The diverse array of campus computing resources available to SU’s researchers was created to take on new and greater computational tasks, enhance research productivity, increase the competitiveness of grant submissions, and advance scientific discovery across many disciplines. Information Technology Services (ITS), in collaboration with the Research Computing Advisory Council (RCAC), will host a series of Computing Colloquies designed to help campus researchers identify and make the most of these resources. Continue Reading
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OrangeGrid: Shifting evolutionary genetics research into high-gear
The grand challenge currently facing biologists is to decipher how the information in our genome manifests itself as the biological characteristics that make up who we are. This process is referred to as establishing genotype-phenotype associations and the ability of scientists to establish these connections in a wide range of organisms has been revolutionized by the rapid increase in available genome sequences. Continue Reading
Covariance analysis of fly genes
Postdoctoral biology researcher Kirill Borziak and Associate Professor of Biology Steve Dorus, in collaboration with Weeden Professor of Biology Scott Pitnick and Biology Professor John Belote, all in the College of Arts and Sciences, utilized OG to run a covariance analysis of genes from 15 fly species, and AVHE to implement pipelines for assembly and analysis of next-generation sequencing data. Continue Reading
Faster finite element analyses
Barry Davidson, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, is working with apprenticed graduate students to perform finite element analyses. His team first utilized a dedicated quad core server, which required two hours to complete each run. They transitioned to OG and AVHE and decreased run-times from two hours to just 10 minutes. Continue Reading
Crushing 4k video frame rates
Leveraging Crush’s computing strength, ITS worked with Heath Hanlin, associate professor and department chair of Art, Design and Transmedia in the College of Visual Performance Arts, to construct a render farm. Hanlin produced “Branches,” a high-resolution, computationally complex 3-D animation, his newest exploration of line, light and sound. Continue Reading
Experimentalists’ parallel projects
Adjunct Professor Damian Allis and his team of experimentalists are working on four projects involving several hundred-structured calculations. “Crush has been instrumental in allowing us to conduct our projects in parallel.
Quantum Information Science and Low-temperature Physics
Associate Professor Britton Plourde – Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences
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Understanding Collective Motion
The Manning group uses theoretical and computational tools to understand collective motion in disordered, non-equilibrium “materials”, where “materials” range from granular solids, to foams, to groups of cells in biological tissues engaged in processes like wound healing, embryonic development, and cancer metastasis.
Unsteady Fluid Dynamics
Study of unsteady fluid dynamics involving both water channel experiments.