Connectionists: SFN 2015 Workshop: high performance computing via Neuroscience Gateway

[Ted Carnevale]

What: Workshop on the Neuroscience Gateway Portal
(NSG, http://www.nsgportal.org)
When: 9AM - Noon on Saturday, October 17, 2015.
Registration deadline: Friday, October 2, 2015.
Where: Downtown Chicago (exact location announced to registrants)

Speakers: Amit Majumdar, Subha Sivagnanam, Padraig Gleeson,
Simon Rothmeier, Ted Carnevale, Alex Peyser, Hannah Bos.
Agenda: Downloadable from http://www.nsgportal.org/workshop.html

Why: If you have, or plan to start, a research project that
involves computationally intensive modeling or data analysis,
you should know about NSG. NSG is being developed with support
from NSF to make it easy for neuroscientists to use high
performance computing (HPC) resources in their research.

Some of NSG's advantages:
* Quick and easy account application and approval.
* Free computing time. No cost to your account budget!
* Simple user interface for uploading data,
running simulations or data analysis tasks,
and downloading results
* Installed software includes MOOSE, GENESIS 3, NEST,
NEURON, PyNN, the Freesurfer Software Suite,
and the Virtual Brain Empirical Data Pipeline

For more information or to sign up, see
http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/static/courses/nsg2015/nsg2015.html
or contact
Ted Carnevale [ted dot carnevale at yale dot edu]
or
Amit Majumdar [majumdar at sdsc dot edu]