributed Computing Server (DCS) can help parallelize Matlab code. The talks will cover.

DCS availability and how to configure users settings
Prototyping parallelized code before submitting it to a job manager
What sorts of improvements can be seen with the DCS
Limitations and license restrictions of the DCS

When: Friday, April 17th, 12:00-1:00pm
Where: IUB - IMU Redbud Room, IUPUI - ICTC Room 497
Live URL: http://tinyurl.com/cmn9s6
Archive URL: http://tinyurl.com/dyowf4

Research Technologies Round Table

NITRD reauthorization - current status

Dr. Craig Stewart
Executive Director, Pervasive Technology Institute
Associate Dean, Research Technologies
Office of the Vice President for Information Technology

NITRD (Networking and Information Technology Research and Development) is the act that provides overarching coordination of several federal agency's efforts in information technology research and development. NITRD is currently up for renewal. The Science and Technology Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives began this process with a hearing on 31 July 2008. Also during July, the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing and the Educause Campus CyberInfrastructure Committee held a workshop on integrating university and federally-funded cyberinfrastructure systems.

This talk will relay the collective input collected from CASC and Educause about the current status of national academic cyber- infrastructure, and information on the development of NITRD reauthorization legislature. Particular focus will be given to the TeraGrid and the Open Science Grid (IU is a participant in both projects), as well as the potential role of Science Gateways, Cloud computing, and distributed file system approaches in the future. This talk should be useful background for those who wish to offer commentary on the NITRD draft legislation.

When: Thursday, April 30, 12:30-1:30pm
Where: IUB - IMU Maple Room, IUPUI - ICTC Room 497
Live URL: http://tinyurl.com/cmn9s6
Archive URL: http://tinyurl.com/buen9l

John Seely Brown to guest lecture at IUB, IUPUI and IUSB:
Learning in the Digital Age

John Seely Brown will discuss learning in the digital age at guest lectures in Bloomington, Indianapolis, and South Bend. Brown is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and serves as an independent co-chairman for the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation. Formerly, Brown served as the chief scientist at Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center.

Thursday, April 2, noon-1:15pm, Bloomington
Grand Hall, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
Buffet lunch will be provided starting at 11:30
Thursday, April 2, 3-4pm, Indianapolis
Ruth Lilly Learning Center Auditorium, Riley Outpatient Center
Reception and poster session following, 4-5pm
Friday, April 3, 9-10:30am, South Bend
Lecture Hall, Wiekamp Hall
In conjunction with the 2009 Annual Midwest Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

More information...

Lunch with SysAdmins
Talk to the experts!

You're invited to stop by and visit with the system administrators who run IU's supercomputers, Big Red and Quarry, two of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Ask questions, share ideas, or just chat in an informal setting. This is an opportunity for you to learn how these centralized research computing resources can help support your work. The location changes each month.

When: Monday, April 13th, 11:00am-1:00pm
Where: The Lobby of Informatics East, IUB

Digital Library Brown Bag Series

All presentations are in Wells Library E174, from 12:00-1:00pm.
More info: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/education/brownbags/

April 1, 2009
IUB Libraries Video Streaming Service: A Technical Overview
Jon Dunn, Mike Durbin and Brian Wheeler
April 8, 2009
Finding again: A survey of web rediscovery behavior
Mark Notess
April 15, 2009
A Universal Workbench for Multimedia and Other Temporal Phenomena
Don Byrd
April 22, 2009
Exploring the Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne:
Topic Maps and the Text Encoding Initiative
John A. Walsh and Michelle Dalmau

Posted on: 04/13/2009 | 0 comments

IU Team Recognized for GIS Technology Services

The Indiana Geographic Information Council presented the David C. Ford Award for exemplary service, dedication, and accomplishment in coordinating Indiana GIS to staff from University Information Technology Services.

The IGIC recognized UITS for providing free online access to more than 17 terabytes of geospatial data to GIS professionals and the general public through the Indiana Spatial Data Portal and online map services. Read more...

Posted on: 04/01/2009 | 0 comments

Digital Philosophy Project Awarded Grant

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded $400,000 over two years to the Indiana Philosophy Ontology project (InPhO) which is creating interactive, digital tools to help students and scholars explore the discipline of philosophy. The NEH award includes a subcontract with the Noesis project, an online philosophical research resource based at the University of Evansville. Read more...

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NSF Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability Workshop

Some of the nation's top experts in software sustainability gathered at IUPUI March 26-27 for a workshop sponsored by the NSF, co-hosted by the Pervasive Technology Institute and the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology.

The workshop focused on sustainable models for use, support, and maintenance of software developed and used in areas related to the NSF mission. The conference was broadcast via live video and you can watch archived video and see conference notes from the conference web site.

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Calendar - March 2009

Lunch time with SysAdmins - Talk to the experts!

Monday, March 30, 11:00am-1:00pm
Simon Hall Anteroom (outside the Gill Conference Center), IUB

Digital Library Brown Bag Series

All presentations are in Wells Library E174, from 12:00-1:00pm.

* Digital Library Program update

The Digital Library Program has dozens of active projects. Large, grant-funded projects such as EVIA and Variations are well known, but many projects are smaller and more locally focused. This presentation will provide an overview and status report on these smaller projects.

- Stacy Kowalczyk and Jon Dunn
- Digital Library Program
- March 4, 2009

* What you see isn't always what everyone gets:
web accessibility at IU

- Julie Hardesty and Margaret Londergan
- Digital Library Program/Adaptive Technology Center
- March 11, 2009

* Isaac Newton's alchemical symbols

- Wally Hooper and Tim Bowman
- Digital Library Program/School of Library and Information Science
- March 25, 2009

Posted on: 03/27/2009 | 0 comments

TG'09 Call for Participation

Submissions for science results, technology developments, posters, visualization showcase and tutorials are now being accepted. An Education, Outreach and Training track will be announced during the first week of March. Each track has different goals and requirements.

* Submissions for the Science Track should articulate the scientific problem; describe the scientific and computational methods (algorithms, techniques, software) and TeraGrid resources used; present results, impact of the TeraGrid, and future plans. Work previously published in another venue or presented at another conference may be submitted. Abstracts due: March 20.

* Submissions for the Technology Track should present technology developments and capabilities that enable increased performance, capability, productivity, and/or reliability of TeraGrid users, applications, and resources. Submissions should describe the technology in detail, discuss achieved or potential impact, and articulate future plans. Submissions must describe new, previously unpublished work. Papers due: March 20.

* The Visualization Showcase provides a digital gallery of imagery associated with the TeraGrid's most exciting results. Submissions should have used TeraGrid resources to generate data, to produce the visualization, or both, and should be the result of work accomplished within the past year. Abstracts due: April 24.

* Posters should present new results or promising work in progress dealing with the use of the TeraGrid for scientific research and/or the development of new technologies for scientific computing. Submissions not accepted for the Science or Technology Track can be re-submitted as posters. Abstracts due: May 1.

For more information see the TG'09 web site.

Posted on: 03/02/2009 | 0 comments

New Grant Opportunity - HP Innovations in Education

HP has just announced a new grant opportunity titled HP Innovations in Education. HP seeks proposals from school districts and higher education institutions in the US that are using technology to enhance teaching and improve student academic success.

For secondary schools (middle school and/or high school) the focus is on math and science. For colleges and universities, the focus is on engineering, computer science, and information technology. Each award, valued at more than $240,000, consists of cash, technology, and professional development.

Proposals should describe how technology will be used to enable innovations in four areas: Leadership Capacity, Digital Learning Environments, the Student Design & Research Experience, and High- Tech Career Awareness. Applications are due March 30.

Posted on: 03/02/2009 | 0 comments

Regenstrief Institute recognized by World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated the Regenstrief Institute's medical informatics group as the world's first WHO Collaborating Center for Medical Informatics. The institute is housed on the campus of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

The four-year designation, given for the "design, application, and research of medical information systems," is recognition of the international leadership and depth of expertise of the Institute's medical informatics group in the innovative use of information technology within medicine. This formal designation enables the WHO to more directly draw upon these capabilities by making the Institute part of a larger international collaboration of experts.

Posted on: 03/02/2009 | 0 comments

Industrial Supercomputing in Indiana

The Indiana Initiative for Economic Development (IIED) is an economic development program designed to foster technology development and job growth in the state of Indiana. The Initiative makes advanced computing technology and expertise available at no cost to companies whose proposals advance the Indiana economy, foster high-tech job creation in Indiana, and show promise in creating new technologies. The Initiative is a partnership among IBM, Indiana University, Purdue University, and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC).

The main element of the universities' contribution to the Initiative is the use of the Big Red IBM Blade Center cluster, housed on IU's Bloomington campus, one of the most powerful computers in the world. Use of this computer is offered to Indiana's industries, free of charge, for research and development that qualifies under the Initiative's guidelines.

The program addresses two major entry barriers to industrial high performance computing (HPC) - the high cost of hardware, and hard to find expertise. The majority of current industrial HPC users are large companies in aerospace, automotive, biopharmaceutical and energy sectors. The greatest potential for reaping benefits of technical computing lies in the numerous medium and small companies who might benefit from the use of high-end multiprocessor computers to design, test or improve their commercial products.

Danko Antolovic is the contact for IIED. He can be reached by sending email to IndustrialResearchPartnership@iu.edu. The Initiative's web site is at http://www.iiecdev.org/ .

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Calendar - February 2009

Lunch time with SysAdmins - Talk to the experts!

* Thursday, February 12, 11:00am-1:00pm
* Jordan Hall Atrium, IUB

Research Technologies Round Table

Keith Lehigh will be discussing security best practices for servers, desktops and mobile platforms.

When: Thursday, February 19, 12:30-1:30pm
Where: IUB - IMU Maple Room, IUPUI - ICTC Room 497

Live URL: http://tinyurl.com/cmn9s6
Archive URL: http://tinyurl.com/avpvfk

Digital Library Brown Bag Series

All presentations are in Wells Library E174, from 12:00-1:00pm.

February 11
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Abstract Model
Jenn Riley, Digital Library Program

February 25
Archives of Institutional Memory at IU
Phil Bantin, Indiana University Archives

Posted on: 02/01/2009 | 0 comments

Horowitz Receives DOE Grant, APS Fellowship

Charles Horowitz, professor of physics at Indiana University, has been elected to fellowship in the American Physical Society, the preeminent organization of physicists in the United States. Horowitz was honored for his contributions to research involving dense nuclear matter. His work has involved structures on the surfaces of neutron stars, sometimes covered by liquid oceans and with 'nuclear pasta' collective structures inside.

UITS is pleased to have provided programming support for Professor Horowitz' work, including tens of thousands of hours of computing using special purpose GRAvity PipE ("GRAPE") computers. Read more...

Posted on: 01/31/2009 | 0 comments

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability Workshop, March 25-27

Indiana University is hosting an NSF-sponsored workshop on "Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability." The workshop will focus on sustainable models for use, support, and maintenance of software that is developed and used in areas related to the NSF mission. Workshop goals include examination of software evaluation practices and mechanisms for supporting sustainability via funding organizations, open source, and commercialization.

The workshop will be held at the University Place Conference Center on the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis campus in Indianapolis, Indiana. A welcome reception will be held on the evening of March 25th. The formal agenda will commence at 8 AM on the 26th, and close at 3 PM on the 27th.

A number of leaders in software creation and sustainability are participating by invitation, and between 10 and 20 additional speakers will be invited on the basis of position papers which are submitted by February 15th. The entire research community is invited to submit position papers, following the lead of the "TeraGrid future" process.

Students are particularly encouraged to submit position papers. They should include one additional page indicating how participation in this conference would aid in their educational and career objectives. A limited number of $1,000 stipends will be awarded to student participants who are accepted, to help defray travel costs.

More information.

Posted on: 01/31/2009 | 0 comments

IEEE 2008 eScience Conference

The IEEE 2008 eScience Conference and 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop were held on December 7-12, 2008 at the University Place Conference Center in Indianapolis. The eScience conference serves as a forum bringing together international and interdisciplinary communities developing or using IT technologies to enable scientific research.

The conference featured more than 100 papers, over sixty posters and demonstrations, and keynote addresses by Daniel A. Reed, Edward Seidel, Alexander Szalay, and Rich Wolski.

For more information please visit the IEEE eScience conference and Microsoft eScience Workshop Web sites.

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Call for Papers: Parallel Bio-Computing 2009

Bioinformatics is the science of managing, mining, and extracting knowledge from biological sequences and structures. The goal of this Workshop is to present the latest research in high-performance computing applied to bioinformatics. The Parallel Bio-Computing Workshop will be held in conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics in Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland, September 13-16, 2009.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Bioinformatic databases
Computational genomics and proteomics
DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping
Gene expression and microarrays
Gene identification and annotation
Molecular sequence analysis
Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms
Protein structure prediction and modelling
Parallel algorithms for biological analysis
Parallel architectures for biological applications
System tools for large scale high-performance bio-computing

Papers should be submitted by April 10, 2009. For more information, please visit the PBC web page.

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IU leads project to connect Pakistan to global research network

Indiana University, the National Science Foundation, the Pakistan Higher Education Commission, and the European Commission have partnered to extend the NSF-funded TransPAC2 network to connect scientists and researchers in Pakistan to their counterparts in the global scientific community. Indiana University manages TransPAC2, as part of Indiana University's strategy of leadership in the advanced research networks that connect the world of scholarship and discovery. Read more....

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System Administration

The maintenance window for Big Red, Libra and Quarry
is the first Tuesday of each month, 7AM - 7PM EDT.

The maintenance window for the Mass Store and Research File System
is every Sunday 7-10 AM.

Outage reports are available online for Big Red, Libra, and Quarry.

How To Contact Us And Get Help

If you have questions pertaining to IU's cyberinfrastructure, or you are encountering some difficulty, there are several ways to obtain help.

An introduction and overview titled "Indiana University's CyberInfrastructure: The least you need to know" has been updated and is available along with other introductory resources.

The IU Knowledge Base is an excellent source of help on how to do things.

If you have problems which the KB does not enable you to solve, questions about system outages, or if you just have a problem and you don't know who to contact, send email with the RT contact form.

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