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Technology Engagement Center Grand Opening – October 5
You are invited to attend the Technology Engagement Center Grand Opening (Wednesday, October 5, 4-6 pm, Telecom Bldg.) You’ll see 3D Printing, Fabrication Technology & Virtual Reality Demos! Read more about the new space: https://today.duke.edu/2016/09/new-makerspace-and-technology-hub-opens-campus.
A Bigger Shib – Session Followup
Miss today’s session – “A Bigger Shib: Using Federated Authentication on Your Web Resources”? Watch it online. Note: You may be prompted to update your MS Silverlight to view the recording. Session materials are also available.
Special thanks to our guest speakers: Mary McKee, Andy Ingham, Jimmy Dorff, Shilen Patel, Mark McCahill & Rob Carter.
A Bigger Shib: Using Federated Authentication on Your Web Resources
Shibboleth is a powerful web-based tool for authentication that is widely deployed at Duke and at many other universities around the nation. At Duke, “Shib” is primarily used for the local university community, but it can also be used to leverage authentication services at other InCommon institutions, making scholarly collaborations easier and more secure. This workshop goes through the mechanics of setting up Shibboleth and harnessing it’s “federation” features for inter-institutional use of Duke services. The workshop showcases work done with the support the the National Science Foundation to broaden the range of web-based tools and increase the power of trust-based technologies like Shibboleth.
Lunch will be provided to registered participants.
Date: Tuesday, July 12
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: The Edge Workshop Room, Bostock Library
Registration: training.oit.duke.edu/research
Get started with Splunk
Miss this week’s Splunk training? Watch session recordings online:
- Splunk for Researchers – learn what powerful search is all about! (session recording)
- Splunk Search Party for IT Professionals (session recording)
Resources:
- Duke: Splunk Information
- Splunk Quick Reference Guide (PDF)
- Splunk licensing for classroom and research
- Free Online training and Power User Certification
Splunk for Researchers – learn what powerful search is all about!
Learn what Splunk is, the power behind it’s engine and how it can be used in research. Morning refreshments and pastries will be provided. Splunk representatives and OIT Research Computing staff will be available before and after the session for 1-1 consulting and Q&A. For information about Splunk at Duke, visit oit.duke.edu/about/metrics/splunk.php
Date: Thursday, May 5
Time: 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Location: The Edge Workshop Room (Bostock Library)
Register online: https://training.oit.duke.edu/research
Also, we still have seats available for Splunk Search Party for IT Professionals sessions on either May 5 or May 6.
Microsoft Cloud Computing Immersion Experience for Researchers
Duke University Libraries has partnered with Microsoft to host a workshop about Cloud Computing and how use this technology to help solve the technical side of your research projects. We invite you to spend some time in this Immersion Experience and see how Microsoft Research use Cloud Computing every day to solve difficult research problems. This event will cover a wide variety of cloud computing topics including:
- Machine Learning & using R for performing predictive analytics on large
volumes of semi-structured data - Storage – how to use the cloud to store & process large volumes of data
- Stream Analytics and the Internet of Things, giving the ability to
query and analyze high-velocity data streaming from all kinds of data
sources in real time - Big-Data / Hadoop – how to deploy a Linux Spark cluster, and other
tools for analyzing Big Data such as Hadoop, Spark, and Zeppelin. - High Performance Computing – how to bring thousands of computing cores
online to perform massive parallel processing - Use “Database-as-a-Service” instead of creating complete Database erver VMs
If you wish to do the hands-on labs that are presented during class, you will need a laptop of some kind (Windows, Linux, or Mac) along with a modern browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge. No other software is required.
We will also have some representatives from Microsoft for some open Q&A sessions during the event.
We anticipate a high demand for this event; however, seating is limited, and registration is required.
Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing for Researchers
Date: Thursday, April 7th (9am-5pm) and Friday, April 8th (9am-12pm)
Location: The Edge Workshop Room (Bostock Library)
Registration: http://duke.libcal.com/event/2516778
If you have any additional questions, please contact John Pormann (jbp1@duke.edu).
Research Toolkits pilot announcement
OIT just announced a pilot of Research Toolkits, a web-based service that allows researchers to request longer-term virtual machines (VMs) and data storage for research projects. The service is available to regular rank faculty and their designees, and enables them to manage requests, add team collaborators and manage permissions. For details and to access Research Toolkits, visit: https://rtoolkits.web.duke.edu/.
Registration Open: Getting Started with Julia
Julia is a new programming language for numerical computing that aims to
combine the flexibility of dynamic languages like Python or Matlab with
the speed of Fortran or C. Full description here. Lunch will be provided. Registration required.
Getting Started with Julia
Date: Thursday, February 11
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: SSRI – Gross Hall 230 E – Map
Register online at: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eROUhgaLWiRP73n
For questions, contact Alexandra Cooper cooper@duke.edu.
This event is being co-sponsored by Social Science Research Institute (SSR), Duke Libraries, Office of Information Technology (OIT) and Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies.
Registration still available for Free Tech Seminars!
Need introductory training on topics like Sites@Duke, Audacity, iMovie, Warpwire & more. Register now at: training.oit.duke.edu/reg.
Also, look for Duke Compute Cluster & Linux training opportunities here: training.oit.duke.edu/research.
