Yearly Archives: 2024

TR-24-01: Federated Learning Over Electronic Health Record Data

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UNC researchers awarded up to $10M to leverage data science to accelerate cancer diagnosis and optimize delivery of precision oncology

A team of UNC-Chapel Hill researchers has been awarded up to $10 million in Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) funding to develop the Cancer Identification and Precision Oncology Center (CIPOC). The project is designed to improve cancer diagnosis and support personalized treatments by quickly aggregating and analyzing a wide range of health data, […]

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RENCI to showcase latest technological innovations at SC24

Every sector of society is undergoing a historic transformation driven by big data. RENCI is committed to transforming data into discoveries by partnering with leading universities, government, and the private sector to create tools and technologies that facilitate data access, sharing, analysis, management, and archiving. Each year, the Supercomputing conference provides the leading technical program […]

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iRODS on the IT Press Tour: Navigating the Data Deluge

iRODS Executive Director Terrell Russell spoke to the press about next steps for the data management software iRODS Executive Director Terrell Russell participated in the 58th Edition of the IT Press Tour in Boston, MA in early October. This edition was dedicated to innovations in IT infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, data and storage management, and […]

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UNC-Chapel Hill’s RENCI and CRC unveil new streamlined APSViz user interface for hurricane impacts and visualization

APSViz could be a key resource for state and federal stakeholders and response teams as Atlantic Ocean heats up The 2024 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season started off with Hurricane Beryl, an intense Category 5 storm that caused much damage along its path through the Caribbean region before weakening and making a final landfall along the […]

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RENCI receives $1.4 million NSF award to help develop an expansive public-data infrastructure

RENCI will design an interconnecting fabric that links a diverse set of knowledge graphs, helping form a prototype Open Knowledge Network to power the next information revolution RENCI has received $1.4 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the Building the Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN) program. The program is developing […]

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GRAU DATA joins the iRODS Consortium

GRAU DATA, a software company headquartered in Schwaebisch-Gmuend, Germany, has joined the iRODS Consortium, the membership-based organization that leads development and support of the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS). Since 2007, GRAU DATA has developed software products that simplify the management and protection of data for companies, research institutions, and government agencies. With specialized solutions […]

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Under the Team Science Umbrella: Establishing a Unified Brand for Collaborative Science

The term “big science” first made its way into academic literature in 1961 (article here). At the time, this was a means to discuss cooperative science pursuits (regardless of size) to tackle large, real-world problems. Since then, the term big science has come to have a different definition, but cooperative science efforts have been called […]

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Leading data science expert joins RENCI as deputy director

Rebecca Boyles, MSPH, currently the founding director of the Center for Data Modernization Solutions at RTI International, will join the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as deputy director on June 24, RENCI Director Ashok Krishnamurthy, PhD, announced today. Boyles’ leadership of the Center for Data Modernization at […]

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What to expect at the iRODS 2024 User Group Meeting

The worldwide iRODS community will gather in Amsterdam, NL from May 28-31 Members of the iRODS user community will meet at the Amsterdam Science Park in Amsterdam, NL for the 16th Annual iRODS User Group Meeting to participate in four days of learning, sharing use cases, and discussing new capabilities that have been added to […]

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