Henry Neeman did a great job presenting our paper on Progress Update for the CI-REF VR Program at PEARC18.

Writing of this paper was truly a unique experience for me. The entire paper was written virtually over weekly video conference meetings and included the thirteen sited (maximum) authors and I …

This summer Mohammed Salih worked with me as part of the Engineering ENSURE Program. He presented his work with Jessie Micallef and me as a poster at MidSURE.

Poster Abstract: Neutrinos are small particles with a mass close to zero. It’s rare interaction with normal matter makes it difficult …

I had an opportunity to participate on the "Researcher Facing" Panel as part of the Campus Champion 101 workshop at PEARC18.

Link to Notes For the Panel can be found here

The Campus Champions 101 workshop explores campus research computing roles. The workshop builds on the Campus Champions’ history and …

The CyberAmbassador a Birds of a Feather Event at the 2018 PEARC Conference. Please Join us on Wednesday, July 25th from 5pm - 6pm. More information can be found here:

Link to BOF Schedule

Description: A number of professional skills training programs and resources have been developed in recent years, in …

My student's and I figured out how to use Pelican with Github.io pages to create some websites for work. We tried to type up the instructions as a tutorial and build a pelican template. Here is a link to the tutorial:

Pelican / Github.io Tutorial

Some of our websites …

These instructions are for installing RStudio on the HPCC. RStudio provides a variety of installers on their website https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download2/. However, the HPCC uses an older version of Linux and the precompiled binaries are not compatible. Trying to install RStudio from the source code is …

One of our postdocs stopped by my office today to talk about a problem with inconsistant runtimes on our HPCC. This user is running a lot of jobs with 512 cores (current cpu limit is 520). The problem is that it is really difficult for the user to estimate the …

Back when I worked for iCER I had my blog set up to automatically Tweet when I posted something new using a service called Twitter Feed. Unfortunately, Twitter Feed is no longer around and their website recommended dlvr.it as an alternative.

So far it was fairly strait forward to …

I gave an autobiographical talk today to the EnSURE (Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Experience) students. I have given this talk a few times and it is noticeably different that most of my presentations because the EnSURE organizers asked me to talk about myself and how I got where I am …

Ugh! Rookie mistake! I just spent all morning working on my website and blog. I was really happy with the improvements. I was making some modifications to the Makefile in the pelican folder to streamline my workflow when... all of my files disappeared.

Rookie Mistake #1: I unintentionally did a …