GISandbox featured!

The Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) is featuring the GISandbox this month! We are honored to be featured by this great community. There are a growing number of science gateways for interdisciplinary problem solving. So please check out their website (and their resources if you are building your own science gateway).

GISandbox, Science Gateway Featured, Credit: Nayiri Mullinix, SGCI

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https://sciencegateways.org

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An Overview of Esri Cloud and Big Data Spatial Analytics Offerings Available to XSEDE

I'm excited to share the ArcGIS for XSEDE webinar hosted by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) and Esri (Full title: An Overview of Esri Cloud and Big Data Spatial Analytics Offerings Available to XSEDE). We had over 70 participants join the webinar and I had many requests for the recording. Please share the presentation with anyone who might be interested.

GISandbox (the site you are currently reading) will serve as the 'core communication channel' for many of these GIS+XSEDE activities so please check back or subscribe to stay up-to-date with the latest information and opportunities. Of course, if you have questions or would like to get involved feel free to get in contact with the presenters or myself, Eric Shook (eshook@umn.edu).

An Overview of Esri Cloud and Big Data Spatial Analytics Offerings Available to XSEDE

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XSEDE Startup Allocation Approved

Good news! XSEDE has approved the Startup Allocation for the GISandbox. We are working hard to get GISandbox up and running with the latest commercial and open source software. This allocation grants GISandbox users access to the following supercomputers and cloud resources:

1. Jetstream (Indiana University / Texas Advanced Computing Center)https://jetstream-cloud.org
Jetstream will host our Virtual Machine running JupyterHub, which will serve as the primary interface for GISandbox users. 2. Bridges (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)https://www.psc.edu/bridges
Bridges will be a primary compute resource, which is designed for non-traditional high-performance computing (HPC) users like the GIScience community. 3. Comet (San Diego Supercomputing Center)http://www.sdsc.edu/services/hpc/hpc_systems.html#comet
Comet will be another primary compute resource, which is also designed for non-traditional (HPC) users. As SDSC likes to say "HPC for the 99 percent". Interested? If you…

GISandbox live

The GISandbox is ready for users. After over a year of work and preparation the GISandbox is transitioning from prototype to production. We would like to acknowledge the NSF-supported Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) Extended Collaborative Support Services (ECSS) team including Davide Del Vento, Andrea Zonca, and Jun Wang as well as the Science Gateway Community Institute (SGCI) including Mark Krenz. Without their dedication and expertise the GISandbox would still be a wish rather than a fully functioning gateway.

The GISandbox gateway runs a JupyterLab interface with a host of open source packages to enable geospatial research. We are putting the finishing touches on the notebook submit option that enables users to take their Jupyter Notebooks and run them on the Comet and Bridges supercomputers. If you are interested in signing up to be a GISandbox user for geospatial education and research, then please follow the 3 steps below.

1. To sign-in, users must…

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