Yearly Archives: 2009

Stanly County teachers win RENCI Weather Web Competition

CHAPEL HILL, NC, April 29, 2009 – Stanly County will soon have detailed data about local weather conditions and new weather-related projects for school children thanks to the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) Weather Web competition. The county is the latest in the list of North Carolina counties awarded a weather station through Weather Web, which […]

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Data Mining: Failure to Launch

Title: Data Mining: Failure to LaunchLocation: WWWLink out: Click hereDescription: Learn how to get started with data mining and overcome both strategic and tactical limitations that cause data mining projects to fall short of their potential. Attend this free one-hour live event.Start Time: 4:00Date: 2009-06-16

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SC09

Title: SC09Location: Portland, ORLink out: Click hereDescription: SC09 will be the 22nd consecutive year of the SC Conference series – once again featuring an exceptional Technical Program, industry and research exhibits, Education Program and many other activities. For 2009, we have added three new Technology Thrust areas: Bio-Computing, Sustainability, and the 3D Internet.Start Date: 2009-11-14End […]

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C3A: Compute & Collaborate for Competitive Advantage

Title: C3A: Compute & Collaborate for Competitive AdvantageLocation: New Orleans, LALink out: Click hereDescription: HPC is going to revolutionize the way business gets done and products get made. Come join us for an eye-opening conference that will introduce you to the potential of the HPC invasion, and how you can use it to compete in […]

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2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing

Title: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster ComputingLocation: New Orleans, LALink out: Click hereDescription: The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2009) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, from August 29 to September 4, 2009. Authors are invited to present their on-going or recently finished work related to cluster computing in […]

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High Performance Computing Symposium 2009

Title: High Performance Computing Symposium 2009Location: Kingston, Ontario, CanadaLink out: Click hereDescription: HPCS (High Performance Computing Symposium) is a multi-disciplinary conference that focuses on research involving high performance computing and it’s application. Attended by Canadian and international experts in sciences, engineering, applied sciences, mathematics, and others, it is Canada’s pre-eminent forum for HPC. This year’s […]

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HPC Adoption '09

Title: HPC Adoption ’09Location: Burlingame, CALink out: Click hereDescription: The computing industry is rapidly shifting towards multi-core architectures and alternative processing technologies. New toolsets, business applications, and software IDEs are needed to take advantage of increasingly complex parallel hardware.Start Date: 2009-05-11End Date: 2009-05-13

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RENCI People with Meg Urry

[youtube cdmKIgl79xw] Watch entire video or click on any question below: Q: You are a physicist, astronomer and astrophysicist – what caused you to choose this career path? Q: In a field with few women, was there any person you felt influenced or helped you reach your goals? Q: Your work has touched on both […]

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New website shows live local weather conditions

ASHEVILLE, NC–As a possible April snowstorm approaches, eyes are turned to the sky. Now weather buffs won’t have to look out the window to get a glimpse of regional weather, thanks to a new weather watching website created by staff and student researchers at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at UNC Asheville. The Web site, […]

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RENCI explores uses for 360-degree camera system

Every picture tells a story, but high-definition, 360-degree imagery can put you in a real situation, able to look around in all directions and notice the details. RENCI’s research using a Dodeca 2360 camera system from Portland, Oregon-based Immersive Media aims to recreate real spaces in cyberspace using an 11-camera, geo-referenced imagery system that shoots […]

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