HPCC Hardware presentation to BEACON Graduate students and Postdocs

Fri 02 November 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Attached is the presentation I gave to BEACON students about the HPC and it's hardware. After the seminar we had a tour of the HPC server room.

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2012-10-31 HPCC Hardware.pdf

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ffmpeg to select video sequences

Thu 01 November 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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ffmpeg can be used to crop the start and end times of a video sequece. Use the following command to read though the ffmpeg help message in the terminal window:

       man ffmpeg

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Image Phenomics- The Development of an Image Grammar for High-Throughput Phenotyping Using Biological Images

Mon 01 October 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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I was excited to give a talk as part of the BEACON seminar series. Our research group has been working on this topic for a while and it is exciting to get all of the ideas down into one clear …

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2012-09-06 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty Seminar

Thu 06 September 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Here is a link to the talk I gave to the Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty at their Weekly Seminar. This is a variation on my talk about how to utilize advanced computational resources to make your research go faster …

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Choosing more than one architecture type

Tue 28 August 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Although all of our nodes are binary compatible, the HPCC is a heterogeneous cluster based built from many different types of nodes. The node types are based on the type of architecture that the …

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Altering jobs that are in the queue

Wed 15 August 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Recently a user came by my office to complain that his jobs where not running in the queue. This is a reasonable complainte because many of our nodes are being drained to reboot and …

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Research Software Design Tradeoffs

Thu 02 August 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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After the successes (and setbacks) of our five summer undergraduate research assistants, we finally have a useable ChamView prototype that is based on my concept of an image grammar. My work over the last week or so has been to …

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Summer Undergraduate Research Students

Tue 31 July 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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I had a wonderful opportunity this summer to work with five undergraduate students on my research. The students were part of a 10 week research program and worked on different components of the ChamView Project. This was the largest group …

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Drosophila Tour

Fri 15 June 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Blog post edited by Anonymous - "Migrated to Confluence 4.0"We had the opportunity last week to stop by the Dworkin lab for a quick tour.Dr. Ian Dworkin (link toDworkinlab) is doing someinteresting work studying evolution and drosophila wings (fruit flies). He hadrows of cages, each filled with different …

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Microscope Demonstration

Wed 06 June 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Our research team had an opportunity to see a demonstration of an Olympus two-photon microscope .
This impressive piece of hardware can take focused depth images into a sample.These types of scopes are used specifically with biological samples that canbe …

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