Boise State’s annual Research Computing Days event occurred on March 28-29 in the Student Union Building. Visit the Research Computing Days webpage for more information about the event.
Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing
Presenter: Frank Willmore, Boise State University Research Computing
Willmore presented advanced topics in high-performance computing (HPC), such as different types of numbers and number storage and representation in computing.
Data Management Landscape
Presenter: Ellie Dworak, Research Data Librarian, Boise State University
Learn more about data management and its importance at Boise State as well as data management policies at other universities.
Ethics in AI
Presenter: Leif Nelson, Director of Learning Technology Solutions, Boise State University
This presentation discusses AI and recent trends in generative AI models, as well as presents thirteen considerations related to ethics in AI.
Fast Data Transfer
Presenter: Jason Watt, Cyberinfrastructure Engineer, Research Computing, Boise State University
Learn more about two data transfer utilities, Globus and Rclone, how these utilites compare to traditional methods, and the benefits of using a Science DMZ.
Idaho Power and Cloud-Seeding
Presenter: Mel Kunkel, Sr. Atmospheric Scientist, Idaho Power
This video discusses the use of data from high-performance computing systems and how Idaho Power relies on cloud-seeding to increase precipitation.
Introduction to Falcon
Presenter: Benji Oswald, HPC Director, Research Computing and Data Services, University of Idaho
Learn more about Falcon, a supercomputer owned by the Idaho National Laboratory since 2014.
Introduction to Machine Learning with Scikit Learn
Presenter: Ibrahim Alabi, Ph.D. student in Computing at Boise State University
This presentation introduces machine learning and explaining the set of techniques for finding patterns in data. Alabi demonstrates using the Python library Scikit-Learn for machine learning and predicting life expectancy.
Machine Learning on AWS
Presenter: Ruchi Kakkad and Muni Doddala, AWS Solution Architects
This presentation introduced Amazon SageMaker and other AWS services for machine learning and provided examples of how these technologies are leveraged in the education industry.
Myths of IT Security
Presenter: Mark Fitzgerald, Chief Information Security Officer, Boise State University
Learn more about the common myths when it comes to the rapidly changing field of IT security.
NSF Support of Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem
Presenter: Tom Gulbransen, U.S. National Science Foundation Program Director
This presentation provided an overview of the NSF’s vision for supporting cyberinfrastructure and research computing.
Programming With Python
Presenter: Brian Jackson, Associate Professor of Physics, Boise State University
This presentation focused on Carpentry Python Software and how it is used for data science.
Unix Shell Commands and File Creation
Presenter: Eric Jankowski, Associate Professor, Micron School for Materials Science and Engineering, Boise State University
This presentation focused on using the Unix shell and introducing concepts like navigating directories, creating and editing files, using wildcards, sorting, redirecting output, and piping between commands.
