The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $25 million to a UC-headed research group to create the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Present and Future Quantum Computation. The goal of the institute is to actualize a long-awaited sci-fi movie fantasy: quantum computing. Quantum computers will offer a sheer boost of computing power, that will help…
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IDRE Activities and Opportunities during COVID-19
Computational Research The OIT/IDRE Hoffman2 shared computing cluster will remain operational. Essential support functions for the cluster will be maintained, including user support through the online ticketing system. Requests for Hoffman2 storage allocations and node purchases will be processed and provisioned as usual, although the accounting transactions may be delayed. Contact your school, divisional, and/or…
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Addressing the Vaccine Crisis Symposium
On Friday, November 1, 2019, UCLA faculty members Timothy R. Tangherlini, Beth Glenn, Catherine Crespi, Roshan Bastani and Vwani Roychowdhury organized an all-day symposium, “Addressing the Vaccine Crisis: The Digital World, Big Data and Public Health”. This one-day symposium, hosted by UCLA faculty from Engineering, Humanities and Public Health and sponsored by IDRE, focused attention on this potentially broad-ranging crisis. The symposium synthesized different perspectives on the vaccine crisis…
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2019 IDRE Scholars Announced
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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2019 Spring Quarter Workshops and Training Sessions
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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The Argonne National Laboratory Supercomputer will Enable High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence at Exascale by 2021
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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UCLA Researchers Received NIH Grant to Improve Non-invasive and More Cost-effective Cancer Screenings
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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UCLA Team Awarded INCITE Research Grant
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 IDRE 2019 Winter Training Courses & Workshops
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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UCLA Computational Medicine Call for Research Proposals on Medically Relevant Machine Learning in the Cloud powered by Amazon Web Services
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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