Event Title
The URI Big Data Initiative and HPC Core Facility (What is it, and what's in it for you?)
Location
Cherry Auditorium, Kirk Hall
Start Date
4-21-2016 1:00 PM
Description
The Big Data Collaborative at URI was formed in 2012 by three dozen scholar educators to compete for a cluster hire. The hire was awarded by the provost’s office in February 2015. Searches are now underway for eight tenure-track faculty members across five colleges, including Engineering. To support these hires and the work of others already at URI a HPC (High Performance Computing) sub-group has proposed a HPC and Research Computing Core Facility. The goal is to serve many partners and to achieve savings in time and money through centralization of hardware, software and human resources. Also related to the Big Data Initiative is an interdisciplinary committee that will soon propose a Data Science major for undergraduates. In the future the collaborative will propose graduate tracks through existing graduate programs and a research Institute for Data-Intensive Discovery – ID2. In support of the interdisciplinary engagement that the Big Data initiative is expected to foster, the Northeast EPSCoR institutions have secured EAGER funding to formulate no-boundary thinking in research and education.
This talk will describe these inter-related initiatives and projects, explain how researchers and students at URI might benefit from the presence of the Big Data initiative, and connect these efforts to national and local movements in research funding, general education, and new developments in K-20 education and workforce development.
The URI Big Data Initiative and HPC Core Facility (What is it, and what's in it for you?)
Cherry Auditorium, Kirk Hall
The Big Data Collaborative at URI was formed in 2012 by three dozen scholar educators to compete for a cluster hire. The hire was awarded by the provost’s office in February 2015. Searches are now underway for eight tenure-track faculty members across five colleges, including Engineering. To support these hires and the work of others already at URI a HPC (High Performance Computing) sub-group has proposed a HPC and Research Computing Core Facility. The goal is to serve many partners and to achieve savings in time and money through centralization of hardware, software and human resources. Also related to the Big Data Initiative is an interdisciplinary committee that will soon propose a Data Science major for undergraduates. In the future the collaborative will propose graduate tracks through existing graduate programs and a research Institute for Data-Intensive Discovery – ID2. In support of the interdisciplinary engagement that the Big Data initiative is expected to foster, the Northeast EPSCoR institutions have secured EAGER funding to formulate no-boundary thinking in research and education.
This talk will describe these inter-related initiatives and projects, explain how researchers and students at URI might benefit from the presence of the Big Data initiative, and connect these efforts to national and local movements in research funding, general education, and new developments in K-20 education and workforce development.
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