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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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Spectra Logic and iRODS Consortium Partner to Provide Glacier-Like Tier of Storage for Data-Driven Organizations

Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced a collaboration with the iRODS Consortium to create a joint solution built upon Spectra Vail® software, Spectra BlackPearl® S3 storage and the iRODS data management platform. The combined solution enables customers to use industry-standard cloud interfaces for on-premises disk and on-premises […]

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RENCI named as partner in NSF award to study coastal community resilience

RENCI’s expertise in hurricane modeling will be a key asset in the University of Delaware’s $16.5 million NSF award to study interplay between coastal resilience, equity, and economic prosperity Adapted with permission from University of Delaware. It’s been five years since Hurricane Harvey brought catastrophic rain, extensive flooding and more than $125 billion in damages […]

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NSF FABRIC Project Completes Phase 1, Enabling Early Testing of Unprecedented Large-scale Network Experiments

All Phase 1 sites and connections have been successfully installed to create the basis for the international FABRIC infrastructure The NSF-funded FABRIC project has made steady progress establishing the groundbreaking network testbed infrastructure to reimagine the way large amounts of data are generated, stored, analyzed, and transmitted across the world. The team recently announced the […]

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EduHeLx: A Cloud-based Programming Platform for Data Science Education

The EduHeLx pilot experiment informed future thinking about incorporating cloud-based technologies in UNC-CH courses, including courses in the new UNC-CH School of Data Science & Society (SDSS)

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