Category Archives: Research

ATPER

Overview In the near future, large-scale computing systems are likely to vary greatly in their execution behavior due to massive component counts, relatively high fault rates, and potential performance fluctuations due to power and energy constraints. Electrical costs will be an important factor in determining the total cost of ownership, which means that applications and […]

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RADII

Overview Current efforts to enable data-driven science either look at data management issues, such as data curation and data preservation, or resource management issues, such as developing network mechanisms to speed up data transfers. RADII (for Resource Aware Data-centric collaborative Infrastructure) builds on the principle that a comprehensive approach which integrates data and resource management […]

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DH Press

Overview Though humanists don’t often think of their work as data-driven, their source material — archival records, photographs, maps, oral histories, newspapers and books, and so forth — are data. As this source material becomes more readily available due to digitization, tools will be needed to help manage and process the expanding collection of humanities-based […]

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PANORAMA

Overview Scientific workflows are now being used in a number of scientific domains, including astronomy, bioinformatics, climate modeling, earth science, civil engineering, physics, and many others. Unlike monolithic applications, workflows often run across heterogeneous resources distributed across wide area networks. Some workflow tasks may require high performance computing resources, while others can run efficiently on […]

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GIMI

The GENI Instrumentation and Measurement Infrastructure (GIMI) project develops and deploys a framework capable of supporting the needs of GENI experimenters and infrastructure operators in order to build large-scale infrastructure for the Global Environments for Network Innovation (GENI) initiative. It uses the ORBIT Measurement Library (OML) as a base to provide libraries with instrument resources […]

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ADAMANT

Project ADAMANT (Adaptive Data-Aware Multi-domain Application Network Topologies) brings together a multi-campus research team and two successful software tools to address the challenges of integrating workflow-driven science applications and dynamic networking infrastructures that link campus, institutional and national resources to solve scientific problems. The software tools employed are Pegasus workflow management system and ORCA resource […]

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QDACT

Overview Palliative care –  the area of healthcare that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients – has often been synonymous with hospice care and thus limited only to patients nearing the end of life. However, palliative medicine has been shown to be beneficial for patients in all disease stages, including those undergoing treatment for […]

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Galapagos Science Center

Overview The Galapagos Science Center (GSC) is a state-of-the-art research facility on Isla San Cristobal in the Galapagos Archipelago. This joint effort between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Ecuador is intended to promote science and education that helps protect the island’s ecosystems. The […]

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EarthCube

Overview EarthCube is a collaboration between the National Science Foundation and Earth, atmosphere, ocean, computer, and information scientists, educators and data managers across the country. The project aims to transform geoscience research by creating a dynamic cyberinfrastructure to integrate information, and share and manage data. To support these goals, the NSF funds EarthCube grants, consortia and research […]

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NC State Projects

Current Advanced analysis of direct numerical simulation of bubbly flow turbulence Igor A. Bolotnov, PhD, a professor in the nuclear engineering department uses RENCI expertise to perform large–scale simulations of turbulent bubbly flows. Turbulence is one of the most challenging and interesting phenomena in nature, playing a pivotal role in many engineering disciplines (nuclear, chemical and […]

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