On Friday November 7, 2008 SBGrid hosted the first quarterly gathering of New England Open Science Grid (OSG) members and prospective members. Professor Miron Livny (Technical Director of OSG), provided an overview of US collaborative computing based on OSG and perspectives on the opportunities for accelerated discoveries through grid-enabled science. Attendees from Harvard, Northeastern University, the Broad Institute, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center discussed the challenges of shared computing environments and the interface between IT and collaborative research. SBGrid will be organizing future meetings in 2009 with themes of security and data management.
SBGrid - News and Events
SBGrid hosts talk by Dr. Miron Livny (Technical Director, Open Science Grid)
Published November 12 2008
[SBGrid] Special Seminar - Wednesday
Published May 6 2008
Papers: The Personal Library of Science for Macintosh Users
Learn how Papers bundles all the great technologies that come with Mac OS X Tiger to give you a complete new workflow for reading scientific articles. You find, download, archive, and organize all your articles within a single application. A feature called spotlight allows you to instantly find the paper you are looking for. Read it full screen and add your notes to share with a colleague. With Alexander Griekspoor from Mekentosj. Registration is not required.
For more information contact Countway Library Reference & Education Services:
countref@hms.harvard.edu or 617-432-2134.
Date: 2008-05-07
Time: 13:00:00 - 14:00:00
Location: Countway Library, Room 403
Sponsored by SBGrid
SBGrid User Summit: Quo Vadis Structural Biology?
Published February 8 2008
The first ever SBGrid user summit 'Quo Vadis Structural Biology?' took place on May 5th and 6th 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts. There were a number of talks and workshops that focused on structural biology computing.
The two-day conference included lectures and hands-on computing lab sessions. Our speakers were Axel Brunger, Niko Grigorieff, James Chou, Mark Gerstein, David E. Shaw, Joachim Frank, Frank Delaglio and others.
There were two tracks of hands-on workshops. The first track focused on tools and techniques for using structural biology software. The second track was of a more general technical nature and focused on building your own tools and computing infrastructure to support your research needs.
The structural biology workshops were lead by industry veterans including Paul Emsley (low resolution model building), Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve …
Guest lecture by Denis Caromel on ProActive Java Toolkit
Published January 18 2008
The features of the ProActive Java toolkit for developing, deploying, and
managing parallel and distributed scientific software will be presented,
including demonstrations of real-life commercial and research applications which
have used ProActive to harness the power of multi-core, cluster, and grid systems. Monday January 28th, 6pm, Goldenson 122. Email for more details.
Experimental cluster acquired under NSF grant
Published January 18 2008
As part of the NSF grant, an experimental cluster has been acquired and is in the process of being configured. This cluster consists of 3 different classes of machine:
- Mac Pro, with 3GHz quad-core Intel Xeon processors
- Intel Harpertown Xeon quad-core, 45nm technology
- AMD Santa Rosa dual-core, 65nm technology
These machines will be used to develop new architectures and grid software deployment models for SBGrid.