Summer 2013 Opportunity!

Henry Neeman asked us to share this great summer opportunity (we know! summer 2013 is ages away, but now is the time to think about what you’ll be doing!)

Indiana U InCNTRE Summer of Network Internship Program 2013
May 20 – July 16 2013
Applications due Nov 30 2012

summer@incntre.iu.edu

http://incntre.iu.edu/summer

As you may know, IU conducts a 10 week intern program each summer.

Students receive instruction on topics ranging from OpenFlow to
the basics of switches and routers.

The students also experience being part of a development team and
are responsible for the implementation and operation of their
dorm room network.

The students leave the program knowing more about the nuts and
bolts of networking (e.g., during “router” week, we roll in a
Juniper T640 and take it apart), how to problem solve in a group,
and how large and small networks are managed.

They also leave the program excited about networking.

The program is only as good as the students.

Please help us make this coming program great by encouraging
students to apply.

Grateful if you can encourage a student to apply and pass this
along to others that can do the same.

Thanks,
Steven Wallace

Job Opportunity at the National Weather Center

Henry Neeman asked us to pass along this great job opportunity here at OU:

The National Weather Center (Dr. Frankenstein is at work, apparently)

University of Oklahoma: Center for Analysis & Prediction of Storms
Requisition Number: 15021
http://jobs.ou.edu/

LISTING TITLE: IT Analyst III
JOB SEARCH CATEGORY: Non Student
JOB TYPE: Full-Time
JOB CODE: 2522

DEPARTMENT: CAPS (ACGECAPS)
POSITION ADDRESS:
Center for Analysis & Prediction of Storms (CAPS)
120 David Boren Blvd., Rm. 2500, National Weather Center
Norman OK 73072

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Open Until Filled

JOB FUNCTION:

Systems administrator for all CAPS computing facilities.

Manager, CAPS information systems, networking and other IT-related
duties as required.

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar degree program OR
an equivalent combination of education/job related experience.

36-48 months experience in LINUX systems administration experience
required.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS, REGISTRATIONS, OR LICENSES:

These requirements may be imposed by federal, state or recognized
accrediting agency as a prerequisite of employment

Valid driver’s license for occasional travel.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND PROFICIENCIES:

Networking – being able to configure a LINUX server to be a router.

VALID DRIVER’S LICENSE REQUIRED: Yes

DEPARTMENT PREFERENCES:

Red-Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) preferred.

Experience with UNIX/LINUX-based storage systems-hardware and
software.

Some scripting experience preferred-Perl or Python.

PC support experience preferred.

Experience with LDAP and/or LDM may be helpful.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Ability to see, hear, ability to communicate in writing and
verbally, ability to lift 50 pounds.

WORK SCHEDULE: 8 am to 5 pm and occasional after hours or weekends
as needed.
HOURS PER WEEK: 40

SALARY RANGE: $45,000 – $65,000
BENEFITS PROVIDED: Yes

REQUIRED APPLICANT DOCUMENTS:
Resume, Cover Letter, Academic Transcripts, List of References

OU Supercomputer Symposium

If you’re interested in hearing about the state of the art in supercomputing, OU is having their annual Supercomputer Symposium.  It’s free to attend and will have plenty of interesting things to check out.

From Henry Neeman at OSCER:

FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE

OKLAHOMA SUPERCOMPUTING SYMPOSIUM 2012
Wed Oct 3 8:00am-5:00pm (registration and breakfast 7:30am)
FREE Reception/poster session Tue Oct 2 5:30-7:00pm
University of Oklahoma Norman campus
http://symposium2012.oscer.ou.edu/

Are you interested in the FREE Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2012
on Wed Oct 3 on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus?

http://symposium2012.oscer.ou.edu/

Our keynote speaker will be:

Thom Dunning, Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The 2011 Symposium had 239 attendees, from 34 academic institutions
in 7 states, 29 private companies, 10 government agencies and
5 non-governmental organizations.

Over the past decade, we’ve had participation from over 2000 people
at 98 academic institutions from 27 US states and territories,
107 private companies, 33 government agencies (federal, state,
municipal, foreign) and 16 non-governmental organizations.

SUMMARY:

FREE Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2012 Wed Oct 3
@ University of Oklahoma, Norman campus, 8:00am-5:00pm.

FREE reception/poster session Tue Oct 2 5:00-7:00pm.

FREE registration is open!

http://symposium2012.oscer.ou.edu/

Work on the OU supercomputer!

Henry Neeman passed along this great opportunity for OU students only:

The OU Norman campus opportunity below is available to OU students only.

Henry

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Student Employee – Supercomputing Internship (FALL)

http://jobs.ou.edu/

Requisition Number: 15162
Position #: 00022344

Job Search Category: Student or Work Study
Job Type: Part-Time
Number Needed: 1
Listing Category: Technical and Paraprofessional

Department: Information Technology (IT)
Campus: Norman

Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Work Schedule: Normal working hours are M-F 8-5. Will depend on
class schedule.
Hours per week: 15-20

Are you interested in an Opportunity to gain real-world IT
experience?

Information Technology is offering a one-year paid Internship
that will emphasize the prevalence of Supercomputing Technology.

As an OU IT Intern, you will have an opportunity to work as a
member of a team of IT Professionals specializing in
Supercomputing technology.

You will be assigned a mentor and will learn the following
development concepts as well as apply them in real-life IT
projects:

* Account management
* Batch system/queue management
* Software management
* File system management
* Network management and troubleshooting
* User application support
* Hardware maintenance
* Backups/Restores

Note: This internship may also be eligible for college credit.

Required Education and Experience: High School diploma or GED as
well as some formal college training.

***Must have completed intro programming classes or equivalent
experience.

Must be currently enrolled in the FALL 2012 term as a student at
the University of Oklahoma. Hiring contingent upon verification of
current student status.

Required Skills and Proficiencies:

The ideal candidate demonstrates a strong work ethic, is
self-directed and is productive working independently as well as
collaboratively; Must be an analytical thinker with the ability to
identify, define, interpret, and resolve both technical and human
issues.

Must have completed intro programming classes or equivalent
experience.

* Computer Skills
* Excellent Communication Skills

Department Preferences:

* Undergraduate study in MIS, Computer Science, Engineering or
other computer related field.
* Experience in Unix system administration.
* Experience with C programming language.
* Experience with Perl programming language.

You’ll be working with OSCER not Oscar!

Cray Supercomputer is Hiring!

Henry Neeman, friend of the Blog, sent us a job announcement from the folks at Cray.  Back in the day, Cray was the supercomputer company.  They built dedicated, stand alone supercomputers which could double as a couch:

The Cray X-MP 48 from the mid ’80s. It cost about $15 million and had a whopping 64 megs of memory!

Of course now they’re still an industry leader in the world of supercomputers.

Greetings from Cray,

We have several positions at all levels (BS, MS, or Ph.D.) in the Programming Environments group at Cray, in particular in the areas of compilers and communication libraries. I was wondering if you have any student (current or former) that would be interested in applying, or if you would be willing to broadcast this note in your department or in any other forum that you believe would be appropriate.

If you know of anyone interested, could you please ask him or her to send me a resume or apply directly at the Cray page at:

http://www.cray.com/About/Careers.aspx

Thanks,

Luiz DeRose
Programming Environment Director
Cray Inc.
Work:+1-651-605-8925
Cell:+1-651-428-0901
ldr@<companyname>.com

Free Intro Workshop on Parallel Programming/Cluster Computing

Friend of the Blog, Henry Neeman, let us know of this interesting opportunity for people in the area.  If you know a little something about programming and are interested in parallel programming and cluster computing (aka software for supercomputers), then check out this FREE intro workshop being hosted by OU:

FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE
(FREE for faculty, staff, grad students and undergrads at Oklahoma
institutions)

National Computational Science Institute (NCSI) Summer Workshop 2012
INTRODUCTION TO PARALLEL PROGRAMMING & CLUSTER COMPUTING
Sun July 29 – Sat Aug 4 2012 @ U Oklahoma, Norman OK

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops2012

Prerequisites:

* 1 semester of programming in C, C++ or Fortran, recently;

* 1 semester of experience with any Unix-like operating system
(including but not limited to Linux), recently.

Please feel free to forward to anyone who may be interested and
appropriate.

DETAILS:

Introduction to Parallel Programming and Cluster Computing
July 29 – Aug 4 2012, University of Oklahoma, Norman OK

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops2012

NCSI’s Parallel and Cluster Computing workshop will focus on
teaching faculty how to move from traditional desktop computing to
modern high-performance hardware — and how to teach it.

Offerings range from end-user focused applications ready-designed
for HPC to the details of creating applications designed to run on
clusters, many-core machines, shared-memory machines, and graphics
processing units.

The material is designed for undergraduate faculty from a variety
of disciplines who would like to add parallel computing to their
undergraduate teaching and research.

In addition, undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to
attend alongside a sponsoring faculty member.

The workshop is hands-on, with exercises in both computing and
curriculum development.

The 2012 NCSI/XSEDE workshops for undergraduate faculty,
pre-college teachers, postdocs, grad students, and undergrads
accompanying a faculty member are now open for registration!

http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops2012

Recipients are expected to be present for the full workshop.

Please forward this to colleagues, students etc.

For faculty, staff and students at Oklahoma institutions, housing
for 6 nights (if needed) and most meals will be covered — but not
transportation, which you (or your institution) have to cover.

It’s Alive!

As promised, Boomer is up and running!

A picture of Boomer (but where’s the blinking lights?)

Henry Neeman sent us the announcement:

OU Deploys Fastest Academic Supercomputer in Oklahoma History

May 24, 2012

NORMAN — “Boomer,” the fastest academic supercomputer in state history, was deployed today at the University of Oklahoma.

“The deployment of the state’s fastest supercomputer in state history will further enhance OU’s academic excellence,” said OU President David L. Boren.

The supercomputer clocks in at a peak speed of roughly 109
trillion calculations per second and supports OU’s research
initiatives.

“This new supercomputer represents an incredible opportunity for OU,” said Loretta Early, OU’s Chief Information Officer and University Vice President for Information Technology. “Boomer will substantially expand OU’s ability to engage in cutting-edge,
computing-intensive research — to do more, and to do it faster and better, at a lower cost.”

Researchers will employ Boomer to compute large amounts of data for a broad variety of research with emphasis on weather forecasting, molecular dynamics and high-energy physics, which explores the fundamental nature of matter and energy. Boomer also will support research in astronomy, coastal flooding, biomedical
engineering, data encoding for disk drives, petroleum engineering, nanotechnology, groundwater contamination, biofuels, and wireless networks, among many other areas.

Henry Neeman, Director of the OU Supercomputing Center for Education and Research, a division of OU Information Technology, said that OU IT focuses on the needs of researchers at a level that is almost unprecedented nationally even among top research universities.

“For the past decade, OU has been a national leader in supporting the computational research and education needs of local students, faculty and staff,” Neeman said. “We’re extremely proud to expand a great tradition with this fourth generation OU IT supercomputer,
which will enhance research capabilities by connecting scientific collaborators throughout the state and nation.”

Boomer is three times as fast as the previous fastest academic supercomputer in the state, OU’s “Sooner,” which served hundreds of undergraduates, graduate students, staff and faculty from 2008 to early 2012. It’s also 100 times as fast as OU IT’s first supercomputer, built in 2002.

OneNet, Oklahoma’s statewide research, education and government network, will deliver Boomer’s capabilities from OU IT’s high-speed campus network to OU research teams, and 24 other Oklahoma institutions and more than 150 out-of-state and international collaborators will also be connected through OneNet.

“We’re very proud of our role in facilitating research, one of
OU’s key missions and a crucial engine for statewide economic development,” Early said. “With this new resource, we improve our potential to attract a growing number of research projects and increase external funding, and therefore attract and retain the best and brightest researchers, both faculty and students. Boomer
is both a logical next step and a major breakthrough for
researchers on campus.”

In addition, Boomer will connect to the Oklahoma PetaStore, which has the capacity to store multiple Petabytes (millions of Gigabytes) of research data, allowing OU researchers to create and maintain very large research data collections. Keith Brewster, acting Director of the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, is looking forward to improving forecasting models with Boomer’s capabilities. “Severe weather, including tornadoes and hurricanes, kills hundreds of people and destroys billions of dollars of property every year. OU’s new supercomputer will help us to improve forecasts of these events, allowing us to resolve features half the size we could resolve previously.” Making large-scale, accessible and professionally managed advanced computing capability available to OU’s researchers also ensures that investigators will meet the requirements of federal research funding programs. Through deployment of Boomer, the University’s goal is to strengthen OU’s grant applications, leading to improved outcomes for researchers, students and Oklahoma’s economy.

To paraphrase Dr. Boren when approving the construction of Boomer: “But the deciding factor was when we learned that Texas was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.”

Would you like to play a game?

The OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER) has started assembling a brand new high speed supercomputer.  For those of you who were here in 2008, we toured OSCER and walked inside OU’s current supercomputer (called Sooner).

Sooner is capable of a 34,450.24 GFLOPs theoretical peak and 28,030 GFLOPs sustained performance in its calculations (GFLOPS = gigaflops).  When it was built it appeared on the world ranking of supercomputers at #90 worldwide, #47 in the US, #14 among US academic supercomputers, #10 among US academic excluding national centers, and #2 in the Big 12.

You can look at the current list of top ranked supercomputers here.

Just like smartphones and everything else, supercomputers are eventually replaced with faster models.  Sadly, Sooner doesn’t even make the top 500 supercomputers anymore!

The good news is that OU has started constructing Sooner’s faster sibling, Boomer.  Here’s some of the details about Boomer:

* Theoretical Peak Speed: 104.4 TFLOPs (3x Sooner)
* Total RAM: 13.7 TB (1.6x Sooner)

That would put Boomer at around 100 on the list of supercomputers.  We’ll have to take a tour this fall once it’s up and running!

REU VI

Henry Neeman let us know of a summer REU at LSU for those of you with an interest computer science:

Louisiana State University is now accepting applications for TWO Summer 2012 REU Programs in Computational Sciences and Material Sciences.

Please distribute this information to your students as these are great opportunities for them.

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CCT REU: Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Computational Sciences
http://reu.cct.lsu.edu/
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The Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) hosts a nine week Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program where students work collaboratively on a wide variety of computational science projects.

Each student receives a stipend of $4,500, free housing in university dormitories, and up to $500 in travel expenses to and from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Nine students will be selected.

Qualifications:

* Interested in a major that is within the computational sciences umbrella (leaves out few majors as it includes all sciences, mathematics, engineering, finance, statistics, etc.)

* At least a 2.75 GPA

* Considering a career in research and/or graduate school in your major

* US citizen or permanent resident

Important Dates:
March 1, 2012: Application deadline.
March 30, 2012: Notification of decision.
May 29, 2012 through July 28, 2012: Program dates.

The research activities of the CCT are organized into five Focus
Areas:

* Core Computing Sciences
* Coast to Cosmos
* Material World
* Cultural Computing
* System Science and Engineering

These are broad, and sometimes overlapping areas where faculty from diverse departments (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Civil Engineering, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Music, Business, etc.) collaborate in multidisciplinary projects.

Our REU students learn how to use some of the nation’s largest supercomputers, may participate in the setup and management of large-scale simulations, and may take on an important role in the analysis and visualization of the simulation results.

For more information and to apply, visit:

http://reu.cct.lsu.edu/

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LA-SiGMA REU: Interdisciplinary Research Experiences in Materials Science
http://reu.lasigma.loni.org/
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This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) project is a nine week program where students work collaboratively on a wide variety of materials science projects.

Each student receives a stipend of $4,500, free housing in university dormitories, and up to $400 in travel expenses.

Thirty students will be selected, five each at Louisiana State University, Louisiana Tech University, Southern University at Baton Rouge, Tulane University, University of New Orleans, and Xavier University of Louisiana.

Qualifications:

* Interested in a major that is within the computational sciences umbrella (leaves out few majors as it includes all sciences, mathematics, engineering, finance, statistics, etc.)

* At least a 2.75 GPA

* Considering a career in research and/or graduate school in your major

* US citizen or permanent resident

Important Dates:
March 1, 2012: Application deadline.
March 30, 2012: Notification of decision.
May 29, 2012 through July 28, 2012: Program dates.

The research activities of LA-SiGMA are organized into three Science Drivers:

* Electronic Materials
* Energy Materials
* Biomolecular Materials

and the CyberTools and Cyberinfrastructure group.

These are broad, and sometimes overlapping areas where faculty from diverse departments (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Biomolecular Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, etc.) collaborate in multidisciplinary projects.

Our REU students learn how to use some of the nation’s largest supercomputers, may participate in the setup and management of large-scale simulations, and may take on an important role in the analysis and visualization of the simulation results.

For more information and to apply, visit:

http://reu.lasigma.loni.org/
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The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, is an innovative research environment, advancing computational sciences, technologies and the disciplines they touch.

Researchers at CCT use the advanced cyberinfrastructure — high-speed networks, high-performance computing, advanced data storage and analysis and hardware and software development — available on campus to enable research in many different fields.

By uniting researchers from diverse disciplines, ideas and expertise are disseminated across LSU departments to foster knowledge and invention.

For more information on the CCT, visit:

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/home

OU Conference on Supercomputing

Friend of the Math Club, Henry Neeman ( the Directorof the OU Supercomputer Center), let us know of a cool on-campus event you might want to check out:
FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE

Are you interested in the FREE Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2011
on Wed Oct 12 on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus?

http://symposium2011.oscer.ou.edu/

If you’ve already registered, please feel free to pass this note
along to others who might be interested.

Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Barry I. Schneider of the National
Science Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure.

The 2010 Symposium had 267 attendees, from 34 academic institutions
in 7 states, 29 private companies, 10 government agencies and
5 non-governmental organizations.

Please feel free to forward this to anyone who might be interested
– students, faculty, staff, professionals, colleagues etc. Many
thanks.

If you’ve received this note in error, please ignore it.

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SUMMARY:

FREE Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2011 Wed Oct 12 @ University
of Oklahoma, Norman campus, 8:00am-5:30pm.

FREE reception/poster session Tue Oct 11 5:30-7:00pm.

FREE tutorial on Parallel Programming & Cluster Computing
Tue Oct 11 9:00am-4:30pm.

FREE registration is open!

http://symposium2011.oscer.ou.edu/

Our keynote speaker will be Barry I. Schneider of the National
Science Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure.

In 2010, we had 267 attendees, from 34 academic institutions in
7 states, 29 private companies, 10 government agencies and
5 non-governmental organizations.

If you’ve already registered, please feel free to pass this note
along to others who might be interested.

You can find links to previous Symposia on the above website.

DETAILS:

The Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2011 will be held Wed Oct 12
all day on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus, and a reception
and poster session Tuesday evening, 5:30-7:00pm.

FREE registration is open!

http://symposium2011.oscer.ou.edu/

Plenary speakers will include:

* Barry I. Schneider, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science
Foundation

* Douglas Cline, Lockheed Martin Aerospace Co

* Leesa Brieger, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)

More speakers will be announced soon.

We’d be delighted to have you participate. It’s a great way to
learn what’s happening on the Advanced Computing side of your
research and teaching areas.

The Symposium is FREE and comes with meals and snacks, including
the FREE reception and poster session the evening of Tue Oct 11.

And, if you know of students — graduate, undergraduate, community
college, vo-tech, high school — who are interested in these areas,
this is a great opportunity to introduce them to conferences,
especially because it’s FREE.

Also, if you know of colleagues who might be interested, please feel
free to forward this note to them.

We’ll also have a vendor exposition, where you’ll have an opportunity
to learn about existing and emerging supercomputing technologies.

If you’re interested, see:

http://symposium2011.oscer.ou.edu/