Welcome
Welcome to Summer School 2010 at the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering!This is the course web site for Big Data for Science (July 26?30, 2010). The course starts promptly each day at 15:00 hours UTC. In local time coordinates, the daily start time is:
- 8:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time (Los Angeles, UTC-7)
- 9:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time (Denver, UTC-6)
- 10:00 AM Central Daylight Time (Chicago, UTC-5)
- 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time (New York, UTC-4)
The prerequisites for this course are listed on the public course page.
While the course is in progress, if you have a question, simply start a group discussion thread (but read this note on etiquette first). There will be TAs at the sites monitoring this group throughout the workshop.
If you registered to attend this course at one of the ten participating sites, please complete your pre-Summer School survey before the course begins. A link to the survey was sent to your e-mail address by the Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago (http://www.srl.uic.edu/) late on July 23, 2010. If you have more immediate feedback that you'd like to share with the Virtual School, please drop us a line at info@vscse.org
Every student is required to bring a laptop to Summer School. Please review the software requirements ahead of time. If you have problems installing the software, feel free to post questions on the discussion list.
Upon arrival at the designated site, you will be provided with a login account on FutureGrid. To make the most of this resource, read the Getting Started on FutureGrid page for further information.
This google group provides participants with access to course content, slides, examples, exercises and other documents, and the ability to post questions. If you have trouble accessing this site or posting questions, send e-mail to info@vscse.org.