Inside XSEDE: April 2021

Program Announcements

Reminder to Upload Publications to XSEDE Portal

This Friday, April 30 marks the end of the fourth quarter of our XSEDE Reporting Year 5. If you’ve published anything during the past few months, please remember to upload those to the User Portal. The XUP offers the option to import using the DOI which makes it pretty effortless. Don’t forget to choose “XSEDE Staff Publication” from the Related XSEDE Projects dropdown.

Please try to get your pubs uploaded by Friday to help us meet our goal of having at least 50 publications by XSEDE staff during this reporting year!

If you have any questions, please contact Leslie Froeschl at lfroesch@illinois.edu.

ACSC Faculty Curriculum Development Workshop

The Advanced Computing for Social Change (ACSC) faculty curriculum development workshop will be held virtually June 17-18, 2021, from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Eastern each day. XSEDE Broadening Participation and Education Programs are seeking faculty from diverse disciplines and backgrounds who would like to incorporate the ACSC approach to teaching data analytics and computational thinking into their curriculum or are interested in using these tools in their research. This 2-day workshop provides materials informed by the ACSC student challenge to help introduce software tools, such as R, and classroom resources for data analysis, visualization, and computational modeling. The goal is for attendees to leave the workshop with new curriculum materials and tools that will help to incorporate the use of data science tools to address social issues in their courses. No previous programming experience is necessary: both introductory and intermediate R methods will be presented. Register at the link below. Questions? Contact Kate Cahill at kcahill@osc.edu.

XSEDE Cyberinfrastructure Integration (XCI) Updates

The XSEDE Cyberinfrastructure Integration (XCI) team has completed the transition of the XSEDE web single sign-on (SSO) login service, used by several websites such as the Research Software Portal, JIRA, Confluence, XDMoD, and Jetstream. All web SSO logins using XSEDE credentials will require multi-factor authentication (MFA). Users who have not yet enrolled in XSEDE Duo will be prompted to enroll the first time they log in using idp.xsede.org. Users will continue to have the option to use linked campus identities for authentication, which may or may not require MFA. For any questions or issues, please email help@xsede.org.

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Community Announcements

Happening Today!

Open Storage Network presents "The Role of Data Sharing and Distributed Storage in Research: Visions for the Future"

Thursday, April 29

11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Central Daylight Time

Expert panelists will share short presentations, followed by a discussion.

Overview: Science in the US is undergoing a significant change. Cyberinfrastructure or eInfrastructures tended to be funded for small projects for a single PI or very large science ventures (CERN LHC, NEON, NASA), however, what is emerging are medium-scale projects involving several universities and institutions. What architectures and capabilities are or will be needed by such projects and what effect will this have on the overall research computing ecosystem?