We are very excited to be hosting the third annual Maryland HPC User Group at the brand new Iribe Center in College Park. None of this would be possible without the extensive help provided by the UMD Division of Information Technology (DIT) and Institute of Advanced Computing Studies (UMIACS), and we are very appreciative of their collective efforts.

 

This year’s event is slightly different than previous years as there will be a ZFS workshop in the morning that will be taught by BioTeam, a co-sponsor of this year’s User Group. We are thrilled to include this more technically focused and hands-on session in the agenda and hope that the community finds it valuable. There will be limited registration for this morning session to keep the student to teacher ratio low, and for the rest of the event, we expect the majority of attendees to arrive after lunch.

 

Our afternoon plan will be an expanded version of past years’ afternoon plans with three rounds of sessions running from 2:00PM to 5:00PM. We built the afternoon agenda to be appealing to both HPC administrators as well as a more general audience by distributing the more technical sessions as much as possible. We think this year’s content is the best yet and we hope that you are able to join us on May 15th in College Park!

 

PS – Co-founder of Oculus VR and UMD alumnus, Brendan Iribe, generously donated $31 million to the University in 2014 to help fund the construction of this facility. If you’d like to read a little bit more about Brendan Iribe’s donation to UMD, please check out this link:

https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/news/brendan-iribe-oculus-ceo-gives-31m-new-umd-computer-science-building