March 16, 2009: On Thursday and Friday, April 9-10, 2009, technical staff members at Arizona State University will present the training session, “Data Analysis on Ranger”. Topics to be covered in this class include:

• Accessing and sharing large data sets using Scientific Gateways

•Data movement, interoperability, and data formats

• A review of several case studies highlighting data analysis in HPC research

• An introduction to remote visualization on Ranger

Attendees are expected to be familiar with the basics of submitting and running jobs on Ranger and are encouraged to bring their own code and data sets. Staff members of the Arizona State University High Performance Computing Initiative and the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing will be available during the training session to assist users in their data analysis efforts.

For course registration and additional details, please visit the following URL: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/services/training/hpc_dar.php

Please submit any questions you may have via the TeraGrid User Portal: http://portal.teragrid.org/consulting

March 26, 2008:
MathWorks will offer free technical sessions demonstrating the utility of MATLAB in science and engineering applications. For more information, visit http://www.mathworks.com/seminars/asuapr08

February 22, 2008:
Ranger, the new supercomputer system operated by the Texas Advanced Computing Center in collaboration with Arizona State University and Cornell University, will be formally dedicated at a ceremony this afternoon in Austin. Ranger's 62,976 compute cores are to be formally released to the scientific community, becoming the world's most powerful open science computing system. View details at http://www.rangersupercomputer.com