XSEDE (eXtreme Digital) is a project that coordinates and provides access to advanced digital services and cyberinfrastructure resources to accelerate scientific discovery. It aims to enhance researcher productivity by providing seamless access to computing resources, expertise, and services. XSEDE integrates resources from various institutions and locations to form a distributed cyberinfrastructure ecosystem for researchers. It supports over $767 million in research annually and has enabled over 10,600 publications.
Overview of XSEDE and Introduction to XSEDE 2.0 and BeyondJohn Towns
This presentation will briefly review XSEDE, its past mission and accomplishments, and give insight into the direction and vision for the second round of XSEDE.
XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) is a digital infrastructure that provides researchers with integrated advanced computing, data, and visualization resources. It aims to enhance scientific productivity through access to these resources and expert support services. XSEDE involves multiple partner institutions and over $100 million in computing resources. It seeks to support open science, enable new multidisciplinary collaborations, and help tackle society's grand challenges.
Supporting Research Communities with XSEDEJohn Towns
XSEDE is a major research infrastructure in the United States with collaborations worldwide supporting thousands of researchers across a wide range of domains. XSEDE has taken an integrative and holistic approach to supporting researchers in the use of the varying resources and services available via XSEDE. This presentation will breifly review XSEDE and its vision and provide a discussion of the efforts within XSEDE targeted at supporting research communities.
XSEDE is a major research infrastructure with collaborations worldwide supporting thousands of researchers across a wide range of domains. XSEDE has taken an integrative and holistic approach to supporting researchers in the use of the varying resources and services available via XSEDE. This presentation will briefly review XSEDE and its vision and provide a discussion of the efforts within XSEDE targeted at supporting research communities.
Supporting Research Communities with XSEDEJohn Towns
XSEDE is a major research infrastructure with collaborations worldwide supporting thousands of researchers across a wide range of domains. XSEDE has taken an integrative and holistic approach to supporting researchers in the use of the varying resources and services available via XSEDE. This presentation will briefly review XSEDE and its vision and provide a discussion of the efforts within XSEDE targeted at supporting research communities.
International Symposium NLHPC 2013: Innovation at the frontier of HPC
Title: XSEDE: an ecosystem of advanced digital services accelerating scientific discovery
Abstract:
The XSEDE program (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) has recently entered its third year of operation. In this talk we will discuss the vision, mission and goals of this project and some of the distinguishing characteristics of the program. This will be accompanied by a review of current status and look ahead at where the program is headed over the next several years.
Supporting Research Communities with XSEDEJohn Towns
XSEDE is a major research infrastructure in the United States with collaborations worldwide supporting thousands of researchers across a wide range of domains. XSEDE has taken an integrative and holistic approach to supporting researchers in the use of the varying resources and services available via XSEDE. This presentation will briefly review XSEDE and its vision and provide a discussion of the efforts within XSEDE targeted at supporting research communities with a focus on connections to campus efforts.
This document provides an introduction to XSEDE 2.0, which is a renewal proposal being submitted to the National Science Foundation to continue funding the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment project for 5 more years from 2016-2021. The summary highlights that XSEDE coordinates over $100M in NSF cyberinfrastructure awards, serves over 750 researchers annually, and in its last year supported over $767M in related research funding. It outlines priorities for the renewal period, including continuing support services, evolving community infrastructure, and pursuing sustainability through offering services to other projects.
Overview of XSEDE and Introduction to XSEDE 2.0 and BeyondJohn Towns
This presentation will briefly review XSEDE, its past mission and accomplishments, and give insight into the direction and vision for the second round of XSEDE.
XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) is a digital infrastructure that provides researchers with integrated advanced computing, data, and visualization resources. It aims to enhance scientific productivity through access to these resources and expert support services. XSEDE involves multiple partner institutions and over $100 million in computing resources. It seeks to support open science, enable new multidisciplinary collaborations, and help tackle society's grand challenges.
Supporting Research Communities with XSEDEJohn Towns
XSEDE is a major research infrastructure in the United States with collaborations worldwide supporting thousands of researchers across a wide range of domains. XSEDE has taken an integrative and holistic approach to supporting researchers in the use of the varying resources and services available via XSEDE. This presentation will breifly review XSEDE and its vision and provide a discussion of the efforts within XSEDE targeted at supporting research communities.
XSEDE is a major research infrastructure with collaborations worldwide supporting thousands of researchers across a wide range of domains. XSEDE has taken an integrative and holistic approach to supporting researchers in the use of the varying resources and services available via XSEDE. This presentation will briefly review XSEDE and its vision and provide a discussion of the efforts within XSEDE targeted at supporting research communities.
Supporting Research Communities with XSEDEJohn Towns
XSEDE is a major research infrastructure with collaborations worldwide supporting thousands of researchers across a wide range of domains. XSEDE has taken an integrative and holistic approach to supporting researchers in the use of the varying resources and services available via XSEDE. This presentation will briefly review XSEDE and its vision and provide a discussion of the efforts within XSEDE targeted at supporting research communities.
International Symposium NLHPC 2013: Innovation at the frontier of HPC
Title: XSEDE: an ecosystem of advanced digital services accelerating scientific discovery
Abstract:
The XSEDE program (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) has recently entered its third year of operation. In this talk we will discuss the vision, mission and goals of this project and some of the distinguishing characteristics of the program. This will be accompanied by a review of current status and look ahead at where the program is headed over the next several years.
Supporting Research Communities with XSEDEJohn Towns
XSEDE is a major research infrastructure in the United States with collaborations worldwide supporting thousands of researchers across a wide range of domains. XSEDE has taken an integrative and holistic approach to supporting researchers in the use of the varying resources and services available via XSEDE. This presentation will briefly review XSEDE and its vision and provide a discussion of the efforts within XSEDE targeted at supporting research communities with a focus on connections to campus efforts.
This document provides an introduction to XSEDE 2.0, which is a renewal proposal being submitted to the National Science Foundation to continue funding the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment project for 5 more years from 2016-2021. The summary highlights that XSEDE coordinates over $100M in NSF cyberinfrastructure awards, serves over 750 researchers annually, and in its last year supported over $767M in related research funding. It outlines priorities for the renewal period, including continuing support services, evolving community infrastructure, and pursuing sustainability through offering services to other projects.
Student Achievement Review (initially presented during Inauguration Function of the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing at Wright State (Kno.e.sis)) - updated since
Center overview: http://bit.ly/coe-k
Invitation: http://bit.ly/COE-invite
The Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing at Wright State University:
1) Shares the second position globally in impact on the World Wide Web and has the largest academic research group in the US working on semantic web, social media, big data, and health applications.
2) Has exceptional student success with internships and jobs at top companies and a total of 100 researchers including 15 highly cited faculty and 45 PhD students, largely funded through $2M+ annually in research funding.
3) Provides world-class resources for multidisciplinary projects across information technology and domains like biomedicine, with collaboration from industry partners like Google and IBM.
This document discusses the potential for developing a knowledge network by leveraging metadata from scientific endeavors. It begins by outlining some of the limitations of traditional metadata approaches. It then proposes that metadata could be structured as a graph using semantic triples to represent relationships between people, institutions, projects, and other elements. This liberalized metadata approach could help reduce complexity while providing a more comprehensive view of scientific activities and outputs. The document advocates for establishing common standards, developing tools to extract and aggregate metadata, and creating services and repositories to enable discovery, analysis, and visualization of the knowledge network. The goal is to facilitate research by providing integrated access to information on scientific data, publications, actors and their relationships.
SPARC Repositories conference in Baltimore - Nov 2010Jisc
1. The document discusses the reasons for and vision of creating a global network of repositories to openly share knowledge and data.
2. Key reasons for a global network include enabling open access to information, supporting science through linked data, and aligning with universities' responsibilities to the public.
3. The ideal vision is to build socio-technical infrastructure similar to what was created in the 1880s to support electricity, in order to manage and share linked, open, and trusted data globally through repository networks.
Rebecca Grant DAH Research Presentationdri_ireland
Presentation given by Rebecca Grant of the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Research in the Digital Age symposium at the Trinity Long Room Hub, 14 July, 2015. The presentation gives an overview of some of the key concepts and drivers in research data management for the arts and humanities, and introduces the Digital Repository of Ireland as potential place of deposit for such data.
This document summarizes a project on social and physical sensing enabled decision support for disaster management. The project involves a collaboration between Kno.e.sis at Wright State University and Ohio State University. It aims to extract relevant information from citizen sensed data, develop adaptive models of hurricane storm surge coupled with citizen and remote sensed data, and provide tools to assist first responders by integrating data from multiple sources. The project will analyze multimodal data and develop methodologies to predict consequences of infrastructure damage. It is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Bridging Gaps and Broadening Participation inToday's and Future Research Com...Sandra Gesing
Research computing is in an exciting era and has never as fast evolved as in the last 20 years. We can nowadays answer research questions that we could not even ask two decades ago. This has led to discoveries such as the analyses of DNA from Next-Generation Sequencing technologies. The increased complexity of software, data, hardware and lab instruments demands for more openness and sharing of data and methods. Researchers and educators are not necessarily IT specialists though. Thus, a further trend in research computing is the shift from system-centric design to user-centric design and interdisciplinary teams – complex solutions are offered in self-explanatory user interfaces, so-called science gateways or virtual research environments. I will present solutions and projects supporting users to be able to focus on their research questions without the need to become acquainted with the nitty-gritty details of the complex research computing infrastructure. Key aspects of the presented projects are usability and interoperability of computational methods, reproducibility of research results as well as sustainability of research software. Sustainability of research software has many facets. I advocate for improving the diversity in workforce development, career paths for research software engineers and for incentivizing their work via means beyond the traditional academic rewarding system.
The document discusses science gateways and provides several examples. Science gateways allow researchers to access data, software, computing services, and equipment specific to their discipline through a web portal. Examples discussed include the Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research gateway which has reached over 210 US universities, and the I-TASSER gateway which led to a large influx of new XSEDE users. The Neuroscience Gateway provides powerful simulators and analysis tools to over 300 neuroscientists. Challenges in developing and sustaining gateways are also examined, such as the need for multiple types of expertise that projects do not always have resources to obtain.
This document summarizes a presentation by Mark A. Parsons on infrastructure, relationships, trust, and the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The presentation discusses how research infrastructure now requires electronic infrastructure (e-infrastructure) due to data-intensive science. It also discusses how infrastructure emerges through relationships between people, technologies, and institutions. The RDA is introduced as a community working to build social and technical bridges to enable open data sharing across disciplines. Initial and future products being developed by RDA working groups are also summarized.
Linked Data at the OU - the story so farEnrico Daga
The document discusses the Open University's use of linked open data and their data.open.ac.uk platform. It provides an overview of linked data principles and the data.open.ac.uk platform. Key services of the Open University rely on data.open.ac.uk to support users in various ways such as the student help center and OpenLearn platform. While linked data is useful for centralized data publishing, it does not replace traditional data management and requires developers to integrate it with existing workflows.
Moving from an IR to a CRIS, the why & howDavid T Palmer
IRs collect, manage and display publications, and their metadata. However, an institution’s research, expertise and capacity is described by more than publications. The HKU Scholars Hub, hosted in DSpace, began as the IR of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2005. Asking for voluntary deposit of publications from HKU academics, it received little notice, and more importantly, little support from University senior management. In 2009 a new HKU initiative, Knowledge Exchange, adopted the Hub as a key vehicle to share knowledge and skill with the community outside HKU. With funding support from the Office of KE, we extended the data model of DSpace to include relational tables on non-publication objects, including people, grants, and patents, holding attributes of these objects, such as co-investigators, co-inventors, co-prize winners, research interests, languages spoken, supervision of postgraduate theses, etc. The DSpace user interface now delivers an integrated search and display on these objects and attributes, as well as on ones newly derived, such as authority work on name disambiguation and synonymy in Roman and Hanzi (漢字), visualizations on networks of co-authors, co-investigators, etc, metrics extracted from external sources such as Scopus, WoS, PubMed, Google Scholar Citations, internal alt-metrics of view and download counts, and more. Beyond the functions of an IR, the Hub now performs as a system for reputation management, impact management, and research networking and profiling -- all of which are concepts included in the broad term, “Current Research Information System” (CRIS). These new objects and attributes curated from several trusted sources, and integrated into the present mashup, contextualize and highlight HKU research, and attract more hits, than an IR with only publications.
The HKU Office of Knowledge Exchange has now funded the modularization of these new HKU features of DSpace. Together with our partner, CINECA of Italy, we are making this work available in open source for the DSpace community.
What is eScience, and where does it go from here?Daniel S. Katz
eScience has evolved from focusing on global scientific collaborations enabled by distributed computing infrastructure to emphasizing joint advances in digital infrastructure and how that infrastructure enables new research. This symbiotic relationship between research and infrastructure development could be called Research and Infrastructure Development Symbiosis (RaIDS). Going forward, RaIDS conferences should focus on improving communication between infrastructure developers and researchers to facilitate new collaborations, ensure research publications appropriately attribute enabling infrastructure advances, and standardize catalogs of available infrastructure and research challenges.
DuraSpace is OPEN presented by:
Debra Hanken Kurtz, CEO Jonathan Markow, CSO at the
11th Annual International Conference on Open Repositories 2016, Dublin
Australia's Environmental Predictive CapabilityTERN Australia
Federating world-leading research, data and technical capabilities to create Australia’s National Environmental Prediction System (NEPS).
Community consultation presentation.
3-12 February 2020
Dr Michelle Barker (Facilitator)
(Presentation v5)
ESI Supplemental 1 E-research Support SlidesDuraSpace
E-Research Support at
Johns Hopkins University & Purdue University
Supplemental Webinar
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Presented by Sayeed Choudhurry & James Mullins
ESI Supplemental Webinar 2 - DataONE presentation slides DuraSpace
This document provides an overview of a webinar on DataONE, a project that aims to provide tools and approaches for supporting the data life cycle. The webinar covered three key challenges in data management: preservation and planning, discovery, and innovation. It discussed how DataONE is working to address these challenges through its coordinated network of member nodes that allow for data preservation, sharing and discovery. The webinar also demonstrated some of DataONE's tools like the DMPTool for data management planning and the Investigator Toolkit for data analysis and visualization.
Infrastructure, Standards, and Policies for Research Data Management Jian Qin
This document discusses research data management infrastructure, standards, and policies. It addresses the need for a sustainable data infrastructure that is discoverable, accessible, and usable across disciplines. It identifies gaps in current data management services at different stages of the research lifecycle, including a lack of tools, standards, and institutional policies. Technical, organizational, and behavioral factors all contribute to these gaps. The document argues that effective research data management requires a coordinated set of services developed through data policies, technological infrastructure, and information standards.
This document describes the development of XRobots, a robot wrestling game where players write programs to control robots. It discusses the robot hardware which uses Lego Mindstorms EV3 kits with motors, sensors, and Bluetooth connectivity. An operating system runs the Java-based robot API to control movement and sensors. A game server facilitates networked communication between robots and handles game state and security. Xtext is used to define a programming language and web editor for writing robot control scripts. JavaFX provides graphics and OpenCV enables robot vision processing. The goal is to create an engaging and secure platform for programming and playing with robot battles.
Este documento presenta información sobre el cálculo y uso de fórmulas polinómicas para determinar el coeficiente de reajuste "K" usado para ajustar el valor de obras de construcción debido a cambios en los precios de los materiales e insumos. Explica cómo se determinan los coeficientes de incidencia para cada índice en la fórmula polinómica y cómo aplicar la fórmula para calcular el reajuste y el nuevo valor de la obra en un mes determinado, considerando la variación de todos los índices incl
Student Achievement Review (initially presented during Inauguration Function of the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-Enabled Computing at Wright State (Kno.e.sis)) - updated since
Center overview: http://bit.ly/coe-k
Invitation: http://bit.ly/COE-invite
The Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing at Wright State University:
1) Shares the second position globally in impact on the World Wide Web and has the largest academic research group in the US working on semantic web, social media, big data, and health applications.
2) Has exceptional student success with internships and jobs at top companies and a total of 100 researchers including 15 highly cited faculty and 45 PhD students, largely funded through $2M+ annually in research funding.
3) Provides world-class resources for multidisciplinary projects across information technology and domains like biomedicine, with collaboration from industry partners like Google and IBM.
This document discusses the potential for developing a knowledge network by leveraging metadata from scientific endeavors. It begins by outlining some of the limitations of traditional metadata approaches. It then proposes that metadata could be structured as a graph using semantic triples to represent relationships between people, institutions, projects, and other elements. This liberalized metadata approach could help reduce complexity while providing a more comprehensive view of scientific activities and outputs. The document advocates for establishing common standards, developing tools to extract and aggregate metadata, and creating services and repositories to enable discovery, analysis, and visualization of the knowledge network. The goal is to facilitate research by providing integrated access to information on scientific data, publications, actors and their relationships.
SPARC Repositories conference in Baltimore - Nov 2010Jisc
1. The document discusses the reasons for and vision of creating a global network of repositories to openly share knowledge and data.
2. Key reasons for a global network include enabling open access to information, supporting science through linked data, and aligning with universities' responsibilities to the public.
3. The ideal vision is to build socio-technical infrastructure similar to what was created in the 1880s to support electricity, in order to manage and share linked, open, and trusted data globally through repository networks.
Rebecca Grant DAH Research Presentationdri_ireland
Presentation given by Rebecca Grant of the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Research in the Digital Age symposium at the Trinity Long Room Hub, 14 July, 2015. The presentation gives an overview of some of the key concepts and drivers in research data management for the arts and humanities, and introduces the Digital Repository of Ireland as potential place of deposit for such data.
This document summarizes a project on social and physical sensing enabled decision support for disaster management. The project involves a collaboration between Kno.e.sis at Wright State University and Ohio State University. It aims to extract relevant information from citizen sensed data, develop adaptive models of hurricane storm surge coupled with citizen and remote sensed data, and provide tools to assist first responders by integrating data from multiple sources. The project will analyze multimodal data and develop methodologies to predict consequences of infrastructure damage. It is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Bridging Gaps and Broadening Participation inToday's and Future Research Com...Sandra Gesing
Research computing is in an exciting era and has never as fast evolved as in the last 20 years. We can nowadays answer research questions that we could not even ask two decades ago. This has led to discoveries such as the analyses of DNA from Next-Generation Sequencing technologies. The increased complexity of software, data, hardware and lab instruments demands for more openness and sharing of data and methods. Researchers and educators are not necessarily IT specialists though. Thus, a further trend in research computing is the shift from system-centric design to user-centric design and interdisciplinary teams – complex solutions are offered in self-explanatory user interfaces, so-called science gateways or virtual research environments. I will present solutions and projects supporting users to be able to focus on their research questions without the need to become acquainted with the nitty-gritty details of the complex research computing infrastructure. Key aspects of the presented projects are usability and interoperability of computational methods, reproducibility of research results as well as sustainability of research software. Sustainability of research software has many facets. I advocate for improving the diversity in workforce development, career paths for research software engineers and for incentivizing their work via means beyond the traditional academic rewarding system.
The document discusses science gateways and provides several examples. Science gateways allow researchers to access data, software, computing services, and equipment specific to their discipline through a web portal. Examples discussed include the Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research gateway which has reached over 210 US universities, and the I-TASSER gateway which led to a large influx of new XSEDE users. The Neuroscience Gateway provides powerful simulators and analysis tools to over 300 neuroscientists. Challenges in developing and sustaining gateways are also examined, such as the need for multiple types of expertise that projects do not always have resources to obtain.
This document summarizes a presentation by Mark A. Parsons on infrastructure, relationships, trust, and the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The presentation discusses how research infrastructure now requires electronic infrastructure (e-infrastructure) due to data-intensive science. It also discusses how infrastructure emerges through relationships between people, technologies, and institutions. The RDA is introduced as a community working to build social and technical bridges to enable open data sharing across disciplines. Initial and future products being developed by RDA working groups are also summarized.
Linked Data at the OU - the story so farEnrico Daga
The document discusses the Open University's use of linked open data and their data.open.ac.uk platform. It provides an overview of linked data principles and the data.open.ac.uk platform. Key services of the Open University rely on data.open.ac.uk to support users in various ways such as the student help center and OpenLearn platform. While linked data is useful for centralized data publishing, it does not replace traditional data management and requires developers to integrate it with existing workflows.
Moving from an IR to a CRIS, the why & howDavid T Palmer
IRs collect, manage and display publications, and their metadata. However, an institution’s research, expertise and capacity is described by more than publications. The HKU Scholars Hub, hosted in DSpace, began as the IR of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2005. Asking for voluntary deposit of publications from HKU academics, it received little notice, and more importantly, little support from University senior management. In 2009 a new HKU initiative, Knowledge Exchange, adopted the Hub as a key vehicle to share knowledge and skill with the community outside HKU. With funding support from the Office of KE, we extended the data model of DSpace to include relational tables on non-publication objects, including people, grants, and patents, holding attributes of these objects, such as co-investigators, co-inventors, co-prize winners, research interests, languages spoken, supervision of postgraduate theses, etc. The DSpace user interface now delivers an integrated search and display on these objects and attributes, as well as on ones newly derived, such as authority work on name disambiguation and synonymy in Roman and Hanzi (漢字), visualizations on networks of co-authors, co-investigators, etc, metrics extracted from external sources such as Scopus, WoS, PubMed, Google Scholar Citations, internal alt-metrics of view and download counts, and more. Beyond the functions of an IR, the Hub now performs as a system for reputation management, impact management, and research networking and profiling -- all of which are concepts included in the broad term, “Current Research Information System” (CRIS). These new objects and attributes curated from several trusted sources, and integrated into the present mashup, contextualize and highlight HKU research, and attract more hits, than an IR with only publications.
The HKU Office of Knowledge Exchange has now funded the modularization of these new HKU features of DSpace. Together with our partner, CINECA of Italy, we are making this work available in open source for the DSpace community.
What is eScience, and where does it go from here?Daniel S. Katz
eScience has evolved from focusing on global scientific collaborations enabled by distributed computing infrastructure to emphasizing joint advances in digital infrastructure and how that infrastructure enables new research. This symbiotic relationship between research and infrastructure development could be called Research and Infrastructure Development Symbiosis (RaIDS). Going forward, RaIDS conferences should focus on improving communication between infrastructure developers and researchers to facilitate new collaborations, ensure research publications appropriately attribute enabling infrastructure advances, and standardize catalogs of available infrastructure and research challenges.
DuraSpace is OPEN presented by:
Debra Hanken Kurtz, CEO Jonathan Markow, CSO at the
11th Annual International Conference on Open Repositories 2016, Dublin
Australia's Environmental Predictive CapabilityTERN Australia
Federating world-leading research, data and technical capabilities to create Australia’s National Environmental Prediction System (NEPS).
Community consultation presentation.
3-12 February 2020
Dr Michelle Barker (Facilitator)
(Presentation v5)
ESI Supplemental 1 E-research Support SlidesDuraSpace
E-Research Support at
Johns Hopkins University & Purdue University
Supplemental Webinar
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Presented by Sayeed Choudhurry & James Mullins
ESI Supplemental Webinar 2 - DataONE presentation slides DuraSpace
This document provides an overview of a webinar on DataONE, a project that aims to provide tools and approaches for supporting the data life cycle. The webinar covered three key challenges in data management: preservation and planning, discovery, and innovation. It discussed how DataONE is working to address these challenges through its coordinated network of member nodes that allow for data preservation, sharing and discovery. The webinar also demonstrated some of DataONE's tools like the DMPTool for data management planning and the Investigator Toolkit for data analysis and visualization.
Infrastructure, Standards, and Policies for Research Data Management Jian Qin
This document discusses research data management infrastructure, standards, and policies. It addresses the need for a sustainable data infrastructure that is discoverable, accessible, and usable across disciplines. It identifies gaps in current data management services at different stages of the research lifecycle, including a lack of tools, standards, and institutional policies. Technical, organizational, and behavioral factors all contribute to these gaps. The document argues that effective research data management requires a coordinated set of services developed through data policies, technological infrastructure, and information standards.
This document describes the development of XRobots, a robot wrestling game where players write programs to control robots. It discusses the robot hardware which uses Lego Mindstorms EV3 kits with motors, sensors, and Bluetooth connectivity. An operating system runs the Java-based robot API to control movement and sensors. A game server facilitates networked communication between robots and handles game state and security. Xtext is used to define a programming language and web editor for writing robot control scripts. JavaFX provides graphics and OpenCV enables robot vision processing. The goal is to create an engaging and secure platform for programming and playing with robot battles.
Este documento presenta información sobre el cálculo y uso de fórmulas polinómicas para determinar el coeficiente de reajuste "K" usado para ajustar el valor de obras de construcción debido a cambios en los precios de los materiales e insumos. Explica cómo se determinan los coeficientes de incidencia para cada índice en la fórmula polinómica y cómo aplicar la fórmula para calcular el reajuste y el nuevo valor de la obra en un mes determinado, considerando la variación de todos los índices incl
El documento presenta la convocatoria para el XXXIX Examen Nacional para Aspirantes a Residencias Médicas (ENARM) en México en 2015. Describe los objetivos del examen que son seleccionar a médicos generales mexicanos y extranjeros para cursar especialidades médicas a través del proceso de residencias. Explica también los requisitos para la inscripción como los plazos, la selección de hasta dos opciones de especialidad de un mismo bloque y la verificación de no estar en procesos de especialización o haber sido sele
This document contains the track listing for the Xuxa album "Som Livre - Pérolas - Xuxa" along with links to download pages for Xuxa albums, songs, and related content. It lists 16 songs on the album including "Ilariê", "Parabéns da Xuxa", and "Planeta Xuxa". Numerous links are provided to sites hosting Xuxa music downloads.
This complaint alleges violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and Arizona labor laws by Defendants XY Corporation, Paul Adam, and Paula Adam against Plaintiffs Jane Doe, John Doe, and Joanna Smith. The Plaintiffs worked for Defendants' ice cream business for several years, but were paid less than minimum wage, denied overtime pay, and were not paid at all during some weeks. The complaint seeks damages for unpaid wages, overtime pay, and penalties as provided under federal and state law.
Allengers Medical Systems is one among the leading xray machines manufacturers today and owes the same to its deft professionals who are dedicated to creating the best diagnostic machines.
Xpress Holdings Ltd signed significant deals worth at least RMB 200 million per year to provide print solutions to seven major media companies in China. The deals demonstrate the success of Xpress's unique one-stop print management model, which provides dedicated pre-press services, a growing network of print stations for distribution, and a system for splitting printing jobs across multiple locations. The model offers clients benefits like lower costs, faster delivery, and improved ability to meet customer needs. The contracts will involve managing over 22 publication titles and are expected to increase in value as subscriber numbers rise over the three-year agreement period.
This document provides instructions for installing and setting up a Cobra radar/laser detector. It discusses mounting the detector on the windshield or dashboard for optimal performance and detection range. The instructions explain how to attach the windshield bracket and position the detector to have a clear view forward and backward. Settings like volume, display brightness, and mute functions are described. The document also provides an overview of how radar and laser guns work and how to interpret the alerts from the detector.
Este documento resume los ganadores del XXVII Concurso Local de Belenes del año 2014 en Elche, España. Los premios se otorgan en varias categorías como particulares monumentales, bíblicos, populares e infantiles, así como para parroquias, colegios y clases escolares. La entrega de trofeos tendrá lugar el 29 de diciembre en el Gran Teatro de Elche.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
ARCC National Perspective Panel: XSEDE (Towns)John Towns
John Towns is the PI and Project Director of XSEDE, which aims to accelerate scientific discovery through advanced digital services. XSEDE's goals include deepening and extending use of cyberinfrastructure resources, advancing these resources, and sustaining the ecosystem. A key challenge is campus bridging - integrating campus resources into the national ecosystem through champions and lowering barriers. Articulating value to stakeholders like NSF is also a challenge due to needing clear metrics of impact. Long-term sustainable funding beyond the initial 5-year project is another concern. With $1B, Towns would invest in campus cyberinfrastructure, a national data infrastructure, workforce development, and leadership development, as well as sustaining these efforts through an
XSEDE National Cyberinfrastructure, NIST, and Supporting NCSI Objectives John Towns
This document discusses the role of XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) in supporting scientific research through advanced cyberinfrastructure and its relationship to the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). It provides an overview of XSEDE's resources, services, and support for researchers. Key points include:
- XSEDE coordinates over $100 million in advanced computing resources from the NSF to support over 15,000 researchers annually.
- Resources include supercomputers, data storage, visualization systems, and software from various partner institutions.
- Services include training, allocations management, user support, and collaborations to optimize applications.
- XSEDE aims to define an integrated national cyber
This document provides a summary of the State of XSEDE presentation given by John Towns in July 2014. The presentation highlights that in the past year, XSEDE has hit its stride in regularly delivering value to researchers through powerful new resources, smooth transitions, training workshops, and campus outreach. It outlines objectives for the coming year, including new capabilities, expanded training programs, and relationships with other infrastructures. The presentation concludes by noting the upcoming major review of XSEDE by NSF in September 2014 to assess accomplishments, status, and future trajectory.
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1. September 18, 2014
XSEDE: an ecosystem of advanced digital services accelerating scientific discovery
John Towns
PI and Project Director, XSEDE
Executive Director, Science & Technology, NCSA
jtowns@ncsa.illinois.edu
3. XSEDE in Context
•XSEDE is an award made under the eXtreme Digital solicitation
–TeraGrid Phase III: eXtreme Digital Resources for Science and Engineering (XD), NSF 08-571
•Consistent with NSF’s vision and strategy statements
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4. NSF’s Strategic Planning Documents
•Investing in Science, Engineering, and Education for the Nation's Future - National Science Foundation Strategic Plan for 2014-2018
•www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14043/nsf14043.pdf
–Vision: A Nation that creates and exploits new concepts in science and engineering and provides global leadership in research and education.
•Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering
•www.nsf.gov/cif21
•NSF’s Advanced Computing Infrastructure: Vision and Strategic Plan
•www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12051/nsf12051.pdf
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5. Original Motivation for XSEDE
•Scientific advancement requires a variety of resources and services
–and thus availability of comprehensive cyberinfrastructure composed of heterogeneous digital resources
•Computational science better served if we leverage aggregate expertise of a small number of leading institutions
–not fully centralized at a single institution; not fully decentralized
–full centralization less agile, single point of failure
–different sites each offer a unique perspective and talent to address a particular suite of community needs,
–best to have several leadership perspectives for addressing the broad range of disciplinary needs
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6. XSEDE – accelerating scientific discovery
XSEDE’s Vision: a world of digitally-enabled scholars, researchers, and engineers participating in multidisciplinary collaborations while seamlessly accessing computing resources and sharing data to tackle society’s grand challenges.
XSEDE’s Mission:
to substantially enhance the productivity of a growing community of scholars, researchers, and engineers through access to advanced digital services that support open research; and to coordinate and add significant value to the leading cyberinfrastructure resources funded by the NSF and other agencies.
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7. Strategic Goal #1: Deepen and Extend Use
XSEDE will:
a.deepen the use—make more effective use—of the advanced digital services ecosystem by existing scholars, researchers, and engineers, and
b.extend the use to new communities.
c.We will contribute to preparation—workforce development—of the current and next generation of scholars, researchers, and engineers in the use of advanced digital services via training, education, and outreach; and
d.we will raise the general awareness of the value of advanced digital services.
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8. Strategic Goal #2: Advance the Ecosystem
Exploiting its internal efforts and drawing on those of others, XSEDE will advance the broader ecosystem of advanced digital services by:
a.creating an open and evolving e-infrastructure, and
b.enhancing the array of technical expertise and support services offered
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9. Strategic Goal #3: Sustain the Ecosystem
XSEDE will sustain the advanced digital services ecosystem by:
a.assuring and maintaining a reliable, efficient, and secure infrastructure, and
b.providing excellent user support services
c.XSEDE will further operate an effective, productive, and
d.innovative virtual organization
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10. XSEDE Factoids: high-order bits
•5 year, US$121M project
–plus US$9M, 5 year Technology Investigation Service
•separate award from NSF
–option for additional 5 years of funding upon major review after PY3
•No funding for major hardware
–coordinate, support and create a national/international cyberinfrastructure
–coordinate allocations, support, training and documentation for >$100M of concurrent project awards from NSF
•~112 FTE /~250 individuals funded across 20 partner institutions
–this requires solid partnering!
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11. Total Research Funding Supported by XSEDE in Program Year 3
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$767 million in research
supported by XSEDE
in PY3
(July 2013-June 2014)
Research funding only. XSEDE leverages and integrates additional infrastructure, some funded by NSF (e.g. Track 2 systems) and some not (e.g. Internet2).
12. What is XSEDE?
•An ecosystem of advanced digital services accelerating scientific discovery
–support a growing portfolio of resources and services
•advanced computing, high-end visualization, data analysis, and other resources and services
•interoperability with other infrastructures
•A virtual organization (partnership!) providing
–dynamic distributed infrastructure
–support services and technical expertise to enable researchers engineers and scholars
•addressing the most important and challenging problems facing the nation and world
•More than just a project funded by the National Science Foundation
–XSEDE is a path-finding experiment in how to develop, deploy and support e-science infrastructure
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13. •World-class leadership
–partnership led by NCSA, NICS, PSC, TACC and SDSC
•CI centers with deep experience
–partners who strongly complement these CI centers with expertise in science, engineering, technology and education
XSEDE’s Distinguishing Characteristics: Governance
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14. XSEDE offers efficient and effective integrated access to a variety of resources
•Leading-edge distributed memory systems
•Very large shared memory systems
•High throughput systems, including Open Science Grid (OSG)
•Visualization engines
•Accelerators like GPUs and Xeon PHIs
Many scientific problems have components that call for use of more than one architecture.
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16. What do you mean by “Advanced Digital Services?”
•Often use the terms “resources” and “services”
–these should be interpreted very broadly
–most are likely not operated by XSEDE
•Examples of resources
–compute engines: HPC, HTC (high throughput computing), campus, departmental, research group, project, …
–data: simulation output, input files, instrument data, repositories, public databases, private databases, …
–instruments: telescopes, beam lines, sensor nets, shake tables, microscopes, …
–infrastructure: local networks, wide-area networks, …
•Examples of services
–collaboration: wikis, forums, telepresence, …
–data: data transport, data management, sharing, curation, provenance, …
–access/used: authentication, authorization, accounting, …
–coordination: meta-queuing, …
–support: helpdesk, consulting, ECSS, training, …
–And many more: education, outreach, community building, …
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17. XSEDE User Portal: THE User Site portal.xsede.org
•XSEDE User Portal (XUP) is designed to be the only site a user needs to use XSEDE
•XUP presents information relevant to users
–user info is easier to find
–XUP also provides dynamic data about XSEDE systems
–capabilities to manage usage, files, data
•As a user you can
–request an allocation, and manage allocations
–sign up for training
–request help
–manage file and data, and much more!
–Portal provides single sign-on to all XSEDE resources
18. Mao Ye (U. of Illinois) Computational Finance
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•Showed that by using odd lots and rapid trading, traders were able to mask what they were doing.
•His first findings contributed to a change in NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange rules, such that all trades are reportable and visible moment-by-moment.
•Later work suggests that ever-faster trades may be destabilizing the markets.
19. CIPRES Science Gateway for Phylogenetics
•Currently accounts for ~30% of XSEDE users
•Served 10,000th user since birth as a gateway in Dec 2009
–over 350k total job submissions
–averaging 250 new users per month/ with 1000 users total submitting 12-14,000 jobs per month
–users from 80% of EPSCoR states, significant classroom use
•~1200 publications including Science, PNAS and Cell
•“I did not know there were this many scientists out there to serve, but there is (still) no sign of usage leveling off.” – Mark Miller, PI
•“CIPRES has moved the needle of what phylogenetic scientists think is possible.” – Brent Mishler, UCB, original CIPRES member
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20. Direct interactions with the Community
•Facilitated broad range of ground-breaking research
–provided in-depth support contributing to improved user productivity
–supported over 10,600 publications
•Seamlessly integrated and retired resources
–transitioned users smoothly
•Pursued new disciplinary areas
–increased the diversity of disciplines utilizing advanced digital services
•Campus Champions reached new heights
–over 200 Champions at more then 165 institutions
–expanding program: Regional, Student, and Domain Champions
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22. Over 10k publications, conference papers and presentations reported by XSEDE users, PY1-3
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Start of XSEDE
23. Services Provided to the Community
•Established the XSEDE User Portal as the place for users to go to get information and support
–a single location for their needs
–create a single account that gives you access to all XSEDE resources: over 18,000 accounts!
•Over 90,000 training registrations in past year!
–HPCU and CI-Tutor, as well as center trainings, have been used in universities around the country to prepare students to use the nation's pre-eminent computational resources
•Field and route over 10,000 tickets annually
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24. Some Unexpected Challenges and Outcomes: XSEDE is a socio-technical ecosystem
•Highly distributed organization
–challenges in managing a project that involves staff at 19 partnering institutions
•A completely virtual organization
–breaking new ground from an organizational structure and management point of view
•Highly distributed engineering project
–developing new methodologies to adapt traditional practices to the unusual context of XSEDE
•Providing value-add to communities we did not expect!
–systems engineering, virtual organizations, organizational studies
–40+ letters provided for proposals
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25. XSEDE Value Added
•Benefits that accrue from having one coordinated and consolidated organization that would not happen in a scenario of multiple organizations.
•Two main categories of value added:
–value that results from there being a single entity serving the national research community and providing leadership with which other projects can align
–value that results from the scale of XSEDE
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26. Benefits of a Single Coordinating Organization
•Uniformity of computing environment improves user productivity
–single allocation process
–coordinated help desk support
–unified authentication mechanism
–unified set of tools for data management
•Security effectiveness
–unified security team has proved highly effective in responding to security incidents
•Disaster resilience
–key core services operated in one region of the US with backup elsewhere
•Software optimization and support
•optimization of widely used community codes
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27. One Resource With Which the Nation Can Align
•Several science projects use XSEDE as a resource
–more than 40 Letters of Support written, LIGO, National Center for Genome Analysis Support
•Science Gateways – one national cyberinfrastructure environment to serve as a back end for gateways
•Campus Bridging
–aligns national CI – single entity to bridge to
–enables the national research community to better leverage non-federal investments in campus CI
–extends the value of software created by community through XCBC
•XSEDE becomes a coordinating point for national and international entities who want to engage the NSF HPC programs.
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28. Benefits from Scale
•Scale of Staff Overall
–disciplinary breadth of expertise
•allows coverage of domains composed of diverse sub- domains that 2 or 4 centers could not cover
–Novel and Innovative Projects
–support of emerging & innovative research
•National impact of training, education and outreach programs
–student programs serve a more diverse group of students
–better ability to cover the entire nation in outreach:
•XSEDE Conference
•users in all 50 states, D.C., and US territories
•Campus Champions - 49 States
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29. Diverse ECSS Expertise Possible Because of Scale
•Fields of expertise: astrophysics, bioinformatics, CFD, chemistry, computer science, climate modeling, engineering, genomics, hydrology, humanities , machine learning, molecular dynamics, phylogenetics, physics, seismology, statistics.
•Technologies: clusters, large shared memory systems, MICs, GPUs
•Languages: C, C++,Fortran, MPI, OpenMP, Java, JavaScript, shell programming, CUDA, OpenACC, Python, R, MATLAB
•Techniques: benchmarking, cloud computing, Condor, data mining, databases, FFTs, finite element methods, grid generation, grid middleware, Lattice Boltzmann methods, libraries, linear algebra, Monte Carlo methods, parallel debugging, parallel I/O, petascale computing, scheduling, science gateways, visualization, workflows
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30. Convenience Requirements will Always Increase
•Each generation of users requires more convenience than the former
•We must always be adding new capabilities while maintaining and extending existing reliability
•XSEDE has learned from the past
–adds value in how we address going forward
30
Change is the only Constant
– Heraclitis 535BC-475BC
No, his mind is not for rent To any god or government. Always hopeful, yet discontent, He knows changes aren't permanent, But change is.
– Rush - Tom Sawyer