Category Archives: Network Research and Infrastructure

SciDAC SUPER

Overview The Institute for Sustained Performance, Energy, and Resilience (SUPER) is a collaborative effort among researchers at several institutions with expertise in high performance compilers and other system tools, performance engineering, energy management, and resilience. It was developed under the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program to ensure that DOE scientists and laboratories can successfully take advantage of the […]

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SciDAC: Nuclear Physics QCD

Overview Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the part of the Standard Model of Physics that describes the Strong Force that binds particles together and that binds protons and neutrons together to form the nuclei of atoms.  The elementary entities of QCD are quarks and gluons. Lattice QCD (LQCD) is the term describing the dominant method for […]

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R3SAR

Overview Situational awareness—the need to harvest information surrounding an event and rapidly process and adapt to it—is critical in emergency management and response situations. Situational awareness applications integrate data from diverse sources, including physical sensor networks, and communicate analyzed data to users, such as responders in the field. Field responders can use this information to […]

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Blue Waters

Overview Blue Waters is a joint effort of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, its National Center for Supercomputing Applications, IBM, and the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation to create the most powerful supercomputer in the world. When it comes online in 2011, the system will sustain one petaflop performance—a thousand trillion floating point […]

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Global Environment for Network Innovations

Overview The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a virtual laboratory at the frontiers of network science and engineering. Using a combination of widely-distributed resources connected with bandwidth-on-demand regional and global networks, GENI enables the worldwide research community—including academia, industry and the public—to test ideas and clean-slate designs to envision future internets at scale. […]

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MotifNetwork

Overview Traditionally, bioinformatics has been organized around the concepts of genes and gene products, typically proteins, that are analyzed by similarity of amino acids. However, proteins contain functional domains that define their activity and mode of regulation. Evolution occurs through the process of deletion, insertion, and transfer of these domains as well as by mutations at individual sites. Databases of functional […]

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VGrADS

Overview Grids hold great promise for researchers who need to connect to remote computers, databases and other resources. However, they can be complex, unreliable, and require a huge time investment for even low-level operations. The Virtual Grid Application Development Software (VGrADS) project was developed to keep these problems from impeding the potential of grids and […]

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SciDAC PERI

Overview The Performance Evaluation Research Institute (PERI) is an Integrated Software Infrastructure Center (ISIC) for improving high-end computer performance. It was developed under the Department of Energy’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program. The center is developing a science for understanding the performance of scientific applications on high-end computing systems. It develops engineering strategies […]

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Open Science Grid

Overview The Open Science Grid (OSG) makes innovative science possible by bringing multidisciplinary collaborations together with the latest advances in distributed computing technologies. The OSG allows scientists to expedite research more collaboratively and efficiently, and to bring together data, tools, and ideas to address problems in new ways. The OSG, built by research groups from […]

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MAESTRO

Overview Multi-core Adaptive Execution System and Threaded Runtime Organization (MAESTRO) is designed to manage application power on high core count microprocessors. In addition, the system presents a simpler programming interface to users by virtualizing the processor cores. The base runtime is operational, enabling MAESTRO to be a viable platform for potential research in areas from […]

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