{"id":30357,"date":"2014-04-23T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T23:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=30357"},"modified":"2014-04-23T16:06:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T23:06:23","slug":"nau-computing-cluster-coming-online-workshop-april-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-computing-cluster-coming-online-workshop-april-29\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU computing cluster coming online with workshop April 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30354\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30354\" alt=\"Chris Coffey and the Monsoon computer cluster\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Monsoon-computer-cluster.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/04\/Monsoon-computer-cluster.jpg 450w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/04\/Monsoon-computer-cluster-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Coffey, NAU systems administrator, with Monsoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/High-Performance-Computing\/High-Performance-Computing\/\">high-performance computing cluster<\/a> at Northern Arizona University, known as \u201cMonsoon,\u201d is running smoothly in its beta phase of testing, and campus-wide availability will coincide with a workshop at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonsoon will provide high-speed data transmission and high capacity computing, two things we don\u2019t have on campus at the scale of the cluster computer,\u201d said <strong>Bill Grabe<\/strong>, vice president for Research. \u201cThis will allow faculty to run bigger data analysis projects and have them completed in a reasonable amount of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grabe said the addition of the cluster is part of a multi-pronged approach to increase the breadth and depth of research at NAU. \u201cIn addition to expanding research capacity, the high-performance computing provided by the cluster is a resource that will attract new faculty interested in innovative, data-intensive research,\u201d Grabe said.<\/p>\n<p>The cluster is not intended solely for hard science. According to <strong>Christopher Coffey<\/strong>, the NAU systems administrator who manages the new resource, the cluster is ideal for data-rich research in areas such as biology, climate science, behavioral sciences, humanities, education, genetics and astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s workshop is the <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/Research\/Services-Facilities\/Labs-Facilities\/High-Performance-Computing\/Cluster-Workshops\/\">first in a series<\/a> aimed at helping researchers learn more about the cluster and job scheduling protocol.<\/p>\n<p>To sign up for a workshop, send an email to <a href=\"mailto:hpcworkshop@nau.edu\">hpcworkshop@nau.edu<\/a> with the date you wish to attend. All workshops are held in the Applied Research and Development large pod (Building 56).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-computing-cluster-coming-online-workshop-april-29\/\">The new high-performance computing cluster at Northern Arizona University, known as \u201cMonsoon,\u201d is running smoothly in its beta phase of testing, and campus-wide availability will coincide with a workshop at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 29. \u201cMonsoon will provide high-speed data transmission and high capacity computing, two things we don\u2019t have on campus at the scale&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":30354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[778,777,38,24],"class_list":["post-30357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics","tag-bill-grabe","tag-computing-cluster","tag-nau","tag-northern-arizona-university"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}