Category Archives: Research

Overview NC-FIRST for Teachers was a project designed to help North Carolina Earth and environmental science teachers and seventh grade science teachers meet state requirements to teach meteorology and weather and address the relevance of technology in science. The project’s activities were completed in 2009. Through NC-FIRST for Teachers, RENCI education and outreach experts provided […]

Overview Engaging People In Cyberinfrastructure (EPIC) builds human capacity by creating awareness of the opportunities afforded through cyberinfrastructure (CI). It also educates and trains a diverse group of people in all stages of life—from K-12 to professional practice—to fully participate in the CI community as developers, users, and leaders. Strategies designed to meet these goals […]

Overview The DESTINY (Delivering Edge-Cutting Science Technology and Internet Across North Carolina for Years to Come) Traveling Science Learning Program is sponsored by the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill that serves pre-college teachers and students across North Carolina. The module focuses on the fundamental concepts of evolutionary […]

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 […]

Overview TeraGrid is an open infrastructure for scientific discovery that brings together high-end resources across the U.S. to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. Deployed in 2004, TeraGrid offers the open science and engineering research communities more than 40 teraflops of computing power, nearly 2 petabytes of rotating storage, and specialized data analysis and visualization […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Overview Lattice gauge theory calculations solve fundamental problems in particle and nuclear physics using large-scale computer calculations. The theory aims to understand the physical phenomena described by quantum chromodynamics, or QCD, and to make precision calculations of the theory’s predictions. QCD describes the strong interactions that bind protons and neutrons together to form the nuclei […]

Overview Each year across the United States, floods, tornadoes, hail, strong winds, lightning and winter storms—what scientists call mesoscale weather events—cause hundreds of deaths, routinely disrupt transportation and commerce, and result in annual economic losses greater than $13 billion. Unfortunately, the information technology framework that exist today cannot provide scientists with the ability to use […]