The Center for Computational Research will be providing tours as part of a field trip to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus by students in the Excelsior Scholars Program. The program runs August 4-14 and is offered to students from the Buffalo Public School system who have excelled in math and/or science and will be entering the 8th grade this year. The students must receive an invitation to participate from the Superintendent of Schools so it is quite an honor for those 50 attending. The base of the program will be held at the Buffalo Museum of Science with field trips to Tifft Nature Preserve, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences, and Hauptman-Woodward Institute. The program ends with a poster session and celebration for the students and their parents. [More information…]

This is a reminder that this month’s scheduled maintenance will be on
Tuesday June 3rd from 7:00am until 12:00pm. Jobs will be queued up
during this time and will run when we put the cluster back online.

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Steve Gallo, CCR Software Engineer, has published a paper featured in the journal Informatics in Primary Care. Entitled “Improving collaboration between primary care research networks using Access Grid technology”, the paper discusses the use of the Access Grid to enhance communication and coordination among Practice Based Research Networks in North America.

This is a reminder that this month’s scheduled maintenance will be on
Tuesday May 6th from 7:00am until 12:00pm. Jobs will be queued up
during this time and will run when we put the cluster back online.

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Dr. Errington of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at UB has been published in Science Daily for his collaboration with scientists from the University of Austin. The article “Chemical Engineers Discover New Way to Control Particle Motion” describes their work to be published in the March 21st edition of the journal Physical Review Letters. “The Texas Advanced Computing Center and the University at Buffalo Center for Computational Research provided computational resources for this study.”

* WHEN: April 1, 2008
* TIME: 4:00-5:00pm
* WHERE: Mathematics Building, Room 250
* DETAILS: This seminar serves as an introduction to running programs on CCR’s U2 compute cluster. The U2 cluster is the largest computational platform in UB’s Center for Computational Research, with over 2000 processors. Users run on U2 by submitting jobs through a batch scheduler. A brief overview of batch computing will be presented. Topics include the creation and submission of jobs, as well as analysis of queue and job status. Examples and demonstrations will be given as time permits.

This is a reminder that this month’s scheduled maintenance will be on
Tuesday April 1st from 7:00am until 12:00pm. Jobs will be queued up
during this time and will run when we put the cluster back online.

If there are any questions please e-mail ccr-help at ccr.buffalo.edu

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* WHEN: February 26, 2008
* TIME: 4:00-5:00pm
* WHERE: Mathematics Building, Room 250
* DETAILS: This seminar serves as an introduction to using the Center’s large Dell Linux cluster. Topics of discussion start with login, data transfer, and overview of basic Linux/Unix commands. The user environment, task monitoring and code compilation are highlighted. The seminar closes with an introduction to basic performance analysis.

This tutorial is available online here.

This is a reminder that this month’s scheduled maintenance will be on
Tuesday March 4th from 7:00am until 12:00pm. Jobs will be queued up
during this time and will run when we put the cluster back online.

If there are any questions please e-mail ccr-help at ccr.buffalo.edu

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Dr. Marek Freindorf, CCR Computational Chemist, is teaching a semester long course entitled “Computer Modeling of Biological Systems.” The course, which is divided into 3 parts (Part I, II and III), is designed to serve as an introduction to computational methods for molecular modeling of biological systems such as proteins and nucleic acids. The course is for seniors and graduate students who are interested in studying biological systems at the molecular level. The goal is to provide a general overview of computational quantum chemistry (Part I), molecular mechanics (Part II), and a combined QM/MM method (Part III) as applied to molecules of biological interest. Prerequisites for Part III are Part I and Part II.

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