Research computing
UD virtually hosted several research computing workshops over the summer
10:02 a.m., Sept. 24, 2015--The University of Delaware IT Research Computing staff encourages researchers to participate in workshops and events hosted by other universities and research centers.
Over the summer months, UD participated as an in-person site for the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE) and three XSEDE Monthly HPC Workshops.
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Additionally, doctoral candidate Mario Guevara in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences received a grant covering all expenses including food, lodging and travel to participate in the 2015 Open Science Grid (OSG) school in Madison, Wisconsin, to continue his research in soil mapping.
The OSG school is a week-long course in high throughput computing (HTC), a cutting edge computational approach to efficiently manage and analyze large amounts of data and information. HTC relies on the availability of shared networking resources for the serial computation of hundreds or thousands of related jobs.
“Thanks to the information and motivation provided by the Research Computing staff at UD, I submitted an application and was accepted to OSG, which allowed me to run large-scale computing applications that are the heart of digital soil mapping and environmental informatics nowadays,” Guevara said.
Through lectures, discussions and lots of hands-on activities with experienced OSG staff, students learn how HTC systems work, how to run and how to manage many jobs and huge datasets to implement a scientific computing workflow.
“Based on our wonderful and productive as well as free experience within the OSG, we encourage graduate students in any science or research domain where large-scale computing is needed to apply for the opportunity to learn from one of the best teams in computer sciences in the country, and to take advantage of initiatives such as the OSG, an approach that can really facilitate scientific research in several fields of knowledge,” Guevara said.
Guevara also acted as a teaching assistant at the August VSCSE “Supercomputing for Everyone Series: Performance Tuning Summer School” and “Science Visualization” sessions. For more information about each course, visit UD’s VSCSE website.
“This is the third year UD has participated in VSCSE and we feel that these sessions provide expertise and hands-on experience that is beneficial for our community of researchers,” said Anita Schwartz of IT Research Computing staff.
The Research Computing team will host the next XSEDE HPC monthly workshop on Oct. 6. (Register)
University researchers are invited to use the Research Computing Help Request form and select “Education and Outreach” to request that Research Computing staff facilitate other specialized training.