Open Storage Network Webinar by the Open Storage Network (OSN) Team

January 21 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

The Open Storage Network (OSN) Team invites you to join the January Webinar Thursday, January 21, 2021 – 9AM Pacific Time/5PM UTC.

A review of the OSN project, key features, and ways to leverage it in your research. Speakers:

Alex Szalay, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Jay Aikat, Chief Operating Office, RENCI, University of North Carolina
Kevin Coakley, Senior Systems & Cloud Integration Engineer, SDSC, University of California San Diego
Jim Culbert, Director, IT Services, Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center
Melissa Cragin, Chief Strategist SDSC, University of California San Diego
Jim Glasgow, Storage Technical Program Manager, NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
John Goodhue, Executive Director, Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center

Please register here for this look into the future of data storage on a global scale.

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Call for Participation PEARC 21 - Evolution Across All Dimensions

July 18 to July 22 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Dear Colleagues,

This year's ACM Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference will take place virtually from July 18-22, 2021. To help make this conference a success, we invite you to submit technical content proposals in a variety of ways as outlined in the Call for Participation. Submissions may address any topic related to advanced research computing and data, but topics consistent with one or more of the following three technical tracks are of particular interest:

Applications and Software
Systems and System Software
Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, and Education

The first submission deadline is for Tutorials and Workshops due February 9^th at 11:59 pm PT.

Stay tuned for future announcements relevant to the conference from the ACM PEARC Conference mailing list and the website: pearc.acm.org/pearc21.

Please feel free to share this information with your colleagues. If you have any questions, you can email us at pearcinfo@googlegroups.com.

Please download the PDF for more details.

Janae Baker
PEARC21 Communications Chair

janae.baker@rutgers.edu

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Open Science Grid (OSG) Training

(Feb 8 - 9 and March 1 - 5)

Open Science Grid (OSG) - A national, distributed computing partnership for data-intensive research - and potential partners for your CC* Campus Compute proposal

The Emerging Centers Track January call will bring representatives from the Open Science Grid who will describe how their services fit into the national cyberinfrastructure ecosystem,

facilitating distributed high throughput computing for researchers. Lauren Michael will share how the OSG team can partner with you by

bringing the power of the OSG to YOUR researchers
gathering science drivers and planning local computing resources or
CC*-required resource sharing for the Campus Compute category, and other options for integrating with OSG

dHTC Campus Workshop, Feb 8-9: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/46925
- Day 1 Training: Using and Facilitating dHTC and OSG
- Day 2 Office Hours: All Things dHTC for Campuses
OSG All Hands Meeting, March 1-5: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/47040

- March 1: State of OSG, impact on Research
- March 2: Campus Day
- March 3-5: OSG Technologies, Multi-institutional Collaborators, High-Energy Physics

For more information:

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Call for Applications New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Fellowships Deadline is April 5, 2021

https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/nfi/fellowships

The New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Fellowships provide PhD students with a year of full-time research support, including a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, and an allocation up to 100,000 node-hours on the powerful Blue Waters petascale computing system.

Candidates must be enrolled in a full-time PhD program at an accredited U.S. educational institution. Applicants are required to be in the second or later year of their graduate program with a well-developed, research proposal. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents by the time of the application deadline.

Preference will be given to applicants engaged in geospatial and geointelligence research projects at scale that combine disciplines such as computer science, applied mathematics, and computational science applications.

The New Frontiers Initiative (NFI) is an activity of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign that partners with federal agencies on research, development and educational projects to bring Illinois’ expertise and resources to enhance the nation’s national security and safety. Blue Waters is supported by the National Science Foundation through awards OCI-0725070 and ACI-1238993.

Please direct questions to bw-eot@ncsa.illinois.edu

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OSG All-Hands Meeting 2021 - Register now

The OSG All-Hands Meeting 2021 is happening from Monday, March 1, through
Friday, March 5, in an all-virtual format.

https://opensciencegrid.org/all-hands/2021/

Registration for the event is free, but is required for security. If you
hope to attend any of the event, please register now; it takes only a few
minutes:

https://indico.fnal.gov/event/47040/registrations/

We will email virtual meeting links to the email address you register, so
please double-check your entry.

The detailed schedule is located via the link below; some sessions have
full details now and the rest are coming soon:

https://indico.fnal.gov/event/47040/timetable/

An overview of the schedule is as follows:

Monday, March 1
* State of the OSG and David Swanson Award Speakers
* Science Enabled via the Open Science Pool

Tuesday, March 2
* State of the OSG for Campuses and CC* Awards
* Campus Perspectives

Wednesday, March 3
* OSG as an Agile Computing Environment
* Evolving the OSG Fabric of Services

Thursday, March 4
* OSG and Multi-Institution Collaborations
* OSG Council (closed meeting)

Friday, March 5
* U.S. ATLAS and CMS high-energy physics projects and OSG

For questions or concerns about the OSG All-Hands Meeting, please email our
events address:

events@opensciencegrid.org

We hope you will join us soon!

January 21 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Call for Participation PEARC 21 - Evolution Across All Dimensions

July 18 to July 22 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

===============================================================================Open Science Grid (OSG) Training

(Feb 8 - 9 and March 1 - 5)

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Call for Applications New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Fellowships Deadline is April 5, 2021

https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/nfi/fellowships

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OSG All-Hands Meeting 2021 - Register now

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Open Science Grid (OSG) Training

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