A team led by Indiana University was awarded first place in an international competition for leading-edge, high-bandwidth computing applications. The award was presented November 15 at SC07, the world's largest conference for high performance computing and communications. The team achieved over 91% of the theoretical peak performance using production codes and production facilities, in particular the Data Capacitor. More information is available at
http://uitsnews.iu.edu/?p=1075
Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure News
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Researchers at Indiana University Bloomington, Harvard University, Cambridge University (U.K.) and the University of California at Berkeley have been told by the National Institutes of Health that their request for approximately $20 million in continued funding for FlyBase has been approved. Biologists Thomas Kaufman and Kathy Matthews will oversee IUB's extensive contributions to the ongoing project. Kaufman was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last month.
The most recent developments in the project -- sequencing and comparing 12 fruit fly genomes -- was the cover story of the November 8th issue of Nature, and has produced at least 40 papers, over a hundred new genes and several new regulatory pathways. Kaufman, who co-led the project, remarked "One of the things we've learned is that when you compare a lot of different but related genomes, you are more likely to see the genes that are buried in all that A-C-T-G mush."
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For the past two years Gary Pavlis of the IU Bloomington Department of Geological Sciences and School of Informatics has been involved in a collaborative project to study links between geologic structures and glacial erosion. The laboratory is in the Chugach-St Elias region of southeast Alaska, a unique place on Earth with very active mountain building in an area with the largest glaciers in North America.
Indiana is working with the University of Alaska on the seismology component of this project, monitoring earthquakes to help identify active faults and using modern imaging technologies to use global earthquakes to image the lower crust and upper mantle. The data are fed to the University of Alaska through spread-spectrum IP radios that provide links to VSAT terminals or sites with internet access.The MDSS system at IU recently became a component of this project. Until recently, only sections of these data were available at IU, due to the difficulty of transferring 500 Gbytes of data already acquired. With help from staff in the Research Storage group, an extremely clean solution to transfer archive data from the machine in Fairbanks to IU through the internet was developed. It provided the added benefit of a direct transfer to a long-term archive.
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The e-Science 2007 conference, sponsored by the Computer Society's Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the latest research and product/tool developments, and highlight related activities from around the world.
The conference will be held December 10-13, in Bangalore, India. For more information, see
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There will be no Research Technologies Round Table in December.
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If you have questions pertaining to IU's cyberinfrastructure, or you are encountering some difficulty, there are several ways to obtain help.
An introduction and overview titled "Indiana University's CyberInfrastructure: The least you need to know" has been updated and is available at http://rtinfo.uits.iu.edu/education_and_training/
The IU Knowledge Base (http://kb.iu.edu) is an excellent source of help on how to do things.
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