Fwd: Computational Research at UVM: Learn about new opportunities with the Vermont Advanced Computing Core

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From: Galbraith, Richard A. <Richard.Galbraith@med.uvm.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 11:50 AM
Subject: Computational Research at UVM: Learn about new opportunities with the Vermont Advanced Computing Core
To: <UVMFACULTY@list.uvm.edu>

 

Richard A. Galbraith, MD, PhD
Vice President for Research

 

I would like to invite you to a meeting to discuss new computational research opportunities that the Vermont Advanced Computing Core (VACC) has to offer that will benefit faculty and researchers. The VACC is a University-wide research core facility offering high performance computing through massively parallel and big data computational services to UVM faculty, staff, and students. Members of the VACC Team that includes the Faculty Director and staff from both the Office of the Vice President for Research and Enterprise Technology Services will be available to provide training to faculty, students, and researchers to help them with any of their computational research needs.

 

Wednesday, November 28^th

1:00pm-2:00pm

Waterman Building, room 338 (Memorial Lounge)

 

Agenda:

 

1. Opening remarks from Simeon Ananou, UVM Chief Information Officer
2. DeepGreen: a new massively parallel cluster composed of over 70 GPUs capable of over 8 petaflops of mixed precision calculations based on the NVIDIA Tesla V100 architecture. Its hybrid design can expedite high-throughput artificial intelligence and machine learning workflows and its extreme parallelism will forge new and transformative research pipelines. This project is funded by an award from the National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation.
3. #UVMComputes: a project designed to allow anyone with a laptop to help their fellow faculty and students do research by simply pointing their browser at the #UVMComputes web page. The network of participating laptops becomes an on-campus supercomputer! This project is funded by the first ever gift from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to UVM. One of the Sloan Foundation's goals is to lower the barriers of entry into science for as many people as possible: UVM is excited to be joining the Sloan Foundation in this adventure through the #UVMComputes project.
4. Summary: a description of the current cluster, Bluemoon, and a  brief summary of the technical support and consulting services provided on a wide variety of issues ranging from data storage, software implementation and licensing, and hardware requirements. Introduction of new workshops that will be available to faculty, staff, and students that are new to high performance computing.

 

Please come and bring your students with you to learn more about the VACC.

 

Sincerely, 
 
Richard Galbraith, MD, PhD
Vice President for Research