For many years, users at institutions subscribing to Google’s suite of tools enjoyed effectively unlimited data storage within Google Drive. Seriously, there was a time when the only hard limit was 1 terabyte(!) per file. For researchers needing to store … Continue reading Research Data Storage Options in a Post-Google World
Strelka, Swarthmore’s high-performance computing (HPC) system, is set for an exciting expansion next month. This upgrade is needed because faculty and students are increasingly using the system to conduct research, teach courses, and other uses, resulting in bottlenecks and resource … Continue reading Upcoming Strelka Expansion
Would you like to learn more about high-performance computing (HPC)? Are you curious how Swarthmore’s HPC ecosystem can complement your research, pedagogy, teaching, and learning? If so, please attend the HPC 101 session on Monday, September 18th, 12p-2p. Students, faculty, … Continue reading HPC 101 Event in September
The landscape of research software is certainly rich and varied, driven in part by improved sharing and dissemination platforms (such as GitHub), as well as by enhanced mandates to provide access to software and workflows arising from nearly any federal … Continue reading Managing Research Software Environments
When most people think about applications of high-performance computing (HPC), STEM-based research readily comes to mind. While HPC absolutely excels at that, it is also useful in pedagogical contexts, including: Facilitating analysis of datasets that are too large to work … Continue reading Embracing the Pedagogical Value of HPC
Swarthmore ITS recently added Jupyter notebooks to the Strelka high performance computing cluster, enabling students and faculty to access enhanced computing power via a standard notebook interface. Jupyter notebooks are interactive pages that can mix blocks of code with text, … Continue reading Jupyter Notebooks Now Available on Strelka
