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Python for Scientific Computing: an Overview
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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Using the Hoffman2 Cluster
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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Profiling – Code clinic session
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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Using MPI
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesMPI (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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How to write a Makefile
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
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SAS Programming
UCLA IDRE Statistical ConsultingThis 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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Analysis and Visualization of Interaction in SAS
UCLA IDRE Statistical ConsultingKerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesThis 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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Scientific Computing using PETSc (Part 1/2)
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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Survey Data Analysis with SAS
UCLA IDRE Statistical ConsultingKerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesIn this presentation, we will discuss the analysis of survey data in SAS. We will cover descriptive statistics with continuous and categorical variables, as well as OLS and logistic regression. 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...
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Scientific Computing using PETSc (Part 2/2)
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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SAS Programming II
This workshop is for those who need to learn data manipulation techniques using SAS data and procedure steps to access, transform, and summarize SAS data sets. The course builds on the concepts that are presented in the Introduction to SAS Programming workshop and is not recommended for beginning SAS software users. In this hands-on workshop,...
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Top 10 Productivity Tools in MATLAB
54-134 Engineering IV, UCLA (Shannon Room)Register Now! Title: Top 10 Productivity Tools in MATLAB Date: April 8, 2015 Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST Location: UCLA - Engr. IV Bldg. - Shannon Room 54-134 Presenter: Sumit Tandon, Application Engineer MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment for data analysis, visualization, and numerical computation. Using MATLAB, you can reach...
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Spring 2015 Digital Mapping: Got Data? How to Map Your Data
Have you ever wondered if your research could be mapped? If so, please join us this April and dive into the world of digital mapping to see how to utilize the latest in digital mapping technologies to make your research project come to life. The workshops will cover the basics of conducting spatial analysis through:...
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Free 2-day hands-on GPU Programming Workshop by NVIDIA and UCLA-IDRE
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesUCLA-IDRE and NVIDIA are very happy to announce a free 2-day hands-on GPU Programming Workshop. Please note that the dates for the workshop are April 15 and April 16: Description: NVIDIA GPUs are the world’s fastest and most efficient accelerators delivering world record scientific application performance. NVIDIA’s CUDA Technology is the most pervasive parallel computing...
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Spring 2015 Digital Mapping Series: Got GPS? Methods in Spatial Ethnographic Research
Have you ever wondered if your research could be mapped? If so, please join us this April and dive into the world of digital mapping to see how to utilize the latest in digital mapping technologies to make your research project come to life. The workshops will cover the basics of conducting spatial analysis through: Desktop...
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Code for the Mission App Competition
The Office of Intellectual Property and the Office of Information Technology announce the Second Annual UCLA “Code for the Mission” App Competition. The goal of the competition is to encourage the UCLA community (Faculty, Staff and Students) to develop mobile apps (both native and web-based) that further UCLA’s mission of Research, Education and Service. Each...
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OhmageX for Crowdsourced Mobile Data Collection
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesOverview: Students are arriving on campus with mobile devices that let them interact with their community, collect new data, and track activities for analysis. In this IDRE workshop, we will highlight the four categories of BYOD mobile data collection and how OIT’s ohmage X (the X is for “Cross Platform”) toolset and web-based Data Visualization...
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2015 Spring Digital Mapping Series: Mapping on the Web? Emerging Cloud-based Mapping Technologies
Have you ever wondered if your research could be mapped? If so, please join us this April and dive into the world of digital mapping to see how to utilize the latest in digital mapping technologies to make your research project come to life. The workshops will cover the basics of conducting spatial analysis through: Desktop...
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John Zorn Marathon: In Three Parts
Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA 340 Royce Dr b100 , Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIn one marathon day we bring pioneering composer and saxophonist John Zorn to Los Angeles for his first performance here in 25 years. In a sweeping program curated and masterminded by Zorn, he brings together a cadre of disciples to traverse the city, underscore the world of visual art and celebrate the massive scope of...
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National Leadership Class Computing Resources and Opportunities for UCLA Researchers
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesUCLA-IDRE has an impressive Hoffman2 computing infrastructure. It has grown from an initial 256 cores to the current 12,000+ cores in a short span of time. It serves a large number of research scientists and enables them to achieve new heights within their computing research. However, there are limitations. It may fall short of ever...
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Computing Environment on Linux
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesThis 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 a few 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...
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BruinTech unConference
Ackerman - Viewpoint Conference Room (Level A Ackerman Union)The BruinTech unConference is a chance for technologists from every corner of campus to connect and share ideas, best practices, experience and knowledge. Attendees will learn about the technology landscape at UCLA and discuss the best ways to address challenges, leverage our strengths, and move forward. The theme of this year’s BruinTech unConference is Change:...
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Profiling – Code Clinic Session
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesOptimization 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 is freely...
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ServiceNow Symposium
ServiceNow is the leading on-demand, cloud-based IT service management solution. Come learn about the ServiceNow offering and the benefits of using IT Service Management frameworks like ITIL for your helpdesks!
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Radcor 2015 and LoopFest XIV
Physics and Astronomy Bldg. - Room 1425Radcor 2015 and LoopFest XIV: This symposium combines the 12th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (Radcor 2015) with LoopFest XIV (Radiative Corrections for the LHC and Future Colliders). This workshop provides a forum to coordinate activities focused on the theoretical challenges from the LHC and future colliders. Multiple locations. Contact Physics & Astronomy (310) 825-4649...
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Supercomputing for Everyone Series: Performance Tuning Summer School
From a user perspective, supercomputers are more complicated to program and handle than an ordinary desktop workstation. Unfortunately this leads to parallel programs that do not necessarily satisfy the performance expectations of the users. Such unexpected performance results can have many reasons. Basic knowledge on performance modeling, prediction and verification, as taught in this summer...
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Science Visualization
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesThis two-day training course will introduce students to data visualization with a primary focus on visualization of large volumetric data resulting from simulation and instrumentation. We begin with an overview of visualization as a whole, beginning with a simple taxonomy: illustration, which uses techniques of computer graphics and animation to convey concepts, and data-driven visualization...
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Exporting SAS Data Sets and Creating ODS Files for Microsoft Excel
This workshop presents the most effective techniques for exporting SAS tables or procedure output from Base SAS into Excel spreadsheets. The course uses examples to show the basics of the SAS Excel LIBNAME engine, the EXPORT procedure, and ODS to create CSV, HTML, and XML files that can be opened by Excel. You will learn...
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SAS Functions by Example
CLICC Classroom C 320 Powell Library, 10740 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesEver spent valuable time writing complex code only to later find a function that would have done the job for you? Discover the plethora of practical SAS functions that you haven't seen in other SAS programming courses, and start resolving your everyday programming problems more quickly and efficiently. You will learn how to magically manipulate...
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Computing Environment on Linux
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesThis 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 a few editors available on most of the Linux systems. It will also describe the compilation and execution procedures for a given source program. A sample software code will be used...
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Using Hoffman2 Cluster
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesThis session is a general introduction to how to use UCLA Hoffman2 Cluster. The objective is to familiarize current and potential cluster users with the Hoffman2 Cluster, so they can make the best use of UCLA computational resources. The following topics will be covered: 1. How to access and login to the Hoffman2 Cluster, primarily...
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Introduction to SAS
CLICC Classroom C 320 Powell Library, 10740 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesSAS 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 for statistics, graphics, and data management. Non-UCLA researchers are allowed to sign up and attend. RSVP...
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Profiling – Code clinic session
OIT Conference Room 5907 5907 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe purpose of this session is to describe few basic profiling techniques and help researchers in gaining more insight into how well their application code runs on Hoffman2 or other computer systems. In particular the focus is on: Profiling techniques that are available on Hoffman2. Hands-on exercises using an example code - bring your own...
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Parallel Computing using MPI
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesMPI (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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Introduction to Stata
CLICC Classroom C 320 Powell Library, 10740 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesStata 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 using Stata for statistics, graphics and data management. Non-UCLA researchers are allowed to sign up and...
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Scientific Computing using PETSc
OIT Conference Room 5907 5907 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe 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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Python for High Performance Computing – Part 1
New location: 5628 Math Sciences Building New time: 2:30pm-5pm, October 19 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...
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Introduction to SPSS
CLICC Classroom C 320 Powell Library, 10740 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesSPSS 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 for doing statistics, graphics, and data management. Non-UCLA researchers are allowed to sign up and...
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Introduction to Cuda
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesGraphics Processing Units (or GPUs), an integral part of most of the computer systems, are well known for their potential for high performance numeric computations. Although few efforts have been made in the past to use these devices for general computing, the recent emergence of high level programming languages through CUDA has really made it...
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National Leadership Class Computing Resources and Opportunities for UCLA Researchers
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesThe Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautical Space Agency support an ecosystem of “leadership class” computing facilities housing some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers and high-end visualization and data analysis resources. These facilities provide “free” computing cycles and storage to researchers from academia. Access to these resources is obtained through...
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Python for High Performance Computing – Part 2
OIT Conference Room 5907 5907 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesNew time: 2-4pm, October 26 New Location: 5628 Math Sciences Building 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...
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Introduction to R
CLICC Classroom C 320 Powell Library, 10740 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesR 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. Non-UCLA researchers are allowed to sign up and attend. RSVP here.
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Understanding the dynamics of killer electrons in Earth’s radiation belts: a synthesis of high-performance computing, data assimilation, and physics-based modeling
Speaker: Dr. Adam C. Kellerman, Researcher, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences University of California, Los Angeles Abstract: The Van Allen radiation belts are torii-shaped regions of trapped energetic particles, that in recent years, have become a principle focus for satellite operators and engineers. During geomagnetic storms, electrons can be accelerated up to relativistic energies, where...
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HPC and Big Data Analytics using Comet – SDSC’s latest Computing Resource through XSEDE
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesComet, a new petascale supercomputer at San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), is one of the latest key resources within the NSF’s XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) program, which comprises the most advanced collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world. Researchers may apply for "free" computer time on Comet via XSEDE....
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Hoffman2 Cluster and Data Center Winter Maintenance, December 14-15, 2015
Dear Hoffman2 Users, The Hoffman2 Cluster will be unavailable from 6:00AM on Monday, December 14, 2015 through 6:00PM on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 for scheduled upgrades and maintenance. During this time, we will be installing a new OS image with the latest Centos 6.6 release, performing upgrades on storage equipment, and doing a major upgrade...
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OIT/IDRE Open House
OIT/IDRE will be holding a departmental Open House on Wednesday, January 27th at 10 a.m. The Open House is an opportunity for each OIT unit to present information about their area as well as a way for staff to learn about the exciting work happening within the organization. The Open House will feature stations throughout...
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Using Hoffman2 Cluster
This session is a general introduction to how to use UCLA Hoffman2 Cluster. The objective is to familiarize current and potential cluster users with the Hoffman2 Cluster, so they can make the best use of UCLA computational resources. The following topics will be covered: 1. How to access and login to the Hoffman2 Cluster, primarily...
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Computing Environment on Linux – I
Kerckhoff - Charles E. Young Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesPart-I session of Computing Environment on Linux class is aimed to help researchers who are new to Linux system. This two hour session will introduce basic Unix/Linux commands, shells, as well as a few editors available on most of the Linux systems. The user should be able to log in to a linux system and...
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IDRE Seminar: Geometric Graph-based Methods for High Dimensional Data
IDRE Seminar: Geometric Graph-based Methods for High Dimensional Data Speaker: Andrea L. Bertozzi Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will be served*) Location: 5628 Math Sciences RSVP**: http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3498&SecID=3486 Abstract: We present new methods for segmentation of large datasets...