Yearly Archives: 2016

New research project aims to translate biomedical data for better healthcare, research, and policy-making

CHAPEL HILL, NC – Data is ubiquitous in both clinical settings and in biomedical research labs. It includes disease symptoms noted by healthcare professionals, lab results from tests done on patients, information about clinical procedures and the effects of specific drugs, evidence about the environmental and socioenvironmental factors that impact diseases and disease treatments, the […]

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RENCI and the Coastal Resilience Center partnership honored with 2016 HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and the Department of Homeland Security Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) have been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2016 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis […]

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Big Data Innovation Hubs selected for NTIS joint venture partnership

Partnerships called “a major milestone for the data economy” The four Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs have been selected by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce to enter into a Joint Venture Partnership. Once finalized, this partnership will provide opportunities for collaborations between the Big Data Hubs and NTIS […]

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RENCI teams with Duke on networking research to make science more productive

NSF grant will address security issues of Network Infrastructure as a Service (NIaaS) CHAPEL HILL, NC – RENCI will lead a $1 million research project to securely automate and monitor the creation of virtual “superfacilities” that link scientists to multiple resources to increase their productivity. The award from the National Science Foundation’s Cybersecurity Innovation for […]

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U.S. EPA announced as newest member of National Consortium for Data Science

CHAPEL HILL, NC – The United States Environmental Protection Agency is the latest organization to join the National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS), a public-private partnership to capitalize on the opportunities of big data and advance data science. The U.S. EPA, which works with massive amounts of environmental data in its efforts to protect human […]

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TR-16-02 SSWiS: An Information System for Graduate Education in Social Work

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Webinar to discuss smart and connected cities

The explosion of digital data means changes in how we work, play, and interact with each other and with the technologies and devices we depend on. Nowhere is that change more apparent than in the than in movement to create smart and interconnected cities. What started as an effort to integrate multiple information and communication […]

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iRODS team offers free workshop at SC16

IRODS: From Prototype to Production will be sponsored by DDN SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Attendees of SC16 who are interested in federated data management will have the chance to learn about iRODS and the iRODS Consortium at a free workshop sponsored by consortium member DDN. The workshop will take place from 9 a.m. – […]

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As hurricane heads up coast, a RENCI supercomputer swings into action

CHAPEL HILL, NC – As Hurricane Matthew slowly makes it way toward the U.S., RENCI’s Dell PowerEdge supercomputer, named Hatteras for the home of North Carolina’s most famous Outer Banks lighthouse, is working overtime to model the storm surge that Matthew could bring to communities along the Eastern Seaboard.  

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South Big Data Hub announces awards that apply data science to regional challenges

Awards part of $11 million in National Science Foundation Big Data Hub “Spoke” awards Three research teams in the Southern U.S. will receive funding for projects designed to use data science and data analytics to address challenges related to healthcare, environmental sustainability, and updating and improving power grids. The funding will be awarded through the […]

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