VIRTUAL -- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 020 12/9 4pm **Extreme Science with XSEDE**

NOTE: The UC Berkeley Cloud Community of Practice's 20th meetup will be held at a different date & time since many UC Berkeley IT staff are on furloughs on Thanksgiving week. The new time, 4pm is the result of community feedback, as it is more convenient than meeting later for most people!

The meetup will be on WEDNESDAY, December 9th at 4pm, and will feature a research-focused agenda the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE, a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data and expertise.) People around the world use these resources and services — things like supercomputers, collections of data and new tools — to improve our planet. See: https://www.xsede.org/ for more!

Everyone is welcome - this is a really inclusive group! You don't have to be an expert, or already know about cloud technologies; we get together so people can learn from each other.

CONNECT VIA ZOOM: Our Zoom connection info changes each month and is posted here in meetup invite.

AGENDA:

4:00 Host welcome and announcements (Amy)

4:10 Heather Amato & Oliver Mullerklein, domain consultants from Research IT will give an overview of XSEDE resources and architecture, explaining what resources are available and how it fits into the research process. https://research-it.berkeley.edu/consulting

4:25 Deepti Karandur, a post-doc in the Kuriyan Lab, will talk about her use high-performance computing resources like XSEDE to study the structure-function relationships in cancer proteins. She will talk about building models of proteins, simulating their dynamics to understand how their structures change over time, and how this affects their ability to perform their functions. https://jkweb.berkeley.edu/

4:45 Collin Bode, Data Scientist & J. Scott Smith, Full Stack Developer,
Eel River Critical Zone Observatory and the California Heartbeat Initiative, will talk about Dendra. Dendra is a realtime data acquisition, management, and curation system for time-series data. Its microservices architecture leverages XSEDE’s Jetstream system for both scalability and high availability (HA 99.9%). https://dendra.science

5:15 Open discussion

5:30 pm - End/ "Doors" close.