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Women in HPC launches mentoring program

Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) has launched a year-round mentoring program, providing a framework for women to provide or receive mentorship in high performance computing. Read more about the program at https://womeninhpc.org/2019/03/mentoring-programme-2019/ WHPC was created with the vision to encourage women to participate in the HPC community by providing fellowship, education, and support to women ...

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ARC Director Sharon Broude Geva profiled in HPCWire’s Women in Science issue

Dr. Sharon Broude Geva, Director of Advanced Research Computing at U-M, was one of four women profiled in HPCWire’s “Celebrating Women in Science” article. Read the piece at https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/02/11/women-science-leading-the-way-in-hpc/

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ARC Director Sharon Broude Geva re-elected Chair of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation

Dr. Sharon Broude Geva, Director of Advanced Research Computing at the University of Michigan, has been re-elected as Chair of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) for 2020. Founded in 1989, CASC advocates for the use of advanced computing technology to accelerate scientific discovery for national competitiveness, global security, and economic success. The organization’s ...

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U-M selects Dell EMC, Mellanox and DDN to Supply New “Great Lakes” Computing Cluster

The University of Michigan has selected Dell EMC as lead vendor to supply its new $4.8 million Great Lakes computing cluster, which will serve researchers across campus. Mellanox Technologies will provide networking solutions, and DDN will supply storage hardware. Great Lakes will be available to the campus community in the first half of 2019, and ...

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ARC-TS seeks pilot users for two new research storage services

Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS) is seeking pilot users for two new research storage services. The first, Locker, is group project storage focused on large data sets, and is available at a cost less than half that of current primary storage services. Locker still provides encryption, replication, snapshots, and workstation access. Example use ...

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HPC training workshops begin Tuesday, Feb. 13

A series of training workshops in high performance computing will be held Feb. 12 through March 6, 2018, presented by CSCAR in conjunction with Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS). Introduction to the Linux command Line This course will familiarize the student with the basics of accessing and interacting with Linux computers using the GNU/Linux ...

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U-M fosters thriving artificial intelligence and machine learning research

Research using machine learning and artificial intelligence — tools that allow computers to learn about and predict outcomes from massive datasets — has been booming at the University of Michigan. The potential societal benefits being explored on campus are numerous, from on-demand transportation systems to self-driving vehicles to individualized medical treatments to improved battery capabilities. ...

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Yottabyte Research Cloud able to accept HIPAA-aligned data

Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS) is pleased to announce that the Yottabyte Research Cloud (YBRC) computing platform is now HIPAA-compliant. This means that YBRC and its associated services can accept restricted data, enabling secure data analysis on Windows and Linux virtual desktops as well as secure hosting of databases and data ingestion. The ...

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U-M wraps up successful SC17 conference

Several University of Michigan researchers and professional IT staff attended the Supercomputing 17 (SC17) conference in Denver from Nov. 12-17, participating in a number of different ways, including demonstrations, presentations and tutorials. U-M participation included: Matt McLean, a Big Data systems administrator with ARC-TS, served as a panelist at a session titled “The ARM Software ...