November 27, 2006

Applied Groups Information Meeting

There will be a meeting for prospective Applied Group members as well as all current group members this Thursday, 30/Nov., at Noon in Dennis 214. If you have any interest in working in these groups, even if you are not sure if your circumstances will permit it, please attend. Pizza and drinks will be provided.

To help us plan how much pizza to order, please send e-mail to Mary Lou Rosser (rossema@earlham.edu) to let her know you are coming. When you do, please let her know of any dietary restrictions and/or topping preferences you have.

Computer Science Applied Groups
Information Meeting
Thursday 30/Nov, 12:00pm
Dennis 214

The CS Applied Groups provide infrastructure support for the CS Department and the College as a whole. This is your chance to get substantial real-world experience working on things that your fellow students depend on every day.

These groups are open to all students, at all levels. In most cases preference is given to those intending to major in CS. Group members commit to working 10 hours/week during the semester, usually as workstudy, for a term of at least three semesters, starting in the Spring. Nearly all CS majors work in one or more of these groups at some time.

The current groups are:

  • CS System and Network Administrators
  • Hardware Interfacing Project
  • CS Content Administration Group
  • Pedagogical Tools Group
  • Database Integration Group (WebDB)
  • Green Science Group

Additional groups are in planning.

There will be a meeting for prospective group members as well as all current group members this Thursday, 30/Nov., at Noon in Dennis 214. If you have any interest in working in these groups, even if you are not sure if your circumstances will permit it, please attend. Pizza and drinks will be provided.

To help us plan how much pizza to order, please send e-mail to Mary Lou Rosser (rossema@earlham.edu) to let her know you are coming. When you do, please let her know of any dietary restrictions and/or topping preferences you have.

If you have any questions, contact me, Jim Rogers (jrogers@cs.earlham.edu).

Posted by jrogers at 11:46 AM | Comments (0)

Clusterers in the Register

LittleFe, the portable High Performance Computer cluster designed and built by Charlie and the Cluster group has been featured in The Register, on-line news for IT professionals: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/19/littlefe_cluster
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November 19, 2006

New cluster for Earlham's Cluster Computing Group

Charlie Peck, Alex Lemann, and Kevin Hunter attended SC06, the
supercomputing conference last week in Tampa, FL. While there
Charlie entered a contest sponsored by Intel and ultimately won an 8
node, 64 core (~500 GFLOP) computational cluster. The three of them
also participated in the 2 day SC Educational Program and made
numerous presentations on their LittleFe project.

The new cluster will be used to support local projects in
computational chemistry (Lori Watson, Chemistry), phylogenetic
inference (John Iverson, Biology) and genetic sequencing (Peter
Blair, Biology). It will also be used by the National Computational
Science Institute and the SC Education Program to develop curriculum
modules for high performance computing and computational science.

URLS:

http://cluster.earlham.edu - Earlham's Cluster Computing Group
http://sc06.supercomputing.org - SC06 SuperComputing Conference
ttp://LittleFe.net - Portable computational cluster
http://computationalscience.org - National Computational Science
Institute
http://sc-education.org - SC Education Program

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