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Q: What is the appropriate approach to store email templates Is it appropriate to store a web page in a Database?
I am using InnoDB engine of mysql, the email templates is a modified html files that is in mail format , so there should be a plain html file.
Notice that those templates are not accessible for everyone, they should refer to the userID, so for example, User A has template1 , 2 ,3.. but UserB may have template 2,3, 5, 6..
What datatype should i store this kind of file?
Or instead of using database,  I should create a html file and use php to write in it and open a folder for each user?
Thank you for your help, I have less experience in handling this kind of data

A: Usually, and for most project, the database is the bottleneck. So, if you can avoid to use it, then don't use it.
If the html is small (for example 10kb) then you can store in the database.
However, if it is big (and requires BLOB or a big varchar), then save it in a file folder using the unique id of the registry, having caution about the number of templates that could exists. However, a backup of the system requires to also backup those files (instead of a single backup of the database).

User A has template1 , 2 ,3.. but UserB may have template 2,3, 5, 6..

It sound like
Table User
Id_User
Name_User
...
Table Template
Id_Template
Name_Template
Content_Template (if it is not managed by a file)
....
Table UserxTemplate
Id_User
Id_Template
Obtain the all templates by an user
 select * from User a,Template b,UserxTemplate c
 where c.id_user=a.id_user and   c.id_template=b.id_template and a.id_user=xxx

In resume
Store in the database
Pro:

*

*consistence.

*easy to use

Cons:

*

*Performance hit

*Increase of the size of the database.

Store in a file
Pro:

*

*fast (only if the number of templates is not big)

*"unlimited" size.

Cons:

*

*Inconsistence of the data.

*Requires an extra work.

*Securities issues.

ps: Wordpress and other portal and blog system (usually) store it inside the database, however LMS (Learning Management System) stores in a file.

A: I'd go with files named as the row's primary key. It's way easier to edit, subversion, etc.
You can protect the storage folder with .htaccess Deny from All and use PHP's file_exists() just to be sure. It's <0,5ms per call, and cheaper than retrieving it as BLOB from the database.

A: With SQL Server, you can store a Max of 2147483647 characters

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In an effort to keep the Spore community connected after the Sporum shutdown, here are some of the most popular Spore communities in 2018.
APRIL 2018 UPDATE: For the latest updates to this list, visit the Sporum Discord. This website will be updated soon.
EA Answers HQ is home to the new official Spore forum. While small, there are new sections for discussing Spore, sharing creations, and finding announcements and help for Spore.
The following four communities are Discord servers. Discord is a chat service that can be accessed from any web browser, computer, or mobile device. Each "server" has multiple instant text channels, plus some have voice channels if you choose to use them. The Discord service and these servers are not maintained or endorsed by EA or Maxis.
This Discord server is maintained by myself and SporeMaster Doom. This Discord server will not primarily focus around chatting about Spore – rather, it is intended to serve as a "hub", keeping Sporumers connected after the shutdown. This will be the place to meet up with other Sporumers and find new Spore communities. It will include links to other Discord servers (listed below), as well as some other projects that we are working on.
Sporechives is one of the best places for sharing Spore creations and discussing the creative side of the game. You can share your creations, including modded creations, learn from top creators, learn about community-made part packs and editor mods, and participate in a wide variety of contests.
CRASH is a group of creators dedicated to finding, creating, sharing, and reviewing each other's adventures, and helping each other find and make high quality adventures for others to enjoy. They host a number of activities, including bi-monthly contests, and a shared roleplaying universe for adventures.
Project Multispore is about playing Spore in a galaxy that is shared with other players, in the form of a turn-based multiplayer game. No mods are required, and there are multiple galaxies, each with its own theme and rules. Some galaxies even have a roleplaying focus! This is also a good place to chat about Spore and its gameplay.
These websites are not maintained or endorsed by EA or Maxis.
The Spore subreddit is a semi-active place to share creations, screenshots, and discuss Spore gameplay. The Reddit format makes it easy to share images and links, and vote on them.
One of, if not the largest Spore modding communities ever. The best place to find all sorts of Spore mods, learn about them, get help with them, and even learn how to create your own mods.
Here, you can enter chats with other people, post blogs about Spore, show off videos to other people in real time, as well as vote and favorite posts you like.
More communities may be added. If you have suggestions, please post them on the Sporum discord – note that we will only include reputable websites and communities, that have an active Spore community. They can be Discord servers or websites.
Note that some content is missing, and some content has been removed by request. To request that content be removed, go here.
See a list of other archived threads here. To contribute, please join the Sporum discord.
The official Spore forum (the Sporum) has been shut down. EA has a small official forum at their Answers HQ.
An unofficial Sporum was mentioned, but is not currently available.
If you're looking for a new Sporum, check out Sporechives! Many Sporumers (including veteran members) have migrated to Sporechives. This is the closest spiritual successor to the Sporum.
Our primary focus is on growing Sporechives, CRASH, and Galactic Adventures Central. See links on the left.
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Natural Language Generation (NLG), the automated content generation, is a fast-growing subfield of artificial intelligence. This is no surprise, as the demand for written and audio content is steadily increasing, and human-generated content can be costly and time consuming to produce. The NLG software optimizes this process and saves time and money by analyzing structured data and translating it into text, like product descriptions.
What is NLG software, how does it work and where can it be used?
Natural language generation software can transform information into language and hence produce written and spoken content.
Its importance to many types of businesses, therefore, should not be ignored. It can automatically generate informative content, such as reports and summaries, with no need for a human to perform the time-consuming tasks of analyzing data and writing the content.
Using NLG technologies is most useful for companies that use structured data as the basis for their content.
These are typically used in e-commerce, finance and banking, pharmaceutical, insurance, or media and publishing industries. Natural language content generation, however, can benefit a wide range of companies outside of these industries, as well.
Find out more about how natural language generation softwares work
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This article presents the 10 best solutions for natural language generation. (All information on the respective providers is based on their own statements.)
Arria
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1. AX Semantics
The AX Semantics natural language generation software is based on a self-service principle with e-learning modules, onboarding and live support. The software is based on artificial intelligence and is 100% Saas (Software as a Service), i. e. the software is accessible for the customer and no programming skills or IT consulting are required. AX Semantics has placed great value on UI and UX, so the software's interface is intuitive and clear.
Automated content creation can begin within 48 hours. In the process, content is being generated for various industries, such as e-commerce, business, finance, pharmaceuticals, and media.
Noticeable analysis functions include the grammar UI for proofreading and editing and the unique content check. The generation of content is available in 110 languages and used by more than 500 customers, among them world-renowned brands such as Otto, Euronics and mytheresa.com. AX Semantics was ranked by Gartner as one of the world's top five natural language generation platform providers and by Forrester as one of the leading rising companies on the NLG market.
With the help of AX Semantics' software, content can be automated based on structured data, using natural language content that is impossible to distinguish from hand-written text.
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Create your free AX Semantics account and take an interactive tour of our software!
Quick start & user-friendly software
Content generation in 110 languages
No programming skills required
All content types based on structured data possible
No predefined content templates
Website - AX Semantics
2. Arria
The Arria NLG platform combines the most modern technologies of data analysis, artificial intelligence and computer linguistics.
The software analyzes big data sets and writes reports automatically about what's happening in the data at tremendous speed and scale, without human intervention. Arria's NLG technology is scientifically based on over 30 years of research and development.
At the core of the Arria NLG platform is the Arria NLG engine, designed to generate natural language. At its core, the key to scaling and deploying at an exponential pace is Arria NLG-Studio, which is the NLG artificial intelligence tool for developers.
Supplied by the Arria NLG platform, the AI software system automatically writes rich and engaging content using insights gathered from datasets.
The Arria NLG system can write like a human. This is why the composed content is impossible to distinguish from hand-written texts.
Customers of the company are banks, financial service providers, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, consumer goods companies, and news and media agencies.
Content extraction in written or spoken form
Automatically generated content can hardly be distinguished from handwritten content
The variation of automatically generated content is limited
Multilingualism is only possible to a limited extent
Website - Arria
3. ReadSpeaker
ReadSpeaker is a text-to-speech (TTS) software that reads aloud segments of selected written content or entire pages. The company delivers natural-sounding voices with its own technologies. With more than 200 natural-sounding voices in more than 50 languages, and over 20 years of experience in speech analysis and processing, it has 10,000 customers worldwide up to this date.
ReadSpeaker as a SaaS solution uses Deep Neural Network (DNN) technology for structurally enhancing voice quality, resulting in natural and engaging conversational experiences.
ReadSpeaker gives voice to businesses for online, embedded, server or desktop requirements, apps, voice production, custom voices and much more.
With the help of ReadSpeaker's speech solution, websites, mobile apps, digital books, e-learning tools and online documents are given their own voices.
As a result, new opportunities are opened up for people who have reading and writing difficulties, learning disabilities, impaired vision, or language problems. In addition, by offering important services in the respective native language of the users, there is a notable competitive advantage.
Written content is being read aloud by people with a natural-sounding voice
The software offers great relief for people with reading and writing difficulties, learning disabilities and impaired vision
The focus is exclusively on reading aloud content
Website - ReadSpeaker
4. textengine.io by Retresco
textengine.io is Retresco's self-service SaaS platform that turns data into automated content. Retresco was founded in 2008 and is a company which develops solutions that are based on artificial intelligence. These solutions originate from the fields of Natural Language Generation (NLG) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU).
The textengine.io platform is based on AI-powered Natural Language Generation (NLG) technology, enabling users to generate unique content. It provides intelligent linguistic analysis, an intuitive user interface, SEO creation, limitless scalability, and personalized onboarding support.
The software is able to generate multilingual content, which is used to easily reach new markets and target audiences without the need for expensive language services. It is possible to have text structures translated automatically and thus boost internationalization. It can be applied in e-commerce, finance, tourism, HR and agencies.
High-quality content outputs with scaling options
Creation of SEO content
Relatively strict content specifications, e.g. product descriptions
Wide variance not as easy to implement
Website - textengine.io
5. Yseop
Yseop is a natural language generation (NLG) technology that delivers solutions which leverage artificial intelligence to make sense of complex datasets and generate high-quality written content at scale.
The company concentrates on a components-based approach and SaaS solutions. In doing so, the software offers solutions for the financial and pharmaceutical industry and the area of Business Intelligence (BI). In addition, there are special tools for complex medical and financial reports, as well as for sales automation. Yseop generates texts from data in seven languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Japanese.
Multilingualism is guaranteed, although to a limited extent
Financial and medical industry focus - no approach to e-commerce content, for example
Website - Yseop
6. BeyondWords
BeyondWords instantly adds text-to-speech audio to web pages, and enables customers to engage with alternatively written content. By using the software, it is possible to personalize audio, using the technology to create a synthesized version of one's own voice or a person's voice that will resonate with the appropriate audience.
All audio content can be infinitely scaled by using SpeechKit editor, API, RSS extractor or WordPress and Ghost CMS integrations. With a dedicated audio ad manager and audio advertising integrations, audio content can be monetized via audio ads.
This software connects with Amazon Polly and Google WaveNet to provide a wide range of voices and languages. The generated audio can be published on platforms like Apple Music, Google Podcasts and Spotify.
Generation of personalized audio content in a matter of seconds
Scaling of audio content
Audio-only content can be generated
Website - BeyondWords
7. IBM Watson
IBM Watson Text to Speech is an API cloud service that generates human-like audio content out of written content. The service does this by offering customers a wide range of languages and voices in natural-sounding audio.
Its underlying algorithm is able to interact with users in multiple languages and tones. IBM Watson enables customers to develop interactive products for call center interactions, hands-free communications and automated customer service interactions.
A variety of additional services are offered by the software: Among other things, a self-service feature allows customers' questions to be answered on the phone by a virtual assistant. Moreover, AI-powered documents and intranet search can be used to support service agents in real time during phone calls.
Enhanced user experience
Significant case resolution potential
The solution is a text-to-speech generation solution only
Website - IBM
8. Narrativa
Narrativa is a Natural Language Generation platform that generates and automates content for a wide range of domains. Among them are life sciences (pharma, biotech and healthcare), financial services (banking, insurance, investments and cryptocurrencies), marketing (CX, advertising, e-commerce, communications and sales) and entertainment (gaming, gambling & media).
Widely available for a wide range of potential content
Uses large language models for suggested texts
No self-service, relatively long time from conception to publication
Website - Narrativa
9. United Robots
United Robots focuses on automating news at scale through AI and data science, providing a world-leading text-as-a-service solution for robotic journalism. The software can be used to automate sports coverage, real estate and business content, and daily reports including local weather forecasts and up-to-date traffic reports for any geographic location at any time in as many as seven languages, among others.
The software analyzes structured data, finding correlations and creating high-quality content at scale and speed. Then, an intelligent distribution platform is used to deliver the right text to the right audience at the right time.
Generation of high-quality content in large quantities and at high speed
Smart distribution platform
Focus exclusively on automating messages
Automation in only seven languages
United Robots - Website
10. Wordsmith by Automated Insights
Wordsmith by Automated Insights is a self-service platform based on Natural Language Generation (NLG).
Users upload their own structured data. This can be done via an API using JSON. The software generates content based on a narrative design that is written in the company's tone and voice. The narrative design consists of conditional logic rules that trigger various outputs based on the data set behind the content. Content auto-generated with Wordsmith sounds as if a human wrote it manually. Consequently, NLG enables companies to scale content creation and provide written analytics. A unique feature is that texts can be updated in near real-time.
Wordsmith has hundreds of customers in more than 50 industries, covering e-commerce, financial services and business. Among them are Yahoo Sports and Associated Press. Potential customers can take a demo to familiarize themselves with the software.
Real-time analysis are possible
Scaling of content
Website - Wordsmith
Overview of all NLG providers
AX Semantics Arria ReadSpeaker textengine.io by Retresco Yseop
Free Trial/Demo Free Trial & Demo Free Trial & Demo Free Trial & Demo Demo,
no free Trial not specified
Industries E-commerce, finance, pharma, business, media & other industries Banking, financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, news and media agencies.
Government, Education, Automotive, Healthcare, Voice Response Systems, Public Announcement and Emergency Notification Systems, Entertainment, Publishers
E-commerce, tourism, finance, HR, agencies
Finance, Pharma, Sales
System 100 % SaaS 100 % SaaS 100 % SaaS 100 % SaaS
Component-based approach and SaaS
Multilingualism 110 languages not specified 50+ languages and 200+ voices English, German, Dutch, French
English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Japanese
Documentation,
e-learning, meetups, webinars
BevondWords IBM Watson United Robots Narrativa Wordsmith
Free Trial/Demo free basic version not specified no 30 minutes Demo Demo
Industries not specified
IT, finance, customer service,
healthcare, risk & compliance
sports, real estate, business, daily reports life sciences, financial
services, marketing, entertainment 50 industries
System SaaS SaaS SaaS SaaS 100% SaaS
AI voices from
14 languages, different voices of men and women per language, dialects, 7 languages not specified not specified
Trainings Guide not specified not specified not specified not specified
NLG software providers will continue to play a significant role in the future. Because NLG software will be able to meet the growing demand for written and audio content.
All the mentioned top 10 solutions for Natural Language Generation have several things in common: The softwares work on the basis of science by processing speech, learning from data and creating written or spoken content that can be used by different companies and customers. In the overview, the individual software providers and their advantages and disadvantages are compared. With this, you can weigh which provider is the best fit for you and your business.
What is Natural Language Generation (NLG)?
Natural Language Generation (NLG) refers to the automated generation of natural language by a machine. As a part of computational linguistics, the generation of content is a special form of artificial intelligence. Natural language generation is used in many sectors and for many purposes, such as e-commerce, financial services, and pharmacy sector. It is seen to be most effective to automate repetitive and time-intensive writing tasks like product descriptions, reports or personalized content. Learn more about Natural Language Generation (NLG).
When is Content Automation Worthwhile?
The use of content automation is always worthwhile when:
1. High quantities of similar content is needed (such as thousands of product descriptions, hotel descriptions, destination descriptions, etc.) or
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Who Can Benefit From Natural Language Generation?
Natural Language Generation (NLG) software has been increasingly used worldwide by companies and individuals across a variety of fields. In the process, the content to be generated can be aimed at any target groups. Particularly, online marketing experts with large online stores use NLG software to automatically generate product descriptions or content for category pages.
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A friend asked me today if I already healed after my husband's death. And that I should not lose hope on love. I know she means well.
Seriously, I appreciate it a lot knowing that a person who experienced the same as mine is the best person to say such things to me.
I lost my husband to death and she (as she described), lost hers for another woman. Well, she is correct in a way, since our relationships both have ended. We both have went through the stages of grief. Which is totally different for each person.
As she narrated her story of how she managed to get out of depression and lucky for her to find another man in her life, I am an admirer. How she is able to speak her life and show compassion to people just like us. I wished her well and thanked her for her story of inspiration. That there is hope after a storm. And that the pain you feel will simply go away.
But what is keeping my mind from her story is that, pain (seriously) for a young widow like me is not the hardest part but instead, the memories.
When you lost the love of your life for another person, the pain cuts through the insides of you. Carefully removing all your sanity. When love is lost, you learn how to describe the deepest meaning of pain. You will keep questioning yourself what went wrong or what did you do wrong. As much as you can, you try your hardest to erase all the memories you had with that person. Ego is your enemy.
Love is equal to pain.
But when death cuts off love, honestly, there is no pain. There is only the continuous sound of deafening silence. It could be what they call sadness. I'm sure it's not pain. Love has never really forsaken you, it is still there. There is no pain for a husband who never did hurt me with his passing. It is not his fault that he left, in fact he might not want to. He might have made a negotiation with the angel calling him, to let him stick with his wife for a little while. But maybe, that is not how things go in the world of spirits.
Love is equal to sadness.
In death, you don't have a chance to meet him on a coffee shop or cross path on the streets on your way to work. It means, the small hope to revive the love between you will never happen as you have already laid his lifeless body on his grave. You cannot create more memories in death.
In divorce, your partner is still alive. A chance of meeting him once in your lifetime is possible. The small hope you deny in your heart to revive a love that was lost is actually probable. There is still a chance of filling in your memory bank. The sweetest part is you can still take you revenge if you want to. You can make him regret leaving you for another person. In death you cannot do that anymore.
Death makes you become humble and cherish life.
The difference is there and I do not want to compare that losing love through death is harder than losing love through annulment (or vice versa), these are two different cases, I suppose.
She speaks so timidly, in a way you will think that she has the most soft spoken voice and the kindest heart.
She is beautiful, with all the definition of a woman could be. The one who has the flawless face and light-skinned tone. She is indeed a divah inside a closet.
After the show when she removes her make up and wigs, her real face is what she sees in the mirror. The girl who has a dream to reach success on her younger years. She will do anything to be on top and she didn't mind how she will do it.
She is a performer. A divah inside a closet. But when the show ends and the curtains roll down, she looks at her true self on the mirror. Staring at herself wiping the tears, looking at the person she never met before.
As I squeeze myself inside the crowd and find myself a comfortable seat, I couldn't help but overhear a boy with his little sister and mother also trying to fit inside the bus.
Luckily, someone was kind enough to offer a seat to the mother and the sister but not for the little boy.
As he complained for almost half the trip saying that his feet are so tired to stand up and that he's so sleepy. I couldn't blame him as he is telling the truth. It is indeed a long traffic jam on a rush hour.
As we pass along the stretch of España Blvd. with the universities and schools on the view, the boy said, "gusto ko mag-aral dyan mama paglaki ko!". His mom just smirked and said, "hmp, ang mahal, mahal dyan".
And the rest of the trip the little boy continuously complain.
It's just so nice to hear such innocent words from children. With their innocence come sincerity and our old dreams. As adults we are so overwhelmed with making money in order to live and we forget the kid screaming and knocking in our hearts, as if wanted to remind us of our forgotten dreams and simple wishes.


This is going to be an insane show. Our friend and artist, Tim Biskup, has a new body of work combining both painting and sculpture opening October 14th at This Los Angeles. You won't find the polished, vinyl figures you may have seen in Tim's past, but, roughly hewn, crudely painted figures that Tim sculpted himself. From the figures, came the paintings. The paintings of course are exquisite, perfect and clearly exhibit Tim's mastery.
Tim sent us some images over from the show, a couple of these during the installation. You'll see the images of the sculptures and paintings I'm talking about. What you don't see here is the scale of the originals, these are larger scale paintings and some of the sculptures are over 4 feet tall!
The show open This Friday, October 14th at THIS Los Angeles in Eagle Rock. It's going to be a madhouse, not to be missed.
I guess you'll have to go to the show to find out what this one is all about….


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PAC Ramps Up Efforts to Increase Latino Representation in Swing States
Melissa Mark-Viverito is setting her sights on swing states with substantial Latino voter blocs.
By Madina Toure • 02/01/18 1:36pm
Ex-City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito at a rally outside of Trump Tower in support of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria on Oct. 3, 2017 in New York City. Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, a Puerto Rico native, is ramping up efforts to increase Latino representation in key states around the country with significant Latino voting blocs ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
Last month, Mark-Viverito announced that she was joining the Latino Victory Fund—a political action committee (PAC) that works to get progressive Latino candidates elected at all levels of government—as a senior adviser.
Her job will consist of looking for and enlisting candidates, enhancing the PAC's fundraising and state infrastructure, and working to start state chapters in Florida, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada—particularly with a focus on the 2018 midterm elections, according to POLITICO.
Mark-Viverito has been rumored to be weighing bids for mayor of New York City, Congress and governor of Puerto Rico. She recently ruled out a Puerto Rican gubernatorial bid.
When asked about swing states where Latino voters are essential and decisive such as Florida, Colorado, Nevada and Arizona—depending on the race—she noted those states are on her radar.
"We're looking particularly at ones that we have our eye on, obviously Florida," she told NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on Wednesday night. "We are talking about Arizona, Nevada, Texas and possibly Georgia as well. So we have to look within that, what are the midterm elections and in some cases, there're some statewide races that are important, too."
The Latino population hit nearly 58 million in 2016, accounting for half of national population growth since 2000, according to a report by the Pew Research Center in September 2017. And 66,000 Latinos turn 18—the age at which people can start voting—each month, another Pew report found.
Indeed, Mark-Viverito argued that focusing on statewide races is key to ensuring that Latino candidates gain the skills and experience needed to advance to higher-level positions.
"It's not just about the midterm elections but also creating the pipelines within those states, where if you elect people at more local levels of government, then you create a pathway, right, for Latino candidates to be eligible and be experienced to run in these other seats," she continued.
She acknowledged recruiting candidates will be "a lot of work" but noted the PAC is "not gonna do this alone."
"It's gonna be done in coalition and collaboration, but I'm very excited because after 2016 and the direction that this country is going in, I definitely wanted to play a role in making sure that we figure out a pathway to take back the Congress and create true checks and balances in this government," Mark-Viverito added, referring to the administration of President Donald Trump.
Mark-Viverito also said that there may not be a "substantial bloc" of Latino voters in states such as North Carolina and Georgia but suggested there may be enough of a presence to merit some additional resources.
"It could be enough of a bloc to create a swing situation in a particular election," the former speaker said. "So that's those kind of analyses that we have to do and then be able to hone in and focus on where we can make a true impact."
She maintained the PAC wants to make sure it is providing necessary tools and resources as opposed to merely endorsing candidates.
"We don't just wanna give an endorsement," she continued. "We wanna bring technical assistance, resources to those candidates, so that we can be sure that they do win their races and that agin, we bring some semblance of democracy back to this country."
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This is primarily a gallery of my very short time there, but also a potential guide, or point of inspiration, for any photographers who are looking for a new place to shoot in the UK.
I'm on the road today, heading back up to Sussex to visit friends and family, so I'm hoping that this scheduled post publishes itself on time.
I'll check in later anyway, to add a link to K'lee's photo, but until then, here's my contribution to this week's prompt; Water.
Here's K'lee's photo for the day.
Ok, so now let's see your wet and wonderful offerings.
Go on, splash out on the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
To get involved with the challenge, post a photo (or several, the more the merrier) to your blog on Monday, add a pingback to this post (or to K'lee's) and don't forget to tag your post #CosPhoChal.
Today's A-Z post takes the form of an update on the one I posted on Monday, about Tracy the balloon sculptor.
That post generated a lot of interest and lots of praise for Tracy's artistic skills; so much so that it prompted an interactive logistical experiment between Diary of an Internet Nobody, my friend Tracy and Bee, over at Just Fooling Around With Bee.
Bee was very taken with the Minion which appeared in the balloon modelling post (I think she is mildly obsessed with the little yellow critters, truth be told) and I joked that Tracy should set up a mail order service, since her work had attracted so much interest from you, my discerning readers.
To my surprise, Tracy seemed to have already looked into what amounts to mailing someone a box of air, as a friend had previously asked if she could send them one of her creations. She had not yet had a chance to perfect a technique for doing so, but Tracy suggested that she try it out by sending Bee her very own bespoke balloon Minion, as a test to see whether the model would retain its integrity in transit, opening up possibilities for her business to go national.
Bee sent me her address, 350 miles away in Norfolk, and Tracy posted off her inflatable yellow friend on Wednesday.
Who's this, staring out at me?
Yay! My very own Minion!
As if that wasn't enough, Tracy had Audrey round the other day while she and Tracy's kids are all on school holidays and she kindly turned Audrey into a pink tiger for the day.
That's not a sentence you get to use very often.
K'lee L, over at Obzervashunal, has always showcased stunning imagery on a blog that covers photography, graphics, design and philosophical musings on life and nature.
His work often combines beautiful photography, overlaid with digital filters and effects, producing ethereal, other-worldly collages that produce a very distinctive, recognisable K'lee L "look" which I have admired since first discovering his blog a few years ago.
Today's post is no exception; a striking and colourful treatment of a picture of a lion which, if you didn't already click the first link, YOU CAN SEE HERE.
It's a great piece of art but I felt that, given the introduction to the post, describing how the original photo came about, it would be nice to see a little more of the actual lion through the additional graphic artwork.
Obviously I'm a fine one to talk when it comes to mucking about with photos, so quite rightly K'lee took me to task and challenged me to come up with my own obscured composite picture (just for fun; this isn't a matter of honour, pistols at dawn type of challenge) and of course I accepted.
I decided to do just that; make a composite image from various photos in my collection, almost entirely obscuring the base photograph by layering others over it, hopefully leaving just enough that the picture is discernible through the haze.
For the sake of completeness, I'm "showing my workings", like they used to tell us to do at school.
You might prefer the original, one of the steps in between, or none of the above, but I'm quite pleased with this quick first attempt at digital camera obscura and I shall continue to experiment with this kind of enigmatic photographic art in the not-too-distant future.
Thanks for the inspiration K'lee, and keep making life that little bit more beautiful with your Obzervashuns.


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Authorities insist on permissive requirements for street rallies
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The Belarusian authorities continue to insist on the permissive principle for holding opposition street rallies and apply pointed detentions and fines against activists in unauthorised protests. Currently, the opposition has two centres for coordinating street activity: Statkevich-led Belarusian National Committee, encouraging the population to march in the Minsk centre on May Day without an authorisation; and the organizing committee of Chernobyl Path 2017 and May Day rallies, including the right-wingers, Tell the Truth and independent trade unions, standing for an authorised and safe format.
Minsk authorities and the opposition have agreed on the Chernobyl Shliakh (Chernobyl Path) format.
Following negotiations between the opposition and the Minsk City authorities, the latter have agreed to authorise the Chernobyl Path to start at 6 pm on April 26th at the Academy of Sciences and allowed the participants to march towards the Bangalore Square, a traditional route for this annual rally. The authorities made an attempt to shift the start of the rally to 2 pm in order to reduce participation in the rally, but finally, the compromise had been achieved.
In addition, part of the opposition and independent trade unions have planned a series of "solidarity marches" with socio-economic slogans, which should start in Minsk and 30 Belarusian regions on May 1st. Meanwhile, the BNC, headed by Statkevich is calling upon the population to gather on the October Square in Minsk for an unauthorised May Day rally with social and political demands. Given the possible clampdown by the authorities, unauthorised protests are unlikely to be popular among the activists.
The authorities are unlikely to take the risk and authorise the 'solidarity marches', including in the capital, due to the fears of convergence of the political agenda and socio-economic demands and the opposition gaining in popularity among the population.
President ensures continuity of state administration with young middle-level personnel
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President Lukashenka continues to rotate staff and rejuvenate heads of departments and universities following new appointments in regional administrations. Apparently, new Information Minister Karliukevich could somewhat relax the state policy towards the independent media and introduce technological solutions for retaining control over Belarus' information space. New rectors could strengthen the trend for soft Belarusization in the regions and tighten the disciplinary and ideological control over the student movement in the capital.
President Lukashenka has appointed new ministers of culture and information, the new rector of the Belarusian State University and heads of three universities, assistants in the Minsk and Vitebsk regions.
The new Information Minister Karliukevich is likely to avoid controversial initiatives similar to those former Minister Ananich was famous for, however, certainly within his capacities. Nevertheless, the appointment of Belarusian-speaking writer Karliukevich could be regarded as the state's cautious attempt to relax environment in the media field and ensure the sovereignty of national media.
The Belarusian leadership has consolidated the trend for mild Belarusization by appointing a young historian and a 'reasonable nationalist', Duk as the rector at the Kuleshov State University in Mogilev. Meanwhile, while choosing the head of the Belarusian State University, the president apparently had in mind the strengthening of the ideological loyalty among the teaching staff and students at the main university in order to keep the youth movement at bay. Previously, Korol was the rector of the Kupala State University in Grodno, where he held purges among the disloyal teaching staff.
The trend for the renewal of mid-ranking executives and their rejuvenation has confirmed. The age of the Culture Minister and three new rectors varies from 39 to 44 years old.


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This was written in January… but I saved it up to post now. I am not going to update the "what I am doing" section – it's a look back to January!
I've been pretty busy with a newborn, 5 year old & Christmas prep going on. I made very intricate cross-stitch stockings for Kevin & myself over the years (started mine in college & his while we were dating). I started one for Andy when I was pregnant with him – 5+ years ago… it still isn't done! So I figure at this rate Sam will never get one! Time to make a new plan! I saw this pattern (Merry) by Camille Roskelley when she made them for herself & in her instagram posts during the holidays. Here's a peak into my finished products.


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Elementary Student Dictionary $12.00
The Illustrated Chinese Dictionary for Children is an ideal dictionary for young readers. It contains the Chinese characters and expressions frequently used in primary school textbooks. Over 1,600 words and 1,700 pictures are included in the dictionary.
Clear, easy definitions in simple Chinese.
Thousands of short, interesting and natural example phrases and sentences.
Pinyin transcriptions for every character.
Radicals, numbers of strokes and stroke order included to help readers to write.
List of easily mispronounced and misspelled Chinese characters.
Pictures to motivate young readers.
20 pages of colour illustrations.
Elementary Chinese Pictorial Dictionary (Bilingual) $19.00
Chinese Picture Dictionary for Beginners is a reference book for foreigners to learn basic Chinese. It helps them to recognize the form of the Chinese characters, pronounce them accurately and understand their meaning, which will lay a foundation for using the Chinese language correctly.
The dictionary contains more than 1600 entries. It provides about illustrations to help the learners understand the words and phrases correctly and easily, as the audio-visual images define them directly and vividly. The pictures and verbal definition are mutually complementary. There are also 20 inserted pages of colored pedicures showing classified plants and animals.
Notes of the use of the dictionary
This dictionary adopts the method of looking up words according to phonology or radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries. At the beginning of the dictionary are the "List of Chinese phoneticized syllables" and the "List of radicals for looking up Chinese words."
The pronunciation, radical and number of strokes of a Chinese character (except the strokes of the radical itself) and the order of strokes observed in calligraphy are clearly indicated after each entry. These will help the readers to be familiar with and master the pronunciation, structure and correct handwriting of Chinese characters.
The entries are arranged in the Chinese phonetic alphabetical order. Characters of the same syllable are put in the order of their tones, namely the four tones of modern standard Chinese pronunciation: 1. the high and level tone, 2. the rising tone, 3. the falling-rising tone and 4. the falling tone.
Characters with more than one pronunciation and those of the same syllable but different tones are in the same entry. Words of different pronunciations and syllables are in different entries marked with "see also" after it.
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LHungaria Sport Club, meglio conosciuto come Toronto Hungaria, è stata una squadra canadese di calcio con sede a Toronto (Ontario).

Storia
LHungaria Sport Club venne fondato nel 1949 ed inizialmente iscritto nei locali campionati della città di Toronto.

Dalla stagione 1952 si iscrisse alla National Soccer League Nella stagione 1973, dopo aver raggiunto il quarto posto in campionato, si aggiudicò i play-off per il titolo, battendo in finale il . A causa di difficoltà finanziarie la squadra abbandonò la NSL dopo il campionato 1975, rimanendo attiva solo a livello amatoriale.

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Importantly, we found that incorporation of mutant FUS into stress granules is dependent on the RNA-binding ability of FUS. SGs are dynamic aggregates composed of proteins and RNA that are formed when cells are under a variety of stresses. We observed that normally cytoplasmic SGs rapidly disassemble when stress conditions end, whereas cytoplasmic SGs formed in ALS patient cells having a FUS mutation fail to disassemble. This suggests that mutant FUS sequesters proteins and RNAs important for cellular homeostasis and the defect in disassembly of cytoplasmic SGs contributes to ALS. Finally, following up these observations we performed an in vivo unbiased genetic screen that led to the discovery of several dominant modifiers of mutant FUS toxicity including proteins involved in regulating SG dynamics, mitochondrial functions and RNA splicing. These genetic modifiers would help in identifying potential therapeutic targets for ALS.


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Man and woman launched 'despicable attack' on vulnerable victim, 63, after asking him for cigarette
A woman approached the victim with another man before punching him
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A vulnerable man was attacked by a blonde woman with plaits and another man after they had asked him for a cigarette.
Cleveland Police is appealing for information after the woman assaulted the 63-year-old victim with another man.
The pair approached the victim on Duke Street in Hartlepool between 11pm and 11.15pm on Sunday.
A police spokeswoman said: "The 63-year-old man suffered injuries to his face, back of the head, chest and wrist after a man and woman, believed to be aged in their thirties, approached the victim and asked for a cigarette.
"When the victim didn't have any, he was punched and hit by the two suspects.
"The man was taken to hospital for treatment by his family.
"The female suspect is described as having blonde hair with plaits."
Investigating officer, PC Andrew Morrison, said: "This is a despicable attack on a vulnerable man who was left with some nasty injuries.
"I'd like to appeal for anyone with any information regarding the man and woman who may be involved, and would urge anyone who may have private CCTV around the area of Duke Street to get in touch on 101."
Anyone with information is asked to contact PC Andrew Morrison on the non-emergency number 101, quoting event number 138094.
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Civics, ethics, and even US history classes may cover the topics of workers' rights and a liveable wage, the focus of this handout. It provides a summary of an agreement between the Committee of Immokalee Workers and Yum! Brands, Inc. After reading the information, the class discusses the equity of the agreement and its influence on other businesses or labor organizations.


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Network Performance Tutorial featuring perfSONAR
A key component to distributed computing and collaboration is a functional and efficient network. It is well known that scientific data sets continue to increase in number, size, and importance for numerous research and education (R&E) communities. Migration of the data from the instruments that observe or create data (e.g. particle accelerators, telescopes, etc.), to those that perform processing (e.g. supercomputing resources), involves use of network infrastructure, communication protocols, and the end user applications that direct workflow. The tie that binds scientific use cases on a network is a reliable network experience—free of architectural flaws, and physical limitations. Operational staffs are limited in the support they can deliver; innovative tools are required to solve the "end-to-end" performance problems that can often delay the delivery of data, or affect activities such as processing.
We will present an overview of network performance tools and techniques, focusing on the pS-Performance Toolkit and select XSEDE monitoring tools. The pSPT is an "all-in-one" monitoring solution allows local control, while providing a global view of performance that will directly impact the use of networks. While it has traditionally been the case that network problems are the realm of 'operators', the definition of "the network" now includes the end hosts and applications as well – both candidates for inducing problems into the flow of end to end information. Goals include familiarizing attendees with how these tools aid in debugging networks, hosts, applications, and the proper way to install and configure software
Accelerator Programming Using OpenACC
This half-day tutorial will provide a hands-on introduction to the OpenACC programming model. OpenACC is the new programming standard for accelerators (especially GPUs and Xeon Phis) that allows directive-based, incremental parallelization of codes at a high level. This is a major change from past programming approaches that are hardware-specific and fairly low-level. With this advantage we can take C and Fortran programmers from serial programming to successful parallelization of exercises in a half day, assuming only introductory knowledge, but also providing a useful experience for intermediate parallel programmers. John Urbanic is Parallel Computing Specialist at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and will be leading the lectures. Tom Maiden from the PSC will also be assisting.
Programming for the Intel Xeon Phi
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The Innovative Technology component of the recently deployed XSEDE Stampede supercomputer at TACC provides access to 8 PetaFlops of computing power in the form of the new Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor, also known as MIC. While the MIC is x86 based, hosts its own Linux OS, and is capable of running most user codes with little porting effort, the MIC architecture has significant features that are different from that of present x86 CPUs, and optimal performance requires an understanding of the possible execution models and basic details of the architecture. This tutorial is designed to introduce XSEDE users to the MIC architecture in a practical manner. Multiple lectures and hands-on exercises will be used to get the user acquainted with the MIC platform and explore the different execution modes as well as parallelization and optimization through example testing and reports. Compiler reports are particularly helpful on the MIC because the slower clock speed, many cores, and increased vector depth makes vectorization critical for achieving high performance. The tutorial will be divided in four sections: Introduction to the MIC architecture; native execution and optimization; offload execution; and symmetric execution. In each section the users will spend half the time doing guided hands-on exercises.
Hands-on Practical Hybrid Parallel Application Performance Engineering
This tutorial presents state-of-the-art performance tools for leading-edge HPC systems founded on the Score-P community instrumentation and measurement infrastructure, demonstrating how they can be used for performance engineering of effective scientific applications based on standard MPI, OpenMP, hybrid combination of both, and increasingly common usage of accelerators (e.g., Nvidia GPUs & Intel Xeon Phi). Parallel performance evaluation tools from the VI-HPS (Virtual Institute – High Productivity Supercomputing) are introduced and featured in hands-on exercises with Scalasca, Vampir and TAU. We present the complete workflow of performance engineering, including instrumentation, measurement (profiling and tracing, timing and PAPI counters), data storage, analysis, and visualization. Emphasis is placed on how tools are used in combination for identifying performance problems and investigating optimization alternatives, illustrated with a case study using a major application code. Using their own notebook computers to connect to an XSEDE HPC system where the tools are installed for the exercises will help to prepare participants to locate and diagnose performance bottlenecks in their own parallel programs.
Toward Improved Performance Solutions (TIPS): Programming with Numerical Libraries
The HPC community is now using powerful supercomputing systems composed of heterogeneous nodes built from multi-core processors and accelerator like NVIDIA GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi (MIC). Numerical libraries are some of the most used libraries on these HPC systems, which are usually the most consuming part of scientific and engineering applications. This tutorial will introduce state of the art numerical libraries that assist computational scientists to develop parallel code using robust and scalable solutions to achieve a better performance. This tutorial, suitable for attendees with a beginning to intermediate level in parallel programing, will provide a comprehensive overview on selected numerical libraries most used by scientific applications. It will focus on simple examples of using these libraries, and demonstrate programming and running code efficiently on XSEDE computing resources. Tools to be described include LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, FFTW, PETSc, along with PLASMA, MAGMA projects and vendor libraries (MKL, ACML, LibSci) to take advantage of the multicores and accelerators like GPUs and MICs. Participants are encouraged to bring laptop computers and follow live demonstrations with detailed examples using the numerical libraries on XSEDE resources. Source code for demonstrations and exercises in this tutorial will be available for download.
An Introduction to BigJob and BigData  Using Pilots to Manage Computation and Data on XSEDE
SAGA-BigJob provides a framework for running both very large-scale parallel simulations and many small high-throughput across a variety of middleware. These applications also may utilize a variety of storage systems when staging data in and out. BigJob has been used for parameter sweeps, many instances of the same task (ensemble), chained tasks, loosely coupled but distinct tasks, as well as tasks with data or compute dependencies. BigJob have seen their widest usage across the heterogeneous resources that XSEDE provides. Simple installation into user space on any resource that supports Python >2.6 makes the uptake of BigJob virtually seemless. BigJob supports thousand of jobs (millions of SUs) and has been at the heart of two recent and successful ECSS projects. It has been used by a wide range of application types -- ranging from Computational Chemistry applications (uncoupled ensembles) to loosely coupled applications. BigJob is a reference implementation of the P* Model of Pilot-Jobs. Pilot-Jobs support the decoupling of workload submission from resource assignment. BigJob and its data-management layer (BigData) address the fundamental challenges of co-placement and scheduling of data and compute in heterogeneous and distributed environments with interoperability and extensibility as first-order concerns. We present a half-day introductory tutorial to using BigJob to effectively manage submission of computations and movement of data on XSEDE. Attendees will need to bring their laptops.
Introducing R: from Your Laptop to HPC and Big Data
The R language is the lingua franca of data analysis and statistical computing. However, it has issues with scalability. This tutorial will introduce to attendees both the R language, as well as the high performance extension of the language, pbdR. Examples will utilize common techniques from data analytics, such as principal components and clustering. No background in R is assumed, but even R veterans will benefit from the session. The tutorial will have hands-on opportunities for attendees to actively follow along.
Globus Online: Scalable Research Data Management Infrastructure for Campuses and XSEDE Service Providers
The rapid growth of data in scientific research endeavors is placing massive demands on campus computing centers and high-performance computing (HPC) facilities to provide robust user services and supporting network infrastructure that scales with the needs of their users. Existing research data management (RDM) services are typically difficult to use and error prone, and the underlying networking and security infrastructure is complex and inflexible, resulting in user frustration and sub-optimal use of resources. An approach that is increasingly common in HPC facilities—such as those managed by XSEDE service providers—includes software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions like Globus Online for moving, syncing, and sharing large data sets. The SaaS approach allows HPC resource owners and systems administrators to deliver enhanced RDM services to end users at optimal quality of service, while minimizing the administrative and operations overhead associated with traditional software.Globus Online is the first service to pass the XSEDE Operations Acceptance Test and be accepted for production deployment, making it an official software service on XSEDE resources. Usage has grown rapidly, with more than 8,000 registered users and over 12 petabytes moved. Globus Online's reliable file transfer, combined with the recently announced data sharing service, is key functionality for bridging between campus and external resources, and is enabling scientists to more easily scale their research work flows. Tutorial attendees will explore the challenges such facilities face in delivering scalable RDM solutions. They will be introduced to the RDM functions of Globus Online, learn how other resource owners are using Globus Online, and have the opportunity for hands-on interaction with the service at various levels of technical depth.
A New and Improved Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform: Advancing the Development of Scientific Applications
Many HPC developers still use command-line tools and tools with disparate, and sometimes confusing, user interfaces for the different aspects of the HPC project life cycle. The Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) combines tools for coding, debugging, job scheduling, tuning, revision control, and more into an integrated environment for increased productivity. Leveraging the successful open-source Eclipse platform, PTP helps manage the complexity of HPC scientific code development and optimization on diverse platforms, and provides tools to gain insight into complex code that is otherwise difficult to attain. Moreover, PTP is preconfigured to work seamlessly with a large number of XSEDE resources. This tutorial will provide attendees with a hands-on introduction to Eclipse and PTP, with an advanced section focusing on the use of performance tools through Eclipse PTP.
Scientific Visualization: Concept to Execution
Visualization is largely understood and used as an excellent communication tool by researchers. This narrow view often keeps scientists from fully using and developing their visualization skillset. This tutorial will provide a "from the ground up" understanding of visualization and its utility in error diagnostic and exploration of data for scientific insight. When used effectively visualization can provide a complementary and effective toolset for data analysis, which is one of the most challenging problems in computational domains. In this tutorial we plan to bridge these gaps by providing end users with fundamental visualization concepts, execution tools, customization and usage examples. The tutorial will be presented in three sessions covering visualization fundamentals, hands on introduction to VisIt software and learning advanced, new features in VisIt.
Tutorial on Secure Coding Practices
Security is crucial to the software that we develop and use. With the growth of both Grid and Cloud services, security is becoming even more critical. This tutorial is relevant to anyone wanting to learn about minimizing security flaws in the software they develop. We share our experiences gained from performing vulnerability assessments of critical middleware. You will learn skills critical for software developers and analysts concerned with security. This tutorial presents coding practices subject to vulnerabilities, with examples of how they commonly arise, techniques to prevent them, and exercises to reinforce them. Most examples are in Java, C, C++, Perl and Python, and come from real code belonging to Cloud and Grid systems we have assessed. This tutorial is an outgrowth of our experiences in performing vulnerability assessment of critical middleware, including Google Chrome, Wireshark, Condor, SDSC Storage Resource Broker, NCSA MyProxy, INFN VOMS Admin and Core, and many others.
Performance Optimization for Stampede
The goal of this tutorial is to enable application users and developers to readily optimize the performance of their applications on Stampede. The heterogeneous compute nodes of Stampede include both Sandy Bridge multicore chips and a manycore Kinghts Corner chip. This tutorial will demonstrate use of PerfExpert and MACPO for optimizing applications for the Sandy Bridge chips and a simple process for partitioning of MPI-based applications across the Sandy Bridge and Knights Corner chips to most effectively use the computational power of both types of chips. The tutorial will be "hands on" with participants following the demonstrations and doing the laboratory sessions on their laptops. Each participant will have a guest account on Stampede. Each participant should bring a laptop with which she/he can access these systems. Example and demonstration applications are provided as a part of the tutorial but participants are encouraged to come prepared to optimize one of their own applications. Performance optimization has four phases: measurement, diagnosis of performance bottlenecks, selection of optimizations and implementation of optimizations. Past versions of PerfExpert have almost fully automated the first three phases of optimization. The optimization processes are based upon use of an extended version of PerfExpert which integrates data from the MACPO data structure analysis with the PerfExpert analyses of code segments. The extended version of PerfExpert fully automates a subset of commonly used optimizations
Managing Large-Scale Data Using ADIOS
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As more scientific applications are being executed on large-scale platforms, how to utilize the underlying parallel storage system to provide a matching I/O performance becomes critical in ensuring scientific productivity. Due to complicated system architecture and constrains from different aspects, we must look for a revolutionary way to enable fast I/O. One of the major challenges is how to write and read large self-describing datasets quickly and efficiently at scale. Since many applications often want to process data in an efficient and flexible manner, in terms of data formats and operations performed (e.g., files, data streams), I/O abstractions need to allow easy techniques to transform I/O through the wide-variety of I/O choices. Our group has researched, developed, and created an I/O framework, ADIOS, which abstracts the API from the implementation, and allows a large and growing set of users to write and read data efficiently on large levels of concurrency. The tutorial is arranged in three parts. Part I introduces parallel I/O and the ADIOS framework to the audience. Specifically we will discus the concept of ADIOS I/O abstraction, the binary-packed file format, and I/O methods along with the benefits to applications. Part II includes a hands-on session on how to write/read data, and how to use different I/O componentizations inside of ADIOS. Part III shows users how complex codes can take advantage of the ADIOS framework.
XSEDE New User Tutorial
This tutorial will provide training and hands-on activities to help new users learn and become comfortable with the basic steps necessary to first obtain, and then successfully employ an XSEDE allocation to accomplish their research goals. The tutorial will consist of three sections: The first part of the tutorial will explain the XSEDE allocations process and how to write and submit successful allocation proposals. The instructor will describe the contents of an outstanding proposal and the process for generating each part. Topics covered will include the scientific justification, the justification of the request for resources, techniques for producing meaningful performance and scaling benchmarks, and navigating the POPS system through the XSEDE Portal for electronic submission of proposals. The second section, "Information Security Training for XSEDE Researchers," will review basic information security principles for XSEDE users including: how to protect yourself from on-line threats and risks, how to secure your desktop/laptop, safe practices for social networking, email and instant messaging, how to choose a secure password and what to do if you account or machine have been compromised. The last part of the tutorial will cover the New User Training material that is been delivered remotely quarterly, but will delve deeper into these topics. New topics will be covered, including how to troubleshoot why a job has not run and how to improve job turnaround by understanding differences in batch job schedulers on different platforms. We will demonstrate how to perform the various tasks on the XSEDE Portal with live, hands-on activities and personalized help. We will practice submitting a job, figuring out why it has not run and transferring files between supercomputers. In the event of network issues we will have demos available as a backup. We anticipate significant interest from Campus Champions, and therefore we will explain how attendees can assist others, as well as briefly describe projects that are being currently carried out in non-traditional HPC disciplines.
Building Scalable Scientific Applications using Makeflow and Work Queue
This tutorial will provide an introduction to writing scalable scientific applications that are robust, elastic, and portable across different distributed systems. We will use Makeflow and Work Queue, developed by the Cooperative Computing Lab at the University of Notre Dame, to build and run such applications. Makeflow and Work Queue are designed to be lightweight, easy to install, and easy to use with simple programming interfaces. They are used around the world to attack large problems in fields such as life sciences, data mining, chemistry, biology, and more. The tutorial will introduce participants to Makeflow and Work Queue and teach their use in building scalable scientific applications. The tutorial will consist of two parts: (i) a lecture that gives an overview of Work Queue and Makeflow, their architecture, and salient features, and (ii) a hands-on instruction on installing and using these tools to build and run scalable applications. The hands-on instruction will be conducted using the HPC/HTC compute resources and services offered in XSEDE.
Parallel Computing with MATLAB and Scaling to XSEDE with Blacklight
This tutorial aims to introduce parallel computing capability to the large group of researchers, from engineering and physical sciences to social sciences, who use MATLAB either as the primary software for their computing needs, or for processing of data from simulations performed with other software. With the MATLAB Distributed Computing Server (MDCS) now available on the supercomputer Blacklight at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, these researchers can scale up their MATLAB codes on multiple processing cores, often with a minimum of code changes. In some cases, the only change needed in the code to achieve significant parallelism may be to parallelize an appropriate, computationally heavy loop by replacing the keyword for with parfor. Additional parallelism, as well as more complicated algorithms may need more sophisticated parallelization. This half-day tutorial, conducted jointly by MathWorks and PSC, will provide a comprehensive overview of the different parallel computing capabilities of MATLAB as well as how to submit code to run on Blacklight.
Introduction to Hadoop on the SDSC Gordon data-intensive supercomputer
The Hadoop framework is extensively used for scalable distributed processing of large datasets. The SDSC Gordon Compute cluster is ideally suited to running Hadoop with fast SSD drives enabling HDFS performance and the high speed Infiniband interconnect to provide scalability. Hadoop can be set up on Gordon in two ways – 1) using the myHadoop framework through the regular batch queue, and 2) utilizing dedicated I/O nodes with associated compute nodes. All users interested in utilizing Hadoop on XSEDE resources are invited to attend. The tutorial will provide a short introduction to Hadoop, info on how to run Hadoop jobs on Gordon, performance info on Gordon, and an overview of Hadoop based tools for data intensive computing. We begin the tutorial with an introduction to Hadoop with a simple illustrative example. We then give an overview of the Gordon architecture and its advantages for running Hadoop. We then go over the basic configuration files needed to set up Hadoop and detail how the myHadoop framework enables this for users within the regular queue structure. After completing the overview of Hadoop configuration and the Gordon architecture, we will have several hands on examples (e.g. TestDFS, and TeraSort) illustrating the use of Hadoop and myHadoop on Gordon. We will detail the SSD storage configurations on Gordon, and modes of access for users in the context of running Hadoop. The various network configuration options will also be detailed with performance info with Hadoop benchmarks on Gordon. The remainder of the tutorial will go over various API options with a hands-on example of Hadoop streaming. A brief description of tools that use Hadoop for data intensive computing – HIVE, Hbase, PIG, Apache Mahout (scalable machine learning algorithms) will be provided. SDSC Staff will be available to meet with individual users, to further discuss the Hadoop environment on Gordon, at the conclusion of the tutorial.
Student Tutorials
Supercomputing in Plain English, Part 1
This session provides a broad overview of High Performance Computing (HPC). Topics include: what is supercomputing?; the fundamental issues of HPC (storage hierarchy, parallelism); hardware primer; introduction to the storage hierarchy; introduction to parallelism via an analogy (multiple people working on a jigsaw puzzle); Moore's Law; the motivation for using HPC.
This session provides an intuitive, nontechnical analogy for understanding distributed parallelism (desert islands), as a precursor for understanding the MPI programming model: distributed execution, communication, message passing, independence, privacy, latency vs. bandwidth; parallel strategies (client-server, task parallelism, data parallelism, pipelining). Assumed background: 1 semester of programming in C or C++, recently; basic Unix/Linux experience, recently.
Introduction to Predictive Analytics for Big Data
The Predictive Analytics Center of Excellence (PACE) strives to promote, educate and innovate in the area of predictive analytics to enhance the wellbeing of the global population and economy. With the ubiquity of computing, databases, and automated data collection tools like sensors all connected and integrated by sophisticated networks the world has become saturated with data. While advances in technology have led to an unprecedented ability to compute, collect and store huge amounts of data, the ability to extract useful information from raw data has become progressively critical. Integrating the methodologies of mathematics, statistics, visualization, and computer science, domain knowledge experts can address the Big Data challenge. This half-day tutorial is designed as an introduction for researchers seeking to extract meaningful predictive information from within massive volumes of data. The scientific community will get an introduction to the field of predictive analytics and learn to use a variety of data analysis tools to discover patterns and relationships in data that can contribute to building valid predictions. The tutorial is designed to provide professionals in business enterprises and scientific communities with the skills critical to design, build, verify, and test predictive data models. Data mining –– the art and science of learning from data –– covers a number of different procedures. This hands-on course emphasizes key learning techniques: decision trees, numeric prediction, clustering, Bayesian learning, artificial neural networks (ANNs), support vector machines (SVMs), etc. Workshop participants will have access to a comprehensive set of data mining tools available on SDSC's Gordon, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers with 300 terabytes of flash memory. Moreover, with access to this computing resource, participants will be able to sharpen their skills, apply data mining algorithms to real data, and interpret the results.
A Beginner's Guide to Visualization: Introduction to Visualization
This tutorial provides an introduction to visualization by exploring underlying principles used in information and scientific visualization. Hands-on exercises using Gephi (Information Visualization) and VisIt (Scientific Visualization) are designed to give participants experience in discerning what type of visualization tool would be most effective in gaining insight into different ways of interpreting data. The visualization process is presented as a vehicle for using visualization as a tool for knowledge discovery, gaining insight, making better informed decisions when analyzing data. The format will serve both those who wish to participate hands-on (using their own laptop) and those who wish to observe and ask questions.