Category Archives: Research

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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XPRESS

Overview The eXascale Programming Environment and System Software (XPRESS) project is part of the DOE Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research X-stack Program initiated in September 2012. The purpose of XPRESS is to devise software that will enable practical extreme-scale computing for DOE missions requiring large-scale computing efforts. Researchers hope to achieve the goal and to have working […]

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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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NCDS

Overview The National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) is a collaboration of leaders in academia, industry and government formed to address the data challenges of the 21st century.  The NCDS was founded as a mechanism to help the U.S. take advantage of the increasing flow of digital data in order to produce new jobs and industries, […]

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Software Architecture

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HydroShare

Overview HydroShare is an online, open-source, collaborative system being developed for sharing hydrologic data and models as part of the NSF’s Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program. The goal of HydroShare is to enable scientists to easily discover and access hydrologic data and models, retrieve them to their desktop, or perform analyses in a […]

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Water Science Software Institute

In 2012, RENCI and several partners received a conceptualization grant from the National Science Foundation, which could lead to the development of a multimillion-dollar Water Science Software Institute (WSSI) led by RENCI and UNC Chapel Hill with partners across the U.S.  

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DataBridge

Overview There are currently thousands of scientists creating millions of data sets describing an increasingly diverse matrix of social and physical phenomena. The sheer volume and diversity of data presents a new set of challenges in locating all of the data relevant to a particular line of research. The National Science Foundation’s Big Data Initiative […]

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