Gordon Workshop Resources

Below are links to materials presented at workshops, conferences, and events related to SDSC's Gordon supercomputer.

Materials For Current Events/Institutes/Workshops

"Gordon 101: An introduction to using SDSC’s Appro Gordon Compute Cluster, May 17, 2012, 9am-12noon

View the agenda and additional details such as attendee account information.

Materials From Past Training Events/Institutes/Workshops

"Get Ready For Gordon/vSMP" Gordon Summer Institute, May 10-11, 2011

The "Get Ready For Gordon/vSMP" Workshop was held in May of 2011 and provided an excellent introduction to the details of using flash-based systems and vSMP, including video and slides. View the 2011 Gordon Summer Institute videos and slides.


"Get Ready For Gordon/vSMP" Gordon Workshop, May 10-11, 2011

The "Get Ready For Gordon/vSMP" Workshop was held in May of 2011 and provided an excellent introduction to the details of using flash-based systems and vSMP, including video and slides. View the 2011 Gordon Summer Institute videos and slides.


April 21, 2011

Mike Norman, Director of SDSC, presented to the La Jolla Research & Innovation Summit in La Jolla, CA. View Mike's presentation titled "Supercomputing Goes Data-Intensive".


May 12, 2010

Mike Norman, Director of SDSC, delivered one of the first presentations on Gordon last year in Lake Tahoe at the 2010 IEEE 26th Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies. View Mike's slides.



Recent Gordon News & Events

Software and OS Upgrade

July 1, 2013
Software Stack Upgrade for Gordon Comprehensive Application and OS Upgrade Scheduled for June 2013 Data Oasis and NFS Storage Not Affected An operati... more news...


Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery

10/26/10 - 10/28/10
"Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery" conference was held October 26 - 28, 2010 at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) on the campus o... more events...


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