Archives: big data

Friday, September 23, 2016

Research Computing Services Help Save Researchers 68 Days

Tapping into the resources offered by the Research Computing Services team, Bruce Wallace and Phil Masson in Systems and Computer Engineering were able to quickly process large amounts of research data and nearly eliminate time consuming manual input. They were working with 350GB of input data and predicted that processing it was going to... More

Friday, April 29, 2016

Spotlight on IT – Big Data Edition

Welcome to our new eNewsletter, Spotlight on IT.  Each month we will spotlight a different trend or topic in the information technology world.  If you would like to receive this publication in your inbox, subscribe here. In support of the Big Data 3.0 event which took place here at Carleton on March 29, and the... More

Thursday, April 28, 2016

The School of Computer Science Support Learning and Research with Openstack

In the School of Computer Science (SCS), assignments students produce are now rarely simple in design, where a few source code files can be submitted to the instructor.  These assignments can include components that involve complex data analysis, kernel compilations, and even modifications of services such as apache.  Often the modifications to... More

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Getting to Know our Research Computing Services Team

Earlier this month, I sat down with Sylvain Pitre, Manager of Research Computing Services, to talk about what he and his team do for Carleton researchers. What is it that your team does? The three of us, Andrew, Blake and I, help faculty and students who are working on projects with advanced research computing... More

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