Indiana University confirmed its leadership in high performance, data-intensive computing by unveiling Big Red II, a powerful new supercomputer with a processing speed of one thousand trillion floating-point operations per second (one petaFLOPS).

Indiana University's new supercomputer is expected to further advance international collaborations reliant on big data research at a time when the globalization of education, science and research is omnipresent.

The National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS) is expanding its reach by adding tools, services and partners to help biological research communities make important new scientific discoveries. Today (January 14), in conjunction with its participation in the Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG XXI), NCGAS announced three initiatives to accelerate US public and private sector research and development in biology and biomedical research.

A recent networking breakthrough from IU researchers, in collaboration with Orange Silicon Valley and DataDirect Networks, showed that data sharing can be faster and more efficient over wide area networks (WAN). The team performed the world's first demonstration of RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) across a wide area network using the Lustre file system.

IU will replace its current Data Capacitor with Data Capacitor II, a high-speed, high-capacity storage facility for very large data sets. With five petabytes of storage, Data Capacitor II will support big data applications used in computational research.

Indiana University will display its leadership in high performance computing and networking technologies at the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, also known as SC12 (Supercomputing 2012). This year's conference takes place from November 10 to 16 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

A recent National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will further enable Indiana University to help scientists solve their toughest data problems. The NSF has selected Indiana University as a partner in a grant to create the Science Gateway Institute.

Key software used to study gene expression now runs four times faster, thanks to performance improvements put in place by a team from the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI), the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Technische Universität Dresden.

Indiana University is again leading the way to better health care by enabling scientists to share research more rapidly and securely over the Internet. The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), of which IU is a founding member, recently became the first health care research institute to be named to the InCommon Federation's Research & Scholarship category.

In January 2012, the Data to Insight Center, part of Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University, hosted a National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop in Indianapolis that brought together approximately 70 researchers from around the world to tackle the challenges of scientific data.

The board of directors of OpenSFS, the Lustre community group in North America, has voted to fund Indiana University (IU) to develop features that will enhance the usability of the Lustre file system across wide area networks (WANs). OpenSFS is a non-profit technical organization dedicated to the promotion and development of Lustre in high performance computing (HPC) environments.

Indiana University during SC11 this year will demonstrate the many ways its information technology experts have advanced the future of high performance computing. The annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis is the largest event of its kind, bringing together leading scientists and researchers from around the globe, as well as representatives from top universities, companies, and organizations in the supercomputing field. This year the event, SC11, takes place Nov. 12-18 in Seattle, Wash.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Indiana University a $1.5-million grant to establish the National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS). Genome analysis can help scientists discover new medicines, improve crops, understand diseases, and create personalized treatments for various illnesses.

A partnership of 16 institutions, including Indiana University, today (July 25) announced the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). XSEDE will be the most advanced, powerful and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world.

In an effort to streamline getting innovative technologies to market, Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and Cook Medical have worked together to create i2iconnect.org, a unique online service that matches inventors and technology transfer professionals with companies looking to develop their inventions into commercially viable products. In an effort to streamline this process, Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI), the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), and Cook Medical have worked together to create i2iconnect.org, a unique online service that matches inventors and technology transfer professionals with companies looking to develop their inventions into commercially viable products.

In an effort to streamline getting innovative technologies to market, Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and Cook Medical have worked together to create i2iconnect.org, a unique online service that matches inventors and technology transfer professionals with companies looking to develop their inventions into commercially viable products.

Microsoft's Tony Hey tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb. 2) will open Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute's Digital Science Center Seminar Series with a presentation titled "Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery: The Fourth Paradigm."

Researchers from the Pervasive Technology Institute Digital Science Center at Indiana University have begun work on an innovative project that will use cloud computing techniques to support life science research. The project is supported by a $1.5 million grant award from the National Institutes of Health and takes advantage of an earlier National Science Foundation grant to IU to construct an experimental supercomputing network called FutureGrid.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $538,595 to the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research to support a two-year project titled "Protecting Privacy in Health Research." The IU-led project assembles a blue-ribbon panel of experts in medical research, privacy, security, law, ethics, and patient advocacy from eleven national and international partner organizations.

The future of scientific computing will be developed with the leadership of Indiana University and nine national and international partners as part of a $15 million project largely supported by a $10.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award will be used to establish FutureGrid—one of only two experimental systems in the NSF Track 2 program that funds the most powerful, next-generation scientific supercomputers in the nation.

Advanced computing resources and scientific computing applications provided by Indiana University are now exploiting the potential of a powerful new electron microscope that may help scientists make breakthroughs in the study of viruses and other life science applications. Thanks to the IU Research Technologies High Performance Applications Group and IU's supercomputers, complex images created by the microscope can be turned into useful composite images that scientists can study.

PearlDiver Technologies Inc., creator of what is believed to be the largest fully HIPAA-compliant, publicly available and searchable database of patient records in the nation, will use IU's Big Red supercomputer for advanced data analysis, thanks to the Indiana Initiative for Economic Development (IIED), a program that fosters technology development and job growth in the state of Indiana.

Facilitating greater levels of collaboration between scientists and medical researchers in Europe and the U.S. is the goal of an announcement by information technology leaders from Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany and Indiana University. The formal agreement of friendship and cooperation between the two universities will impact joint research in high performance computing and informatics.

Translational medicine researchers from across the country can now access a range of data and advanced technology resources using the user ID and password of their home institution. The Indiana Clinical Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) HUB provides federated identity management -- allowing researchers to use resources such as medical databases, high performance computers, and life science visualization tools in multiple distributed locations without the need to remember yet another password and login procedure.

A new Indiana University internship program will provide students with valuable experience on the business side of life sciences information technology, while interns apply traditional business techniques toward helping IU technology experts advance IU medical and life sciences research. The joint internship program, being offered by the IU Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) and the Center for the Business of Life Sciences (CBLS) at the Kelley School of Business, will employ a total of six student interns on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses during the spring 2009 semester.

The future of scientific research lands in Indianapolis this week as some of the world's leading experts in scientific computing assemble at IUPUI for two international e-Science events. Indiana University was selected to host the events in part due to the growing reputation of IU and Indianapolis as a hub for life sciences research and development of the advanced technology that supports it.

The 4th International Conference on e-Science, hosted by Indiana University, will bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and enabling IT technologies. An early registration discount is available now for the conference taking place December 7-12 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Conference registration includes admission to all tutorials and workshops. Higher registration rates apply after November 1. Early registration is encouraged as attendance is limited.

Organizing committees for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing 2008 eScience Conference are now accepting papers and proposals for tutorials; posters, exhibits, and demos; and workshops and special sessions. The 2008 eScience Conference is being hosted by Indiana University and will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, December 7-12, 2008 at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel on the campus of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

Organizing committees for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing 2008 eScience Conference are now accepting papers and proposals for tutorials; posters, exhibits, and demos; and workshops and special sessions. The 2008 eScience Conference is being hosted by Indiana University and will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, December 7-12, 2008 at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel on the campus of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

The Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and CIO at Indiana University has announced a series of appointments in the leadership team of its Research Technologies division to expand IU's role in advanced information technology and its applications in scholarly discovery and artistic creation. The Research Technologies (RT) division of University Information Technology Services (UITS) at IU supports next generation research through delivery and support of advanced cyberinfrastructure. RT also works to create the cyberinfrastructure of tomorrow through collaboration with IU computer scientists and involvement in national projects such as the TeraGrid and Open Science Grid.

Indiana University scientists and leaders will gather to promote Indiana's life sciences research and support IU's 2008 legislative agenda at the Indiana State House on Wednesday, Feb. 13, as part of the annual State House Visit and Life Sciences Day. IU President Michael A. McRobbie and IU Bloomington Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson will offer remarks during the event sponsored by Hoosiers for Higher Education at 1 p.m. in the North Atrium of the State House before an expected 400 guests.