Yearly Archives: 2008

UNC School of Medicine teams with RENCI to battle skin cancer

CHAPEL HILL, NC, March 11, 2008 – A new collaboration between melanoma researchers in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), and researchers from the departments of computer science, epidemiology, biostatistics, and statistics and operations research at UNC Chapel Hill aims to use image […]

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The future perfect storm

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the most active in recorded history, brought catastrophe to the U.S. Gulf Coast and Central America: at least 2,280 deaths from Katrina and other storms; record damages of more than $128 billion and thousands of people displaced who have yet to return home.

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TR-08-08 Report for State of North Carolina Floodplan Mapping Project Costal Flood Analysis System

Brian Blanton (RENCI), Scott Madry (RENCI), Ken Galluppi (RENCI), Kevin Gamiel (RENCI), Howard Lander (RENCI), Mark Reed (RENCI), Lisa Stillwell (RENCI), Margaret Blanchard-Montgomery (RENCI), Rick Luettich (UNC), Craig Mattocks (UNC), Crystal Fulcher (UNC), Peter Vickery (Applied Research Associates/IntraRisk), Jeff Hanson (US Army Crops of Engineers), Eve Devaliere (US Army Crops of Engineers), John McCormick (Costal Risk […]

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NCEMA Conference to feature RENCI tools for disaster management

CHAPEL HILL, NC, February 27, 2008 – The 2008 North Carolina All Hazards Conference, the semi-annual meeting of the North Carolina Emergency Management Association (NCEMA), will feature a variety of projects and training programs of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) aimed at helping emergency managers.

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Grant helps REALTROMINS, RENCI develop medical devices to aid critically ill children

CHAPEL HILL, NC, February 22, 2008 – Keith Kocis, a collaborator with the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), professor of pediatrics, and M.D. in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received funding for further research and development of a new medical device to revolutionize how critically ill infants […]

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Rain, snow, sleet or ice

CHAPEL HILL, NC, February 19, 2008 – Information about the atmosphere above the ground is severely lacking across North Carolina. This information, such as the temperature of the air and the type of precipitation falling aloft, is critical to short-term forecasts during hazardous weather events such as ice storms.

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New observation site to provide data on marine environments, climate change

CHAPEL HILL, NC, February 6, 2008–A platform to be built this spring three miles offshore in the Pamlico Sound will give researchers across North Carolina a site to conduct scientific experiments and collect environmental data that will be critical to understanding the behavior of this huge body of water, its role in North Carolina’s marine […]

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TR-08-07 Performance Consistency on Multi-socket AMD Opteron Systems

Allan Porterfield, Robert J. Fowler, Anirban Mandal and Min Yeol Lim. Performance Consistency on Multi-socket AMD Opteron Systems. Technical Report TR-08-07, RENCI, North Carolina, December 2008.

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TR-08-06 North Carolina Coastal Flood Analysis System Hurricane Parameter Development

Peter J. Vickery and Brian O. Blanton. North Carolina Coastal Flood Analysis System Hurricane Parameter Development. Technical Report TR-08-06, RENCI, North Carolina, September 2008.

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TR-08-05 North Carolina Coastal Flood Analysis System Model Grid Generation

Brian O. Blanton and Richard A. Luettich. North Carolina Coastal Flood Analysis System Model Grid Generation. Technical Report TR-08-05, RENCI, North Carolina, September 2008.

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