Great Plains Network

GPN has hired a new social media manager for the Midwest Big Data Hubs Digital Agriculture spoke project. Her name is Alyssa Oborny. Alyssa is an undergraduate student at Kansas…

The Internet2 board of trustees announced on May 10th the appointment of Howard Pfeffer as its new president and chief executive officer (CEO). Pfeffer brings over 30 years of experience…

The NSF has a new grant NSF Grant: CyberCorps(R) Scholarship for Service (SFS) . This grant has two parts: A Scholarship Track and a Capacity Track. The Scholarship Track provides…

Doane University, named a 2016 “Great College to Work For” by The Chronicle of Higher Education, invites applications for the position of Systems HPC Specialist at its nationally recognized undergraduate…

At the recent Internet2 meeting, Greg learned some information about the Big Data Hub project that he wants to share with you. Here are some highlights from Fen Zhao, NSF…

See original article by Sara Aly here. Bill Mitchell, Executive Director of the Great Plains Networks, was awarded Internet2’s Richard Rose award at Internet2’s Global Summit in Washington, D.C. on…

PEARC17 is the conference formerly known as XSEDE. This year PEARC17 is in New Orleans, LA July 13-19. PEARC17 stands for Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing. PEARC17’s inaugural…

This is a reminder to register for the Linux Cluster Institute (LCI) Introductory Workshop before the price goes up May 1. Register here before May 1 and save $105. This…

Yesterday I posted about the Center for Open Science’s Pregistration Challenge where you could get $1000 for preregistering your research with them. What is the Center for Open Science, and…

The Center for Open Science wants to improve your research and give you $1000! Transparency and independent replication are core values of science. However, scientists must publish, which is more…