Blue Waters launches a Weekly Webinar Series

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the Blue Waters Weekly Webinar Series. The series will provide the research and education communities with a variety of opportunities to learn about methods, tools, and resources available to advance their computational and data analytics skills, with an emphasis on scaling to petascale and beyond.

Webinars will generally occur every Wednesday, with a few exceptions to avoid conflicts with major HPC conferences and events. All sessions will be free and open to the to everyone who registers. Registered participants will be able to pose questions using NCSA’s Blue Waters Slack environment. Registration is required for access to YouTube Live broadcasts. Webinars will begin at 10 a.m. Central Time (UTC-6).

Each webinar will be led by a developer or an expert on the topic. The first visualization webinar, “Introduction to Data Visualization” hosted by Vetria Byrd, Purdue University, will take place on March 1, 2017; the first workflows webinar, “Overview of Scientific Workflows” will be hosted by Scott Callaghan, University of Southern California, on March 8, 2017; and the first petascale application improvement discovery webinar, “Getting I/O Done with Parallel HDF5 on Blue Waters” hosted by Gerd Heber, HDF Group, will take place March 29, 2017. The list of webinar tracks as well as specific sessions will be refined and expanded over time.

For more information about the webinar series, including registration, abstracts, speakers, as well as links to YouTube recordings, please visit the Blue Waters webinar series webpage.

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