Research Computing Teams
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Supporting the teams that support research through data analysis, software, computing, or all of the above.
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This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host docs securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing.
Docs
Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.
docs.numerique.gouv.fr
March 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host docs securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing.
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Helpful table to determine how much your University or health system is set to lose if the NIH indirect cap is suddenly lowered to 15%. For SJSU it is $374k which is on the smaller end but devastating considering our other budget issues. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/
Estimated Single Year Loss of NIH Funding if 15% Indirect Cost Rate is Imposed
Based on analysis of 2024 NIH funding data. Sums are totals of losses in funding to programs if indirect costs had been capped at 15%
datawrapper.dwcdn.net
February 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Helpful table to determine how much your University or health system is set to lose if the NIH indirect cap is suddenly lowered to 15%. For SJSU it is $374k which is on the smaller end but devastating considering our other budget issues. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/
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To share at least a little knowledge with the world, I documented the basics of discrete event simulation for reasoning about #HPC system design. The example I wrote shows how to calculate MTTDL for RAID arrays of differing sizes, parity disks, and drive MTBFs.
glennklockwood.com/garden/discr...
glennklockwood.com/garden/discr...
discrete event simulation
Discrete-event simulation is a useful technique for modeling the behavior of complex systems (like supercomputers and data centers) where events (and reactions to them) unfold ...
glennklockwood.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:31 AM
To share at least a little knowledge with the world, I documented the basics of discrete event simulation for reasoning about #HPC system design. The example I wrote shows how to calculate MTTDL for RAID arrays of differing sizes, parity disks, and drive MTBFs.
glennklockwood.com/garden/discr...
glennklockwood.com/garden/discr...
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
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Petition for name change:
American Society for Microbiology
→
Vichy Society for Microbiology
American Society for Microbiology
→
Vichy Society for Microbiology
ASM website screenshots from the wayback machine in December '24 (web.archive.org/web/20241211...) vs today. Pretty disappointing!! 🧪
February 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Petition for name change:
American Society for Microbiology
→
Vichy Society for Microbiology
American Society for Microbiology
→
Vichy Society for Microbiology
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How do you ensure that your team is securely working with data?
1. Create policies that lay out how team members should access, work with, and store data.
2. Develop templates to be reused for common tasks.
3. Create style guides for naming/organizing things.
4. Store all of this in a team wiki.
1. Create policies that lay out how team members should access, work with, and store data.
2. Develop templates to be reused for common tasks.
3. Create style guides for naming/organizing things.
4. Store all of this in a team wiki.
January 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
How do you ensure that your team is securely working with data?
1. Create policies that lay out how team members should access, work with, and store data.
2. Develop templates to be reused for common tasks.
3. Create style guides for naming/organizing things.
4. Store all of this in a team wiki.
1. Create policies that lay out how team members should access, work with, and store data.
2. Develop templates to be reused for common tasks.
3. Create style guides for naming/organizing things.
4. Store all of this in a team wiki.
Latest issue is out: Northwestern's Christina Maimone on the team's experience with success stories. Plus: Standups; Lockwood on life in industry; Best forking practices; Energy debugging; NIST on Genomic data; and Slinky for slurm on k8s
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: #186 - 4 Jan 2025
Northwestern's experience with success stories. Plus: Standups; Lockwood on life in industry; Best forking practices; Energy debugging; Genomic data cybersecurity and privacy from NIST; and Slinky fo...
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January 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Latest issue is out: Northwestern's Christina Maimone on the team's experience with success stories. Plus: Standups; Lockwood on life in industry; Best forking practices; Energy debugging; NIST on Genomic data; and Slinky for slurm on k8s
www.researchcomputingteams.org/newsletter_i...
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Google enabled bounds checking for much of their C++ code with hardened libc++, and performance decreased by only 0.3% (while segfaults decreased by 30%): security.googleblog.com/2024/11/retr...
Retrofitting spatial safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++
Posted by Alex Rebert and Max Shavrick, Security Foundations, and Kinuko Yasuda, Core Developer Attackers regularly exploit spatial mem...
security.googleblog.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Google enabled bounds checking for much of their C++ code with hardened libc++, and performance decreased by only 0.3% (while segfaults decreased by 30%): security.googleblog.com/2024/11/retr...
In our line of work, one attraction of extrinsic, "objective" metrics like "utilization" for HPC or lists like FAIR4RS for research software is that we kind of hope that passively reporting good metrics will reduce the load of having to actively advocate for the work we do and the work we support.
January 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
In our line of work, one attraction of extrinsic, "objective" metrics like "utilization" for HPC or lists like FAIR4RS for research software is that we kind of hope that passively reporting good metrics will reduce the load of having to actively advocate for the work we do and the work we support.
Great get-started guide, and another resource we can point PIs and groups to when they need to start thinking about data management.
A question that comes up a lot in my consulting work is, "What are the most important data management practices a team can get started early, that will lead to better quality data?"
In this new blog post I write about some of the core practices to implement. 👇
cghlewis.com/blog/project...
In this new blog post I write about some of the core practices to implement. 👇
cghlewis.com/blog/project...
Bare Necessities of Data Management | Crystal Lewis
An overview of data management priorities in the early phases of an education research project.
cghlewis.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Great get-started guide, and another resource we can point PIs and groups to when they need to start thinking about data management.
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LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs
LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs
SoCal plod resort to paper logs after system that top brass was warned would 'inevitably fail' did exactly that
Software on the computers in America's largest sheriff's department's patrol cars broke down on New Year's Eve due to a date-related…
dlvr.it
January 3, 2025 at 1:24 AM
LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs
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38 years ago my father gave me my first computer. Today I will travel back in time to stop him.
December 11, 2024 at 2:07 AM
38 years ago my father gave me my first computer. Today I will travel back in time to stop him.
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At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes
December 3, 2024 at 4:58 PM
At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes
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The purpose - the entire existence of HPC in the first place - is to generate (science) value - not to be “full”.
Eg if running at lower util enables better science in some way then it is bad use of money to drive to higher util.
Eg if running at lower util enables better science in some way then it is bad use of money to drive to higher util.
November 27, 2024 at 1:22 PM
The purpose - the entire existence of HPC in the first place - is to generate (science) value - not to be “full”.
Eg if running at lower util enables better science in some way then it is bad use of money to drive to higher util.
Eg if running at lower util enables better science in some way then it is bad use of money to drive to higher util.
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November 23, 2024 at 12:53 PM