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Biomedical Big Data Training: Call for Nominations Open

Submitted by Steve Masover on April 17, 2017

Biomedical Big Data Training Program (Berkeley) - website screenshot

The Biomedical Big Data Training Program (NIH T32) is pleased to announce the call for nominations for to enroll 6 current PhD students (preferably 2nd or 3rd year) for the second year of the program. The nomination deadline is Friday April 21, 2017.

From the program's website:

Berkeley Research Computing celebrates 1,000 HPC users

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on April 11, 2017

On April 6th at 2:30 PM, Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) reached a new milestone: the 1000th user account created in the high performance computing (HPC) environment. The lucky recipient of the 1000th account was Ted Xiao, an M.S. student working with Prof. Claire Tomlin in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.

Spring 2017 Consulting Summit: April 20th

Submitted by Steve Masover on April 10, 2017

The next Consulting Summit -- a partnership between the D-Lab, Educational Technology Services (ETS), the Library, and Research IT -- will be held on April 20th from 10 - 2:15 at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), in 190 Doe Library.

Cloud Working Group mid-semester update: Spring 2017

Submitted by Aaron Culich on April 6, 2017

Cloud Working Group (2017) - animated GIF This semester’s Cloud Working Group (CloudWG) has focused on a researcher’s ability to move

Research IT welcomes Emilia Malachowski, communications intern

Submitted by Steve Masover on March 22, 2017

Emilia Malachowski, BRC Communications intern

Research IT welcomes Communications Intern Emilia Malachowski to our team. Emilia will be working with Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) users to report on how the program benefits researchers in their fields of study. The collection of stories and interviews that will be gathered through this work will convey how BRC is supporting the evolution of data science and research computing across the campus.

DMPTool and RDM consultants support grant submission

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on March 22, 2017

When preparing a proposal to a funding agency, researchers focus on the grant narrative, framing their work in the most innovative and compelling way possible. Crafting a narrative that can stand as a surrogate for a scholar’s research for reviewers to evaluate is itself a time-consuming process; for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities grants, it’s only one of nine components of the application.

Berkeley Research Computing update summary

Submitted by Steve Masover on March 21, 2017

A summary of recent news, researcher profiles, and Berkeley Research Computing program impact was e-mailed last week to faculty, researchers, students, and staff who make use of BRC services. We're posting the summary here in Research IT's news feed for those not on BRC's mailing list:

New and updated BRC Services for campus researchers

Lessons learned at Google Cloud Next 17

Submitted by Maurice M Manning on March 15, 2017

The Google Cloud Next 2017 conference, at Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA

The Google Cloud Next 17 conference took place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on Wednesday through Friday of last week. An overwhelming number of courses, technologies, and project releases were presented; this article lists 100 announcements from the conference, across GoogleCloud offerings.

Research IT Staff Present at UCLA Digital Humanities Infrastructure Symposium

Submitted by Quinn Dombrowski on March 13, 2017

Librarian-led research incubators, e-portfolios for promotion and tenure, content creation for visualization walls, and bulk OCR using a high performance computing (HPC) cluster shared the stage at UCLA on February 23rd for the second Digital Humanities Infrastructure Symposium. Organized by UCLA’s Center for Digital Humanities, the symposium drew together librarians, researchers, instructors, and IT staff from throughout the region for a day of presentations and discussions, centered on a broad definition of “infrastructure.”

New BRC service making an impact at Haas School of Business

Submitted by Jason C. Christopher on March 10, 2017

Haas School of Business MFE Program home page with Shihong Wen quotation "The AEoD platform enables us to do research more efficiently with higher memory computation power."

A cohort of students in Haas’s Masters of Financial Engineering (MFE) program have been using Analytics Environments on Demand (AEoD) to work on their Applied Finance Projects, the final projects in the MFE program. Five Applied Finance Project teams used AEoD resources, serving a total of twenty students. AEoD is a new research computing service offered by Berkeley Research Computing.

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