Five early career researchers were recently selected for the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards. Applicants were nominated by their faculty sponsors and the recipients were then selected by a committee comprised of several IDRE Executive Committee members. They were hand-picked based on their proposals’ merit featuring innovative and computationally based…
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UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is excited to announce our 2019 Spring Quarter Workshops and Training Sessions. How to register: Click on the links below, or on the attached PDF. Or visit: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar. April XSEDE HPC Workshop: BIG DATA Tues., April 2 – Wed. April 3, Daily | 8 am – 2 pm Running Applications on…
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Article provide by Department of Energy. Watch the live stream of Secretary Perry announces the Energy Department will build Aurora, a new exascale supercomputer. Watch a recording of the announcement.  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – Intel Corporation and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will build the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the United…
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By Jacelyn O’Neill 42,000 new cases of liver cancer are diagnosed every year in the US, which has more than tripled since 1980. The American Cancer society estimates 30,000 people die from liver disease every year and the death rate has continued to increase over the last 18 years. Currently, there are not any recommended…
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By Jacelyn O’Neill Frank S. Tsung (Researcher, UCLA Physics & Astronomy) and Warren Mori (Professor, Physics & Astronomy) are Principal Investigators of the project “Petascale Simulations of Kinetic Effects in Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) Plasmas” which was one of just 62 awarded an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact Theory and Experiment or INCITE grant from the…
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UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is excited to announce our 2019 Winter Quarter Training Courses & Workshops. How to register: Click on the links below, or on the attached PDF. Or visit: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar.  January Software Carpentry: Python for Researchers – Wed., Jan. 9 – Thurs. Jan. 10, Daily | 9 am – 4:30 pm Introduction to Statistical…
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Amazon and the UCLA Department of Computational Medicine are engaging in a partnership in Machine Learning in Biomedical Sciences. Supported by a gift from Amazon, the collaboration will enable UCLA researchers to utilize large-scale computational resources to advance machine learning research in medically relevant applications. We invite research proposals that leverage large-scale computing to develop…
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#UCLAGISDay2018 This annual event celebrates the usage of geographic information systems (GIS) technology in real-world applications that are making a difference to society. #UCLAGISDay2018 is organized by the UCLA Library, Department of Geography, and the Institute for Digital Research and Education. During this year’s event, “Battle of the Maps: UCLA vs USC,” the two campuses will…
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