OU Supercomputing Center for Education and Research

OSCER users,

Schooner scheduled maintenance outage
Wed Dec 16 8:00am-midnight Central Time

In preparation for OSCER's NEW SUPERCOMPUTER, Sooner, which we'll start deploying in the spring:

We'll be upgrading Linux and the BIOS on some of Schooner's
servers, removing unrepairable equipment, and moving some of
Schooner's servers to other racks.

We apologize for the inconvenience -- our goal is to make
OSCER resources better for everyone!

The OSCER team ([email protected])

Research Funding Opportunity
ODOT
The Oklahoma Transportation Office of Research and Implementation is now requesting FY22 Research/ Implementation Topic Statement submissions through Dec. 31, 2020; however, ORS offices are closed Dec. 24 - Jan. 4, 2021.

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CERN Sponsors Free Lecture Series on Quantum Computing

The course is aimed at computer scientists and will emphasize practical uses of quantum computing technology.

CERN is sponsoring a series of free webcasts on quantum computing. The talks, which do not require knowledge of quantum physics, are designed for computer scientists and will focus on practical aspects of quantum computing. The speaker is Professor Elias Fernandez-Combarro Alvarez of the University of Oviedo, Spain Computer Science Department.

According to the announcement at the CERN website, the series “...introduces basic concepts of the quantum circuit model (qubits, gates, and measures) and important quantum algorithms and protocols, including those that can be implemented with a few qubits (BB84, quantum teleportation, superdense coding, etc.), as well as those that require multi-qubit systems (Deutsch-Jozsa, Grover, Shor, etc.). Some of the most recent applications of quantum computing in the fields of optimization and simulation will be addressed (with special emphasis on the use of quantum annealing, the quantum approximate optimization algorithm, and the variational quantum eigensolver), along with quantum machine learning (for instance, through the use of quantum support vector machines and quantum variational classifiers). Examples of how these techniques can be used in chemistry simulations and high-energy physics problems will also be provided.”

The weekly series began on November 6. A video of the first lecture is available at the CERN website (https://home.cern/news/announcement/computing/online-introductory-lectures-quantum-computing-6-november). The next installment is on November 13, and later lectures will occur on subsequent Fridays.

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https://cds.cern.ch/record/2743724

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