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Join UC San Diego service providers, faculty, researchers, and students for a half-day program on shared computing resources, streamlined data practices, and national platforms—culminating in a hands-on NVIDIA GPU computing workshop.
Date & Time: Monday, September 15, 2025 | 8:45 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Natural Sciences Building Auditorium (NSB 1205), UC San Diego
Capacity: Seating limited to 90 in-person participants
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At-a-Glance
- • Shared HPC: NAIRR, ACCESS, NRP, SDSC
- • Data collection & curation
- • FAIR principles & repositories
- • SecureConnect in research labs
- • Hands-on NVIDIA GPU workshop
Program Schedule
| Time | Topic | Details / Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 8:45 AM | Welcome & Coffee | |
| 9:00 AM | Keynote: Christine Hrycyna, Dean, School of Physical Sciences Scientific Data Workflows |
Collecting, analyzing, and curating research data |
| 9:20 AM | Lab Data Collection | Tools & strategies for instruments and repositories |
| 9:40 AM | Data Lifecycle & FAIR Principles | Repositories for safe, long-term storage (often at little/no cost) |
| 10:00 AM | SecureConnect in Labs | Protect IP while accelerating research productivity |
| 10:20 AM | Compute Everywhere | Access to NAIRR, SDSC (Expanse, TSCC, Voyager, Cosmos), and cloud platforms |
| 10:40 AM | Coffee Break & Networking | Refreshments provided |
| 11:00 AM | The National Research Platform | Connecting nationwide cyberinfrastructure |
| 11:20 AM – 12:45 PM | Hands-On Workshop: NVIDIA & Applied Data Systems |
Four ways to start with GPU computing: • Basics of GPU acceleration • GPU-enabled apps for immediate speed-ups • Drop-in GPU libraries (minimal code changes) • Portable models & CUDA for full control (Bring your laptop; all experience levels welcome.) |
| 12:45 PM | Closing & Reflections | Looking ahead together |
| 1:00 PM | Networking Lunch | Provided by Applied Data Systems (HPC friends) |
Why Attend
- Access and leverage shared HPC resources (NAIRR, ACCESS, NRP, SDSC, and more).
- Optimize lab data collection and curation for reliability and reproducibility.
- Practice FAIR principles and identify long-term repositories with low/no cost options.
- Strengthen security and collaboration through campus-wide IT policies and SecureConnect.
- Gain practical experience with GPUs in the hands-on NVIDIA workshop.
Presented by
- Biological Sciences
- Office of Engineering Computing
- Physics Computing Facility
- Research IT – ITS
Sponsors & Contributors
- NVIDIA
- Applied Data Systems
Don’t miss the chance to mingle with UC San Diego researchers using computational expertise to drive innovation. Register now