Yearly Archives: 2013

TR-13-01 Enabling Persistent Queries for Cross-aggregate Performance Monitoring

Anirban Mandal, Ilia Baldine, Yufeng Xin, Paul Ruth, Chris Heerman, Technical Report TR-13-01, Enabling Persistent Queries for Cross-aggregate Performance Monitoring, Renaissance Computing Institute, 2013.

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UNC, RENCI tool provides innovative ways to share humanities data

CHAPEL HILL, August 13, 2013 – A new software tool developed by the UNC-Chapel Hill Digital Innovation Lab (DIL) in collaboration with RENCI (UNC’s Renaissance Computing Institute) helps researchers, teachers, and community groups document history and community projects with an easy-to-use tool that builds interactive websites. The Digital Humanities Toolkit, or DH Press, is built […]

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REACH NC named an Awards of Excellence finalist

RENCI collaborations are winning awards all over! The Research, Engagement, and Capabilities Hub of North Carolina (REACH NC) was recently selected as a finalist in the University Economic Development Association’s (UEDA) 2013 Awards of Excellence competition, in the Leadership & Collaboration category. REACH NC is a searchable Web-based tool that allows scientists, academics, researchers and […]

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RENCI staff to present at International Conference

Two manuscripts by RENCI staff have been accepted for presentation at the 4th annual ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (ACM BCB). The papers are: “Visual Analytics to Optimize Patient-Population Evidence Delivery for Personalized Care” (authors include RENCI’s Ketan Mane, Phillips Owen, Charles Schmitt and Kirk Wilhelmsen); and “Predictive Model of […]

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A techie marathon: RENCI hosts “Hackathon” to improve water science software

Chapel Hill, NC- Serious brain muscles were flexed at the software developers’ version of the Olympics—a  “hackathon,” held at RENCI Europa Center, to work towards a collaborative goal of improving water modeling software important for future water scientists and researchers.

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ESIP Federation meeting highlights data practices related to disaster management

July 16, 2013 —The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP Federation) met in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to advance the work of its data practitioner community. Hosted by RENCI, the meeting focused on bringing together communities to improve Earth science data management practices and coordinate efforts to make data more discoverable, accessible and useful […]

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Congratulations Mary Whitton!

Congrats to RENCI Senior Project Manager Mary Whitton for winning the Outstanding Service Award at the USA SIGGRAPH 2013 International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Now in its 40th year, the SIGGRAPH conference (sponsored by The Association for Computing Machinery) is the premier international event on computer graphics and interactive techniques. This year’s conference, […]

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RENCI experts attending GENI Conference

Several members of RENCI are proudly representing us at the National Science Foundation GENI Engineering Conference in Madison, WI July 21-23. Bonnie Hurst, Ilya Baldin, Shu Huang and Yufeng Xin are at the Conference to promote ExoGENI, a nationwide test bed for networking and networked cloud computing involving RENCI, Duke University, and IBM. ExoGENI is funded by […]

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US Ignite recognizes RENCI and NC State for innovative app for monitoring power grids

CHAPEL HILL, NC, July 9, 2013 – Researchers at RENCI and North Carolina State University took home an award at the recent US Ignite Application Summit for demonstrating a prototype next-generation Internet application that monitors large power systems over a wide-area, high-performance communication network.

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IDC recognizes RENCI with two HPC Innovation Excellence Awards

CHAPEL HILL, NC, June 20, 2013 – International Data Corporation (IDC) presented the 2013 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards last week at the ISC’13 supercomputing conference in Leipzig, Germany.  Of the 11 awards presented, two were won by RENCI, the Renaissance Computing Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill. NCGENES and the ADCIRC Surge Guidance System, both projects that […]

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