The BOINC@TACC Training will be held on March 20th, 2020 from 1pm to 3pm CT.   The BOINC@TACC project is based on the Volunteer Computing (VC) model. It helps researchers in running applications from a wide range of scientific domains on laptops, desktops, tablets, or cloud-based Virtual Machines (VMs) owned by volunteers. With BOINC@TACC, students and researchers can run small high-throughput computing jobs (that is, the jobs that involve small amounts of data transfer and...

One of Trusted CI's core activities is conducting one-on-one engagements with NSF projects and facilities. Topics for engagements include anything broadly in the scope of information security and can include the development of new cybersecurity programs, assessing existing cybersecurity programs, software assurance, identity management, or recommendations on new software features. Learn more and apply here .  Important Dates: February 26, 2020: Begin accepting...

The XSEDE Webinar "Using the SeedMe Data Management System on Comet" will take place Thursday, March 19, 2020, at 11:00 PDT. SeedMe is short for Stream, Encode, Explore and Disseminate My Experiments, and is inspired by seeds that proliferate and grow in a fertile environment. Just as agriculture spurred the development of civilization, SeedMe offers the science community a searchable ecosystem of rich research content and knowledge to curate and cultivate. One resource that lets...

A short course on Containers will be offered at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) on March 6th, 2020, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm CT   Software containers are an important common currency for portable and reproducible computing. Learn best practices on building, using, and sharing Docker and Singularity containers in this hands-on workshop. Also learn how to run those containers on TACC HPC systems, including MPI and GPU aware containers.   This training is available to...

The San Diego Supercomputer Center Summer Institute is a week-long workshop held at the University of California, San Diego that focuses on a broad spectrum of introductory-to-intermediate topics in High Performance Computing and Data Science. The 2020 Summer Institute will be Monday, August 3-Friday, August 7, 2020. Applications are due by Sunday, May 3, 2020.  The program is aimed at researchers in academia and industry, especially in domains not traditionally engaged in...

Working with IU researchers and staff,  Jetstream Research Experience for Undergraduates  interns complete mentored research projects on Jetstream, the National Science Foundation's cloud computing system aimed at making high-performance computing available to small colleges and minority-serving institutions. Open to all majors, students receive a generous stipend, accommodations in one of IU's dorms, and travel expenses to a conference to showcase their work. Plus you get...

IWSG 2020 (12th International Workshop on Science Gateways) will be June 10-12, 2020, in Cardiff, Wales will move forward as a virtual event on June 10 & 11, 2020. The submission deadline has been extended to April 6, 2020. The triumvirate of technologies – Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the hybridlate Cloud (Cloud, Fog, Edge), complemented with modern software engineering practices, stimulates the emergence of new approaches to Science Gateways....

The TACC Institute Series offers attendees intense, immersive training in advanced computation, with topics ranging from developing parallel applications for modern high performance computers to visualizing and analyzing large data sets, administering leadership-class advanced computing systems, executing reproducible experiments in the cloud, and purchasing and operating considerations for organizations wanting to add advanced computing resources to their R&D portfolio. Registration...

In pursuit of dark energy Dark Energy Survey leads to new ways to explore the universe Speed read Dark energy makes up 70% of our universe but little is known about it Images of hundreds of millions of galaxies were recorded by Dark Energy Survey (DES) Terabytes of data now released to researchers worldwide via custom infrastructure On a mountaintop high in the Chilean Andes, where the atmosphere is very dry and there is little light from civilization, a...

The Virtual Residency 2020 Summer Workshop on INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED Research Computing Facilitation will be Sunday, May 31 (dinnertime) - Friday, June 5 (dinnertime), 2020 on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. You may attend onsite or remotely via videoconferencing.  Registration:   https://ousurvey.qualtrics.com /jfe/form/SV_3aB4TmgKhG6m0O9 Contact: Henry Neeman ( hneeman@ou.edu ) Tentative agenda will be available soon. Here's the agenda from the most...