As of October 18, 2009 all central research computing systems and large file systems on the Bloomington campus have been relocated to the new Data Center and are in production. This move was the largest single data center relocation in IU history. The seamless transition of resources in under 6 days was ahead of schedule and is a testament to IU's strength in information technology.
Planning for the relocation began 14 months ago. The relocation entailed the move of 41 racks with 1344 servers, 6292 cores, and 1638 TB of storage. The diligence and attention to detail of UITS and IU facilities staff made this transition possible. In preparation for the arrival of systems in the new data center UITS installed over 2500 network cables totaling 13.5 miles and 200 power receptacles.
A video about the relocation to new Data Center will be available soon. Please visit in the coming days: http://pti.iu.edu/datacenter_move
Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure News
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DATA CENTER DEDICATION
The Trustees of Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie Provost Karen Hanson and Vice President Brad Wheeler cordially invite you to attend the Dedication Ceremony for the Indiana University Data Center - Bloomington
When: Thursday, November 5, 2009 3:30pm
Where: Indiana University Data Center - Bloomington
2737 East 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47408
Tours of the Data Center will be available immediately following the ceremony.
To RSVP, call (812) 856-5517 or e-mail vpitrsvp@iu.edu.
If you have special needs and require assistance, please call (812) 856-5517 and let us know how we can accommodate you at the ceremony.
Parking will be available at Wrubel Computing Center located at 2711 East 10th Street (10th Street and the 45/46 Bypass), adjacent to the IU Data Center.
View invitation to the dedication:
http://it.iu.edu/datacenter/dedication4.html
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY INNOVATION CENTER DEDICATION
The Trustees of Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie Provost Karen Hanson and Vice President for Engagement William B. Stephan invite you to celebrate the dedication of the IU Innovation Center.
When: Monday, November 9, 2009 10:00 am
Where: Indiana University Innovation Center
2719 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47408
The ceremony will be held in the University Gymnasium, directly north of the new center.
A reception and tour will immediately follow the ceremony. Please see the map on the reverse for directions and parking. If you have a disability and need assistance, arrangements can be made to suit most needs. For special requests and/or questions, please telephone (317) 231-2114.
IU Innovation Center is the new home for Pervasive Technology Institute.
The new Indiana University Innovation Center is located on East Tenth Street (East State Road 45) approximately one block east of the intersection with the State Road 45/46 Bypass. Parking (P) is available in the lots north and west of the Innovation Center.
Download printable pdf invitation:
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MINI-CONFERENCES
Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) (www.pti.iu.edu) at Indiana University presents Supercomputing Mini-Conferences at the SC09 Conference in Portland, OR.
All Mini-Conferences will take place at the IU Innovation Theater located within the Indiana University booth. Registration is not required - but space is limited, so arrive early!
For more information visit http://sc09.supercomputing.iu.edu.
Building Science Gateways and Managing Workflows with the Open Grid Computing Environment Toolkit
Presenter: Marlon Pierce, Assistant Director, Community Grids Lab in PTI Digital Science Center
Date: Tuesday, November 17
Time: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Scientific Workflow with Immersive Interfaces for Visualization
Presenter: Bill Sherman, Senior Technology Advisor, IU Advanced Visualization Lab in PTI Data to Insight Center
Date: Tuesday, November 17
Time: 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Sustainability, Climate, and Environment: The Data Tsunami
Presenter: Beth Plale, Director, PTI Data to Insight Center and Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing
Date: Wednesday, November 18
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
New Approaches to Scientific Computing: FutureGrid and Cloud Technologies
Presenter: Geoffrey Fox, Director, PTI Digital Science Center and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, IU School of Informatics and Computing
Date: Wednesday, November 18
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Open MPI Tutorial
Presenter: Andrew Lumsdaine, Director, Open Systems Lab in PTI Digital Science Center
Date: Thursday, November 19
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability
Presenter, Craig Stewart, Executive Director, Pervasive Technology Institute and Associate Dean for Research Technologies
Date: Thursday, November 19
Time: 12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Also, don't miss our Monday night opening gala musical event - only at the Indiana University booth:
Telematic Explorations
IUPUI Professor of Music Scott Deal will perform a set of original telematic works synthesizing live music, dance, drama, and visual arts with Internet-based interactive processes and performance content.
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DEMOS at Indiana University Booth
GlobalNOC Worldview
An interactive, 3D, real-time network topology and utilization visualization appliance capable of simultaneous display of multiple network maps for networks around the world.
FutureGrid
An NSF-funded test bed allowing the collaborative development and testing of novel approaches to parallel, grid, and cloud computing for scientific research.
IV-Station
A low-cost portable virtual reality display system built from commericial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components, running open-source virtual reality, and visualization software.
In-a-box weather forecasting with LEAD and Trident
The Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) Portal and Trident scientific workflow for Windows HPC Server are powerful tools used to execute on-demand weather forecasts, analysis, and visualization.
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GRID COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS (GCE) 2009
Friday, November 20
8:30AM - 5:00PM
Room D139-140
Organizers:
Marlon Pierce (Indiana University)
Gopi Kandaswamy (ISI)
This workshop will examine the impact of Cloud computing and Web 2.0 Internet computing technologies and other developments on scientific portals and gateways.
It is the goal of the GCE workshop series to provide venue for researchers to present pioneering, peer-reviewed work on these and other topics to the international science gateway community.
Workshop registration is required
For details SC09 workshop information:
http://scyourway.supercomputing.org/conference/view/wksp119
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A collaborative team from Indiana University will lead the effort to provide essential tools related to the history and authenticity of an experiment's data set (called "provenance") for the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) computer network.
The GENI provenance effort, which is supported by a $484,485 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), will be led by Principal Investigator Beth Plale, director of the Data to Insight Center in the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University. Plale, a professor in the IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing, partnered with co-PI Chris Small, a network engineer and research scientist at the IU Global Research Network Operations Center (Global NOC). The collaboration leverages Plale's expertise in data provenance with Small's deep knowledge of advanced computer networking.
For more information, please see:
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At EGEE ’09 in Barcelona, the EGEE SAM group based at CERN announced the adoption of the MyOSG presentation framework for MyEGEE.
MyOSG (myosg.grid.iu.edu), developed at Indiana University, is an information consolidation and presentation web tool used to create custom user views from several OSG data sources. These include information data such as BDII and GIP Validation, monitoring data gathered by Resource and Service Validation (RSV) Probes, accounting data from Gratia, and administrative data from the OSG Information Management (OIM) database.
MyOSG selection criteria allow each user to have a unique view of content gathered from multiple sources within OSG. It also allows export into a generic widget format (UWA) to personalized workflow environments such as iGoogle, NetVibes, and other widget viewers including mobile devices.
For more information, please see:
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Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) at Indiana University is looking for experienced individuals to fill multiple positions in Cloud, and Grid computing, Multicore and message-oriented middleware development.
PTI researchers work closely with Indiana University's Research Technology group, who maintain IU's world class cyberinfrastructure. PTI leads a major new NSF funded project FutureGrid developing a testbed linked to TeraGrid for innovative new approaches for large scale scientific computing.
To view job listing, please see:
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Dr. Thomas Sterling, renowned professor of computer science at Louisiana
State University, will present the inaugural lecture in Indiana University¹s
Peebles Lectures in Information Technology series. All interested parties
are invited to attend.
When: November 10, 2009. Reception begins at 3pm; talk begins at 4pm.
Where: Innovation Center 105, 2719 E 10th Street, Bloomington. Shuttle
service will be provided from Lindley Hall and Informatics. Live and
archive streaming of the talk will be available from http://pti.iu.edu
Sterling is best known as the father of the Beowulf cluster and for his work
on petascale computing. His development of Beowulf clusters making
supercomputing clusters out of groups of Linux servers created and
popularized the technology that underlies the large majority of the world¹s
fastest supercomputers. His current research focuses on ParalleX, which
strives to provide a new model of parallel computing that will revolutionize
high performance computing, science, and informatics applications
The Peebles Lectures in Information Technology series sponsors one lecture
per academic year in areas of information technology relevant to research,
teaching, or creative activity in academe. Speakers are chosen by virtue a
mix of distinction in academic endeavors in information technology,
innovation in its application, and iconoclastic views. The series
commemorates decades of service given to Indiana University by Dr.
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When: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:00 - 5:00pm
Where: LH 101 (IUB)
Seminar Series Presentation
by Kay Connelly
School of Informatics and Computing,
Indiana University
When: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:00 - 5:00pm
Where: Info. East 122 (IUB)
InPhO @ Work
by Dr. Colin Allen
Department of History and Philosophy of Science and
Program in Cognitive Science and
Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
College of Arts and Sciences,
Indiana University
For more details, please visit:
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Indiana University Digital Library Program, in conjunction with the School of Library and Information Science, offers a weekly brown bag series. Topics range from project planning to project overviews, including specific talks on digitization, metadata and technology. Brown bag sessions are open to anyone interested in issues concerning digital libraries.
When: November 11, 2009 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Where: Herman B Wells Library in Room E174, the Media Showing Room (IUB)
Big Digital Machine
Robert McDonald
Libraries
This DL brown bag session will look at how the Big Digital Machine (BDM) concept is being applied to the Empowering People Information Technology Strategic Plan currently being implemented by the the university. Topics covered will concern strategic system-wide infrastructure as well as joint initiatives between the Libraries and UITS which will be leverage points for the facilitation of the BDM concept and its application to the Indiana University System.
This semester's Digital Library Brown Bag series will be available for remote access via the Web, unless otherwise specified. Presentation slides and audio will be available at:http://breeze.iu.edu/diglib. If you are not a registered user for Connect Meeting/Breeze, select the "Enter as a Guest" option.
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BigRed & Quarry Training event
When: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 10:00am - 3:00pm
Where: IMU Persimmon Room (IUB); ICTC 497 (IUPUI)
UITS will be holding training sessions about how to get started with BigRed and Quarry, two of the super computers at Indiana University. These training sessions will cover how to login to the system, create and submit a job script, and monitor your job. These training sessions will be as follows:
BigRed: 10am-12pm
Quarry: 1pm-3pm
For more information, see: http://pti.iu.edu/hpa
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The maintenance window for Big Red and Quarry is the first Tuesday of each month, 7am - 7pm EDT.
The maintenance window for the Mass Store and Research File System is every Sunday 7-10AM.
Outage reports are available online at:
* http://racinfo.indiana.edu/hps/research/bigred/outages.shtml
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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 researchtechnologies@iu.edu.
