Your Portal to High-Performance Computing is Now Available

HPCWe are excited to announce the immediate availability of the new HPC OnDemand Web Portal for ManeFrame II. The portal provides an integrated, single web-based access point for High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources on ManeFrame II (M2) and is open to the entire SMU research community.

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Free Text Mining Practicum Course Returns!

RLast fall, OIT offered a Text Mining Practicum to learn how to look at the sheer amount of data in our lives and see how can we use it to answer burning questions and make big decisions.

Students were able to evaluate data from the shortest tweets to the largest repositories of scientific information and process it with R. The class filled in 24 hours and was an incredible success. Well, we are bringing it back this spring.
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Summer Smarts: Popular Online Courses for Personal & Technical Growth

With summer here and the temperatures on the rise, it’s always a good idea to occasionally head inside for a rest from the heat. If web surfing and Netflix binge-watching are getting a little boring for you, check out some of these popular online courses that can cure some of the summer doldrums while keeping your skills sharp. As always, LinkedIn Learning is free for students, faculty, and staff!

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