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Center News (Inter-University Services Version)
November 2017
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Contents
1. Scheduled Maintenance in December
2. Deadline for billing of usage fee of January（Reposting）
3. The result of Satisfaction Survey (2017 Autumn)
4. Additional call for application of FY 2017 service course (Start on January)
5. Call for proposals of the Supercomputer Educational Use Project for FY2018
7. Distribution of seminar materials of the programming seminar (Reposting）
8. ACCMS seminar "IT Infrastructure to support research activities"
9. ACCMS seminar "Practice of educational data analysis approach - top down and bottom up"
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1. Scheduled Maintenance in December
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Due to a scheduled maintenance, our supercomputer services will be suspended as below:
〇Date and time: 9:00 a.m. on Thu. December 7 - 9:30 a.m. on Fri. December 8
〇Services to be suspended: System A, B, C, E , ENVI/IDL licensing, HPCI account services, Large-Format Printer, and User Portal
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in advance.
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2. Deadline for billing of usage fee of January（Reposting）
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Billing of the usage fee of January is determined as of Wed. December 13 at 5:00 p.m.
and will be processed.
Please note that the application after the due date will be charged in March.
In addition, changing the payment item also should be done by the due date.
Please see the following URL for details.
http://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/comp/apply/other/siharai.html
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3. The result of Satisfaction Survey (2017 Autumn)
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With respect to the use of supercomputers, we have carried out a satisfaction survey (2017 Autumn)
for the period from October 2, 2017 to October 30, 2017 and received 61 answers.
Based on the survey results, we will strive to improve our service quality.
Thank you for your cooperation.
As for the results of the survey, please see the following URL for details.
http://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/whatsnew/information/detail/171109054617.html
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4. Additional call for application of FY 2017 service course (Start on January)
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We additionally call for the application of the FY2017 Service Course starting from January 2018 in the following schedule.
Please note that we may ask you to adjust the amount of resources that you request depending on the situation
since each course has its limitation in available computing resources.
We appreciate for your understanding and cooperation.
〇Courses:
-Group course (Type A1, A2, A3, E1, E2, E3)
-Personal course (Type A, E)
-Large-scale job course (Type A, E: from February to March)
〇Application period: From Fri. December 1 to Wed. December 20 at 5:00 p.m.
〇Estimated starting date of the service: Thu. January 4, 2018
Please see the following URL for details on the application
http://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/comp/apply/service/service_2017_9.html
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5. Call for proposals of the Supercomputer Educational Use Project for FY2018
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Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) calls for proposals of
the Supercomputer Educational Use Project for classes requiring the use of supercomputer systems
at graduate school, university, or technical college which are conducted by
instructors of university, junior college or technical college.
We are calling for the application of the Supercomputer Educational Use Project in FY2018
in the following schedule.
〇Application period: From Tue. November 7 to Thu. December 21, 2017 No later than 12:00
Please see the following URL for details on the application.
http://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/comp/support/edu/edu_2018.html
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The Joint Usage/Research Center for Interdisciplinary Large-scale Information Infrastructures (JHPCN)
calls for joint research projects for fiscal year 2018. JHPCN is a "Network-Type" Joint Usage/Research Center,
certified by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and comprises eight super-computer equipped centers
affiliated with Hokkaido University, Tohoku University, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Nagoya University, Kyoto University, Osaka University and Kyushu University,
among which Information Technology Center at the University of Tokyo is functioning as the core institution of JHPCN.
Each JHPCN member institution will provide its research resources for joint research projects.
Schedule of the call for collaborate research project for FY 2018
2017 Wed. December 13 Online Registration Open
2018 Tue. January 9 Online Registration Deadline
Mon. January 15 Submission of Printed Application Form
mid- March Notification of Adoption
Sun. April 1 Joint Research Project Start
2019 Sun. March 31 Joint Research Project End
Please see the following URL for details.
https://jhpcn-kyoten.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/
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7. Distribution of seminar materials of the programming seminar (Reposting）
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We distribute seminar materials used at the programming seminar held in FY 2017 on a first-come, first-served basis.
You can download electronic version from the web page for some of the seminars.
Please see the following web page for details.
http://www.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/services/comp/support/course/
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8. ACCMS seminar "IT Infrastructure to support research activities"
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Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) holds a seminar once in a month.
We are inviting active researchers from a variety of areas, and ask them to give talks about their research activity
or issues in performing research, hoping to provide an opportunity for fruitful discussion among participants.
On an ACCMS seminar on December 12, we invite Mr. Stephen Abrams at California Digital Library.
We hope to have a lot of participants.
○Date：Tue. December 12, 2017 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:10 p.m.
○Place：South Building of ACCMS 2th floor, Room 202
○Fee：Free
○Application：Not necessary
○Inquiry：Shoji Kajita, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
Phone ： 075−753−9015
E-mail : kajita * media.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Please replace “*” with “@”.)
○Host：Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
Academic Data Innovation Unit, Kyoto University
○Details ：Please see the following URL for the details.
https://u.kyoto-u.jp/4ok3i
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9. ACCMS seminar "Practice of educational data analysis approach - top down and bottom up"
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Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) holds a seminar once in a month.
We are inviting active researchers from a variety of areas, and ask them to give talks about their research activity
or issues in performing research, hoping to provide an opportunity for fruitful discussion among participants.
On an ACCMS seminar at December 19, 2017, we invite Assoc. Prof. Shinichi Oeda of National Institute of Technology, Kisarazu College,
Assoc. Prof. Atsushi Shimada of Kyushu University and Prof. Tsuneo Yamada of the Open University of Japan.
We hope to have a lot of participants.
○Date：Tue. December 19, 2017 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
○Place：South Building of ACCMS 2th floor, Room 202
○Fee：Free
○Application：Not necessary
○Inquiry：Hiroshi Ueda, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
Phone ： 075−753−9051
E-mail : uep * media.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Please replace “*” with “@”.)
○Host：Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
○Details ：Please see the following URL for the details.
https://u.kyoto-u.jp/9k0th