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).

IEEE Cluster 2013 conference organizers are seeking input from the high performance computing community, in an effort to make the "Clusters and Cyberinfrastructure Strategy" event as informative as possible. Hosted by Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute, Cluster 2013 will take place September 23-27, 2013, at the Hilton Hotel in Indianapolis.

Thomas Sterling, executive associate director of the Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies (CREST) and professor of computer science in the IU School of Informatics and Computing, has been named an HPCwire person to watch in 2013. The publication's annual list features 12 movers and shakers whose reach extends beyond high performance computing (HPC) to shape future directions of technology, propelling scientific and engineering advancements.

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.

The organizing committee for the IEEE* Cluster 2013 conference is now accepting proposals for tutorials, technical papers, posters, panels, and visualizations. Hosted by IU's Pervasive Technology Institute, Cluster 2013 will take place September 23-27, 2013, at the Hilton Hotel in Indianapolis. All submissions are due March 29, 2013.

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.

Indiana University IT experts will manage critical climate data from two NASA polar missions, again demonstrating IU's advanced data management and storage solutions for climate scientists.

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.

Indiana University and Cray Inc. announced today (October 9) that the university plans to replace its largest supercomputer system, Big Red, with the fastest university-owned supercomputer in the nation. Named Big Red II, the next-generation Cray XK supercomputer will be capable of one thousand trillion floating-point operations per second, or one petaFLOPS.

QuakeSim, an Indiana University-supported collection of online data and tools from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and multiple university partners, is a recipient of NASA's 2012 Software of the Year Award. The award recognizes innovative software technologies that significantly improve the agency's space exploration and maximize scientific discovery on Earth.

Data vital to understanding global climate change will benefit from more efficient and secure processing, thanks to a new tool created by members of Indiana University's Research Technologies Systems.

Recording light from millions of light years away and then sending it to the Indiana University Data Center at the corner of 10th Street and state Rt. 45/46 Bypass, a new camera at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona's Sonoran desert will image an area of sky five times that of the full moon, yet still focus at the equivalent of seeing a baseball from 30 miles away.

The United States Department of Energy has awarded Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research a three-year grant to further research and enhance how scientific collaborations across the country handle identity management.

The Apache Software Foundation recently asked Suresh Marru of the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute to join its exclusive membership. This honor is bestowed on IT developers whose skills have significantly contributed to the foundation's projects.

The back-to-school issue of IU Health & Wellness discusses whooping cough concerns, home-sick college students, the challenge of keeping good computer passwords and helping students with autism spectrum disorders.

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.

The announcement last week that scientists have observed a new particle that may be the elusive Higgs boson spelled success for Indiana University researchers who worked for years on a massive experiment that detected the particle.

Indiana University received a $492,588 National Science Foundation grant to help scientists study rising sea levels and the impact of storm surge on coastal communities. Through this grant, IU will improve the performance of oceanic computer models, which scientists use to protect millions of people living near coasts around the world.

Indiana University has long been a leader in "big data" initiatives, and the trend continues. In a joint effort between its Data to Insight Center and the IU Libraries, Indiana University has been selected as one of the partner institutions in the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)/Digital Library Federation (DLF) Data Curation Fellowship Program.

Through a joint effort between its Data to Insight Center and IU Libraries, Indiana University has been selected as a partner institution in the Council on Library and Information Resources/Digital Library Federation Data Curation Fellowship Program. The program is made possible by a $679,827 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

A new report, 'Supporting Experimental Computer Science,' distills the discussion from the Workshop on Experimental Support for Computer Science at SC11 into a consensus on the state of the field and directions for moving forward.

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.

At a time when medical research increasingly requires collaboration by large numbers of busy people, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute HUB offers a model for using advanced information technology to link scientists, health providers, community partners and others for the purpose of accelerating clinical and translational research. The Indiana CTSI HUB is a virtual, institution-scale medical research organization for Indiana, including Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame. Launched in 2008 with support from the National Institutes of Health, it supports virtual clinical research teams, community engaged research, research program development, and industry and public outreach.

A record 10 Indiana University faculty members will become fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the organization's 2012 annual meeting, taking place this weekend in Vancouver, B.C. Also, four IU Bloomington researchers will present at the meeting.

At a time when medical research increasingly requires collaboration by large numbers of busy people, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute HUB offers a model for using advanced information technology to link scientists, health providers, community partners and others for the purpose of accelerating clinical and translational research.

North Americans and Western Europeans love a good mix of alpha-terpineol, 4-methylpentanoic acid and ethyl propionate for dinner, flavor compounds shared in popular ingredients like tomatoes, parmesan cheese and white wine. Authentic East Asian recipes, on the other hand, tend to avoid mixing ingredients with many shared flavor compounds, according to new complex networks research from Indiana, Harvard, Cambridge and Northeastern universities.

The world's largest educational and scientific computing society, the Association for Computing Machinery, has recognized Indiana University Distinguished Professor Geoffrey Fox for his exceptional contributions to computing by naming him a 2011 Fellow.

An Indiana University team recently set out to address a major concern of data-intensive research: How can we move massive amounts of data to supercomputing facilities for analysis? The team demonstrated data transfer over an experimental 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) network—taking advantage of a link ten times faster than most in use today.

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.

Indiana University has established the Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies (CREST) on the IU Bloomington campus. The pioneering research hub will focus on developing computing technologies that address challenges from the ever-increasing volume of digital scientific research data, paving the way for breakthroughs in science and engineering.

Indiana University and Penguin Computing recently announced a partnership to offer U.S. researchers access to powerful shared computing resources in a secure environment that allows individuals and organizations to share the resources of large computing systems -- without individually purchasing and maintaining the costly equipment.

Indiana University has established the Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies (CREST)—a research hub charged with developing breakthrough technologies that address challenges created by the ever-increasing volume of digital scientific research data. The university celebrated the center's opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at IU Bloomington's Wrubel Computing Center today (Nov. 10).

Indiana University and Penguin Computing on Nov. 2 announced a partnership to offer U.S. researchers access to powerful shared computing resources in a secure environment. This type of service -- also known as on-demand or cloud computing -- lets individuals and organizations share the resources of large computing systems without individually purchasing and maintaining the costly equipment. One downside of traditional cloud services is that users often do not know where or how shared equipment is kept, which may create security and grant compliance concerns. The new service provided by IU and Penguin mitigates these concerns by providing access to a group of computers owned by Penguin and housed on U.S. soil in IU's highly secure state-of-the-art data center.

Indiana University and Penguin Computing today (Nov. 2) announced a partnership to offer U.S. researchers access to powerful shared computing resources in a secure environment. This type of service -- also known as on-demand or cloud computing -- lets individuals and organizations share the resources of large computing systems without individually purchasing and maintaining the costly equipment.

Indiana University's Data to Insight Center (D2I) will share in an anticipated $8 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to advance the science of sustainability through the integration of social science, natural science and environmental data.

Reports this week that a virus has been logging keystrokes of pilots of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada provide a powerful reminder of the breadth of cyber risks and of the unavoidable reality that even protected systems may not be secure, according to an Indiana University cybersecurity expert.

Indiana University's Data To Insight Center will lead a $600,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund the first investigation of non-consumptive research for a major mass digitized collection of content. Partners with D2I on this include the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) and the University of Michigan's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Software developed by Indiana University and partner institutions helped the Fukitsu K Computer be named reigning champion of the world's fastest supercomputers.

A partnership of 16 institutions, including Indiana University, 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. Scientists and engineers use these resources and services -- things like supercomputers, collections of data, and new tools -- to propel scientific discovery and improve lives. They are a crucial part of research in fields like earthquake engineering, materials science, medicine, epidemiology, genomics, astronomy and biology.

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.

The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) is pioneering a new technology collaboration with the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago to facilitate access to cutting-edge online tools that ease information sharing and group work among researchers at multiple institutions.

The U.S. Department of Defense on Thursday (July 14) unveiled declassified portions of its long-awaited strategy for handling cyberattacks, declaring publicly for the first time that it would treat cyberspace -- just as land, sea, and air -- as an "operational domain." Three experts from Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research comment on the strategy.

It's the birthday bash of the summer as the robots turn five at this year's Ready, Set, Robots! technology workshop for teens. Indiana middle and high school students with an interest in computer technology can learn to command robots and engage in some friendly team competition during this hands-on workshop sponsored by Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute with University Information Technology Services (UITS) Research Technologies and the IU GlobalNOC.

A new collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Repository, will develop cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the new high-tech imagery being provided by Indiana University's University Information Technology Services (UITS) for use by everyone from local historians to international researchers is also being translated into countless economic and educational opportunities for both the public and private sectors.

The impact of system noise on networks has brought Andrew Lumsdaine and colleagues accolades at Supercomputing 2010.

Newly awarded fellowship grants from the Data to Insight Center, part of the Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI), and the IU Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH) are supporting the important coupling of technology with arts and humanities research and creative activity.

Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University announced today (December 17) that Andrew Lumsdaine and Jeremiah Willcock of its Open Systems Lab (OSL) are part of an international team that developed the "Search" benchmark for the Graph 500 List. This benchmark evaluates a system's ability to traverse extremely large data structures.

When Supercomputing 2010 (SC10) wrapped up in New Orleans on Nov. 19, the contingent from Indiana University's information technology community arrived at a conclusion: The premier international conference for high performance supercomputing is much more than a networking event for networkers -- it's a place from which, they hope, new opportunities for IU and the state of Indiana will come to fruition. The conference featured more than 300 exhibitors from around the world, making the exhibition at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center's 386,000-square-foot hall the largest in SC conference history.

The hot technology buzzword, "cloud," describes Internet-accessible infrastructure -- such as data storage and computing hardware -- that is hidden from users. Top cloud computing researchers and industry leaders from around the globe gathered in Indianapolis recently to discuss the latest research and the future of this powerful emerging discipline. The IEEE 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010) ran from Nov. 30-Dec. 3 at University Place Conference Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). This year's hosts were the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University and the IU School of Informatics and Computing.

A paper co-authored by Dr. Andrew Lumsdaine, director of the Open Systems Lab (OSL) at the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute, and former OSL researchers Torsten Hoefler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Timo Schneider (University of Technology Chemnitz) has received Supercomputing 2010's Best Paper accolade. As the premier annual international supercomputing conference, Supercomputing 2010 drew thousands of participants from all over the world.

Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University today announced the availability of "Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability," a report from a National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored workshop. The NSF strategy for 21st-century innovation depends on the creation and maintenance of scientific and engineering software. In March 2009, Indiana University hosted an NSF-funded workshop to examine related software issues.

Top cloud computing researchers and industry leaders from around the globe are gathering in Indianapolis this week to discuss the latest research and the future of this powerful emerging discipline. The IEEE 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010) will run from Tuesday, Nov. 30 through Friday, Dec. 3 at University Place Conference Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

Indiana University and four research technology partners have succeeded in using the Lustre file system over a wide area network (WAN), saturating the world's first commercial 100 gigabit link.

The Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University has joined OpenSFS, a technical organization that promotes collaboration among institutions using open source scalable file systems such as Lustre. OpenSFS is a nonprofit corporation formed in 2010 by Cray Inc., DataDirect Networks Inc., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. OpenSFS is committed to acknowledging and addressing system needs in ways that bring together the Lustre community.

A successful research and development program that includes opportunities for collaboration between Indiana University and the federal government's Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, was just one of the topics broached during the Indiana University-NSWC Crane Information Technology Collaboration Conference held Nov. 4 at IU Bloomington.

Join Indiana University in imagining the supercomputing hardware, data management, and applications of tomorrow at SC10 in New Orleans, November 13-19. "Look to the Future of High Performance Computing," hosted by Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) at Indiana University, features talks and demonstrations by top computational scientists exploring timely questions.

Now that you've safely made your way through the vampires and zombies of Halloween, Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) wants to remind everyone that you are much more likely to be haunted by cyber-criminals than by ghosts or ghouls. CACR has teamed up with public radio station WFIU to produce "Security Matters," a series of radio spots alerting listeners to cyber threats and directing them to practical information about how they can protect themselves. Each radio spot also has a corresponding three to five minute video segment on the Security Matters website, demonstrating simple steps that listeners can take to protect against cyber threats.

Turn on any technology-related news program or radio show these days and you're likely to hear someone mention cloud computing. To help leaders from corporations and small businesses begin to realize this potential, the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University is hosting an educational seminar discussing how cloud technologies are providing access to greater computational power at a lower cost.

Data provenance -- or the process of ensuring the history and quality of stored and archived data -- is the focus of a new project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and led by the Data to Insight Center (D2I), a division of the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University.

With Halloween approaching, you may be on the lookout for vampires and zombies. But the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) wants to remind everyone that they are much more likely to be haunted by cyber-criminals than by ghosts or ghouls. To help the public fend off these very real dangers, CACR has teamed up with public radio station WFIU to produce "Security Matters," a series of radio spots alerting listeners to cyber threats and directing them to practical information about how they can protect themselves.

The Data to Insight Center, part of Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University, has just announced the addition of several new staff members. Led by computer scientist and School of Informatics and Computing faculty member Beth Plale, the Center focuses on three research thrusts: Scientific data preservation and sustainability, climate and the environment, and data at scale. D2I has received funding for several new research projects in recent months and is experiencing a period of rapid growth.

Leaders of the Data Capacitor project team at Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute have launched a partnership with technology startup Whamcloud to improve upon IU's pioneering work in the use of Lustre over Wide Area Networks.

The Data to Insight Center (D2I) at Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute has announced the recipients of five internal grants that will be used to fund academically diverse projects related to data management. The one-year grants range in amounts from $30,000 to $50,000, and total more than $235,000.

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.

The Data to Insight (D2I) Center at Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute is soliciting proposals for research in data management at Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

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."

The interplay of human mobility patterns like those between local metropolitan commuters and long-range airline travelers during a global epidemic can be modeled in such detail so as to offer refined views of epidemics that could aid in public health emergency decision making, according to new research published by a team led by informaticists at Indiana University.

The findings, published the week of Dec. 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' Online Early Edition, also note that with these refined computational strategies, new levels of accuracy about the behavior of targeted mobility networks and epidemic progression can be imagined.

The interplay of human mobility patterns like those between local metropolitan commuters and long-range airline travelers during a global epidemic can be modeled in such detail so as to offer refined views of epidemics that could aid in public health emergency decision making, according to new research published by a team led by informaticists at Indiana University.