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<font face="Arial" size="3" color="#000000"><p>LITA and ACRL present a joint webinar:</p>
<h1 style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:22px;line-height:24px;color:#00adef;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;text-align:left">What’s
so super about supercomputing? A very basic introduction to high performance computing</h1>
<p><a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02Mjc0NTA0JnA9MSZ1PTEwMDc0ODQ0NzImbGk9NDA5Njg0Mjg/index.html" target="_blank"><img align="right" alt="" border="0" height="200" id="m_-6195196278428598041" src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/LITA/HPCGraphic_BrooksKiefferLaufersweiler_.png" style="border:0px;height:200px;text-align:right;width:200px" width="200"></a>Presenters:
Jamene Brooks-Kieffer and Mark J. Laufersweiler <br>Tuesday February 28,
2017 <br>2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Central Time</p>
<p><a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02Mjc0NTA0JnA9MSZ1PTEwMDc0ODQ0NzImbGk9NDA5Njg0Mjk/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>Register Online, page arranged by session date (login required) </strong></a></p>
<p>This 90 minute webinar provides a bare-bones introduction to high-performance
computing, also known as HPC, supercomputing, and under many other monikers. This
program is a unique attempt to connect the academic library to introductory information
about HPC. Librarians who are learning about researchers’ data-intensive work
should consider familiarizing themselves with the computing environment often used to conduct that work.</p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline!important;float:none"></span>Academic
librarians, particularly, face a landscape in which many of their users conduct
part or all of their research using computation. Bibliometric analysis, quantitative
statistical analysis, and geographic data visualizations are just a few examples
of computationally-intensive work underway in humanities, social science, and science fields.</p>
<p>Covered topics will include:</p>
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<li>Why librarians should care about HPC</li>
<li>HPC terminology and working environment</li>
<li>Examples of problems appropriate for HPC</li>
<li>HPC resources at institutions and nation-wide</li>
<li>Low-cost entry-level
programs for learning distributed computing</li>
</ul>
<p>The webinar slide set
and a handout that includes a HPC glossary of basic HPC terminology as well as
HPC resources will be made available.</p>
<p><a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02Mjc0NTA0JnA9MSZ1PTEwMDc0ODQ0NzImbGk9NDA5Njg0Mjg/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>Details here</strong></a> and <a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02Mjc0NTA0JnA9MSZ1PTEwMDc0ODQ0NzImbGk9NDA5Njg0Mjk/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>Registration here </strong></a></p>
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<p><strong>Webinar takeaways will include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Attendees will learn the basic terminology of high performance computing.</li>
<li>Attendees will be introduced to the working environment commonly used for high performance computing.</li>
<li>Attendees will gain information on institutional and national high performance
computing resources available to researchers.</li>
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<p><strong>Jamene Brooks-Kieffer
</strong>brings a background in electronic resources to her work as Data Services
Librarian at the University or Kansas. She regularly teaches on data management
practices to audiences of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. She
has engaged library professionals in many in-person and virtual programs at venues
including Electronic Resources & Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information,
and a Great Plains Network / Greater Western Library Association webinar series.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mark Laufersweiler</strong> has, since the Fall of 2013, served
as the Research Data Specialist for the University of Oklahoma Libraries. He is
currently assisting the educational mission of the Libraries by developing and
offering workshops, seminars and short courses, helping to inform the university
community on best practices for data management and data management planning.
He is the university’s representative as a member of the Software Carpentry
Foundation and is an active instructor as well. He is a strong advocate of open
source software and open access to data.</p>
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<p><strong>Questions or Comments? </strong></p>
<p>For questions or comments:</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px">contact LITA at <a href="tel:(312)%20280-4268" value="+13122804268" target="_blank">(312) 280-4268</a> or Mark Beatty, <a href="mailto:mbeatty@ala.org?subject=What's%20so%20supercomputing%20webinar" target="_blank">mbeatty@ala.org<br></a>contact ACRL at <a href="tel:(312)%20280-2522" value="+13122802522" target="_blank">(312) 280-2522</a> or Margot Conahan, <a href="mailto:mconahan@ala.org?subject=What's%20so%20supercomputing%20webinar" target="_blank">mconahan@ala.org</a></p>
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