Category Archives: Research

NC Coastal Wind Demonstration Project

Overview Following a nine-month feasibility study conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, university researchers teamed with Duke Energy on a demonstration project to place three wind turbines in the Pamlico Sound about 8 miles from the Outer Banks community of Buxton, NC. The turbines will facilitate the state’s efforts to develop […]

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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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VSCSE Summer Courses

Overview The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE) offers graduate students, faculty and industry professionals in science and engineering a unique opportunity to learn how to use cutting-edge computational resources to advance their research. Through an innovative nationwide virtual classroom hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of […]

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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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4K Video Production

Overview 4K video cameras capture extreme high-resolution video—with an output 4,000 pixels wide, the cameras provide four times the resolution of “High-Definition” cameras. Used by Hollywood filmmakers and by researchers to capture images from the Martian landscape to the depths of Earth’s oceans, these high-resolution cameras offer opportunities to take research, education and art to […]

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TUCASI

Overview The Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies, Inc. (TUCASI) data-Infrastructure Project (TIP) will deploy a federated data cyberinfrastructure- or data cloud- across the campuses of the Triangle area universities. TIP will meet the growing data storage and management needs of UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University, NC State University, and RENCI through an interoperable data […]

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Soundings Radio Show Archive

Overview The National Humanities Center (NHC) in Research Triangle Park produced the weekly Soundings radio show from 1980 to 1997, featuring interviews with scholars and writers. A total of 862 half-hour programs, recorded at WUNC radio, aired on more than 350 radio stations throughout the country The Soundings archive captures the voices of world-class scholars […]

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Public Health 2.0

Overview Public health organizations focus on improving health through prevention, management and treatment of diseases. For this reason, health agencies and researchers collect population health data from the census block level to the county level. Such data is analyzed to compute vital statistics that help public health officials understand the trends related to diseases within […]

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Metadata Management

Overview Metadata Management is a project investigating ways to automate the maintenance of health information metadata in NC Health Info, a website that provides consumers with a single source for searching healthcare services and locating reputable information on diseases, treatments, prevention and more. As with most databases that contain large amounts of information, it is […]

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DataLab

Overview DataLab is a research project in data interoperability exploring new ways to address scientific data integration challenges and tie together diverse data from across North Carolina. The DataLab initiative aimed to develop a data interoperability framework for cloud computing and to make interacting with distributed data more practical and effective. The experimental software at […]

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