Bytes 'n Bites is a casual forum for discussion of technology issues for the Binghamton University community. Bring your lunch, your questions, your comments.

High Performance Computing: Meet the TeraGrid

• When: Noon – 1:00 pm. Wednesday, November 11, 2009
• Where: Science Library 210

Computer needs for today’s research sometimes involve simulations that are computed on a very fine grid or involve analysis of data from very large data sets.

In either case, computations may take days to complete on the computers in faculty offices or labs. The National Science Foundation recognized this trend in today’s science. They funded high performance computing centers around the country to make computational resources available to researchers. The TeraGrid is one such program. Binghamton University has recently joined the TeraGrid Campus Champions. This program provides start-up allocations and assistance to researchers who want to use resources at places like Indiana University, UIUC, NCSA, TAAC, PSC, SDSC, NCAR or Argonne National Labs. In addition to programming languages and raw computing environments, a number of these centers have pretty robust collections of Open Source software installed and ready for use.

Join Michael Reale and Jim Wolf to explore this new opportunity for the BU research community. Faculty, research staff and interested graduate students are encouraged to attend.