UCLA IDRE Newsletter

\Volume 2, No. 5, January, 2009

 

 

Upcoming Events and Classes

Stats Seminars

14-JAN-09, 10am-noon-Introduction to SPSS Syntax, part 2
Visualization Portal (5628 Math Science)

4-FEB-09, 10am-noon-Introduction to Data Management in UNIX
Visualization Portal (5628 Math Science)

HPC Classes

12-FEB-09, 10:00am-noon-Introduction to Parallel Programming
Visualization Portal (5628 Math Science)

19-FEB-09, 10am-noon-Parallel Programming Using MPI
Visualization Portal (5628 Math Science)

26-FEB-09, 10am-noon-Parallel Programming Lab Session
Located in CLICC Classroom B (320B Powell)

 

Announcements

Six UCLA faculty won awards as part of a 20 million per year redirection of management fees for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to research that both relates to the missions of the laboratories and emphasizes collaborations between University faculty, staff and students and the research staff of the laboratories. Of the six UCLA awards three are centered on computational based research.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Incite awards announced awards for 66 projects addressing some of the greatest scientific challenges using some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The awards included a total of 7.1 million processors, on two machines, the Argonne National Laboratory IBM Blue Gene/P and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory NERSC HPC, for two  Particle-in-Cell Simulation projects involving Professor Warren Mori, and research physicists Frank Tsung and John Tong of UCLA. Professor Vidvuds Ozolins, UCLA, received 1 million hours on the Argonne IBM Blue Gene/P for his research in kinetics and thermodynamics of metal and complex hydride nanoparticles.

 

Funding and Resource Opportunities

Application deadline Feb 1, 2009. The SIParCS Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) offers graduate students and undergraduate students (who have completed their sophomore year by summer 2009) significant hands-on R&D opportunities in high performance computing (HPC) and related fields that use HPC for scientific discovery and modeling.

Application deadline February 18th. NEH grants support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Awards to host a summer training program normally range from one to three years and from $50,000 to a maximum of $250,000.

 Application deadline March 2009. In partnership with the Joint Information System Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom, NEH will be offering a second round of grants for the Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration program. Awards range from $200,000 to $300,000.

 

Hoffman II News and Updates

Five researchers have joined the IDRE Shared Cluster bringing the total number of shared nodes to 165. With the 77 general-purpose nodes, the Hoffman II totals 242 nodes or 6.6 Tflops.

To submit entries to the newsletter, please send an email to info@idre.ucla.edu

Warren Mori, Director, IDRE

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