New Website Announcement!

The Data Science at Scale Team has published a new website and is no longer updating this website. The new website is at:

http://datascience.lanl.gov/

In the future you will be automatically redirected to the new website, but for now you can stay at the old website. If you would like to proceed to the new website, you can click the above link.

Data Science at Scale Summer School Overview

The Los Alamos Information Science and Technology Data Science at Scale Summer School is inaugurated in 2013 to recruit outstanding students to the laboratory to participate in data intensive science projects. Students will work together with computer and application scientists to produce prototypes that solve a data intensive scientific problems of interest to the laboratory. Their code and reports will be published as open source and composed into a suite of programs that will help characterize the growing data intensive science workload at Los Alamos. Weekly meetings that include a reading group (typically at 9AM Wednesdays) and presentations by participants (typically at 10AM Wednesdays) are a key component of the school.

2013 Summer School Papers

2013 Invited Guests

Please email Curt Canada for any additional summer school information.

Related Information

IBM Big Data Briefings

IBM big data experts will provide the Laboratory a set of technical briefings covering their solution portfolio for handling Big Data Challenges. The briefings will be in the Research Park room 203A on August 15 and will have two tracks to accommodate the different audiences expected. The first track will discuss the infrastructure components at a technical level that form IBM's big data platform while the second track will take a higher level approach and discuss analytics tools and techniques to analyze big data problems. IBM's technical leadership will be present to answer questions and discuss problems.

See the attached pdf for the agenda and speaker biographies.

Please email Curt Canada for any additional information.

Big-Data Interest Group

The Big-Data Interest Group (BIGDIG) is a focus group at Los Alamos meeting monthly to explore big-data methods and architectures. This is a grassroots effort to develop lab capabilities in big-data. The group realizes that there is not one solution that will fit all and technology is evolving, so their meetings feature speakers from all parts of the laboratory who are using various big-data tools, solutions and architectures. One goal of the group is to identify early adopters and learn from their experiences. Furthermore, they would like involve scientists that are looking for big-data solutions and foster collaboration with those who might provide the needed technology. The BIGDIG group includes members from all domains: science, security, sensing, computing, library, and more. The group also aims to involve lab computing infrastructure providers (e.g. HPC, the Institutes and others), not just to utilize these resources, but provide feedback to the infrastructure providers and designers so that these systems will evolve to meet current and future big-data needs. BIGDIG has a mailing list, wiki and monthly meetings featuring one or two speakers. For more information contact Christine Ahrens or Reid Priedhorsky.

IS&T Seminar Series

The Los Alamos Information Science and Technology Center sponsors a seminar series. Several of the seminars this summer (typically at 3PM Wednesdays) will be given by invited guests to the Data Science at Scale Summer School.