UCLA IDRE Bi-monthly Newsletter

Volume 1, No. 3, June 18, 2008

 

Announcements

Call for Papers: 3rd Annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium, November 1st - 3rd, 2008. The goal of the annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research.

 

Resource News

Roadrunner: An American military supercomputer, Roadrunner, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long- sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.

 

IDRE Supported Projects

Brad Hansen, a professor in astrophysics, researches white dwarfs, extrasolar planets, neutron stars and black holes. By studying other planetary systems he learns how our own solar system may have evolved. He plans to spend his summer, however, learning to parallelize code to take advantage of his Contributed cores within the new Hoffman2 Research Virtual Shared Cluster. Read more about his project.

 

Funding and Resource Opportunities

• IDRE is making travel grant awards to graduate students and post docs interested in high performance computing. If you have a conference or seminar in mind that advances knowledge in this area please send a request to Warren Mori at info@idre.ucla.edu.
• NSF - Division of Computer and Network - CISE - Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI), Letter of intent July 7, 2008.
• NEH-DOE – Humanities High Performance Computing Program, Full proposal, July 15, 2008.

 

Submission Procedure

To submit entries to the newsletter, please send an email to info@idre.ucla.edu by Friday 3PM of each week at the latest.

Warren Mori, Director, IDRE
info@idre.ucla.edu
www.idre.ucla.edu