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The IDSC Advanced Computing platform has a mission to provide the University of Miami academic community with comprehensive advanced computing resources ranging from hardware infrastructure to expertise in designing and implementing high-performance solutions. Read more “Need help? IDSC Advanced Computing has Office Hours”
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The Subseasonal Experiment (SubX) is a multimodel subseasonal prediction experiment designed around operational requirements with the goal of improving subseasonal forecasts. Seven global models have produced 17 years of retrospective (re)forecasts and more than a year of weekly real-time forecasts. Read more “The Subseasonal Experiment (SubX): A Multimodel Subseasonal Prediction Experiment”
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Diabetes is a disorder traditionally subdivided into two types. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a chronic condition that affects how our body metabolizes sugar or glucose, inducing either resistance to the effects of insulin, or lack of its production in a way sufficient to maintain normal glucose levels. Read more “Imaging Tumor Oxidative Stress with Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Gold Nanoparticles”
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On Thursday, September 19, 2019, IDSC held a reception to launch “TRITON”, a $3.7M machine that is now accessible to University of Miami students, faculty, and staff. The celebrated a collaboration with all those who worked hard to make it possible—from Procurement, to UMIT, to IBM and IDSC Advanced Computing technicians—everyone’s efforts came together to get the new supercomputer installed and up and running. Read more “TRITON Takes a Bow”
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Translational Multimedia Data Mining for AI-Based Medical Diagnostics—Bridging Digital Intelligence with Clinical Practices (TMDM for short) is a WORKSHOP collocated with ICDM 2019 (November 8 – 11, 2019) in Beijing, China. Read more “ICDM-TMDM 2019 Workshop 11/8-11 in Beijing”
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Trained instructors lead a comprehensive, hands-on overview of an introductory data analysis using Python, covering topics like data types, functions, conditional statements, loops, errors and exceptions, debugging, and some key Python libraries and writing Python programs that will work like Linux command-line tools. This workshop is designed to provide a foundation of basic concepts that all programming depends on, using Python as an example. This Bash, Python, and git workshop is capped at 35 participants, and is on a first-come/first-served basis. Read more “2-day Python Workshop 11/11-12/2019 Medical Campus”
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The 4th annual Big Data Conference has joined with the annual data visualization event VizUM to host a poster session. Data and computational scientists from the south Florida research community are invited to submit abstracts on topics involving: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Deep Learning in any field, Data Science Ethics and Policy, Data Analytics, and Big Data. Read more “Big Data + VizUM Poster Deadline Extended to 11/15”
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On September 12 and 13, 2019, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), as well as other federal agencies and several private foundations sponsored a stakeholder meeting at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda campus with a provocative title: “SCI 2020: Launching a decade for disruption in spinal cord injury research”. Read more “What Does “Disruptive” mean? Thoughts on the NIH SCI 2020 Meeting”
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You are invited to celebrate the launch of TRITON, the University of Miami’s new supercomputer. Using the same AI-optimized architecture as the world’s most powerful supercomputers, Triton is UM’s first GPU-accelerated HPC/AI system, representing a new approach to computational and data science. Triton was designed to process vast amounts of data in near real time by accelerating data transfer between the IBM POWER9 CPU and attached accelerators, enabling students, researchers, and data scientists to explore new possibilities. Read more “TRITON Supercomputer Launch Celebration 9/19/2019”
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This session will provide an overview of the University’s data-driven Advanced Computing Systems design as well as the design of the new AI-ready system, TRITON, which supports the biomedical architecture. The Biomedical Informatics architecture at UM currently supports nearly 7 PB of biomedical research data and numerous projects including EHR data from three Health Care partner organizations. Read more “Overview of New TRITON AI-Ready System 9/20/2019”