The next Geospatial Research and Innovation Seminar Series seminar is coming up, next Friday August 31st, starting with networking over coffee and a light snack at 12.30 in the foyer of NZi3, followed by the seminar starting at 1pm.
The seminar is by Professor Michael Peterson, who is visiting the University of Canterbury from the University of Omaha in Nebraska on an Erskine Fellowship. Michael has had a career-long interest in mapping, and his first book, published in 1995, was entitled ‘Interactive and Animated Cartography’. He is currently working on a book on mapping in the cloud, and will talk to us about that most recent work next Friday in his seminar, which is entitled ‘Cloud-based Computing for Maps and GIS’.
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The New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), is holding a week-long roadshow during September. Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Hamilton and Auckland will each be hosting a day from the 10th to the 14th. The mornings of each day will consist of a presentation about NeSI and several demonstrations of how to use its facilities. In the afternoon, the team is available for individual appointments and small group discussion on discipline-specific issues.
Full information is available via nesi.org.nz/roadshow and the attached flyer.
Who should attend?
Researchers will benefit most from attending. In particular, researchers with an interest in applying high performance computing (HPC) to their projects. Researchers at all levels at invited, including students. The event may also be of interest to technical staff, but its content is focused towards a research audience.
What will be covered?
The roadshow's primary focus will be providing information about NeSI’s HPC facilities. Accordingly, what facilities are available, how to access them and how to request support as needs arise during a project.
We will also spend some time discussing other services that are used to support its HPC. This includes its data storage, data transfer and authentication offerings.
NeSI’s Roadmap will also be featured. NeSI will be expanding its offering in future months. The roadshow will be an opportunity for you to hear first hand what has been planned so far and to gather feedback for any future revisions.
Further details
More details, including an overview of the programme, is available at nesi.org.nz/roadshow. A promotional flyer is attached that may be useful to promote the event internally. You are also welcome to contact BlueFern directly for any questions.
Looking forward to seeing you next month.
BlueFern is hosting a series of HPC Seminars to promote using High Performance Computing in research. The announcement for the latest in the series is on our website.
BlueFern HPC Seminar - Modelling the superheating of small gallium clusters, Krista Steenbergen
Date: Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Time: 11am-12pm, preceded by morning tea at 10.30am
Venue: NZi3 HP seminar room
RSVP: angela.armstrong@canterbury.ac.nz
Webcast Details (via KAREN Video Conference Service)
Meeting ID: 6122
Subject: BlueFern HPC Seminar: Modelling the superheating of small gallium clusters
Date: 15 August 2012. Time: 11:00 NZST
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This seminar will be hosted in the NZi3 HP seminar room at 11am on 15 August 2012. The speaker, Krista G. Steenbergen, is a PhD student at the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University.
As the size of cutting-edge technologies continues to diminish at an incredible rate (for example, integrated circuits following Moore’s Law), the thermodynamic and electronic properties of elements at the nanoscale gains increasing interest. Gallium, an element used in many nanoscale semiconductor technologies, exhibits several fascinating thermodynamic characteristics when diminished to the size of tens of atoms, to include melting temperatures that are significantly greater than those of bulk gallium. In order to investigate these intriguing properties, our research employs computationally intensive, highly parallel algorithms over long time scales, rendering the research intractable without advances in high performance computing. This seminar introduces the research and results, as well as a discussion of the computational techniques enabling the research which are made possible by state-of-the-art supercomputing facilities such as BlueFern.
BlueFern, the High Performance Computing unit in the University of Canterbury, will be hosting a series of seminars given by researchers from different disciplines, such as Bioengineering, materials sciences and computational chemistry. They will speak about their research and also their use of HPC to address their research problems.
You are warmly invited to attend these seminars. There will also be a morning tea 30 minutes before the seminar starts - please register for this by emailing angela.armstrong@canterbury.ac.nz.