http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.htmlEvents sponsored by and related to the Research Computing LabMon, 31 Mar 2008 20:39:13 +0000http://wordpress.org/?v=MUenhttp://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=730http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=730Want to keep in the loop on what short courses and events we have coming up? Add them directly into your Outlook, Entourage, iCal, or Google Calendar quickly and easily via our feeds on our Events page: http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/events.html All it takes is a click of the mouse! [...] http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=557http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=557You can now keep up with the latest happenings in the Research Computing Lab by becoming a friend of the RCL on Facebook. The Research Computing Lab’s Facebook id is for a page and is titled “Research Computing Lab”. Become a fan and show your support! http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=762http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=762CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE SUMMER TRAINEESHIPS 2009 VIRTUAL DATA CENTER FOR BIODIVERSITY, EARTH, ECOLOGICAL, AND EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE DATA http://hackathon.nescent.org/Cyberinfrastructure_Summer_Traineeships_2009 Summer traineeships are available for up to four students and postdocs interested in informatics as applied to scientific data ranging from the fields of biodiversity, ecology, and evolutionary biology. The program provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate, masters, and PhD students as well as [...] http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=628http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=628Due to inclement weather, the Tuesday, January 27th LabView User’s Group meeting has been cancelled. Please see our events called for rescheduling information. http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=760http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=760On behalf of the VP/CIO’s office, the Centers and Labs Union, an informal alliance of technology support units around Grounds, administers small, $1,000 technology-focused grants for UVA faculty and faculty-sponsored graduate students. This program, known as the CLU Grants, aims to provide, with minimal administrative overhead, a small amount of money that will remove [...] http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=596http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=596Sanborn will be presenting a seminar on the Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP) 2009-2012 imagery acquisition for Virginia, focusing on land use and forestry applications. Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Location: Board Room Virginia Department of Forestry Central Office, Fontaine Research Park 900 Natural Resources Drive, Suite 800, Charlottesville, VA [...] http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=792http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=792Check out the Library’s newly released mobile website that is optimized for handheld, web-enabled mobile phones and devices. The current version is specifically geared toward Apple iPhones and iPod Touch, but in May 2009 will be updated for RIM Blackberry, Motorola, Palm, and Samsung. Read more at www.lib.virginia.edu/mobile. ((2009-06-01T22:00:00)) http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=838http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=838Are you on Twitter? Keep up with what’s happening in the RCL by following our Twitter feed. We are @UVA_RCL. http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=752http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=752Interested in what Open Science might offer your research? Have you considered what kind of competitive advantage this might bring to your work and your career in science? How might this improve the quality and credibility of your work? What might this mean in terms of new grant regulations (ie. NIH)? [...] http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=145http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=145Following on a series of successful High-Performance Computing (HPC) bootcamps, ITC is working with UVACSE in exploring the feasibility of creating a “tiger team program” to help researchers at the University of Virginia move their science to the next level using advanced computational techniques. The tiger teams will work with researchers with existing research codes [...] http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=148http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=148Perry Roland, Information Technologist in Alderman Library’s Digital Library Production Service was recently invited by the Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Stanford University to consult on uses of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) in medieval chant and Japanese koto repertoires. Stefan Morent, from Eberhard Karls Universit’t in T’bingen, Germany, is creating a [...] http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=788http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=788The Research Computing Lab staff congratulates our fourth-year student staff on their accomplishments and graduation. Jonah Lee graduated in December 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After transferring to UVa from Tulane University, Jonah spent 2 1/2 years working for the Research Computing Lab. Following a summer internship in the industry and leveraging [...] http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=782http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=782University of Virginia: Imagine continuously zooming into an image from your personal photo collection. Unlike with modern image processing software, however, this zoom operation would reveal details missing from the original image. For example, zooming into someone’s shirt would eventually show a high-resolution image of the threads that compose it. A research team [...] http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=840http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=840Welcome back! For those who are new to the University, we welcome you and hope that we’ll be able to assist you with your research and course questions. For the returning Hoos out there, we look forward to continuing to work with you! We hope that you will familiarize yourself with [...] http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=765http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=765Google just announced a new program called Google FUSE and is seeking first-years in computer science as participants. It looks like a great opportunity to gain experience and awareness in the field. Google FUSE will provide an opportunity for successful and invested freshmen computer science students who are historically underrepresented in the field to connect [...] http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=796http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/news.html#/?p=796From the Chronicle for Higher Education… “Amazon, the online retailing giant, is now offering educators, researchers, and students the chance to apply for free access to its hosted computing, or “cloud,” services, the company announced this week. The services can be used to work with massive amounts of data that would jam a regular desktop computer. The [...]