{"id":38745,"date":"2019-10-09T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T19:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=38745"},"modified":"2019-10-09T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T19:40:22","slug":"student-research-consultants-experience-at-the-xsede-big-data-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2019\/10\/student-research-consultants-experience-at-the-xsede-big-data-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Research Consultant&#8217;s experience at the XSEDE Big Data Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Zhiyuan Yao is a Geography PhD candidate and a student research consultant in the Research Labs@ GMP, in the Geology-Math-Physics Library.\u00a0 She is a GIS expert in the UC Libraries Research &amp; Data Services Team and can help you with your GIS and other research data questions.\u00a0 Below she describes her recent experience attending the XSEDE workshop on Big Data.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is an NSF-funded virtual organization that integrates and coordinates the sharing of supercomputers with researchers nationally to support science. It has five computer resource infrastructures located across the nations, and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a part of it. PSC offers workshops from time to time through the year and aims to promote advanced data analysis among a variety of research fields using its supercomputer, Bridges. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uc.edu\/about\/ucit\/about\/innovations.html\">IT@UC Research &amp; Development, Innovation and Partnerships<\/a>, who cooperates with PSC to offer the free workshop to UC community. The workshop is one of many events in the <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.uc.edu\/research-teaching-support\/research-data-services\/data-computational-science-series.html\">Data &amp; Computational Science Series<\/a> funded by the Provost Office. \u00a0I was glad to attend the Big Data workshop and give you a glimpse of the informative workshop.<a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/XSEDE-attendees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-38746 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/XSEDE-attendees.jpg\" alt=\"Student Research Consultant&#8217;s experience at the XSEDE Big Data Workshop\" width=\"569\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/XSEDE-attendees.jpg 1227w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/XSEDE-attendees-188x141.jpg 188w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/XSEDE-attendees-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Big Data workshop was held on Oct 1<sup>st<\/sup> to Oct 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, from 11: 00 AM to 5: 30 PM. The workshop was well organized and followed a working flow: introducing background information, providing examples, and doing exercises. I really appreciated the background information introduced in this workshop, since it provided a holistic view of this workshop which was friendly to beginners. Besides, this workshop talked about several programs for big data analysis, such as Hadoop and Spark, and Tensorflow. The Big data workshop is one of PSC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psc.edu\/training-education\/hpc-workshop-series\">HPC workshop series<\/a>, such as MPI, OpenMP, OpenACC, et al. If you are interested in one of these workshops, you can check if IT@UC offers this workshop at <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.uc.edu\/research-teaching-support\/workshops.html\">Workshops &amp; Trainings<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/webapps2.uc.edu\/ce\/facdev\/Workshops\">Faculty OneStop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pizza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38747 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pizza.jpg\" alt=\"lunch options at the XSEDE workshop\" width=\"610\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pizza.jpg 610w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Pizza-250x103.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides the free knowledge, you also have free lunch! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uc.edu\/about\/ucit\/about\/innovations.html\">IT@UC Research &amp; Development, Innovation and Partnerships<\/a> offered the yummy lunch through the <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.uc.edu\/research-teaching-support\/research-data-services\/data-computational-science-series.html\">Data &amp; Computational Science Series<\/a> funded by the Provost Office. If you are interested in learning things about high performance computing, please come and take advantage of the free resources and the yummy lunch!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next XSEDE event is coming up soon:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.xsede.org\/course-calendar\/-\/training-user\/class\/1903\/session\/3341\/register\">XSEDE Monthly HPC Workshop: OpenMP<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday November 5, 2019 \u2013 11:00am to 5:00pm<br \/>\nLangsam Library Room 475 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhiyuan Yao is a Geography PhD candidate and a student research consultant in the Research Labs@ GMP, in the Geology-Math-Physics Library.\u00a0 She is a GIS expert in the UC Libraries Research &amp; Data Services Team and can help you with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2019\/10\/student-research-consultants-experience-at-the-xsede-big-data-workshop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,26,317,109,73,83,13],"tags":[1078,1613],"class_list":["post-38745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceaslibrarynews","category-cech","category-chembio","category-gmp-library","category-hsl-libnews","category-langsam-library","category-uclibraries","tag-big-data","tag-xsede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}