Data Analysis on Ranger and Spur

October 12-13, 2009
9:00am-5:00pm
Cornell University

Enrollment Closed. Class limit reached.

The Sun Constellation Cluster, Ranger, is a computational resource available to the National Science Foundation research community, providing users access to a compute cluster with a theoretical peak performance of 579 Teraflops. A description of Ranger can be found at the following URL:

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/hpcsystems/#ranger

Instructors will present topics covering the architecture and use of Ranger. This class will be of particular interest to computational scientists with large data computation or analysis. Members of the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) will be available during the entire training session to assist users in their code development and porting efforts.

• Data Formats, Transfer, Movement, and Storage
• Data Analysis with R, Python, and MATLAB
• Map-Reduce with Hadoop
• Visualization
• Optimization
• Computational Steering
• Scientific Workflows and Provenance

Engineering Library, Carpenter Hall (Blue Room)
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

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Class attendees traveling to the training are responsible for arranging and paying for their own travel, daily expenses, and hotel accommodations.

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Getting to Ithaca - http://www.cornell.edu/visiting/ithaca/visiting.cfm