Spectra Logic and Globus today, at Supercomputing 2015 in Austin, Texas, unveiled a new partnership that incorporates Spectra Logic’s BlackPearl hybrid storage ecosystem and the Globus research data management service. The cost-effective, joint solution provides Globus users with a turnkey private storage cloud, using a familiar web interface across online, nearline, and offline storage systems.
Institutional and cultural pressures lead scientists to avoid risk-taking and choose inefficient research strategies, conclude two University of Chicago studies analyzing millions of journal articles and patents.
The University of Chicago (UChicago) announced today that the National Science Foundation has awarded a $3.1 million grant to support the development of Array of Things, an urban sensing instrument that will serve as a fitness tracker for the city, measuring data on Chicago’s environment, infrastructure and activity.
To help investigate and develop the promising cloud computing future, the Computation Institute and the Texas Advanced Computing Center today announced that a new experimental testbed, called Chameleon, is in full production for researchers across the country.
In its third year, the 2015 Data Science for Social Good Fellowship, a University of Chicago program, will apply advanced computational and statistical methods to projects in education, economic development, public health and safety, the environment, policy, and international aid.
When writing the abstracts for journal articles, most scientists receive similar advice: keep it short, dry, and simple. But a new analysis by University of Chicago researchers of over 1 million abstracts finds that many of these tips backfire, producing abstracts cited less than their long, flowery, and jargon-filled peers.
A team of researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and DataDirect Networks (DDN) moved 65 terabytes of data in under just 100 minutes at a recent supercomputing conference.
A $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will upgrade Beagle, the University of Chicago and Computation Institute supercomputer for biomedical research.
A new analysis calculating the scientific impact of 1.25 million journal articles finds that papers with authors from multiple countries are cited more often and more likely to both appear in prestigious journals, and provides a new perspective on the changing global landscape of scientific influence.
Plenario, a new platform for accessing, combining, downloading, and visualizing datasets released by city, county, state, and federal governments, offers a user-friendly and powerful interface to push data-driven urban research beyond spreadsheets and towards deeper insights and solutions.
This summer, 48 fellows from around the world have come to Chicago to tackle these and other missions as part of the 2014 Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship, a University of Chicago program dedicated to making a better world through innovative data science projects.
A $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will help Globus deliver on its mission to accelerate discovery by making advanced research data management infrastructure available to small laboratories and individual researchers around the world.
a new analysis of nearly 4 million scientific articles finds that research is disproportionately focused on diseases that primarily afflict wealthy countries. Correspondingly, less research attention is given to diseases of the developing world, increasing global health disparities.
Researchers from the Computation Institute will discuss advances in scientific computing at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), running February 13th through 17th in Chicago.
A new analysis combining climate, agricultural, and hydrological models finds that shortages of freshwater used for irrigation could double the detrimental effects of climate change on agriculture.
Many topics of interest to the research computing community will be discussed at the upcoming conference, including: - setting up a campus data service - sharing data with collaborators, wherever they may be - integrating campus computing with the cloud - data management services for genomics researchers
LakeSim, a prototype computational framework combining scientific modeling with city planning tools, will help developers design the large-scale urban projects of the 21st century, including the 600-acre Lakeside Development on Chicago's South Side.
The Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good summer fellowship is a new University of Chicago program where 36 aspiring data scientists will work on machine learning and data science projects with social impact.
Globus Online announces today the availability of Provider Plans that enable computing centers at non-profit institutions to deliver powerful and scalable data management capabilities to researchers, backed by enhanced levels of operational support.
Rayid Ghani, chief scientist of the highly regarded Obama for America data analytics team, has joined the University of Chicago's Computation Institute and Harris School of Public Policy to explore using data to solve complex social problems.
The Computation Institute announces the launch of Globus Genomics, a unique end-to-end sequencing analysis service for genomics researchers. The service combines state-of-the-art algorithms with sophisticated data management tools, a powerful graphical workflow environment, and a cloud-based elastic computational infrastructure to enable easy scaling of sequencing analysis on demand.
Globus Online, the software-as-a-service for research data management, announces that KBase, the Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase, will use Globus Online for identity and group management.
A new research initiative based at the University of Chicago and the Computation Institute will use computational tools to scrutinize how knowledge is created. Such understanding could transform the process of research, calling out past missteps while revealing unanticipated new directions for the future.
Globus Online has been accepted for production deployment, making it an official software service on XSEDE, the world’s most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources.
The Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD), a new Chicago-based research center using advanced computational methods to understand the rapid growth of cities, will receive a $500,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The new Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD) will apply the most advanced computational and data-driven techniques to the challenge of intelligent urban planning and design.
Globus Online and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) announce a new collaboration to help scientists better manage the growing amounts of data they need to move, share, and analyze worldwide.
Globus Online announces a new file sharing service that makes it easy for researchers to share their data with collaborators. New “Plus” plan enables researchers to securely share files without moving them to cloud storage.
A vast amount of scientific knowledge is inaccessible to the scientific community due to the lack of computational resources or tools for small laboratories to share or analyze experimental results. A new collaboration will look for ways that software can bring this data out of hiding, revealing untapped value in the “long tail” of scientific research.
Globus Online, the software-as-a-service for research data management, has launched a new web site – www.globuseurope.eu – to serve the European research community. The site was launched in partnership with European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) organization and the Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE).
Ian Foster will serve a third term as director of the Computation Institute, continuing his mission to advance the study and application of computation across the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, University officials announced.
Ian Foster, director of the Computation Institute, was recognized by the ITA as the individual “whose talent has championed true technology innovation, either through new application of existing technology or the development of technology to achieve a truly unique product or service."
The Globus Online team announced today that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has chosen Globus Online as the data movement solution for the Blue Waters supercomputer, which will be used by researchers across the country.
Registration is now open for the 10th annual GlobusWORLD conference, being held April 10-12, 2012 at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, IL and featuring a program of prominent speakers including XSEDE and Blue Waters keynotes.
The Globus team today announced the availability of Globus Toolkit 5.2, the culmination of more than a year of development effort to greatly enhance the ability to install, setup and update the Globus Toolkit client and service components.
As the first stage in the rollout of a comprehensive Partner Program, Globus Online launched Globus Connect Multi-User (GCMU), a tool that makes it simple for system administrators to connect shared resources, such as file servers or HPC clusters, to Globus Online for fast, reliable file transfer.
The Computation Institute's Globus Online data movement service will be a key component of the recently announced Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project for advanced cyberinfrastructure and digital services, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to replace and extend the TeraGrid supercomputing environment.
The Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory will participate as a partner organization in the recently announced Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project for advanced cyberinfrastructure and digital services, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The Computation Institute at University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory announced that the Globus Online service for research data movement registered over 1000 users in its first six months.
Globus Online, the fast, reliable service for secure file transfer, announces a set of new features, including the production version of ‘Globus Connect’ which lets users add local machines as endpoints in the Globus Online cloud; expanded identity management; and a REST API for developers.
GlobusWORLD 2011, the annual Globus community conference, will showcase new technologies at the intersection of grid and cloud computing. Researchers, software developers, and cyberinfrastructure providers will convene April 11-13 at Argonne, to hear about exciting new features and future plans.
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