Computing Division News Archive

• Supercomputing 2009: 11/14/2009-11/20/2009, Portland, Oregon. Listen to the interview with Tech Program Chair, William Gropp and take a look at the SC09 Fermilab exhibit design.
• Computing Techniques Seminar: Developing Secure Software by Sebastian Lopienski, CERN, 10/23/2009 @Curia II
• Computing Techniques Seminar: Mathematical Interfaces of Automated Scientific Computing by Andy R. Terrel, University of Chicago, 10/22/2009 @ FCC2A/2B
• Computer Security Awareness Day: 9/29/2009 9am-5pm @ Wilson Hall. 
• Computing Techniques Seminar: Control System Cyber-Security Speaker is Stefan Lueders, CERN Computer Security Team. 9/10/2009  @ FCC2A & 2B
• Accelerated C++ Short Course started on 8/06. Course instructor is Walter Brown, a member of the Computing Division.
• Computing Techniques Seminar: Measurement, Quantification & Analyses of Partial Discharge in Insulation Systems, by Pratha Basappa, Norfolk State University, 8/06/2009. Prof. Basappa and his students are working this summer in CD Facilities Department with Tim Kasza, Adam Walters and David Ritchie under DOE Funded FaST (Faculty and Student Teams) program to improve temperature monitoring in the FCC Computer Rooms.
• 2009 DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Conference: 7/14-7/16 Washington, DC. Fermilab is a new practicum site of this fellowship
• Computing Division Seminar: "Building web based database driven applications and user interfaces with web2py," Massimo Di Pierro, DePaul University, 7/16/2009 Thu 2:00PM, @ FCC2A/2B.
• Computing Division's Liz Sexton-Kennedy presented "Event Processing Frameworks - a Social and Technical Challenge" at 6/03's Middleware And Grid Infrastructure Coordination (MAGIC) Meeting
• Accelerated C++ Short Course started on 6/08/2009. Course instructor is Walter Brown, a member of the Computing Division.
• NLIT Summit 2009 was held 5/31/2009-6/03/2009 @ Knoxville, Tennessee
• Monitor Application Development(MAD) Workshop: 6/03/2009 Wed 9am-4pm @ Curia II(WH2)
• USQCD 2009 All Hands Meeting was held on 5/14/2009-5/15/2009 at Fermilab
  
• Computing Techniques Seminar "Writing Fast, Robust Multi-threaded Applications with C++0x": 5/21/2009 Thu 11:00am by Pete Becker @ FCC1
• PREP Equipment Pool moved from FCC3 West to FCC1 East (enter on east side, closest to Road B.)
• The new Fermilab Service Desk went live on 4/21/2009 at http://servicedesk.fnal.gov
  
• Computing Techniques Seminar "Re-Thinking Information Technologies and Services at National Laboratories": 4/23/2009 by Charlie Catlett, CIO, Argonne National Laboratory
• Condor Week 2009: 4/20/2009-4/23/2009, @ University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Computing Techniques Seminar: "Experiences with Computing", by Craig Williams, CIO, Naperville School District 203, 4/16/2009 Thu 2:30pm @WH1West
• Mac Users Meeting (Apple Mobility Tour at Fermilab): 4/08/2009 Wed 9:00-12:00 @WH1N Agenda
  
• Microsoft Technology Days: 3/31/2009-4/01/2009 Fermilab co-hosted the event with Argonne in WH1W. 
• FNALU Alias Change: The alias for FNALU switched from fsui03 to flxi02 on 03/16/2009 in preparation for 04/13/2009 decommissioning of fsui03. If there is some dependency on fsui03 which cannot be met by another resource, email dss-est@fnal.gov. The hardware for fsui03 is over ten years old and this node will not be replaced by another Solaris machine. Also, machines that handle NIS service on FNALU will change in April.  A solaris machine for web testing was made available before fsui03 is decommissioned.
• Workshop on Computing for Neutrino Experiments: 03/12-03/13 @Fermilab
• Douglas Thain from University of Notre Dame presented Computing Techniques Seminar  "Programming Multicore Clouds Using High Level Abstractions" on 02/19/2009. View presentation here.
  
• A new paper by Madrid & Macchetto ranks SDSS as an astronomical observatory with the highest scientific impact in astronomy based on paper citations. SDSS also ranked first in their previous 2006 ranking.
• Kate Keaheay from University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory presented Computing Techniques Seminar "Cloud Computing with Nimbus" on 01/29/2009. View the presentation slides here.
• SDSS Galaxy Map: Follow the link to view a 3-dimensional map of the distribution of galaxies. The map is one of the many results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for which the Computing Division provides essential support.
• Members of the Computing Division ESE department participated in 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium in Dresden, Germany: Marcos Turqueti presented a paper on the hardware of the CAPTAN system; Ryan Rivera presented a poster on the software for the CAPTAN system; and Vince Pavlicek was one of the organizers for the mTCA workshop.
• High Performance Computing -- Scientific Discovery and U.S. Competitiveness: 09/17/2008 Remarks by Under Secretary for Science Dr. Raymond L. Orbach at Tranforming through Computational Simulation: A Computation-Based Engineering Summit, National Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC
• Seminars on programming GPU's for numerical analysis: 10/03/2008 Fri 11:00am-3:30pm @ WH7-XO ("Racetrack").  The QCD Department will host several talks on the use of NVidia Tesla Graphics Processing Units(GPUs) for numerical programming.
• First beam, then and now...    
• dCache Seminar: dCache, A Highly Scalable Grid Enabled Distributed Disk Storage System, 09/26/2008 Fri 9:00am @ Wilson Hall 10NW (the West Wing) Seminar Overview
• Pixel 2008 International Workshop: 09/23/2008-09/26/2008, Fermilab
  
• Community Petascale Project for Accelerator Science and Simulation: Advancing Computational Science for Future Accelerators and Accelerator Technologies by Panagiotis Spentzouris, John Cary, Lois Curfman McInnes, Warren Mori, Cho Ng, Esmond Ng, Robert Ryne
• Computing Division Deputy Head Patricia McBride presented a talk "Computing Models for the LHC Experiments" for the Hadron Collider Physics Summer School 2008 on August 12, 2008. The Summer School is hosted at Fermilab from August 12-22, 2008.
• View a zoomable timeline of Fermilab and CD accomplishments as shown at Supercomputing 2007.
• New Science on the Open Science Grid (OSG),  (Ruth Pordes et al. FERMILAB-PUB-08-195-CD, Jun 2008, 6pp., describes how the OSG enables new science and the work of new scientists to be accomplished. The new modalities fostered by OSG are also described. These, for example, make it possible for university physics departments, far from the Switzerland-located Large Hadron Collider, centeral computing farms, and tape stores to sustain active local research groups while at the same time contributing to common scientific discovery worldwide).
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey International Symposium: Aug 15-18 2008, Chicago, hosted by the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
• A recent paper by CD's Mine Altunay and co-authors concerning An Interaction-Based Access Control Model (IBAC) for Collaborative Services, Mine Altunay (Fermilab), Gregory T. Byrd, Doug E. Brown, Ralph A. Dean (North Carolina State U.) . April 2008. 8pp.
• News Roundup for July from the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) of DOE's Office of Science.
• A presentation (~20 Mb) by University of Illinois Morrill College of Engineering IMPRINT senior Eric Rivera (Mech. E.) about his summer's work under the direction of Computing Division scientist Peter Cooper in support of the Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (COUPP) Experiment.
• The SDSS data archive server. Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. (Fermilab). The SDSS data archive server provides public access to the results of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) through the use of advanced computing technology. This article, published in October 2007 but still relevant today, describes the challenges of doing this for the volume and complexity of an astronomical survey, such as SDSS, which contains roughly one quarter of the night sky.
• Quantum chromodynamics with advanced computing. By USQCD Collaboration (Andreas S. Kronfeld for the collaboration).