June 2015 - Physics-Departmental-Computing

Fwd: Software Carpentry Bootcamp on Heterogeneous Cloud Computing for Research, July 15-17 near London
by David Colling 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

I meant to circulate earlier ... -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Software Carpentry Bootcamp on Heterogeneous Cloud Computing for Research, July 15-17 near London Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:00:04 +0000 From: Stillwell, Mark L <m.stillwell(a)imperial.ac.uk> To: Colling, David J <d.colling(a)imperial.ac.uk> CC: daniela.bauer.grid(a)googlemail.com <daniela.bauer.grid(a)googlemail.com>, De Figueiredo Coutinho, Jose G <gabriel.figueiredo(a)imperial.ac.uk> On July 15-17, the FP7 HARNESS project will be hosting a cloud computing focused Software Carpentry bootcamp at the SAP headquarters in Feltham, near London Heathrow. Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. * This free hands-on workshop is open to researchers from any institution, public or private, and will include task automation, modular programming, and version control, as well as additional modules on cloud computing, including deployment, configuration, and management of virtual machines, programming Maxeler Dataflow Engines, and the EGI Federated Cloud infrastructure for research. * Participation is free and open to students and researchers from every organisation, so sign up now! Details, including a link to the Eventbrite signup page, are available at the event website: http://harnesscloud.github.io/2015-07-15-feltham/<http://harnesscloud.github.io/2015-07-15-feltham> * Coffee, lunch, beverages, and snacks will be arranged by SAP and provided to attendees free of charge. * Please feel free to pass on this information to anyone who might be able to benefit by attending this bootcamp/workshop. Best Regards, -- Mark Stillwell Research Associate Department of Computing Imperial College London

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Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Fwd: Data Science Institute Visual Corridor - Physics
by David Colling 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

Hi Jordan, I am already doing this for our group as I was approached individually. The other group that I can think of that does a lot of data science is SPAT so perhaps Rich can gather a few slides. I have cc'ed the computing mailing list in case I have over looked somebody. Best, david On 12/06/15 10:17, Jordan Nash wrote: > Hi Dave, > Can you think of something from HEP which would work here? Is there any > other group in the college which would make a good display as well? > Slide needed by next week… > Jordan > > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> *From: *"McDonagh, Dominic" <d.mcdonagh(a)imperial.ac.uk >> <mailto:d.mcdonagh@imperial.ac.uk>> >> *To: *"Jones, Linda" <l.jones(a)imperial.ac.uk <mailto:l.jones@imperial.ac.uk>> >> *Cc: *"Nash, Jordan" <j.nash(a)imperial.ac.uk <mailto:j.nash@imperial.ac.uk>> >> *Subject: **Data Science Institute Visual Corridor - Physics* >> *Date: *10 June 2015 17:04:06 BST >> >> Dear Linda, >> The DSI has a new ‘visual corridor’ that will display content along the >> Sherfield walkway, which is currently hidden behind hoardings. The corridor >> consists of 8 display screens on the outside of the building, which will be >> fed by projectors from within the building through a specially treated glass >> wall [photo of 4 screens attached]. >> The DSI hopes to use the screens to promote College data science related >> research to the College community. >> For our launch on 22nd June, we are asking each department if they can submit >> four slides which promote data driven research from their department to >> demonstrate the prevalence of data intensive research across College. As >> content will be visible from the walkway it should be a good opportunity for >> departments to communicate some of their data driven research to the rest of >> the College. We will show the content repeatedly, not only on our launch. >> I’d like to invite Physics to submit four slides for us to display. I have >> attached some templates that I’ve created to make it easy for people to submit >> content. >> I already have some content promoting Steve Schwartz’ Space lab, so I wouldn’t >> duplicate that. >> If your department would like to submit content, I’ll need the slides by 17th >> June. >> Any questions, feel free to contact me. >> Best wishes, >> *Dominic McDonagh* >> Management Trainee >> Data Science Institute >> Imperial College London >> South Kensington >> SW7 2AZ >> d.mcdonagh(a)imperial.ac.uk <mailto:d.mcdonagh@imperial.ac.uk> >> +44 (0)20 7594 8291 > > > > > >

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Packages for Teaching machines next year ...
by David Colling 11 Jun '15

11 Jun '15

Dear All, Attached is the current list of software installed on the UG teaching machines. We were planning to upgrade python to a newer version (already installed on most of the machines but not on ones in the teaching area as we didn't want to change half way through the year). Is there anything else that we should include? Remember that the plan is to use these machines as a batch system for projects as well as their current use. Also remember that we have been adding a few TB of shared space for projects that require the processing of data. Thoughts are welcome. Best, david

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Fwd: DSI Seminar - Data Collection & Analysis for Cyber Security (Curtis Hash, Ernst & Young)
by David Colling 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

FYI ... -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: DSI Seminar - Data Collection & Analysis for Cyber Security (Curtis Hash, Ernst & Young) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 14:43:03 +0000 From: Johnson, David <david.johnson(a)imperial.ac.uk> To: data-science-announce <data-science-announce(a)imperial.ac.uk> CC: data-science-collaboration <data-science-collaboration(a)imperial.ac.uk> Dear All, Please see below details of a new DSI event. All are welcome and please pass on to interested colleagues. Best/David --- DSI Seminar - Data Collection & Analysis for Cyber Security Date: 18 June 2015 Time: 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: Chemical Engineering Lecture Theatre 1, ACE Extension (Building no. 14 on this map: https://workspace.imperial.ac.uk/campusinfo/public/sthkencampus.pdf) Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ Ticketing: This event is free and open to all. Registration is required and seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis - register on EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dsi-seminar-data-collection-analysis-for-cyber… The Imperial Data Science Institute is delighted to welcome Curt Hash from Ernst & Young as a DSI Distinguished Speaker. Data Collection & Analysis for Cyber Security A successful network defense strategy necessarily involves the collection and analysis of a wide variety of data, both from hosts (i.e., workstations and servers) and the network itself. In this talk, Curt will provide an overview of the collection and processing of some key data sources and I will discuss how they can be used to detect adversaries at the various stages of an attack scenario. Curtis Hash is a computer scientist specializing in cyber security R&D in the Advisory Services practice at EY. Prior to joining EY, Curt spent several years as an R&D Scientist on the Advanced Computing Solutions team at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His primary interest is the research and development of cyber security applications with emphasis on advanced threat detection, network monitoring, dynamic malware analysis and novel cyber sensors.

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