The United States increasingly relies on information networks for the conduct of vital business. These networks are potentially subject to major disruptions from a variety of external sources. To date, there has been no clear statement of the magnitude of this threat or the ability of the various networks to withstand or respond to such disruptions. This project examines the national communications and information infrastructure. The research was conducted for the Office of Science and Technology Policy with task funding from the National Science Foundation.
Welcome to Cyberinfrastructure Tutor, or CI-Tutor, the web-based training site for High Performance Computing and Cyberinfrastructure topics. This resource is hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The Data Capacitor is a high speed/high bandwidth storage system for research computing that serves all IU campuses and NSF TeraGrid Users. At peak performance, the Data Capacitor has a 14.5 gigabyte per second aggregate transfer rate per second. The Dat
Last year, researchers at Indiana University's Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility (cryoEM) acquired a powerful new microscope capable of electron cryomicroscopy, a method of analyzing the structure of proteins at really low temperatures. However, the process often damages samples so researchers have to use a large number to ensure accurate results. This in turn means multiple images from hundreds of thousands of protein particles which then need to be made into composite images, requiring thousands of hours of compute time. So the analysis, movement, and management of all these image files quickly became an IT headache almost as soon as they flipped the on switch
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