UC3 Workbook

Our UC3 User Jamboree of two weeks ago was a great success. We've had several new requests for access based on our presentations from two Thursdays ago. As Lincoln reports, one new user — an evolutionary biology post-doc — is discovering new opportunities for computation through UC3's Condor flocking. This is exactly what we're hoping to accomplish: providing resources whose utilization has dialed back due to project downtime to users whose need has dialed up, across disciplines that may not have equal access to computational facilities. For this alone we would consider the Jamboree successful, but we've additionally gotten word out to more potential users in other fields, too. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this event by attending and giving us feedback. The materials presented at the Jamboree will be available indefinitely in an archival space on the University's shared wiki site. Please help yourself to trying them out, if you were unable to attend (or want a review). Questions and comments may be sent to us at uc3-support@uchicago.edu. We've done some thinking about how we can reasonably carry this momentum forward. We expect to do another event like this occasionally, but how do we fill the gaps without being too ever-present? One idea is to offer a series of monthly colloquia, either digging deeper into established topics or introducing new tools, applications, or techniques that you can use with UC3. We already are refining some of the material presented in May, but we're absolutely open to suggestions for new material or specific focus as well. Please let us know if you have particular ideas you'd like to see discussed, or if you'd like to give a talk yourself! As we develop these seminars, they will become part of a growing collection of UC3 computational topics. This UC3 Users' Guide or "Workbook" will be the living, always-under-revision parallel to what we've archived as the Jamboree.