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  • HTC computing enables knee research

    High-throughput computing plays pivotal role in knee biomechanics research

  • Island Facilitation

    Foster’s rule (also known as the island rule or the island effect) is an ecogeographical rule in evolutionary biology stating that members of a species get smaller or bigger depending on the resources available in the environment. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster’s_rule Cyberinfrastructure at the University of Hawaii is relatively new and small compared to the other organizations…

  • When a lot of little things add up to a lot of time; HTCondor to the rescue

    When a lot of little things add up to a lot of time; HTCondor to the rescue

    A student sits at his desk, fretting. The clock is ticking, the deadline is looming, and the giant mound of data he desperately needs processed remains, stubbornly and unabashedly, unaltered. He’s tried many things, but it’s only him and his workstation against the monstrosity of information he’s attempting to subdue. His PC, by itself, is…

  • HIV elite controllers

    High-throughput computing, HIV and the mystery of ‘elite controllers’

  • Microbial communities and rapid evolution

    Microbial communities may inform understanding of rapid evolution Lauren Michael, a research computing facilitator at the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), says researchers tend to use the CHTC resources for two reasons: they have massive volumes of data or a need for incredibly complex computations. Bontrager has a bit of both, and uses the…

  • Using the Grid to Understand Crops

    UW botanist harnesses the grid to illuminate crop growth Spalding’s Birge Hall lab is pretty far removed from conventional dirt-under-the-nails botany. In one room, a row of stationary cameras bathed in red light train in on Petri dishes that contain seedlings growing in a gel. These cameras take pictures every two minutes, producing rich time-lapse…

  • Parallel program solutions for high energy physics

    “I work in high energy theoretical particle physics. Specifically, I investigate physics beyond the Standard Model with a focus on dark matter implications. My research often requires scans of models that have very large numbers of parameters. This work could not be completed without the computing resources provided at CHPC. Almost as valuable as the…

  • Facilitating data transfer

    Genomics research is one of the largest drivers in generating Big Data for science, with the potential to equal, if not surpass, the data output of the particle physics community. Like physicists, university-based life-science researchers must collaborate with counterparts and access data repositories across the nation and globe. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)…

  • Computational transition in chemistry

    Our group started using the CHPC resources intensively almost three years ago. We were guided by the CHPC staff through their available resources for chemistry, as well as through some basic aspects of Gaussian, a major program used for molecular computations, and Schrödinger’s MacroModel for conformational analysis. We initially obtained a temporary allocation, which was…

  • Big data and Alzheimer’s detection

    Campus big data project may point the way to Alzheimer’s early detection The team uses the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), supported by UW-Madison and the Morgridge Institue, to segment MRI brain images that in some cases can take 12-24 hours for a single brain. “For many hundreds of brain scans, we need a…