research computing support
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Research Computing Support. Bob Muenchen (Pronounced Min’-chen ) [email protected] HelpDesk : 974-9900 Newsletter: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/rcnews.html. Our Mission. To help UT researchers use information technology and analytic methods to: Acquire Data Manage Data - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Bob Muenchen (Pronounced Min’-chen)
HelpDesk: 974-9900
Newsletter: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/rcnews.html
Research Computing Support
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To help UT researchers use information technology and analytic methods to:Acquire DataManage DataVisualize & Analyze DataDisseminate ResultsArchive & Share Data
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Our Mission
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How much to acquire?Survey design & web deploymentControl lab instruments & log data:
LabVIEWScantron scannerSecondary data from data archives
(Data Librarian, Ellie Read)
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Acquiring Data
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Converting formatsMerge / Concatenate / TransposeConvert from relational to data
warehouseCleaning dataBacking upArchiving & Sharing Data / Results
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Managing Data
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NumbersMath, StatisticsData Mining Geographic Maps / Geospatial Analyses
WordsQualitative AnalysisContent AnalysisLinguistics / Sentiment AnalysisLatent Semantic AnalysisContent vs. Style
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Data Visualization & Analysis
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ImagesQuantitative Qualitative
Audio & Video: Qualitative only for now
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Data Analysis (continued)
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Graphics & VisualizationTablesWriting up results
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Disseminate Results
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Fully Supported Research Software
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Data Acquisition
LabVIEW, SPSS Data Collection (web survey server), Stat/Transfer
Numbers Amos, Arc/GIS, MATLAB, Maple, SAS, SPSS, R, SAS Enterprise Miner
Text ATLAS.ti, QDA Miner, SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys,
SAS Text Miner, WordStatImages ATLAS.ti, ImageJ, QDA Miner
Audio/Video ATLAS.ti
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Computer Labs – 1,000 machinesAnalysis.utk.edu Terminal Server
Software appears to run on your computerOpens/saves files stored on your computerPrints to your printerSupports Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad,
iPhone…
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Hardware
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Newton Linux Cluster2,400 cores, 17 TFLOPS128 GB of memory77 terabytes of disk spaceInfiniband high speed interconnectMaple, Mathematica, MATLAB, R, SAS,
SPSS,… The Kraken
Cray XT5100,000 processors, soon 1 PFLOP4th fastest computer in the world
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Hardware (continued)
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The Newton Project: 2,400 Cores
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The Kraken: 100,000 processors
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Provided support to 1,714 projectsScored 244,649 scan sheets in 1,998 batches Managed 896 web-based surveysYears of HPC time provided: 1,222Maintained 30 research packages in download
area, DVD and on serversUpdated handouts and taught 50 workshops
on research computing on topics including: High Performance Computing, ATLAS.ti, LabVIEW, Linux, MATLAB, Maple, QDA Miner, R, SAS, SPSS, WordStat.
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RCS Stats for 2010
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Overall satisfaction is 4.02/5.00All groups more satisfied with email
(e.g. students 3.99 to 4.25)Faculty more satisfied with HelpDesk
(4.36 to 4.52)Staff less satisfied with enterprise systems
(4.25 to 3.98)Students
Web search up, 3.56 to 3.78Registration down, 3.92 to 3.34
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OIT Customer Satisfaction Survey
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Students: 60%Faculty: 44%Staff: 17%
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Who does research computing?
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Research Computing Task PercentStatistics 55.7%
Excel 51.7%
Mapping 35.9%
Science & Engineering 34.6%
Programming Languages 31.6%
Image Analysis 23.4%
Survey Design & Deploy 21.9%
Graphics 14.7%
Text Analysis 12.1%
Database 11.4%
High Perf. Computing 11.0%
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SPSS*SAS*StataR*JMPSAS Enterprise Miner*
* = fully supported
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Statistics
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MATLAB*MathematicaAutoCADMaple*FEMLAB LabVIEW*
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Science & Engineering
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QDA Miner*SPSS Text Analytics for Surveys*ATLAS.ti*NvivoSAS Text Miner*SPSS Text WorkbenchWordStat* (part of QDA Miner)
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Text / Qualitative
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ESRI ArcGIS Desktop*Google Maps/EarthERDASGRASS
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Mapping / GIS
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PhotoshopImageJ*
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Image Analysis
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IBM SPSS Data Collection* (formerly mrInterview)
SurveyMonkeyQualtricsZoomerang
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Surveys
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JavaFORTRANPythonCC++BasicPerlC#
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Languages (most on Newton)
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Linux Cluster*MPI*Windows HPC Server
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High Performance Computing
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Sigmaplot Origin GnuplotTableau
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Graphics
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Microsoft SQL ServerMySQLOracleSQLite
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Database
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Questions?