Latest Cyberinfrastructure Stories
Advocates cyberteam concept that brings together signal, signals intelligence and cyber communities FAIRFAX, Va., June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, wants to combine forces from the military communications and intelligence communities to combat a broad cyber threat that he describes as "only going to get worse." (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130604/DC26185)...
UC San Diego/Open Science Grid Collaboration Speeds Quest for Dark Matter Discovery Gordon, the unique supercomputer launched last year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, recently completed its most data-intensive task so far: rapidly processing raw data from almost one billion particle collisions as part of a project to help define the future research agenda for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Under a partnership between a team of...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Blue Waters – one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world – was officially declared available for use in a ceremony held at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) on Thursday. In technical terms, the computer “is capable at peak performance of nearly 12 quadrillion floating point operations per second and, more importantly, has demonstrated...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers are using the record-breaking supercomputer Gordon – named after the comic strip superhero Flash Gordon – to devise a novel way to guide the development of treatments for mental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. When Gordon officially came online in January 2012 at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the supercomputer was instantly impressive, sustaining more than 35 million input/output operations...
LONDON, December 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Entering into its 7th year, Defence IQ's Cyber Defence & Network Security (CDANS) symposium will again deliver an unrivalled panel of senior speakers from government, military and critical national infrastructure. Taking place in London from 28 - 31 January in 2013, CDANS will provide the latest insight into what a business needs to protect its networks against the next generation of cyber threats. To view the...
NSF and DataONE take the lead in building a model for scientific data preservation, innovation and discovery The earth and environmental sciences have become especially data-intensive. As researchers rely on highly calibrated and technologically sophisticated sensors rather than observations to collect data, discovering, integrating and analyzing massive amounts of heterogeneous information become critical to researchers' ability to address complex questions about the environment and the...
ARLINGTON, Va., July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyber security and privacy solutions company, Lunarline, Inc., will exhibit at the Intelligence Support to Cyber Conference held by the U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM). The conference will focus on enhancing awareness of the cyber domain and be held on July 10, 2012 at U.S. Cyber Command's location in Fort Meade, Md. Lunarline will be featuring its full line of Cyberspace Operations and security automation platforms, solutions,...
Enabling Business to Tap Into all the Benefits of HPC Provo, UT (PRWEB) February 15, 2012 Adaptive Computing, managers of the world’s largest supercomputing systems and experts in HPC workload management solutions, is the latest company to join NCSA’s Private Sector Program, which puts the center’s expertise to work on some of the toughest challenges faced by industry. NCSA's Private Sector Program puts the center's expertise and technological innovation to work on the real-world...
President provides 5 percent increase for NSF to invest in fundamental research, advanced manufacturing, cybersecurity, sustainability and education priorities National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Subra Suresh today detailed the president's $7.373 billion fiscal year 2013 budget request for the agency, emphasizing that new knowledge resulting from federal investments in science and technology is needed to ensure the nation's future prosperity and global competitiveness. As part of...
Software as a Service (SaaS) Will Be File Transfer Solution For All Blue Waters Users CHICAGO, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Globus Online team announced today that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has chosen Globus Online as the data movement solution for the Blue Waters supercomputer, which will be used by researchers across the country. A secure, reliable service for high-performance file transfer, Globus Online will be used by Blue Waters...
