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Poster Inspiration Through Song
Veterans of last year’s Research Computing Symposium might recall a parody of “Twas the Night Before Christmas” reinterpreted as ‘Twas the Night Before Deadline‘.
This year, we’ve outmatched it, with a music video — “I’m Dreaming of a White Poster.” See Duke Research Computing director Mark DeLong do his best Bing Crosby, Santa suit, snow and all, in this comical rendition. (You can even sing along, if you want.)
Remember your poster email is due on January 14, 2016! There are also Fabulous Prizes, though the event will be reward enough. Go here for details: https://rc.duke.edu/white-poster/
Show your brilliance. Submit a poster.
Enter a Poster for the 2016 Duke Research Computing Symposium! All entires are due before January 14. For full details about the Research Computing Symposium and to register, visit: https://rc.duke.edu/symposium-2016/
Save the date! Duke Research Computing Symposium
On January 25, 2016, the second Duke Research Computing Symposium will take place in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center. For details about the event (including a poster competition) and how to register, visit: https://rc.duke.edu/symposium-2016/
Duke Adds Storage to Manage ‘Big Data’
Additional storage helps researchers analyze and protect data. Read the full article on Duke Today: http://today.duke.edu/2015/10/storage
OIT Training fall 2015 free seminars – seats available
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Duke Amazon Web Services Immersion Day a success!
70 Duke faculty, staff and students attended Amazon Web Services Event held this past week. Missed the event? Check out these session resources. To get notified of future Research Computing events, subscribe to the Research Computing Newsletter.
Note from the IT Security Office: We have begun discussions with Amazon around a potential master service agreement with accompanying data security requirements and business associate agreement. However, while we have a long term vision that includes the use of AWS for many purposes, at present this solution is not acceptable for projects involving sensitive data such as protected health information (PHI), FERPA, export controlled or other confidential data. Any researchers or students who have questions about the use of AWS for projects involving research data should contact Duke University and Medicine Security Offices (security@duke.edu) to vet the concept or use of AWS before proceeding.
Open Science Grid Event to be held Oct. 27-29
Research Computing is hosting an Open Science Grid Event (Oct. 27-29). The Open Science Grid (OSG) is a national scale distributed infrastructure for scientific computing. The OSG Connect service provides easy access to the resources that OSG provides.
Six 3 hour sessions will be held over the 3 days (topics: The Unix Shell, Version Control with Git, Python Programming I, Python Programming II, Basics of High Throughput Computing and Large Scale High Throughput Computing) plus 1 evening Overview of Scientific Computing targeted to student researchers. Feel free to register for one or all. For full information and registration details, go to: http://swc-osg-workshop.github.io/2015-10-27-duke/
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Duke Compute Cluster workshops offered this fall – Register now!
Tom Milledge (Research Computing) will be offering four workshops this fall (one each month) on the new SLURM scheduler on the Duke Compute Cluster (formerly called the Duke Shared Cluster Resource or “DSCR”). This class will cover the basics of using SLURM and is recommended for both new and experienced Duke Compute Cluster users. For details & to register, go online: http://training.oit.duke.edu/research.
