Indiana University's Data To Insight Center (D2I) will lead a $600,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund the first investigation of non-consumptive research for a major mass digitized collection of content. Partners with D2I on this include the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) and the University of Michigan's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Read more, http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/19252.html .
IU Cyberinfrastructure News September 2011
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
Simon Hall Conference Center
Whether you're a new member of IU's research community, a long-time collaborator, or someone who wants in-depth information about the university's research systems, plan to join UITS representatives during the Research Technologies Fair.
Talk one-on-one with UITS technologists who work with IU's BigRed and Quarry supercomputers, Research Storage systems, High Performance Applications, the Research Database Complex, the DataCapacitor, Life Sciences, and more.
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SC11 will be the 24th consecutive year of the SC Conference series, once again featuring an exceptional Technical Program, industry and research exhibits, Education Program and many other activities. SC11 is the one place where attendees can see tomorrow's technology being used to solve world-class challenge problems today.
Register for SC11 by Oct. 17th and save up to $250!
The SC11 early registration deadline is October 17th. The fee structure for SC11 makes it even more advantageous to register early this year. Registering early can save you up to $250 off your technical program registration (depending on your registration category). Also, registering by Oct. 17th can save you up to $305 off tutorial registration.
Register early for both and save up to $555!
Conference attendees, click here to register, https://show.jspargo.com/sc11/ .
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The Computational Medicine Center is located at the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. The Center's focus is on the use of computational and experimental techniques to solve problems from genomics, genetics, molecular biology and medicine. Their research emphasis is on organism-specific regulatory motifs, on determining how short as well as longer non-coding RNAs are involved in the onset and progression of disease, and on translating the knowledge of RNA interactions into novel approaches to diagnosis and personalized therapy ("Personalized Medicine").
The Center has recently received a major multi-year grant award and has several positions available for Master's and PhD graduates with expertise in computational biology/bioinformatics with emphasis in data mining. To learn more, visit http://cm.jefferson.edu/opportunities/ . -
High Performance Computing Intern
The intern will gain practical experience in the area of high performance computing as it relates to systems administration, systems programming, hardware maintenance, and the support of researchers that utilize Indiana University resources.
Description of duties:
Duties include but are not limited to maintaining cluster and storage hardware, writing systems programs, dispatching and troubleshooting tier 1 support issues, and diagnosing system problems.
Qualifications:
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Attention to detail
* Programming ability and experience with Linux or UNIX operating systems desired
* Interest in system administration helpful
Project Supervisor: Jenett Tillotson
Home Campus: Bloomington
Applicants should submit a cover letter indicating "High Performance Computing Internship", resume including skills relevant to project requirements, and letter of recommendation from a professor supporting your application, to: UITSHR [at] indiana [dot] edu. -
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has issued a call for community input to help guide the planning for their future investments in data-intensive science. The call is open through mid-September, 2011, and is structured through a web tool that allows both submission of new ideas and commentary on ideas that others have submitted in response to the Foundation's call. This is an excellent opportunity for the CNI community to help shape thinking at the Foundation.
For details, see http://dis.ideascale.com/ .
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Monday, 5 December 2011
Stockholm, Sweden
(to be held with IEEE e-Science 2011 - http://www.escience2011.org/)This workshop is interested in data-intensive, distributed, and dynamic (D3) science. It will also focus on innovative approaches for scalability in the end-to-end real-time processing of scientific data. We refer to D3 applications as those are data-intensive, are fundamentally, or need to be, distributed, and need to support and respond to data that may be non-persistent and is dynamically generated. We are also looking to bring researchers together to look at holistic, rather than piecewise, approaches to the end-to-end processing and managing of scientific data.
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Digital Library Program Brown Bag Series
Mark your calendars for the Fall 2011 Digital Library Brown Bag series. The brown bags will be held most Wednesdays, beginning September 4th and ending December 7th. The complete schedule including abstracts is available on the IU Digital Library Program web site: <http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/education/brownbags/>. Presentations and accompanying materials will be linked to this web page as talks occur.
To receive a reminder and an abstract for each presentation, send an email to listserv [at] indiana [dot] edu with the message body:
sub dl-brownbag-l Your Full Name
All presentations are in the Herman B Wells Library E174, from 12:00-1:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
Below is an overview of the Fall schedule:
September 7, 2011 (in Wells Library 043)
A Digital Library Program Show and Tell: Most recent and upcoming!
Dot Porter and Jon Dunn
Digital Library Program
September 21, 2011
Representing Annotated Video in Omeka: Building an Omeka Plugin for the Annotator's Workbench
Wil Cowan
Digital Library Program
September 28, 2011
Library vs. Web: What Drives Students’ Choices in Media Channel Selection?
Mark Notess and Julie HardestyDigital Library Program
October 5, 2011
Latent Semantic Analysis in the Chymistry of Isaac Newton
Wally Hooper
History and Philosophy of Science
October 19, 2011
Overview of the IU Digital Collections SearchHui Zhang and Will Cowan
Digital Library Program
October 26, 2011
Lessons on Working on a Commercial Partnership
Erica Dowell
Lilly LibraryNovember 16, 2011
Archives OnlineDot Porter
Digital Library Program
November 30, 2011
Next Generation Sheet Music Consortium
Michelle Dalmau
Digital Library Program
December 7, 2011
Open Folklore (practice for CNI)
Brenda Johnson and Julie Bobay
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Networks and Complex Systems, http://vw.slis.indiana.edu/netscitalks/
This talk series is open to all Indiana University faculty and students interested in network analysis, modeling, visualization, and complex systems research. A major intent is to cross-fertilize between research done in the social and behavioral sciences, research in natural sciences such as biology or physics, but also research on Internet technologies. See also the Wikipedia entries on graph theory, small world networks, power law, and complex networks, and self-organizing systems.
Organizer - Katy Börner Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science, Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, SLIS, IUB.Speakers in Fall 11 (*not confirmed
- Jack Owens, ISU (standing invite)
- David Crandall, SOIC, IUB
- Laura Koehly, NGGRI/NIH* hosted by Bernice?
- Michael Nielsen (http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/open-science-2)* hosted by Scott?
- Filomena Garcia joins IUB faculty (Network game theory)*
- 9/12 Gerhard Klimeck, NanoHub team, Purdue U
- David Bodenhamer, The Polis Center at IUPUI (Fall 11)
- Marshall Scott Poole, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Director of The Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of Illinois
- Scott Long, Sociology*
- Richard Fabris, NHLBI, NIH*
- Geoffrey Fox, School of Informatics and Computing, IUB
- Thom Hickey, OCLC*
- Daniel Aliaga, Purdue U* (at ETHZ in 2011)
- James A. Evans, Sociology, University of Chicago (Sept. or Oct 10, 17, Nov 7, 27, Dec 12) sponsored by CogSci, Sociology and CNS
- Peter Bearman, Columbia University*
- James Fowler, UCSD*
- Nicolas Christakis, Harvard Department of Sociology*
- Renaud Lambiotte, UK*
- Peter Meisen, World Resources Simulation Center*
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The maintenance window for Big Red and Quarry is the first Tuesday of each month, 7:00 am - 7:00 pm EDT.
The maintenance window for the Mass Store and Research File System is every Sunday 7:00 am -10:00 am.
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If you have questions pertaining to IU's cyberinfrastructure, or you are encountering some difficulty, there are several ways to obtain help.
The IU Knowledge Base (http://kb.iu.edu) is an excellent source of help on how to do things.
An introduction and overview titled "Indiana University's CyberInfrastructure: The least you need to know" is available at:
http://pti.iu.edu/cyberinfrastructure.pdf
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 to pti [at] iu [dot] edu.
