XSEDE in the News
XSEDE Publications Page Now Online
The XSEDE website now includes a page (in the About section) for publicly available and widely shared XSEDE documents, which can be found at the following link: https://www.xsede.org/ publications. Although five documents are linked from the page, it is expected that the number will grow. As such, the XSEDE community may see category names added in the future. Please note: If you refer to or print any of these documents on a regular basis, please check this page before doing so, as it will always contain the most current version (along with the creation or latest revision date). Please contact Susan McKenna (mckennas@ncsa.illinois.edu) if you have questions or have a document to include on the page. Thank you.
Webinar, Seminars and Talks
Rice University Mentoring Program to Host Planning Your PhD Workshop Series
November 9, 2011 - 3:00 – 4:00PM (EDT) 2:00 – 3:00PM (CDT), 12:00 – 1:00PM (PDT)
The webinar, the first in the series, is entitled Overcoming the Difficulties in Obtaining Your Ph.D. To join the hour-long session, please visit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDFRZHZPNVc4UHAtV0NubjQxQWdIRmc6MA#gid=0 by Tuesday, November 8, 2011. The workshop series goals are to provide support to doctoral students in the computing disciplines, connect students with faculty, academic, and industry professionals and discuss issues in obtaining the Ph.D. The webinar panel speakers are Bushra Anjum, Dr. Joycelyn Streator, and Dr. Luis Vincente.
Upcoming Training Opportunities
Parallel Programming: Using Blacklight
December 5-6, 2011 - PSC
PSC is pleased to announce a workshop featuring programming techniques that will help you to take advantage of large shared memory machines. Workshop participants will use PSC's Blacklight, the largest shared memory machine in the world. No experience with parallel programming is required, as MPI and OpenMP will be discussed from the ground up, but a working knowledge of C or Fortran is suggested. There will be ample time for hands-on experience with this new material. Participants are encouraged to bring their own codes. For more information, to view a complete agenda and to register, please visit http://www.psc.edu/training/ParallelProgramming.
High Performance Computing News
Join the New Special Interest Group on HPC
The Association for Computing Machinery has launched a new Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing, the first international organization devoted exclusively to HPC. Members will receive member rates at key HPC events, including the SC Conference series, an HPC newsletter, access to research reports, conference proceedings, and educational resources and virtual access to whole community of new colleagues. Membership is $25/year, and does not require joining ACM. SIGHPC welcomes everyone, including members of other professional organizations such as IEEE Computer Society, SIAM, and AGU. For more information and to join at a discounted rate before November 18, 2011, please visit http://sighpc.org/.
Funding Opportunities
NSF Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Call for Proposals
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): February 01, 2012 February 1, Annually Thereafter August 01, 2012 August 1, Annually Thereafter
STS considers proposals for scientific research into the interface between science (including engineering) or technology, and society. STS researchers use diverse methods including social science, historical, and philosophical methods. Successful proposals will be transferrable (i.e., generate results that provide insights for other scientific contexts that are suitably similar). They will produce outcomes that address pertinent problems and issues at the interface of science, technology and society, such as those having to do with practices and assumptions, ethics, values, governance, and policy. For more information, please visit http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12509/nsf12509.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25WT.mc_ev=click.
Student Engagement
CodeNow! Read, Write, Innovate – Calling All Students!
November 19-20, 2011 – Washington, DC December10-11, 2011 – Washington, DC Application Deadline – November 12, 2011
CodeNow teaches underserved high school students foundational skills in computer programming through fun and interactive trainings. Washington DC-area students are being recruited in 10th - 12th grades for two weekend trainings. This five-part program includes weekend training, projects, a boot camp, networking and an alumni network. This is a great opportunity for students interested in learning about computer programming. For more information and to register, please visit, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpMUjlfd3NmWXFFMHY3ZUtyTUZoQXc6MQ&utm_source=CodeNow+Updates+-+Website+Sign+Ups&utm_campaign=ea5228ba4f-CodeNow_CallingAllStudents&utm_medium=email
