Tag Archives: National Science Foundation (NSF)

NSF names Alan Blatecky acting head of cyberinfrastructure office

WASHINGTON, D.C., — Alan Blatecky, the former Deputy Director of  RENCI and Interim Director from December 2007 – September 2009, was named Acting Director of the National Science Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) this week by NSF Director Arden Bement.  

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Break this network

To the uninitiated, dark fiber sounds a bit mysterious, maybe even daunting. But to network researchers dark fiber means an environment removed from the demands of a production network; a place in cyberspace where they can conduct experiments and explore the future of networking removed from the demands of a commercial network and partitioned off […]

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RENCI at Duke to present workshop on human-computer interaction

CHAPEL HILL, NC, April 3, 2008 – A two-day, invitation-only workshop at Duke University’s R. David Thomas Executive Conference Center will bring together a select group of thought leaders from government, industry and academia to develop a guiding vision and cross-cutting research agenda for human-computer interface and interaction design over the next decade.

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RENCI to bring new communities to Open Science Grid

CHAPEL HILL, NC – The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) will help in the next phase of development of the Open Science Grid by working to make the grid useful to even more scientists representing a wider range of research fields. The National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science today announced a […]

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NSF taps CRA to create Computing Community Consortium

WASHINGTON, DC, September 18, 2006 – The National Science Foundation today announced an agreement with the Computing Research Association (CRA) to establish a consortium of computing experts that will provide scientific leadership and vision on issues related to computing research and future large-scale computing research projects.

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RENCI Science Gateway team unveils TeraGrid Bioportal

A web-based work environment developed at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) will give users of the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid easy access to a wide range of bioinformatics and biomedical applications and databases and will allow the national biology research community to access computing, data, and other resources offered through the TeraGrid.

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TeraGrid partners map the future of nation’s largest grid project

Partners in the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid project held their quarterly meeting in Chapel Hill, NC,  March 13 – 15, where they discussed the impact of TeraGrid resources and infrastructure on scientific discovery and strategized on ways to involve the broader research community in the TeraGrid.  

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