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RENCI at ECU hosts local kids for Gettysburg Address reading

At 10 a.m. on February 12, home-schooled students from the Greenville area gathered around the visualization wall at RENCI at East Carolina University (ECU) to participate in a worldwide celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday.

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RENCI 2.0 is here

We have redesigned our website in order to give our users a web presence that is robust, interactive, visually interesting and takes full advantage of social networking tools. The new site prominently features RENCI-produce video, scientific images and animations. All videos are included on our YouTube site, while photos are available via Flickr. A new […]

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Accessing the big picture

When it comes to managing an emergency, you can’t have too much information. Sensor and wireless communication technologies make it possible to monitor and manage fire trucks and rescue vehicles in the field, but relatively few vehicles are equipped with such technologies. The software needed for such systems is often costly and the learning curve […]

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RENCI Weather Web project begins year 2 with new competition

CHAPEL HILL, NC, February 3, 2009- North Carolina counties that lack weather stations–and therefore lack detailed weather data–will once again have the chance to acquire a research and operational grade weather station through the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) Weather Web project, aimed at enhancing weather-related K-12 education and at improving the quantity and quality of […]

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RENCI, ITS host lecture on distributed computing

Miron Livny, a professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin and a well-known expert on distributed processing and high throughput computing, will provide an overview of two national distributed computing facilities at a Feb. 23 lecture. The talk begins at 10:15 a.m. at 011 Sitterson Hall on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. It will […]

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RENCI joins with Coastal Studies Institute to assist coastal communities

CHAPEL HILL, NC, January 5, 2009—The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), a multi-institutional North Carolina research organization, now has a presence in Dare County through an agreement with the University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute (CSI) to locate a RENCI technology specialist at CSI. Kevin Gamiel, a five-year RENCI employee who grew up in Manteo […]

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The Science of Sound

Visualization project aims to help the deaf hear. Charles Finley, a research associate professor in the Univeristy of North Carolina School of Medicine, leads a team that uses high performance computing and advanced visualization tools to improve the design and application of cochlear implants. These implants can restore hearing in people with profound hearing losses […]

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Carolina Entrepreneurs launch business ideas at RENCI

CHAPEL HILL, December 12, 2008–Carolina Launch Pad, the new pre-commercial incubator for UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, staff and students, is underway and its five inaugural ventures moved into office space at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) in early December.

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RENCI has the “touch” at SC08

CHAPEL HILL, December 8, 2008 — RENCI’S custom-built multi-touch table and holopanel display system piqued the interest of attendees at SC08, the international conference of high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis held Nov. 15-21 in Austin, TX.

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ECU students sought for second visualization challenge

The Renaissance Computing Institute at East Carolina University invites students to participate in a competition of innovative visualization using the RENCI at ECU visualization wall located in Brewster Hall C-202 on the ECU campus.

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