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Video: Tales from the Grid – In Search of the Top Quark

Rich Brueckner — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:16:44 +0000

In this video, Marcel Vreeswijk and Hurng-Chun Lee from the NIKHEF National Institute for Subatomic Physics explain how customized grid computing workflows are key to filtering LHC datasets down to a manageable size.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most complex experiment, at the cutting edge of High Energy Physics. Particle physicists use the LHC to study variations from the Standard Model and discover potential new laws of physics. The particle known as the top quark is a window to this weird and wonderful world. The LHC produces enormous amounts of data, enough to fill piles of DVDs. Without these tools, it would be impossible to pick out the collision event that could hold the clues to top quark behaviour.

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Memory Cube Consensus Reached

Staff — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:30:36 +0000

More than 100 developer and adopter members of the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium (HMCC) have announced that they have reached consensus for a global standard that will deliver a “much-anticipated, disruptive memory computing solution’”.

Developed in 17 months, the final specification marks the turning point for designers in a wide range of segments – from networking and high-performance computing, to industrial and beyond – to begin designing Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology into future products.

A major breakthrough with HMC is the long-awaited utilisation of advanced technologies to combine high-performance logic with state-of-the-art dynamic random-access memory. With this first HMC milestone reached so quickly, consortium members have elected to extend their collaborative effort to achieve agreement on the next generation of HMC interface standards.

The consensus we have among major memory companies and many others in the industry will contribute significantly to the launch of this promising technology,’ said Jim Elliott, vice president for memory planning and product marketing at Samsung Semiconductor. ‘As a result of the work of the HMCC, IT system designers and manufacturers will be able to get new green memory solutions that outperform other memory options offered today.”

“This milestone marks the tearing down of the memory wall,’ said Robert Feurle, Micron’s vice president for DRAM Marketing. ‘The industry agreement is going to help drive the fastest possible adoption of HMC technology, resulting in what we believe will be radical improvements to computing systems and, ultimately, consumer applications.”

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Video: EUDAT and Big Data in Science

Rich Brueckner — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:00:40 +0000

In this video from the 2013 National HPCC Conference, Wolfgang Gentzsch presents: EUDAT and Big Data in Science.

Big data science emerges as a new paradigm for scientific discovery that reflects the increasing value of observational, experimental and computer-generated data in virtually all domains, from physics to the humanities and social sciences. Addressing this new paradigm, the EUDAT project is a European data initiative that brings together a unique consortium of 25 partners — including research communities, national data and high performance computing (HPC) centers, technology providers, and funding agencies — from 13 countries. EUDAT aims to build a sustainable cross-disciplinary and cross-national data infrastructure that provides a set of shared services for accessing and preserving research data. The design and deployment of these services is being coordinated by multi-disciplinary task forces comprising representatives from research communities and data centers.”

View the slides on Slideshare.

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Interview: EUDAT to Bring Collaborative Data Infrastructure to ISC’13

Rich Brueckner — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:32:34 +0000

With the ISC’13 International Supercomputing Conference coming up in June, the time is right to check in with new voices in the European HPC community. This week, I caught up with Damien Lecarpentier, David Manset, and Adam Carter from EUDAT, an organization with a mission to build a Collaborative Data Infrastructure for the EU.

insideHPC: Who is EUDAT and who do you help?

EUDAT Team: EUDAT is a new pan-European data initiative bringing together a unique consortium of 25 partners, including research communities, national data and HPC centers, technology providers, and funding agencies from 13 countries. EUDAT aims to build a sustainable cross-disciplinary and cross-national data infrastructure providing a set of shared services to access and preserve research data.

The services being designed in EUDAT are thus of interest to a broad range of research communities and researchers that lack robust data infrastructures, or that are simply looking for additional storage and/or computing capacities to better access, use, re-use, and preserve their data. Five large research communities have initially joined the project as partners and are contributing to the design of the infrastructure and its services. These communities come from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH). Other communities have expressed strong interest in EUDAT, and are being associated to the work by sharing their requirements, providing feedback on the services being designed and in some cases by participating to service pilots. These communities come from a large diversity of fields: environmental sciences (ICOS, EMSO, EURO-VO, ENVRI), biomedical sciences (DIXA, ECRIN, BBMRI, INCF), physical sciences (PANDATA, EISCAT), and social sciences and humanities (DARIAH, CESSDA).

Altogether, EUDAT has established contact with 20 major European research communities which are actively involved in the service design process and the shaping of the future infrastructure.

insideHPC: You are a first-time exhibitor at ISC. What will you be showing in your booth this year?

EUDAT Team: This year, EUDAT will be showcasing on its booth the Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) it is developing to support researchers from all fields of science in (1) temporarily storing and sharing data, (2) long-term archiving and curating scientific data and (3) transporting data to computing centers for complex processing. Visitors at the booth will thus be provided with dissemination materials, goodies and detailed information on how to join EUDAT.

insideHPC: EUDAT aims to help users with a “Collaborative Data Infrastructure.” What do you mean by that?

EUDAT Team: The concept of Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) emerged from the work of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data (HLEG) and was presented in the Riding the Wave as a possible collaboration framework whereby centers offering community-specific support services to their users could rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities. Although research communities from different disciplines have different ambitions and approaches – particularly with respect to data organization and content – they also share many basic service requirements. This commonality makes it possible for EUDAT to establish common data services, designed to support multiple research communities, as part of this CDI.

The benefits associated with creating such a collaborative framework are many and will result in better exploitation of synergies: (1) By providing generic services to existing scientific communities, EUDAT will enable these communities to focus a greater part of their effort and investment on services that are discipline-specific; (2) It will also provide individual researchers, smaller communities, and projects lacking tailored data management solutions with access to sophisticated shared services, thus removing the need for large-scale capital investment in infrastructure development.(3) Lastly, the EUDAT research infrastructure will facilitate interoperability between the existing infrastructures, enable multiple users, projects, disciplines, and regions to share data and support data-intensive research collaborations.

insideHPC: EUDAT will conduct two training courses this year. What skills with students learn and how does one register?

EUDAT Team: EUDAT plans to run several training courses this year including training at community events, technical workshops on the EUDAT infrastructure, and a series of online webinars each on different subjects related to EUDAT’s work. We’ll look at things such as sharing data, moving data, making data more useful through the use of metadata and identifiers, and also consider topics such as data-intensive computation and data-centric workflows. In particular we’ll look at these from the point of view of large-scale data infrastructure and the services that are being put together by the EUDAT project.

Our aim – as far as training in the project is concerned – is to be driven by the needs of the end-user communities. For this reason, we plan to run several community-focused training events over the next two years which we will co–locate with existing conferences and workshops. In general these community courses will be aimed at a fairly broad audience and will cover various aspects of the wide area of data. We are already working to tailor training for those communities who have been involved in EUDAT from the outset (CLARIN, ENES, EPOS, Lifewatch and VPH) but we’re also very keen to work with other communities as they join up with EUDAT.

In addition to the community training courses, we will run cross-community training which will be targeted at data centre managers and people who are involved in managing other people’s data. These will be focused more on the details of interacting with the EUDAT infrastructure, and the technologies used. We’ll be advertising all of these courses on the EUDAT website and there will be links here to allow interested people to sign up when the times and locations for these courses are fixed. The community events will also be advertised through the communities’ normal communication channels.

A good opportunity to catch up on our training activities will be the 2nd EUDAT Conference which will be held in Rome on 28-30 October and during which we plan to hold a full day training session.

insideHPC: You have 25 European partners. Are you looking to expand?

EUDAT Team: EUDAT is interested to engage with additional stakeholders, in particular research communities interested in using and developing the services we are offering, but also with everybody willing to contribute to the development of the CDI. Interested organisations and institutions can already join the Consortium as Observers or Associate Partners which are two efficient ways of following and contributing to the work in progress. As a pan-European initiative, EUDAT must have broad coverage – not only in geographical terms but also in terms of scientific representation – and this will be taken into account for future expansion plans.

insideHPC: ISC brings in scientists and engineers from around the globe. Is this what attracted you to participate in the conference?

EUDAT Team: There are a number of things that make ISC compelling. EUDAT’s booth will this year place the focus on industry. Indeed, our aim at ISC is to organize and support networking activities and thus welcome industry representatives from innovative sectors such as Cloud computing, Big Data and Data Analytics. At the booth, visitors will be given a tour of EUDAT services and facilities, and discussions on public-private partnerships as well as long-term collaborations will be encouraged. Given the fairly significant attendance of industry that ISC witnesses every year, it is a very interesting opportunity for EUDAT’s outreach.

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HPC Midlands to Host Open House for Research & Industry

Ralph — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:03:33 +0000

The HPC Midlands supercomputing facility will host their launch event in the U.K. on March 20. As a provider of state-of-the-art e-infrastructure for research and industry, HPC Midlands features a 3,000 core supercomputer combined with HPC expertise from Loughborough University and the University of Leicester.

Since establishing HPC Midlands with the financial backing of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, we have worked closely with academic colleagues and a range of industrial partners to refine the service to ensure that it meets business as well as academic needs,” said Dr Steven Kenny, Director of HPC Midlands. “Now we are ready to invite small and large businesses with specialist computing requirements to come along and see how they can benefit from this world-class facility.”

The launch event will give delegates the chance to meet the team behind HPC Midlands and explore opportunities for collaboration. Case study presentations will showcase how company’s like Tata Steel, E.ON, and Rolls Royce already benefit from working closely with HPC Midlands. Read the Full Story.

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The British are Coming to a Supercomputer Near You

Rich Brueckner — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:57:47 +0000

Bradley Keelor from the British Embassy writes that a visiting delegation from the UK has a mission to collaborate with U.S. and its abundant supercomputing resources. After coming away amazed from a tour of Blue Waters at NCSA, the team wants to get the Allies back together again.

The UK is one of the scientific powerhouses of the world, but does not have anywhere near the number of facilities that the US does. So the scientific community needs additional resources, and the US has those resources. From a broader perspective, UK-US research collaboration strengthens science: our network speaks frequently about things like the number of Nobel laureates who hail from the two countries have and the joint research the UK-US relationship produces.

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European Grid Infrastructure Seeking EGI Champions

Ralph — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:01:42 +0000

The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) has a mission to allow researchers of all fields to make the most out of the latest computing technologies for the benefit of their research. To help build community, EGI is now looking for researchers to join the EGI Champion Network.

EGI Champions are enthusiastic scientists using grid computing for their research and keen to go to conferences and spread the word about the benefits of working with EGI. In exchange for the Champions’ enthusiasm, EGI will contribute to travel expenses and provide networking opportunities with other like-minded scientists across Europe.

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Airbus Teams with Dassault for 3D Design

Staff — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:46:22 +0000

Dassault Systèmes, provider of 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and product lifecycle management solutions, has announced a partnership with Airbus to expand the use of Dassault Systèmes’ 3DExperience platform’s realistic simulation applications (Simulia).

The initiative is intended to accelerate the structural analysis and virtual testing of their next-generation aircraft, starting with the A350-900.

Airbus’ Advans program (accelerated development for vulnerability and nonlinear system) consists of innovative simulation methods to apply the advanced nonlinear dynamic analysis capabilities of Simulia Abaqus to predict, with a high level of confidence, the real-world strength and performance of its aircraft structures.

Accurate, nonlinear analysis, done earlier in the design phase and prior to performing costly physical tests, results in a higher quality design, and at a lower cost. Airbus designers and engineers will create very large simulation models, leveraging their aircraft models designed in the CATIA application. Then, by using high-performance computing clusters, they will be able to perform full-scale, nonlinear structural simulations with Simulia Abaqus overnight.

With this project, we are pushing the boundaries of high-performance computing and our physics-based simulation applications to validate full-scale aircraft designs overnight,’ said Monica Menghini, executive vice president, industry and marketing, Dassault Systèmes. The 3DExperience platform allows users to experience the accurate physical performance of their aircraft design much sooner and well before committing to physical tests. This accelerates their ability to make highly-informed, mission-critical design and engineering decisions.

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Xyratex and Pentaho Partner to Unlock Big Value From Big Data

Rich Brueckner — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:46:52 +0000

This week Xyratex announced a partnership with analytics leader Pentaho Corporation to develop the industry’s first fully integrated Big Data analytics and scalable storage solutions. The combined offerings, which will be released later this year, will help organizations decrease the amount of hardware and software required to complete major data analysis projects – and unlock the limitless potential of Big Data while delivering lower total cost of ownership (TCO) to end users.

This tight integration of the analytics engine and the data storage into the same solution will remove performance bottlenecks, reduce deployment complexity, simplify management and ease the scaling of an organization’s big data infrastructure, enabling our customers to garner valuable insights into their business sooner,” said Ken Claffey, senior vice president of the ClusterStor business at Xyratex. “Today, in collaboration with our partners, we’re helping end users achieve best-in-class performance, reliability and scalability – including implementing the fastest data storage system in the world. We’re confident that the combined power of our ClusterStor data storage with Pentaho’s leading analytics will re-define what’s possible with Big Data.”

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MSC Software’s SimManager Brings 3D CAE Visualization with VCollab

Ralph — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:43:47 +0000

MSC Software Corporation has announced a new marketing partnership with Visual Collaboration Technologies to promote and distribute the VCollab family of products. Visual Collaboration Technologies provides a state of the art platform for viewing 3D geometry, FEA models and FEA Results in a rich lightweight format that is web friendly. VCollab will be offered immediately as a standalone product and will be deeply integrated into MSC Software’s SimManager, providing a means to share, collaborate and review 3D simulation data.

VCollab provides a light weight 3D way to visualize and share design and CAE information in SimManager allowing engineers to collaborate and make critical engineering decisions right from their browser,” explains Leo Kilfoy, General Manager of Simulation Process and Data Management Business Unit at MSC.

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ETI to Develop 2012 X-Stack Self-Aware Software Framework

Ralph — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:30:30 +0000

The Department of Energy has selected two teams with University of Delaware connections to receive funding under a supercomputing program called 2012 X-Stack: Programming Challenges, Runtime Systems and Tools. Guang Gao, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is part of an Intel-led team selected to address extreme-scale computing issues in scalability, programmability, portability, resilience, energy efficiency and interoperability. ETI, a UD spin-off company founded by Gao, also was awarded funding under the program.

As scientific discovery and national security needs advance, and as data consumption and creation accelerates, Gao says he believes the next generation of scientific breakthroughs in extreme scale science will require major, novel advances in computer technology. “We cannot outsource our exa-scale computing research and development needs elsewhere. Strategically it is too important to our national security and to maintaining leadership in science and technology,” he explains.

On the Intel-led X-Stack project, Gao is leading research at UD to develop a novel program execution model and self-aware system software framework. Read the Full Story.

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HLRN to Split 2.6 Petaflop Cray Cascade Between Berlin and Hannover

Staff — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:21:52 +0000

Over at The Register, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes that the German HLRN consortium is going to have a different brand name and architecture now that Cray has beat out SGI for a 2.6 petaflop supercomputer.

During the first phase of system construction in the autumn of 2013, the initial XC30 system will go in with 1,488 dual-socket processor nodes sporting the next-generation “Ivy Bridge” Xeon E5 processors from Intel. The assumption is that the top-end Xeon E5 2600 v2 processors will sport ten cores compared to the “Sandy Bridge” v1 chips and their eight cores. So this machine should have a total of 29,760 cores in the initial stage, all linked together using the “Aries” dragonfly interconnect.

According to the specifications for the HLRN-III supercomputer, the Lustre-powered system will once again be split in two with one half in Berlin and one half in Hannover. Read the Full Story.

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Joint Computing Institute to Tackle Big Data in the Northwest

Rich Brueckner — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:20:10 +0000

This week PNNL announced that the lab is launching the new Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing in cooperation with the University of Washington. Researchers associated with the institute will work to ensure the next generation of computers and the methods used to run them can address challenges ranging from climate change to energy management.

Computing has transformed science, engineering and society in remarkable ways,” said Doug Ray, associate director of PNNL’s Fundamental & Computational Sciences Directorate. “But as huge amounts of new data are generated daily by scientific instruments and household electronics, new technologies and approaches are needed to give that information more meaning. Researchers at the Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing will tackle ‘big data’ and help improve the quality of life for many U.S. citizens.”

Located on UW’s campus, the institute will be a center of collaboration where UW and PNNL researchers jointly explore advanced computer system designs, accelerate data-driven scientific discovery and improve computational modeling and simulation. Scientists and engineers at the institute will also train future researchers in modern computational approaches. Read the Full Story.

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Slidecast: HPC Wales – An Integrated HPC Service

Rich Brueckner — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:00:56 +0000

In this slidecast, Martyn Guest from HPC Wales describes how the organization provides the region with innovation through collaboration and services for high performance computing.

Our vision is to provide state-of-the-art HPC capability, technology, infrastructure and facilities on a pan-Wales, pan-sector basis, to deliver research innovation, high-level skills development and transformational ICT for wider economic benefit.

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DDN Announces $100K WARP Prize for Big Data Innovation

Rich Brueckner — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:35:13 +0000

DDN has launched a $100,000 prize to recognize scientific breakthroughs enabled by high performance computing with major research institutions pledging their support. The global program focuses on scientific advancement and insight through the exploration of novel approaches to Big Data analysis, Exascale processing, cloud computing, memory-class storage and other emerging developments in HPC.

For more than 12 years, DDN’s leading-edge storage solutions for content-intensive computing have helped universities around the world redefine the boundaries of science and research,” said Alex Bouzari, CEO and cofounder, DDN. “With WARP, we will accelerate the incredible changes of the Big Data era by bringing together the best minds in our industry, and also by providing needed support to the next generation of groundbreaking researchers.”

In conjunction with the WARP program, the company also announced $100,000 in annual prizes to recognize emerging scientific breakthroughs enabled by technology, including a $75,000 first prize and a $25,000 second prize each year. A WARP board of advisors will be established to influence the direction of the WARP program and to select the annual WARP Prize winners. Read the Full Story.

A Tip of the Hat goes out to Suhaib Khan for this photo of DDN’s WARP slide from the Saudi Arabian HPC Conference at KAUST. The event is going on all weekend, and you can follow his Twitter Event Coverage with hastag #SAHPC.

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RunMyCode Lets Scientists Share Code and Results

Rich Brueckner — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:01:17 +0000

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Over at International Science Grid this Week, Adrian Giordany writes that scientists can now share their code & data along with results using RunMyCode.

Donoho says that RunMyCode will make a real impact by conveniently enabling others to reproduce computations without needing the exact software and computer. “You can even use it from a phone or tablet. It might become for computations what ArXiv.org has become for articles,” says Donoho. Currently, the RunMyCode platform is suited to smaller data sets and scripts. The team is working on handling larger code bases and complicated data sets so they can support any published work.

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ClusterVision Achieves NVIDIA Tesla Preferred Provider for EMEA

Rich Brueckner — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:24:31 +0000

This week Dutch firm ClusterVision announced certification in the Nvidia Tesla Preferred Provider program, a business development framework for partners driving HPC market growth with GPUs.

One of our key strengths is the breadth and quality of the relationships we have with our Technology Partners, so we are delighted to have demonstrated the skills and expertise to join the Tesla Preferred Provider program,” said Christopher Huggins, Commercial Director at ClusterVision. “We are actively building a number of accelerated HPC cluster systems based on both the Tesla K10 and the newly announced Tesla K20 GPU accelerator products. Certification as a Tesla Preferred Provider will allow us to capitalise on our expertise and to pass on a number of significant benefits to our customers.”

As a Tesla Preferred Provider ClusterVision can now benefit from early and preferential availability of NVIDIA products, together with attractive pricing and other product promotions. Read the Full Story.

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Who’s Freaking Out? SGI Demo Shows Worldwide Twitter Heat Maps

Rich Brueckner — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:52:40 +0000

Over at Daily Mail, Damian Ghigliotty writes that SGI’s clever Big Data demo at SC12 used a supercomputer to visualize the worldwide Twitter trends as they happened. As a joint project with the University of Illinois, the demo shows a real-time Twitter heat map to track up-to-the-minute responses to major events. There are a half-billion “tweets” worldwide every day, so the demo tapped the power of SGI’s $30,000 UV 2000 ‘Big Brain’ supercomputer.

The project analyses every tweet to assign location (not just GPS-tagged tweets, but processing the text of the tweet itself), and tone values and then visualizes the conversation in a heat map infographic that combines and displays tweet location, intensity and tone,” said SGI’s Facebook page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3AqdIDYG0c

SGI’s Franz Aman showed me how it worked at show, and I came away suitable impressed. Want to visualize the consciousness of the connected world in real time? Sounds like Big Data meets HPC to me. Read the Full Story.

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Solarflare Rolls Out University Program for ApplicationOnLoad Engine

Ralph — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:11:13 +0000

This week Solarflare, the leader in application-intelligent 10GbE networking software and hardware, announced the launch of its Solarflare University Program for the Solarflare ApplicationOnLoad™ Engine (AOE). Providing access to the AOE hardware and development kits at a substantial educational discount allows the Solarflare University Program to offer FPGA-based products for classroom instruction in computer science and computer engineering and helps to pioneer advances in Customized Compute. Solarflare also announced the Innovation Awards to encourage and reward research, innovation, and application development in the field of Customized Compute.

The Solarflare University Program and the Innovation Awards are examples of how private industry and universities can work together to better educate our students about new technologies and equip them with the latest tools and knowledge,” said Melissa Smith, assistant professor, Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University. “The Future Computing Technology Laboratory at Clemson University is dedicated to research in reconfigurable computing and providing our researchers and students with an advanced computing infrastructure [and] we look forward to working with Solarflare and being a part of the University Program.”

Come by the Solarflare booth #3754 at SC12. Read the Full Story.

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International Consortium on Sustained Data Management to Launch at SC12

Rich Brueckner — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:51:07 +0000

A new International Consortium on sustained data management is a planning a launch event at SC12. Called E-iRODS, the consortium will be formed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and members of the Max Planck Society with a mission to develop Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) into a sustained, production-quality technology for data management, sharing, and integration.

SC12 will be our first chance to talk to research communities about their data challenges and how they could benefit from being involved in the E-iRODS Consortium,” said Charles Schmitt, director of data initiatives at RENCI. “We invite any group looking for data solutions—whether they are current iRODS users or not—to attend this reception.”

Participants in SC12 interested in learning more about the E-iRODS Consortium are encouraged to attend the presentation “Enterprise iRODS and the E-iRODS Consortium,” in the RENCI/North Carolina booth (3640) at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, or 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14. Additionally, an informational reception about iRODS and E-iRODS will be held from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, in the Solitude Room at the Salt Lake Marriott Downtown, across the street from the Salt Palace Convention Center. Read the Full Story.

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