Category Archives: News

Benefits of BEN

RENCI’s Breakable Experimental Network means new research opportunities at UNC CHAPEL HILL–A laboratory can be a physical space—such as the Networking Laboratory in the computer science department at UNC Chapel Hill. Or it can exist in cyberspace, like RENCI’s Breakable Experimental Network (BEN), a regional optical network test bed for experiments with disruptive networking technologies. […]

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RENCI at ECU works to build awareness of coastal issues

Through research and outreach programs, RENCI at ECU is developing a coastal informatics system that includes scientific data and historical records.

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OpenFlow switch donation enables research and education

OpenFlow switch donation from Stanford University enables networking research and education at Triangle campuses.

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Carolina Launch Pad alumni win Small Business Innovation grant

The founders of Altometrics, Inc., have a goal that sounds simple: make the Internet faster. They want to speed up the performance of your favorite websites, prevent those frustrating slow-downs and enable richer Web services.

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To close or not to close

A school snow day often leaves kids jumping for joy and their parents scrambling to readjust their work schedules. But what about the people who make the decision to cancel classes? They are usually school transportation officials, who analyze changing weather conditions and gather information on road conditions, and school district administrators, who make the […]

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iRODS 2011 User Group Meeting announced

February meeting will focus on sustainable policy-based data management, sharing, and preservation.

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Two NC State research teams to participate in new campus info viz program

Two North Carolina State University research teams will work with RENCI visual analytics experts through the new RENCI@NC State Faculty Engagement Program in Applied Scientific and Information Visualization.

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Carolina Launch Pad welcomes Rheomics, Inc.

New UNC spinout pursues next-generation lab instrumentation and diagnostics

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RENCI partners with DICE at UNC and UCSD to sustain iRODS software

Presentations in RENCI’s SC10 booth will outline data and software strategies

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CI-BER project plans to store billions of electronic records

One of the first federally-funded projects of its kind to bring the benefits of social media and public reports of its progress via a blogging format

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