Research Computing News

National Science Foundation Awards $390,000 to Research Computing Initiative

September 3, 2020

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant of $390,000 for a new research computing cluster at Syracuse University. The cluster will be built using graphical processing units (GPUs), which offer significant processing and memory advantages over traditional hardware. The new cluster will significantly increase the computing power available to faculty and students.

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Fast Forward: Rajagopal’s Award-Winning Research Capitalizes on Private Cloud Resources

Nandhini Rajagopal

Groundbreaking research takes time.

Research computing resources at Syracuse University help speed up the clock.

Nandhini Rajagopal is a biomedical and chemical engineering doctoral student in Professor Shikha Nangia’s lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Last month, Rajagopal won the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Computing Group Research Excellence Award, which recognizes outstanding computational chemistry research conducted by graduate students. Continue Reading

Computing for a Cure

Through the Orange Grid distributed computing system and the Crush research cloud, University computers are contributing to COVID-19 research through such collaborative efforts as the Open Science Grid (OSG), Folding@Home and Rosetta@Home.

Fall 2019 Research Computing Colloquies

Do you need more computing power to move your research and creativity forward? At the Fall 2019 Computing Colloquies, Daniele Profeta (Assistant Professor of Architecture) and Britton Plourde (Professor of Physics) will discuss how they leverage Syracuse University’s advanced computing resources to strengthen their work.

Architecture Assistant Teaching Professor exhibits at ACCelerate

LiDAR generated image of a ship docked in the arcticAssistant Teaching Professor Daniele Profeta of Syracuse University’s School of Architecture exhibited at ACCelerate: The ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival, which was held April 5-7 at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

Profeta’s interactive exhibit on ARCTIC LiDAR was an immersive 360° Video Installation exploring the quickly expanding logistic landscape of the Arctic coast.  Using 3d LiDAR scanning, this 360° video captured the primary nodes of this far reaching infrastructure, ranging from Dry Ports to Ice Breakers and Rail Terminals, and re-assembled them in a composite, speculative landscape.   Continue Reading

Spring 2019 Research Computing Colloquies

About the Colloquies

These sessions will explore how computing resources help researchers take on new and greater computational tasks, enhance research productivity, increase the competitiveness of grant submissions, and advance scientific discovery across many disciplines. Continue Reading

SUrge GPU Cluster Streamlines Rendering of School of Architecture Students’ Animations

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Assistant Teaching Professor Daniele Profeta introduce students to digital animation techniques as a way to construct immersive environments

Daniele Profeta is an Italian architect and designer. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture.  He received a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, and completed his undergraduate studies between La Sapienza University in Rome and KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm, where he graduated with Honors.

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Q&A with Associate Professor Ken Harper on Photogrammetry

Ken Harper is an associate professor and the first director of the Newhouse Center for Global Engagement at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. The Newhouse Center for Global Engagement is dedicated to bringing knowledge to the world through storytelling, collaboration and innovation. Harper’s role in the Center stems from his long history in working internationally and he is now sharing that passion by bringing the classroom into the world and the world into the classroom. Continue Reading