Research Support

Research Computing spring semester events

The Research Computing team was busy during the spring semester hosting the February HPC Symposium, April UNIX Basics training, and monthly XSEDE workshops.

• The February HPC Symposium was led by Anderson Janotti, assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and his research group. Their presentation, “Materials by Computational Design – A Bottom Up Approach,” addressed the role of computer modeling in the discovery and optimization of new materials.
• The April training sessions covered topics such as project structure and build management with make, automated build configuration with autotools and CMake, revision control with git, and VALET.
• The monthly XSEDE workshops covered OpenMP, MPI and Big Data. The Research Computing team is hosting XSEDE’s Summer Boot Camp from June 6 - 9. (Register)

The next HPC Symposium on June 28 will be a new format where researchers can participate in a poster session with other groups that work on the clusters.

Call for research: posters and links

• The June 28 HPC Symposium will be in a new format: Researchers can present poster sessions about their work on the Mills and Farber clusters or on any national supercomputing cluster (for example, XSEDE) and talk with other groups presenting information about their research. Reserve your easel now.
• The Research Computing team encourages Mills and Farber stakeholders to submit their research to the Research Computing website gallery. Contributions to this gallery allow the Research Computing group to highlight the importance of funding future University HPC clusters. These research publications show, in part, how much research has been accomplished by the use of HPC community clusters and their vital importance as a computing resource to the UD research community. You can submit links to your papers, images, or poster sessions via our online Research Submission Form or submit other file types to Anita Schwartz (researchcomputing@udel.edu).

Spring GIS Events

• Olena Smith of IT Client Support & Services (IT-CS&S) presented guest lectures on GIS to increase awareness and use of GIS on campus in multi-disciplinary courses: “Story Mapping for Preservation of Cultural Property II” (ARTC 302) for the Department of Art Conservation, and Introduction to GIS for CAD for Site Design (PLSC 150) for the Department of Plant and Soil Science. If you are interested in a GIS guest speaker in your class, please contact Olena Smith at gis-info@udel.edu.
• IT-CS&S collaborated with the University Library to host training on the widely-used ArcGIS software: Getting Started with ArcGIS Online on March 1, and Getting Started with ArcGIS for Desktop on March 8.
• IT-CS&S continues to host the UD GIS Coffee Hour for GIS users from UD and the surrounding community. In February, John Stevenson from the UD Library presented on PolicyMap. In April, Kim Cloud and Miriam Pomelo from the State of Delaware presented on the FirstMap.
• In April, IT-CS&S released the UD 2017 Commencement map for event locations and parking. It also released a new version of the UD Campus Map.