Tag: cloud computing

• NAIRR: Pilot Exploration

  

  SSEC Engineers Niki Burggraf, Senior Research Software Engineer Rob Fatland, UW Director of Cloud and Data Solutions The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded effort aiming to connect U.S. researchers to computational, data, software, model and training resources they need to participate in AI research. The NAIRR Pilot will…

• UW Receives Honors in 2023 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

  

  The University of Washington and our CloudBank partners at the San Diego Supercomputing Center and UC Berkeley have been recognized in the 20th Anniversary edition of the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC23), in Denver, Colorado. The list of winners was revealed…

• Evolving the Hackweek Model with ICESat-2 2022

  

  By: Scott Henderson and Louisa Gaylord The eScience Institute hosts a variety of hackweeks every year, which are designed to immerse participants in collaborative project work around a specific topic. Hackweeks try to blend elements of a hackathon, where participants work collaboratively in project teams, with tutorials on a variety of data science topics in…

• How UW Medicine is Using Cloud Computing to Aid Seattle’s Covid Response

  

  Over the past year, the University of Washington and UW Medicine have been at the heart of the city of Seattle’s Covid-19 response: researchers studying social distancing and how the virus spreads on our communities, volunteers collecting and distributing supplies, clinical vaccine trials, and a partnership with the city to process over 2 million test…

• NSF-funded CloudBank Now Operational

  

  The eScience Institute at the University of Washington; the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego; the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at UC Berkeley; and Strategic Blue have entered production operations of the CloudBank program, which aims to simplify the use of public clouds across computer science…

• Blog: How to graduate with the cloud

  

  By Anya Chaliotis, machine learning developer, Expeditors Navigating higher education can be head spinning, especially in the senior year as graduation approaches. I’d like to share my story of going back to school for a Master of Science degree at the University of Washington’s Information School, informally the iSchool. The iSchool offers many opportunities including…

• NASA High Mountain Asia Project

  

  By Robin Brooks Over one billion people live downstream of the region referred to as High Mountain Asia, an area ranging from the Hindu Kush and Tien Shan in the west to the Eastern Himalaya, and home to “the world’s largest reservoir of perennial glaciers and snow outside of the Earth’s polar ice sheets”. The…

• Cloud Maven website released

  

  By Robin Brooks “We’re trying to help researchers collaborate,” said Rob Fatland, UW director of cloud and data solutions. “We’re advocating for their success. We offer options they may not realize are available to them.” added Amanda Tan, UW research computing cloud technology lead developer. The pair, who work at the eScience Institute, are the…

• Cloud 101 Hands-On Immersion Workshop held

  

  By Rob Fatland UW Research Computing, in conjunction with the eScience Institute, held its first Cloud 101 Hands-On Immersion Workshop on April 4, 2017, at the Husky Union Building. There were 46 registered participants, including researchers, faculty and students from the main UW campus, as well as researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and graduate…

• High Performance Computing Club receives grant

  

  By Robin Brooks The UW High Performance Computing Club has been awarded a $10,000 grant to provide student access to cloud computing. “Students can apply for cloud credit and learn how to take advantage of the cloud’s capacity for massive-scale computing as well as learning best practices for cost management and data security,” according to a release on…