We had a very good phone conference with our collaborators at the University of Linz in Austria this morning.

We are currently preparing a new data dump for our collaborators at Johns Hopkins University. They use our density functional theory data as a testbed and to parameterize an SSH model Hamiltonian they’ve been developing.

Suleyman managed to set up and mount the new jabbas 5 and 6 with gives us an additional capacity of 270TB. Awesome job, Suleyman!

Haha, yes - then we'll be a peta-scale project :). That's what you call BIG DATA :)

We just heard a very interesting talk by Jeff Hammerbacher, the Chief Scientist at Cloudera, titled ”Evolving an Infrastructure and Curriculum for Data Science”. Interesting stuff, in particular in the context of a big data project such as the Clean Energy Project.

Prior to co-founding Cloudera, Jeff conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook. The Data team was responsible for inventing and building powerful data analysis applications on Hadoop. That system is the core data platform at Facebook for improving the user experience and driving revenue. Before he joined Facebook, Jeff worked as a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Harvard University.