Pervasive Technology Institute
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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