by Deb Nigra | Apr 10, 2015 | Data Exacell
The Data Exacell (DXC) was a research pilot project to create, deploy, and test software and hardware building blocks that enable data analytics in scientific research. The DXC coupled analytic resources with innovative storage configurations to allow communities...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 1, 2015 | Science Highlights
DATA EXACELL MARKS FIRST YEAR WITH USER-DRIVEN ADVANCES User input and experience have helped PSC’s Data Exacell (DXC) complete a successful first year of operation. Thanks to the ongoing dialog with users, the DXC team has advanced the system’s software and gained a...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 1, 2015 | Science Highlights
ALL Flesh is Grass? Blacklight Helps Researchers Untangle Genome of Wheat Progenitor Wheat, a species of grass, provides more protein for human consumption—more flesh—than any other plant. Globally, we harvest 725 million metric tons of...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 1, 2015 | Science Highlights
Putting Tools in the Right Hands PSC Workshops Transform Public Health in East Africa In a series of workshops sponsored by the Mozambique Ministry of Health, PSC’s Public Health Applications Group and their colleagues at the Johns Hopkins School...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 1, 2015 | Science Highlights
Teaching the Machine to See Blacklight “Trains” Video Search System for Competition Victory A good example that we live in the era of Big Data is that, as we’ve moved from super-8-film home movies to ever-present smartphones, we’ve...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 1, 2015 | Science Highlights
Bridging the GAP Bridges Will Bring high performance Computing and Data Analysis Capabilities to New Fields Today, investigators in important, data-intensive fields such as cancer genomics, the digital humanities and machine learning...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 1, 2015 | Science Highlights
Janus Channel Anton Simulations Reveal How Pain, Epilepsy Drugs Work through Same Target Protein If you tried to imagine two neurological conditions as different from each other as possible, epilepsy and non-headache pain would be a good choice....
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 1, 2015 | Science Highlights
FutureMatch: Enabling Better Organ Exchange Programs Over 123,000 adults and children currently await organ transplants. Unfortunately, only about 30,000 donor organs become available each year. Every day, roughly 20 people die waiting...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 1, 2015 | Science Highlights
Lifeboat Africa Blacklight Helps Archeologists Study the Origins of Modern Human Behavior Picture an endangered species. Climate change has forced it into a small refuge. The population has crashed to thousands or fewer. Survival is by no...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 3, 2015 | 2015Press
PSC to Build Early Warning Tool for Fixing Internet Traffic Jams $300,000 National Science Foundation Grant Will Use Web10G Data to Warn Users, Administrators for Proactive Repair of Slow Data Flow Wednesday, March 4, 2015 A new, $300,000 National Science Foundation...
