Computational Systems & Technology News Feed
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Experts Come to ISI to Ponder Problems of Exascale Computing
Discussions included systemic problems in ultrahigh performance computing.
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Good Chip, Bad Chip, Evil Chip: ISI Experts Developing Tests to Tell Which is Which
The Viterbi School Information Sciences Institute researchers are participating in the IRIS program of the DARPA Microelectronics Technology Office.
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ISI Startup Powers High Performance Design for Small Cap Manufacturers
Bob Graybill, ISI division director for its National Innovation Initiative, represents the Institute in a joint effort with the Council on Competitiveness.
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ISI Researchers Will Support New Brain Gene Expression Project
ISI Project Leader Ewa Deelman will employ the Pegasus Workflow Management System and associated technologies to support the data analysis and data management within the project.
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ISI Part of FutureGrid Test Bed
Deelman’s group will join with other investigators from various institutions around the country.
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ISI-East Leads $3.67M HPC Attack on Industrial Design Issues
Brian Schott will be working with computer scientist Lorin Hochstein on the effort, which will be run out of ISI’s Arlington campus.
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ISI To Play $1.5 Million Role in NIH Effort to Understand Hereditary Roots of Disease Vulnerability
The Center will use computational resources both at Rutgers and USC/ISI.
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NSF Funds Rev Up Pegasus Grid Workflow Engine
Pegasus allows researchers to translate complex computational tasks into workflows that link and manage ensembles of dependent tasks and related data files.
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ISI Leads $13.8 Million E-Science Effort to Tame Terabyte Torrents
ISI computer scientist Yolanda Gil leads the newly funded $13.8 million Windward project.