Inside XSEDE - August 2018

Significant XSEDE resources granted extensions from NSF

SDSC's Comet supercomputer and PSC's Bridges supercomputer have both been awarded an additional year of operational funding from the NSF, pushing their end of service dates to March 2021 and November 2020, respectively. Both will continue to be allocated as XSEDE resources throughout this time. Read more about Comet's extension here and Bridge's extension here .

Nominate XSEDE collaborations for HPCwire Readers' Choice Awards by September 3!

The nomination period for the 2018 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards is underway! These annual awards recognize the best and brightest innovators within the global HPC community, and we think XSEDE has supported some great contenders. Be sure to submit your nominations before the form closes on September 3, 2018 at 11:45pm PT.

XSEDE seeking satellite sites for HPC monthly workshop series

XSEDE is pleased to announce a regular series of remote workshops on High Performance Computing topics. These hands-on workshops provide a convenient way for researchers to learn about the latest techniques and technologies of current interest in HPC. We are currently accepting satellite sites for:

October 2-3: MPI (Last Call)
November 6: GPU Computing Using OpenACC
December 4-5: BIG DATA

You, or another representative of your institution, should contact us if you are interested in hosting a remote site. Satellite sites MUST be able to provide a facility capable of two-way video for the duration of the workshop. There should also be a full time TA available to assist with local technical issues. An AV system test will be scheduled sometime before each workshop. Failure to complete a successful AV test prior to an event and subsequent AV issues during the workshop my affect the priority level of your site for future events. Address any questions regarding course content to John Urbanic ( urbanic@psc.edu ) and questions regarding registration to Tom Maiden ( tmaiden@psc.edu ).

CIPRES awarded two federal grants to support innovations in biological research

The CIPRES ( Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic RESearch ) science gateway, which supports major discoveries about evolutionary relationships among our planet's living creatures, has been awarded grants from the NSF and the NIH that will provide more than $2.8 million to sustain and enhance the gateway. CIPRES gives biologists around the world access to some of the world's most advanced software tools which, when coupled with XSEDE compute resources, enable researchers to answer a wide range of questions about life on Earth.

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XCI Updates

The XSEDE Cyberinfrastructure Integration (XCI) team has recently provided a new debugging tool for XSEDE's Web Single Sign-on (Web SSO) feature that enables users to login to a portal (e.g., XSEDE User Portal) using their XSEDE username and password, their campus login systems, or other login systems such as Google or ORCID. The new debugging tool, named XSEDE Globus ID Explorer , allows anyone to login via XSEDE Web SSO, and then view the data returned by the Web SSO service.

XCI has recently published a second major version of its Community Infrastructure use cases , as well as a third version of its Campus Bridging use cases .

The XCI team has established a new internal repository to gather and retain long-term XSEDE integrated software usage data. This data will be used in ROI analysis and to improve XSEDE's software integration and support decisions. During PY7 we started to automatically collect usage information for an initial set of XSEDE components that include XSEDE's single sign-on hub ( login.xsede.org ) and Information Publishing Framework data. In PY8 and beyond we will gather usage information for additional components and improve the set of available component usage reports. XCI is also offering community software and service providers assistance in instrumenting and tracking the long term use of their components.

We want your software ideas! If you have ideas on new software and software-based services that would help you use cyber infrastructure more effectively, or how XSEDE could improve existing software and services, please send them to help@xsede.org . The mission of the XSEDE Cyberinfrastructure Integration (XCI) team is to enable users to leverage national CI using advanced software and services. We look forward to your input .

Student Champion published as co-author

XSEDE Student Champion Majid Memari at Southern Illinois University was recently published as a co-author on work that he did as a Student Champion facilitating the assembly of DNA for Argane trees on SIU's BigDawg HPC cluster.

Apply for a one-on-one engagement with Trusted CI

Trusted CI is accepting applications for engagements until October 1. Engagements are multi-month collaborations between Trusted CI and other projects to tackle their cybersecurity challenges like creating a cybersecurity program, software security assessments, secure design, evaluations, privacy, etc. Questions? Contact info@trustedci.org .

Registration for Gateways 2018 closes Friday, September 7. Use the following hyperlinks to check out the conference program , or reserve a space at the Resource Expo .

Questions? Email help@sciencegateways.org .

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