SDSC Summer Institute: HPC Meets Big Data — Aug. 4-8

The SDSC Summer Institute 2014: HPC Meets Big Data will be held Monday – Friday (Noon), August 4 – 8, 2014, at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus. Light refreshments and lunch will be provided throughout. The first half of the SI will consist of plenary sessions covering the skills that are considered essential for anyone who works with big data. Topics include data management, running jobs on XSEDE resources, reproducibility, database systems, characteristics of big data, techniques for turning data into knowledge, software version control and making effective use of hardware. This will be followed by a series of parallel sessions that allow attendees to dive deeper into specialized material that is relevant to their research projects, with the exact choice of topics will be based on feedback collected during registration. For more information on the schedule and registration, please visit the SDSC Summer Institute 2014 Web site at: http://www.sdsc.edu/Events/summerinstitute/index.html