Institute for Digital Research and Education
Harness the Power of GPUs, an Introduction to GPGPU Programming is a mixture of lectures and labs and introduces all levels of parallelism as well as common approaches for parallelization. This course, hosted virtually by UCLA-IDRE, is free for UCLA researchers/students. Sign Up Now
This 4 day event will include MPI, OpenMP, OpenACC and accelerators and run June 24-27. We will conclude with a special hybrid exercise contest that will challenge the students to apply their skills over the following 3 weeks and be awarded the First Annual XSEDE Summer Boot Camp Championship Trophy – worth up to $8....
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OIP and OIT announce the First Annual UCLA “Code for the Mission” App Competition. The goal of the competition is to encourage the UCLA community (Faculty, Staff and Students) to create mobile apps that further UCLA’s mission of Research, Education and Service.
The Data Intensive Summer School focuses on the skills needed to manage, process and gain insight from large amounts of data. This course, hosted virtually by UCLA-IDRE, is free for UCLA researchers/students.
Dr. Digvijay Singh will speak. Abstract: Rising energy requirements in a broad range of computing platforms from mobile devices to server systems combined with the proliferation of these high-performance computing platforms has lead to an exigent need for improvement in platform energy efficiency. This requires infrastructure for monitoring of platform energy consumption and methods to...
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Date: July 28, 2014 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Location: 5628 Math Science, Visualization Portal RSVP is required: Please RSVP online Note: If you have a challenge compute problem, and you can outline where your program spends most time, we want to hear from you at this meeting. Please contact us at hpc@ucla.edu to participate. ManyCore Computing:...
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Lisa Snyder, IDRE's Visualization and Modeling Expert, has been awarded two National Endowments for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities Grants for: The VSim Project Repository and Archive: Interface software and online repository and archive to facilitate distribution and educational use of 3D computer models of historic urban environments. Development of the VSim software, which provides a...
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DS2 is SAS’s next generation, DATA step-like programming language which enables easy parallel processing and advanced data manipulation. SAS programs which perform computationally complex data processing on large data sets can demonstrate dramatically improved performance when re-written in DS2. The DS2 Programming: Essentials class is designed for experienced SAS programmers who want to leverage new,...
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Location: 5628 Math Science Building, UCLA Date and Time: Aug 25 2014 - 8:00am - Aug 26 2014 - 2:00pm This two-day in-person training will cover all aspects of visualizing data from a broad variety of domains. The training kicks off with an introduction to visualization followed by best practices when dealing with diverse data,...
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OIP and OIT announce the First Annual UCLA “Code for the Mission” App Competition. The goal of the competition is to encourage the UCLA community (Faculty, Staff and Students) to create mobile apps that further UCLA’s mission of Research, Education and Service.
The second annual Mobility and Modern Web Conference (MMWCON), presented by UCLA's OIT, in association with higher ed and corporate partners, will take place September 17-19, 2014.
The second annual Mobility and Modern Web Conference (MMWCON), presented by UCLA's OIT, in association with higher ed and corporate partners, will take place September 17-19, 2014.
Lunchtime Art Talks take place every Wednesday at 12:30pm. The Hammer's curatorial department leads free and insightful 15-minute discussions about works of art currently on view or from museum collections. This talk will be led by Emily Gonzalez, curatorial associate. N. Dash Hammer Project 2014
Tickets are required and available at the Box Office one hour before each program. Early arrival is recommended. Tickets are available one per person on a first-come, first-served basis. Additional Information Experts address the recent surge in unaccompanied children crossing the border from humanitarian and political perspectives. Elizabeth Kennedy, a Fulbright Fellow working in El...
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EPSS invites a distinguished alumnus back to campus once a year to give a lecture. The lecture is open to the public; the reception beforehand is restricted to departmental guests.
Tuesday, October 14 9 a.m. to 12 noon, CLICC Classroom C sign up here . Stata is a powerful and yet easy-to-use statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using Stata. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience...
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Stop by the market in Bruin Plaza to support local and responsible farmers in the most delicious and healthy way possible! Expect to see some delicious seasonal produce, nut products and dried fruits, as well as some student performers! E3 will also be serving free Fair Trade coffee, selling reusable bags for $2, and collecting...
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Thursday, October 16 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., CLICC Classroom C sign up here . SPSS is a very easy-to-use statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and UNIX platforms. This class is designed for people who are just starting to use SPSS. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using SPSS...
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Design constraints in current processor product lines Processor Market segmentation NVIDIA investments in new architectures and advanced tools Compare CPU design to GPU design, differences, inherently parallel vs a historically sequential The Complex Ecosystem in which Architectures live in , sandwiched between the SW stack and HW on other side. SW role in architecture
This one-day training will provide software developers the foundation needed for modernizing their code to take advantage of parallel architectures found in both the Intel ® Xeon ® processor and the Intel ® Xeon Phil ™ coprocessor. For more information please see this link. This session will cover: An overview of parallel programming frameworks and optimization guidelines...
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Wednesday, October 22 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., CLICC Classroom C sign up here . SAS is a powerful statistical package that runs on many platforms, including Windows and Unix. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using SAS. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using SAS...
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The island of Timor is divided into an independent sovereign state of Timor-Leste and West Timor, which is part of Indonesia. Timor-Leste’s complex history includes a period of Indonesian occupation from 1975 to 1999. In this two-part program, UCLA professor of history Geoffrey Robinson discusses the recent political history of Timor-Leste and its efforts to...
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R is a powerful statistical package that runs on Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms. This class is designed for people who are just getting started using R. The students in the class will have a hands-on experience using R for statistics, graphics and data management. The notes for the workshop are here
Date: October 30, 2014 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Location: 5628 Math Science, IDRE Portal GPUs are an integral part of most of the computer systems and are well known to have capabilities for numeric computations. Although few efforts have been made in the past to use these devices for general computing but the...
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Date: November 6, 2014 Time: 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Location: 5628 Math Science, Visualization Portal Click here for slides from the presentation Light refreshments will be provided The IDRE Research Technology Group is sponsoring a Hoffman2 Users Town Hall Meeting. The goal of this meeting is to give you an overview of cluster operations,...
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Book launch for the most recent work of Professor Todd Presner, the director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, entitled Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities. He, along with his co-authors, David Shepard (UCLA, CDH) and Yoh Kawano (UCLA, IDRE) will present and excerpt and conclude with a roundtable type discussion and Q&A session....
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Louisiana researchers and universities have been involved in a concentrated, collaborative effort to advance state-wide cyberinfrastructure: computing systems, data storage systems, advanced instruments and data repositories, visualization environments, and people, all linked together by software and high performance networks. This effort led to a set of interlinked projects that started making a significant difference to...
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Software Central has established a UCLA-wide agreement for SurveyMonkey’s new “Enterprise” offering. If your departments interested in using SurveyMonkey, or you are already participating in the Enterprise agreement through Software Central, you are encouraged to RSVP and attend our presentation on December 4, 2014, 10am in the Portal. Information on SurveyMonkey’s Enterprise offering can be...
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NSA expert and author, James Bamford, will be speaking on campus as part of the UCLA Board on Privacy and Data Protection's 10th Anniversary Celebration. A reception with light refreshments will follow. Sign up here.
EndNote is the industry standard software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references on the Windows and Macintosh desktop. Start the new year right by joining Software Central on January 22, 2015 in the OIT Portal (5628 Math Science Building) for EndNote training.
Location: 5628 Math Science, Visualization Portal Date and Time: Feb 3 2015 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm UCLA-IDRE has an impressive and a very useful Hoffman2 computing infrastructure. It has grown from initial 256 cores to current 12,000+ cores in a short span of time. It serves a large number of research scientists and enable them...
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This seminar will consist of a series of presentations that will cover several topics, including: An overview of campus response to breaches of personal information Protecting data, devices and infrastructure Balancing various privacy interests Sign up here.
git is a popular revision control software used to track changes of files/directories. git works particularly well with plain text files (program source files, .tex files etc) , but binary files work too. It is a great tool to handle your daily scientific workflows, such as tracking code changes, paper drafts and data files, merge...
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Description: This two-hour session is aimed to help researchers who are new to Linux. The session will introduce basic Unix/Linux commands, shells, as well as basic editors available on most of the Linux systems. It will also describe the compilation and execution procedures for a given program. A sample software code will be used to...
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Highlights from the SIMULIA Academic Research Suite, which includes new research and teaching packages with dramatically increased capabilities, will be presented. Sign up Here
Python, originally developed as a general purpose programming language, has gained its popularity in the scientific community in recently years owning to its elegant and easy- to-understand syntax and powerful libraries. Python fully supports both functional and object-oriented programming styles. This class will present a number useful features of Python in the context of scientific...
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This 2-hour session is an introduction on how to use the Hoffman2 Cluster. Topics include: Overview of computational resources accessible to UCLA campus community How to access and log into the Hoffman2 Cluster How to complete various computational tasks on the Hoffman2 Cluster How to efficiently submit and run jobs on the Hoffman2 Cluster Sign...
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Optimization and parallel scalability of software are essential for High performance computing. The Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautical Space Agency support an ecosystem of “leadership class” computing facilities that include several of the world’s most advanced supercomputers as well as high-end visualization and data analysis resources. Access to these resources...
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MPI (message passing interface) is the de facto standard for distributed-memory parallel scientific computing. While the entire MPI API is quite extensive, this class will cover a number of important ones commonly used in practice. This class is useful for those who plan to start writing MPI code, and also for those who would like...
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This class will cover the basics of how to build (configure and compile) programs on Linux/GNU computing environment, and how to write a Makefile to automate the build process. In addition to building programs, a Makefile can also be used as a tool to automate tasks related to dependency test. Sign up here
This is a hands-on workshop designed to introduce the basics of SAS programming. Focus will be on writing data steps to prepare data for analysis. Note: Non-UCLA researchers may attend this workshop if space is available for all interested UCLA researchers. There is no online component to this workshop, and this workshop will not be...
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This seminar introduces methods of analyzing interactions (moderated effects) in regression models: calculating, comparing and graphing simple effects and slopes. Specifically, we emphasize the use of proc plm and the lsmeans and estimates statements in SAS in conjunction with a solid understanding of the regression equation. Examples include two- and three-way interactions in linear regression...
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The PETSc library contains a number of reusable data structures and solvers for linear and nonlinear systems of equations that can greatly simplify the programming work of scientific computing. While it is possible to code everything "from scratch" using MPI and C/C++/Fortran, some may find code written reusing PETSc's data structures are easier to maintain...
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