In response to increased demand, the Institute for CyberScience (ICS) will be holding additional training sessions as part of the ICS-ACI Training Series. This series of tutorials and workshops helps Penn State researchers learn to use ICS-ACI, the University’s high-performance computing system.

Xiaofeng Liu, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State and an Institute for CyberScience (ICS) co-hire, studies rivers by modeling them computationally. Liu is an expert in creating computer models of fluids, and he applies his skills to predicting how water — and materials suspended or dissolved in water — flow in rivers. This work has major implications for environmental studies.

The Institute for CyberScience will hold a series of training sessions in spring 2018 for researchers who use high-performance computing (HPC). The training will cover HPC best practices and build attendees’ capacity to use Penn State’s high-performance research cloud, the Advanced CyberInfrastructure (ICS-ACI).

The Institute for CyberScience (ICS) announces a series of training sessions during the 2017-18 academic year for researchers who use Penn State’s high-performance research cloud, the Advanced CyberInfrastructure (ICS-ACI). The series helps beginning users of ICS-ACI get started and, for intermediate users, showcases best practices for using ICS-ACI efficiently.

Chuck Pavloski, R&D engineer for earth sciences at the Institute for CyberScience (ICS), will offer a seminar titled “Big Decision: Choosing Your HPC Resources Wisely” to the Penn State research community. The free seminar will be held from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Aug. 10, in W203 Millennium Science Complex on the University Park campus of Penn State.

Penn State’s Zita Oravecz, assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and a co-hire of the Institute for CyberScience, is developing an app that can predict your psychological state using data from smartphones and wearable health monitors. The app will help users improve their well-being.

The Institute for CyberScience has completed a major upgrade of its Advanced CyberInfrastructure, Penn State’s high-performance research cloud. The upgrade efforts involved adding new computing capabilities and migrating computing hardware from Penn State’s 1960s-era Computer Building to a newly built, state-of-the-art data center facility.

Xiao Liu, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State and a co-hire of the University’s Institute for CyberScience (ICS), has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pathway to Independence Award. This award supports postdoctoral researchers and early-career professors as they build their research programs.

Jenni Evans, professor of meteorology at Penn State, has been appointed director of Penn State’s Institute for CyberScience (ICS). Evans had served as interim director of ICS since February 2016.

Penn State's Institute for Cyberscience is hosting a series of free training workshops by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment on high-performance computing techniques. The first workshop will be Jan. 17.