Foster’s rule (also known as the island rule or the island effect) is an ecogeographical rule in evolutionary biology stating that members of a species get smaller or bigger depending on the resources available in the environment. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster’s_rule Cyberinfrastructure at the University of Hawaii is relatively new and small compared to the other organizations […]
The annual XSEDE conference will be changing into a new conference called “Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing” or PEARC. The Advancing Research Computing on Campuses (ARCC) best practices workshop, a conference with close ties to ACI-REF, will be co-located with this inaugural PEARC conference, bringing together members of each group in the same time […]
One of our most common roles as a facilitator is as “teacher” to the researchers whose work we facilitate. It’s a role that not only requires a good set of communication skills, but also a knowledge of what our learners (researchers) already know, what they need to know, and what learning steps are necessary along […]