John Dawson dreamed of a computer cluster that would help build simulations and solve the most complex problems -- and now UCLA physicists are using the Dawson Cluster to do just that.

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News

UCLA Today

6-NOV-07
Press coverage on IDRE's first annual Kickoff and Poster Session - High-end computation alters the research landscape

Press - Countries, Cultures, Communication: Digital Innovations Day

10-MAY-07
Nearly 350 faculty, staff, students and others packed the crowded exhibition space at Perloff Hall, peering at computer monitors, test-driving Web applications, taking notes, and trading ideas and business cards. Visit the Digital Innovations Day Site...

DOE INCITE Program Award

8-JAN-07
University of California at Los Angeles will lead research on using computer simulations to answer questions about plasma-based particle accelerators. More on Program Awards...

UCLA Today - Applause

23-JAN-07
Warren Mori has been appointed director of IDRE. Read Applause announcement...

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Announcements

Introducing the Research Computing Forum

ATS Research Computing Technologies and IDRE would like to introduce you to a new support tool for your research. The Research Computing Forum is available for you to join us and others in the UCLA High Performance Computing community to ask questions, get answers and share your knowledge and successes in your HPC endeavors.

In addition to becoming a virtual gathering spot for the UCLA HPC community, the forum is a place to collect experience and solutions to common problems faced by our community as a whole as well as even more domain specific issues. The ATS staff you have been interacting with through atshpc@ucla.edu encourages you to check the forum for up to date system announcements and answers to commonly asked questions and issues with ATS managed systems. Of course, if you need to contact us for an issue you feel is not appropriate for the forum, please do use atshpc@ucla.edu and we will do our best to help you.

Research Conducted using the UCLA Physics Saxon Cluster

A team of UCLA particle physics researchers (led by Charles Plager), which has been searching for the Flavor Changing Neutral Current (FCNC) decay of the top quark, announced a breakthrough on Feb. 14, 2008. UCLA researchers are participating in large physics experiments both at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (atom-smasher) near Geneva Switzerland and the DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The UCLA team required a sizable amount of computing power, which was supplied to them by the Saxon Cluster. The Saxon cluster is owned by Professor David Saltzberg of the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy. It was installed by - and is maintained by - Academic Technology Services staff as part of the Institute for Digital Research and Education’s Cluster Hosting Program. Read all about the UCLA discovery and the physics.

You can read more about the Large Hadron Collider in the February 2008 Scientific American magazine, “The Future of Physics – The Discovery Machine,” by Graham P. Collins.

Hypercities Wins MacArthur Foundation Grant

As part of a collaboration between a number of universities over many years, Professor of Germanic languages Todd Presner’s project HyperCities, a Web-based platform that shows Berlin as it evolves over centuries, has won a grant totaling $238,000 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Read more:

IDRE Lecture Series Video Podcasts

The IDRE Lecture Series is now available on iTunesU as a video podcast. You can find the IDRE Lecture Series under the Research/Research @ UCLA section. See http://itunes.ucla.edu/ for more details.

Hoffman2 is Launched!

IDRE and ATS are pleased to announce the availability of the new and powerful Hoffman2 Cluster. The Hoffman2 Cluster represents a significant increase in compute capacity and services over any cluster previously built on the UCLA campus. Read more...

IDRE Postdoctoral Positions available in Computational Science, Applied Mathematics, and Computer Science.

Upcoming Events

Parallel Computing Using MPI

8-MAY-08
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Visualization Portal 5628 Math Sciences
Parallel Computing Using MPI Class Description...

Geospatial Tools in the Humanities

8-MAY-08
5:00 pm, 4:30 pm reception
The Green Room, 1261 Bunche Hall
Dr. Michael Goodchild

IDRE Roundtable

15-MAY-08
Noon - 2:00 pm
Faculty Center – Hacienda Room
Hoffman2, the Shared Cluster Hosting Model, and the IDRE Data Center

Lab on Parallel Computing for HPC Classes

15-MAY-08
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
CLICC Classroom B (320B Powell)
Third Session - Hands on with MPI

IDRE Roundtable

12-JUN-08
Noon - 2:00 pm
5628 Visualization Portal Math Sciences
Reusable Parallel Scalable Solvers

Recent Events

Introduction to Parallel Computing

1-MAY-08
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Visualization Portal 5628 Math Sciences
Introduction to Parallel Computing Class Description...

IDRE Roundtable

24-APR-08
Noon - 2:00 pm
Faculty Center - Downstairs Lounge
The UCLA Grid Portal

IDRE Roundtable

20-MAR-08
Noon - 1:00 pm
5628 Math Sciences
Visualization and data analysis of large data sets

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