http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu A NCSA research group Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:55:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two entries by DITA members and affiliates won bronze "HUMIES" award at the human-competitive results competition at GECCO-2007. One of the entries, titled “Towards Better than Human Capability in Diagnosing Prostate Cancer Using Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging“, was led by DITA and IlliGAL member Xavier Llorà. Other team members included Rohith Reddy, ... http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/blog/2007/07/20/dita-awarded-three-times-at-gecco-2007/ David E. Goldberg and Kumara Sastry are presenting the results about the results done on the billion bit or burst initiative. In they own words: The push for better understanding and design of complex systems requires the solution of challenging optimization problems with large numbers of decision variables. This note presents ... http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/blog/2007/05/22/psp-2007-goldberg-sastry-a-billion-bits-or-bust/ Ray Plante is covering the large synoptic survey telescope project. Lost of possibilities opening from its usage. More questions about the origins of the space... http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/blog/2007/05/22/psp-2007-ray-plante-supercomputing-the-universe/ Donna Cox is firing a very interesting overview of the methodology art and science her group has been using at NCSA. As a study case she presented the F3 tornado in South Dakota they have been working. It is a clear compelling case for visualization as a powerful tool for ... http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/blog/2007/05/22/psp-2007-dona-cox-designing-scientific-information-and-communicating-to-non-expert-audiences/ David Barkai is introducing the Intel view about the multicore era already started. He is kicking off reviewing what is coming from Intel. They are currently in 65nm, then 45nm, and 32nm. On the way down they compact the X86 and slowly introducing a new architecture. The change to 45nm ... http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/blog/2007/05/22/psp-2007-david-barkai-hpc-in-the-era-of-multicore-the-intel-view/ NCSA deputy director is reviewing the center history about HPC, and the need to bring people in before the technology is out. Key people + innovative hardware = road to success. http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/blog/2007/05/22/psp-2007-rob-pennington-and-innovation-systems/ The second PSP speaker is Dan Fay, more on the technical computing efforts by Microsoft. His focus is to provide and end-to-end solution from solution creation to the end publication (the focus here is on science on research). A claim, provide access to archived data sets and workflows that process ... http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/blog/2007/05/22/psp-2007-dan-fay-technical-computing-at-microsoft/ Kyril is going over the drop of the cost of clusters and how that is penetrating companies. Most of the big solvers (e.g. Fluent) are being integrated into the user experience, being the user the one starting the HPC computation. Another key point he mentioned is the raising of workflows ... http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/blog/2007/05/22/psp-2007-kyril-faenov-the-microsoft-take-on-hpc/ Yesterday NCSA 2007 PSP meeting started. DITA was there demoing the recent advances on the DISCUS project. We cover some of our latest work on tracking the blogosphere. Lots of interesting discussions with PSP partners from Intel and Dere among others. Today, very interesting presentations are line up. http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/blog/2007/05/22/ncsa-2007-psp-meeting/ This presentation covers a general overview of the goals, origins, reasearch and tools currently available for the DISCUS project. For more information please visit the DISCUS project website. [slideshare 48276 the-discus-project-11310] http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/blog/2007/05/11/an-overview-of-the-discus-project/