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Exploring the power of distributed intelligence for resilient scientific workflows

New project led by USC Information Sciences Institute seeks to ensure resilience in workflow management systems Future computational workflows will span distributed research infrastructures that include multiple instruments, resources, and facilities to support and accelerate scientific discovery. However, the diversity and distributed nature of these resources makes harnessing their full potential difficult. To address this […]

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RENCI to showcase latest technological innovations at SC23

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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RENCI awarded NSF grant to develop cyberinfrastructure training program for X-ray scientists

Enhancing the ability of scientists to use the latest computing and data tools will help quicken the pace of scientific discoveries RENCI scientists and collaborators from Cornell University and University of Southern California (USC) have been awarded a $1 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop an innovative training program for […]

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NSF FABRIC project announces groundbreaking high-speed network infrastructure expansion

FABRIC completes work on the TeraCore ring, creating a unique continental-scale experimental network capable of transmitting data at 1.2Tbps The NSF-funded FABRIC project has completed installation of a unique network infrastructure connection, called the TeraCore—a ring spanning the continental U.S.—which boasts data transmission speeds of 1.2 Terabits per second (Tbps), or one trillion bits per […]

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Data Matters short-course series returns in August 2023

Annual short-course series aims to bridge the data literacy gap Now in its tenth year, Data Matters, a week-long series of one and two-day courses aimed at students and professionals in business, research, and government, will take place August 7 – 11, 2023 virtually via Zoom. This short course series is sponsored by the Odum […]

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What to expect at the iRODS 2023 User Group Meeting

The worldwide iRODS community will gather in Chapel Hill, NC from June 13 – 16 Members of the iRODS user community will meet at UNC-Chapel Hill in North Carolina for the 15th Annual iRODS User Group Meeting to participate in four days of learning, sharing use cases, and discussing new capabilities that have been added […]

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BioData Catalyst manuscript published in JAMIA

On May 16th, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) published the BioData Catalyst (BDC) Consortium’s manuscript, authored by several members of the BDC Consortium, about the ecosystem and some of its early successes. RENCI’s role in the BDC ecosystem is to develop tools and apps for machine learning; deep learning models; semantic search; and […]

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Ashok Krishnamurthy Named Director of RENCI

Ashok Krishnamurthy has been appointed director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI). Krishnamurthy previously served as RENCI’s deputy director and has been engaged in the leadership team that has guided RENCI over the past 10 years. In addition, he has served as interim director of RENCI since last July when previous director Stan Ahalt assumed […]

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Council for Scientific and Industrial Research joins iRODS Consortium

Collaboration supports data management for research and economic development in South Africa CHAPEL HILL, NC – The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has joined the iRODS Consortium, the membership-based organization that leads development and support of the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS). CSIR is a research organization that advances technologies to accelerate socioeconomic […]

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ResearchSpace and iRODS Partner to Enable Virtual File Storage and Metadata Solutions for Institutional Research Data Management

ResearchSpace, provider of the RSpace electronic research notebook and sample management system, today announced an integration with the iRODS, a data discovery, workflow automation, secure collaboration, and data virtualization platform, to ensure the integrity of links between RSpace and the wide range of resources it connects with via the virtualized file tracking and metadata management […]

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