Michigan Tech | Research | Computing & Visualization

Past opportunities

Please note that links to many of these can be stale or might not exist any more.

XSEDE Research Allocation for 2014/07/01 -- 2015/06/30

Deadline: 2014-04-15

XSEDE Research Allocation Researchers in need of computing resources greater than what is available in-house (e.g., Portage, Superior, etc.) are strongly encouraged to apply for an XSEDE allocation. The required proposal process is quite identical and only a bit more elaborate than what Superior requires.

The XSEDE Resource Allocation System (XRAS) allows XSEDE users to submit project allocation requests for the use of XSEDE compute, visualization and storage resources. These requests are evaluated and granted by the XSEDE Resource Allocation Committee (XRAC). Research allocation requests are evaluated by the XRAC at quarterly meetings. More information about XRAS is available at

https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-overview
https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-request-steps

Dr. Gowtham, Director of Research Computing and Michigan Tech's XSEDE Campus Champion, can help either in pre-reviewing the proposal or exploring XSEDE resources to find an optimal fit.

XSEDE Research Allocation for 2014/10/01 -- 2015/09/30

Deadline: 2014-07-15

XSEDE Research Allocation Researchers in need of computing resources greater than what is available in-house (e.g., Portage, Superior, etc.) are strongly encouraged to apply for an XSEDE allocation. The required proposal process is quite identical and only a bit more elaborate than what Superior requires.

The XSEDE Resource Allocation System (XRAS) allows XSEDE users to submit project allocation requests for the use of XSEDE compute, visualization and storage resources. These requests are evaluated and granted by the XSEDE Resource Allocation Committee (XRAC). Research allocation requests are evaluated by the XRAC at quarterly meetings. More information about XRAS is available at

https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-overview
https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-request-steps

Dr. Gowtham, Director of Research Computing and Michigan Tech's XSEDE Campus Champion, can help either in pre-reviewing the proposal or exploring XSEDE resources to find an optimal fit.

XSEDE Research Allocation for 2015/01/01 -- 2015/12/31

Deadline: 2014-10-15

XSEDE Research Allocation Researchers in need of computing resources greater than what is available in-house (e.g., Portage, Superior, etc.) are strongly encouraged to apply for an XSEDE allocation. The required proposal process is quite identical and only a bit more elaborate than what Superior requires.

The XSEDE Resource Allocation System (XRAS) allows XSEDE users to submit project allocation requests for the use of XSEDE compute, visualization and storage resources. These requests are evaluated and granted by the XSEDE Resource Allocation Committee (XRAC). Research allocation requests are evaluated by the XRAC at quarterly meetings. More information about XRAS is available at

https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-overview
https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-request-steps

Dr. Gowtham, Director of Research Computing and Michigan Tech's XSEDE Campus Champion, can help either in pre-reviewing the proposal or exploring XSEDE resources to find an optimal fit.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Deadline: 2014-11-07

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.

http://www.nsfgrfp.org/

Each Fellowship consists of three years of support during a five-year fellowship period. NSF provides a stipend of $32k to the Fellow and a cost-of-education allowance of $12k to the graduate degree-granting institution for each Fellow utilizing the fellowship support in a fellowship year.

Applicants must be US citizens or have a national/permanent resident status, and fellowships are awarded to applicants in the early stages of their graduate study.

FBI Cyber Internship Program

Deadline: 2014-12-01

FBI Cyber Internship Program The program offers undergraduate (sophomore, junior or senior), graduate or post-doctorate students throughout the nation, an opportunity to assist in investigating and preventing the most sophisticated computer threats around the globe.

Interns studying in cyber-related information technology fields will have opportunities within the Cyber Division, Operational Technology Division, Security Division, Informational Technology Branch as well as working in Counterintelligence, Counterterrorism, and Criminal Intrusion matters with a nexus to National Security.

Responsibilities will include addressing the cyber criminal threats, providing strategic and field office operational support and assisting with the development and implementation of various software analysis tools. In addition, interns will collaborate with various elements within FBIHQ, the intelligence community and international partners on mitigation strategies, and will produce intelligence products and provide administrative support.

https://www.fbijobs.gov/2311.asp

Applicants must be US citizens and must be enrolled and attending college, or university, full-time, that is accredited by one of the regional or national institutional associations recognized by the United States Secretary Education. The internship runs from June 1, 2015 through August 7, 2015.

CADENS

Deadline: 2014-12-21

CADENS CADENS (The Centrality of Advanced Digitally ENabled Science) is a NSF-supported project to increase digital literacy and inform the general public about computational and data-enabled scientific discovery.

It is led by Donna Cox, director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the NCSA, which has created data-driven visualizations seen by millions of people in productions for IMAX theaters, planetariums, museums, and science television programs. Other project collaborators are Thomas Lucas, producer/director of more than 30 major science documentary films; and the Blue Waters and Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) projects.

http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/vis/cadens/cfp

Researchers who are interested in collaborating on this project can submit information on their data and/or visualizations at

http://go.illinois.edu/cadens

XSEDE Research Allocation for 2015/04/01 -- 2016/03/31

Deadline: 2015-01-15

XSEDE Research Allocation Researchers in need of computing resources greater than what is available in-house (e.g., Portage, Superior, etc.) are strongly encouraged to apply for an XSEDE allocation. The required proposal process is quite identical and only a bit more elaborate than what Superior requires.

The XSEDE Resource Allocation System (XRAS) allows XSEDE users to submit project allocation requests for the use of XSEDE compute, visualization and storage resources. These requests are evaluated and granted by the XSEDE Resource Allocation Committee (XRAC). Research allocation requests are evaluated by the XRAC at quarterly meetings. More information about XRAS is available at

https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-overview
https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-request-steps

Dr. Gowtham, Director of Research Computing and Michigan Tech's XSEDE Campus Champion, can help either in pre-reviewing the proposal or exploring XSEDE resources to find an optimal fit.

Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship

Deadline: 2015-02-04

Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Applications are now being accepted for the prestigious Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship is designed to support PhD students who are engaged in a program of study and research that is directly relevant to the use of the Blue Waters supercomputer:

https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/

Recipients will earn a stipend of $38k for the year-long fellowship and up to a $12k tuition allowance. Fellowship applicants should be in the second or third year of their PhD program and engaged in research that can take advantage of the Blue Waters supercomputer. Applicants must be US citizens or landed immigrants.

More information about the fellowship can be found at:

https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/fellowships

International HPC Summer School

Deadline: 2015-03-11

International HPC Summer School Graduate students and post-doctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the sixth International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences, to be held June 21-26, 2015, in Toronto, Canada.

The summer school is sponsored by Compute/Calcul Canada, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) with funds from the US National Science Foundation, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (RIKEN AICS).

Leading Canadian, European, Japanese and American computational scientists and HPC technologists will offer instruction on a variety of topics, including HPC challenges by discipline (e.g, earth, life and materials sciences, physics), HPC programming proficiencies, performance analysis and profiling, algorithmic approaches and numerical libraries, data-intensive computing, scientific visualization, and Canadian, EU, Japanese and US HPC-infrastructures.

The expense-paid program will benefit advanced scholars from Canadian, European, Japanese and US institutions who use HPC to conduct research. Meals, housing, and travel will be covered for the selected participants. Preference will be given to applicants with parallel programming experience, and a research plan that will benefit from the utilization of high performance computing systems.

More information about the internship can be found at:

https://www.xsede.org/2015-international-summer-school

National Data Science Bowl

Deadline: 2015-03-16

National Data Science Bowl The competition offers data scientists a platform through which individuals can harness their passion, unleash their curiosity and amplify their impact to affect change on a global scale.

Throughout the competition, participants will be asked to examine nearly 10,000 underwater images, provided by the Hatfield Marine Science Center. They will use these images to develop an algorithm that will enable researchers to monitor species of plankton at a speed and scale never before possible. The resulting algorithm will serve as an estimated $4 million in-kind donation and will be available to the marine research community for long-term reference and use.

Extremely susceptible to changes in temperature and chemistry, a large and thriving plankton population is crucial to driving some of the planet's most life-sustaining processes. These organisms manage nearly half the the total carbon in Earth's oceans and atmosphere and form the foundation for marine and terrestrial food chains. Rapid assessment of their populations will allow the scientific community to monitor ocean health at an unprecedented scale, an important step forward in understanding and protecting the environment.

The competition is open to participants 18 years or older, and the award includes $175,000 to the top three individiual contests and top academic team. more information about the National Data Science Bowl can be found at

http://www.datasciencebowl.com

Blue Waters Internship Program

Deadline: 2015-03-20

Blue Waters Internship Program As part of the Blue Waters efforts to motivate and train the next generation of supercomputing researchers, the program is sponsoring 20 undergraduate research interns each year. The goal is to engage undergraduate students in petascale computing research and development projects.

The program provides each student a stipend totaling $5,000 and a two-week intensive high-performance computing workshop. Select students will travel to The Blue Waters Symposium. This program includes support for undergraduate internship activities at any accredited degree granting institution in the United States.

The internships awarded through this program may be for students working with a faculty mentor on their home campus, or at another campus. Interested faculty can work with a particular student that they identify, or may select a qualified student with Blue Waters support through our program.

More information about the internship can be found at:

https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/internships
http://www.shodor.org/petascale/participation/internships

XSEDE Research Allocation for 2015/07/01 -- 2016/06/30

Deadline: 2015-04-15

XSEDE Research Allocation Researchers in need of computing resources greater than what is available in-house (e.g., Portage, Superior, etc.) are strongly encouraged to apply for an XSEDE allocation. The required proposal process is quite identical and only a bit more elaborate than what Superior requires.

The XSEDE Resource Allocation System (XRAS) allows XSEDE users to submit project allocation requests for the use of XSEDE compute, visualization and storage resources. These requests are evaluated and granted by the XSEDE Resource Allocation Committee (XRAC). Research allocation requests are evaluated by the XRAC at quarterly meetings. More information about XRAS is available at

https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-overview
https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-request-steps

Dr. Gowtham, Director of Research Computing and Michigan Tech's XSEDE Campus Champion, can help either in pre-reviewing the proposal or exploring XSEDE resources to find an optimal fit.

Arches Project Developer

Deadline: 2015-06-15

Arches Project Developer Dr. Patrick Martin, professor in Social Sciences, is looking to hire a staff or a (undergraduate/graduate) student for implementing an online inventory using Arches, an open source platform. Interested candidates will need to be familiar with Django, Python and Javascript, and can contact Dr. Martin for additional information.

XSEDE Research Allocation for 2015/10/01 - 2016/09/30

Deadline: 2015-07-15

XSEDE Research Allocation Researchers in need of computing resources greater than what is available in-house (e.g., Portage, Superior, etc.) are strongly encouraged to apply for an XSEDE allocation. The required proposal process is quite identical and only a bit more elaborate than what Superior requires.

The XSEDE Resource Allocation System (XRAS) allows XSEDE users to submit project allocation requests for the use of XSEDE compute, visualization and storage resources. These requests are evaluated and granted by the XSEDE Resource Allocation Committee (XRAC). Research allocation requests are evaluated by the XRAC at quarterly meetings. More information about XRAS is available at

https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-overview
https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-request-steps

Dr. Gowtham, Director of Research Computing and Michigan Tech's XSEDE Campus Champion, can help either in pre-reviewing the proposal or exploring XSEDE resources to find an optimal fit.

XSEDE Research Allocation for 2016/01/01 - 2016/12/31

Deadline: 2015-10-15

XSEDE Research Allocation Researchers in need of computing resources greater than what is available in-house (e.g., Portage, Superior, etc.) are strongly encouraged to apply for an XSEDE allocation. The required proposal process is quite identical and only a bit more elaborate than what Superior requires.

The XSEDE Resource Allocation System (XRAS) allows XSEDE users to submit project allocation requests for the use of XSEDE compute, visualization and storage resources. These requests are evaluated and granted by the XSEDE Resource Allocation Committee (XRAC). Research allocation requests are evaluated by the XRAC at quarterly meetings. More information about XRAS is available at

https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-overview
https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-request-steps

Dr. Gowtham, Director of Research Computing and Michigan Tech's XSEDE Campus Champion, can help either in pre-reviewing the proposal or exploring XSEDE resources to find an optimal fit.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Deadline: 2015-11-05

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.

http://www.nsfgrfp.org/

Each Fellowship consists of three years of support during a five-year fellowship period. NSF provides a stipend of $34k to the fellow and a cost-of-education allowance of $12k to the graduate degree-granting institution for each Fellow utilizing the fellowship support in a fellowship year.

Applicants must be US citizens or have a national/permanent resident status, and fellowships are awarded to applicants in the early stages of their graduate study.

CADENS

Deadline: 2015-11-30

CADENS CADENS (The Centrality of Advanced Digitally ENabled Science) is a NSF-supported project to increase digital literacy and inform the general public about computational and data-enabled scientific discovery.

It is led by Donna Cox, director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the NCSA, which has created data-driven visualizations seen by millions of people in productions for IMAX theaters, planetariums, museums, and science television programs. Other project collaborators are Thomas Lucas, producer/director of more than 30 major science documentary films; and the Blue Waters and Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) projects.

http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/vis/cadens/cfp

Researchers who are interested in collaborating on this project can submit information on their data and/or visualizations at

http://go.illinois.edu/cadens

XSEDE Research Allocation for 2016/04/01 - 2017/13/31

Deadline: 2016-01-15

XSEDE Research Allocation Researchers in need of computing resources greater than what is available in-house (e.g., Portage, Superior, etc.) are strongly encouraged to apply for an XSEDE allocation. The required proposal process is quite identical and only a bit more elaborate than what Superior requires.

The XSEDE Resource Allocation System (XRAS) allows XSEDE users to submit project allocation requests for the use of XSEDE compute, visualization and storage resources. These requests are evaluated and granted by the XSEDE Resource Allocation Committee (XRAC). Research allocation requests are evaluated by the XRAC at quarterly meetings. More information about XRAS is available at

https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-overview
https://portal.xsede.org/allocation-request-steps

Dr. Gowtham, Director of Research Computing and Michigan Tech's XSEDE Campus Champion, can help either in pre-reviewing the proposal or exploring XSEDE resources to find an optimal fit.

DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

Deadline: 2016-01-19

DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

http://www.krellinst.org/csgf/

Fellowship is renewable up to 4 years and includes $36k of stipend per year as well as full tuition and other fees. It also provides $5k academic allowance in first year and $1k academic allowance for each renewed year. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to attend the annual program review and a 12-week research practicum.

Applicant need not be a US citizen but must be a doctoral candidate in fields of study that utilize high performance computing to solve complex problems in science and engineering.

Blue Waters Student Internship Program

Deadline: 2016-02-01

Blue Waters Student Internship Program As part of the Blue Waters efforts to motivate and train the next generation of supercomputing researchers, the program is sponsoring 20 undergraduate research interns each year. The goal is to engage undergraduate students in petascale computing research and development projects.

The program provides each student a stipend totaling $5,000 and a two-week intensive high-performance computing workshop. Select students will travel to The Blue Waters Symposium. This program includes support for undergraduate internship activities at any accredited degree granting institution in the United States.

The internships awarded through this program may be for students working with a faculty mentor on their home campus, or at another campus. Interested faculty can work with a particular student that they identify, or may select a qualified student with Blue Waters support through our program.

More information about the internship can be found at:

https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/internships
http://www.shodor.org/petascale/participation/internships

Michigan Tech Research Computing Calendar Subscription: GMail

Go to https://calendar.google.com/ and login using your credentials.

Complete the steps at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37100?hl=en using http://hpc.mtu.edu/MichiganTechResearchComputing.ics as the calendar URL. When you're finished, you should see a new Michigan Tech Research Computing calendar under Other calendars on the left.

Michigan Tech Research Computing Calendar Subscription: Android

Go to https://calendar.google.com/ and login using a Google account that is also set up on your Android device.

Complete the steps at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37100?hl=en using http://hpc.mtu.edu/MichiganTechResearchComputing.ics as the calendar URL. When you're finished, you should see a new Michigan Tech Research Computing calendar under Other calendars on the left.

On your Android device, start the Calendar app. Select the menu, then tap Calendars to display

Tap Calendars to sync near the bottom of the screen. You should see the new Michigan Tech Research Computing calendar in the list. Tap the box to make the calendar available to your device.