Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute

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Events

BoF: Data Set Identifier Interoperability (DSII) at IETF 84 (Vancouver)

07/31/2012 3:20pm - 4:50pm

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 84, Vancouver, BC, Canada - Afternoon Session II, Regency F

Beth Plale and Ted Hardie chair this Birds of a Feather: Data Set Identifier Interoperability (DSII)

HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp 2012

09/10/2012 1:00pm - 09/11/2012 4:00pm

Indiana University, Bloomington

A 1.5 Day Event

A Data Consortium: Coming Together Around Data (Data2012 Part 2) co-located with DAITF Global Meeting on Data Issues

10/01/2012 6:30pm - 10/03/2012 2:00pm

The Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, VA (Washington DC area)

Hosted by the Data to Insight Center with funding from the National Science Foundation

IU partnership results in faster Trinity RNA sequencing software

Key software used to study gene expression now runs four times faster, thanks to performance improvements put in place by a team from the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI), the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Technische Universität Dresden.

SciAPT Leads Student Tutorials at XSEDE 12

SciAPT and HPS will lead two student tutorials at XSEDE 12 on July 16, 2012. The other track led by SciAPT will present a variety of introductory topics in HPC. For more information please visit the XSEDE 12 student tutorials page at: https://www.xsede.org/web/xsede12/tutorials#student1

Research Technologies and GlobalNOC Technology Supports IU's Exhibit at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC

Research Technologies and the GlobalNOC deployed advanced visualization technology to support IU's Exhibit at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC. The Festival runs from June 27–July 1 and July 4–8. One of this year's event programs highlights "Campus and Community".

PTI Staff and System Enable Ground Breaking Research in Eye Disease

Sloppy shipping of a donated human retina to an Indiana University researcher studying a leading cause of vision loss has inadvertently helped uncover a previously undetected mechanism causing the disease.

Thomas Sterling: 'I Think We Will Never Reach Zettaflops'

As supercomputing makes its way through the petascale era, the future of the technology has never seemed so uncertain. HPC veteran Thomas Sterling, Professor of Informatics & Computing at Indiana University, takes us through some of the most critical developments in high performance computing, explaining why the transition to exascale is going to be very different than the ones in the past and how the United States is losing its leadership in HPC innovation.

Ready, Set, Robots! IU Summer Workshop 2012

We're celebrating our sixth birthday with two great hands-on summer workshops for teens. Work side by side with technology professionals from IU to program LEGO® Mindstorms® robots. Learn basic computer programming skills and explore technology careers in a relaxed but challenging environment.