UF Dropbox for Education is available for all faculty and staff, and has proved a useful tool for UF personnel in the year since its implementation. UF Dropbox enables academic and research collaboration using the same easy interface and functionality… Read More
Intel HPC Roundtable on May 31st at UCF
The roundtable will take place at The University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, FL. The Intel HPC NDA roundtable is an interactive discussion with top Intel technologists covering key trends affecting HPC and insights on Intel’s current and upcoming products and… Read More
UF Apps Login Maintenance on Friday, May 5
On Friday, May 5, 2017 from 7:00am to 8:00am, to the appliances that provide logins to UFApps, Compass VDI, and UFApps for Research. Expect for logins to be intermittent and for existing sessions to be disconnected at any time during… Read More
April 10th: GatorLink Authentication Required (Samba)
The implementation of GatorLink authentication for UFRC will proceed in two stages. The first stage is the transition to GatorLink credentials for Samba authentication (mounting UFRC storage on your local computer). On Monday, April 10th, cifs.rc.ufl.edu will be transitioned to… Read More
Software-Defined Visualization Workshop @ TACC (May 22 – 25)
The Intel Xeon Phi Users Group (IXPUG) has announced the Software-Defined Visualization Workshop, hosted at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in Austin, TX, for May 22 – 25. This four-day event is aimed at simulation developers and domain experts… Read More
Students Building F1 Racecar
It requires 25-30 hours per week, in addition to their heavy academic load. Besides the engineering component and representing UF at national competitions, they must also go outside their comfort zone and solicit corporate sponsorships. What is it? Being a… Read More
Removing Technical Barriers for Research
UF Research Computing may be home to HiPerGator, but its staff do much more than manage the university’s supercomputer. The department was recently contacted by Amanda Edgell, a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science. Edgell… Read More
Upcoming Events: GENI Regional Workshop & Engineering Conference
GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations) provides a virtual laboratory for networking and distributed systems research and education. Being well suited for exploring networks at scale, GENI promotes innovations in network science, security, services, and applications. The following events, hosted… Read More
Researcher Participation Requested: Data Management Survey
In response to the continued increase of data-centered research, funding agencies require researchers to think ahead about their work and data flows by submitting data management plans with their project proposals. To better understand how researchers manage their data, UF… Read More
Studying Ways to Delay or Prevent Dementia
Assistant Professor Adam Woods cites a sobering statistic: “By 2050, the U.S. population over the age of 65 will double. We’re simply not set up as a society to treat an exponential growth of dementia patients. Economically, our healthcare system… Read More