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Running Your Job

Condor works by match-making jobs in the queue to available machines in the pool.  So far we have seen the two key elements of the pool: the job queue, which is displayed by  condor_q and the pool status which is displayed by condor_status. Continue Reading

Gravitational Wave Photo Gallery

Press Conference: Searching for Gravitational Waves. A century after Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, the National Science Foundation will gather scientists from Syracuse University, Caltech, MIT and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration to update the scientific community on efforts to detect them.

Gravitational Wave Announcement

SU’s Crush Powers NSF-funded LIGO Scientific Collaboration. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) installations in in Hanford Washington and Livingston Louisiana completed their first and long-awaited “observing run”. This 106-day run dubbed “O1” concluded on January 12, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific standard time. The result? Data. Lots of data.

Starting Small With Big Data

Michael Fudge Jr., Assistant Professor of Practice at the iSchool, recently chatted with our Research Computing group about one of his areas of interest.  Big Data.

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Fall 2015 Research Community Computing Colloquies

The diverse array of campus computing resources available to SU’s researchers was created to take on new and greater computational tasks, enhance research productivity, increase the competitiveness of grant submissions, and advance scientific discovery across many disciplines. Information Technology Services (ITS), in collaboration with the Research Computing Advisory Council (RCAC), will host a series of Computing Colloquies designed to help campus researchers identify and make the most of these resources. Continue Reading

OrangeGrid: Shifting evolutionary genetics research into high-gear

The grand challenge currently facing biologists is to decipher how the information in our genome manifests itself as the biological characteristics that make up who we are. This process is referred to as establishing genotype-phenotype associations and the ability of scientists to establish these connections in a wide range of organisms has been revolutionized by the rapid increase in available genome sequences. Continue Reading