Harnessing the Petabyte: Data Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Explores Cloud & Supercomputing To Analyze Big Data
September 9, 2013
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The petabyte—a quantity of digital information 12 orders of magnitude greater than the lowly kilobyte—looms large as a future standard for data. To glean knowledge from this deluge of data, a team of researchers at the Data Science Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is combining the reach of cloud computing with the precision of supercomputers in a new approach to Big Data analysis.
“Advances in technology for medical imaging devices, sensors, and in powerful scientific simulations are producing data that we must be able to access and mine,” said Bulent Yener, founding director of the DSRC, a professor of computer science within the Rensselaer School of Science, and a member of the research team. “The trend is heading toward petabyte data and we need to develop algorithms and methods that can help us understand the knowledge contained within it.”…
The team, led by Petros Drineas, associate professor of computer science at Rensselaer, has been awarded a four-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information & Intelligent Systems to explore the new strategies for mining petabyte data. The project will enlist key faculty from across the Institute including Drineas and Yener; Christopher Carothers, director of the Rensselaer supercomputing center, the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI), and professor of computer science; Mohammed Zaki, professor of computer science; and Angel Garcia, head of the Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy and senior chaired professor in the Biocomputation and Bioinformatics Constellation…
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