CHAPEL HILL, NC, June 18, 2007 — Four faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been named Faculty Fellows of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and will spend the next year working closely with RENCI staff on innovative research projects that use advanced technologies.
RENCI partners with four Carolina researchers on faculty fellow projects
Tagged Charles Finley, Research Triangle, Ted Zoller
RENCI launches NC-FIRST to aid North Carolina emergency managers
Just in time for the hurricane season, emergency service providers across North Carolina have a new tool available to help them interpret weather data and coordinate response plans, called NC-FIRST. Read more
Tagged NC-FIRST
Muscles in Motion
Stephen Marshall, associate professor of epidemiology and orthopedics in the University of North Carolina’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine and biostatistician at UNC’s Injury Prevention Research Center, expected to analyze his research findings at his personal computer until he heard about the visualization wall at RENCI’s Health Sciences Collaboration Center. Read more
Tagged 3D visualization
PCAST subcommittee delivers draft report
The Networking and Information Technology Subcommittee of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) delivered a report on the National Coordination Office’s Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program at the April 24 PCAST meeting in Washington.
RENCI, SmileTiger work to improve disaster communications
Doug Hoell, director of North Carolina’s Emergency Management Association (EMA), was able to reach a larger audience than usual on April 30, when he delivered his annual overview of emergency management in North Carolina.
Topsail soars in new performance tests
CHAPEL HILL, NC—New benchmarking results on Topsail, the Renaissance Computing Institute’s (RENCI) Dell cluster, showed a maximum performance of 28.77 teraflops—nearly 30 trillion calculations per second—more than quadruple the machine’s previous maximum performance.
Study finds a possible genetic trigger in schizophrenia development
Advances in science require collaboration, innovation and a lot of painstaking hard work. An ongoing research project at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill that studies the possible genetic causes of schizophrenia is no exception. Read more
RENCI Distinguished Lecture to feature Oscar-winning filmmaker
CHAPEL HILL, NC – An Oscar winning independent filmmaker who began his career in fluid mechanics and worked his way into animated filmmaking will speak about his experiences at the second 2007 Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) Distinguished Lecture.
Tagged Chris Landreth
Reed to lecture in Second Life
RENCI director Dan Reed will lecture in the virtual world Second Life on Friday, March 16, at 1 p.m. Reed’s lecture, titled “Computing the Future: The 3D Net,” explores what technology advances the next decade – a geological epoch on the computing time scale – could bring to education and research.
