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HPC bioinformatics and transcriptomics
“I am a sixth year graduate student in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. I started a transcriptomics project with little experience in coding and no experience in high powered computing (HPC). Without Bob Freeman’s work through ACI-REF I do not think I would have been able to complete my bioinformatics project. I was…
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Connecting researchers and compute resources
Advanced Computing Initiative helps UW-Madison researchers sift and winnow data The Advanced Computing Initiative (ACI) links researchers and computing resources to maximize productivity.
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Processing meteorological data
“Through an expired grant NSF ATM- 1127692, Martin Cuma and Anita Orendt were instrumental in enabling me to analyze very large data sets of photographs of hydrometeors in free fall. The amount of data I was collecting became a processing nightmare, and Martin and Anita progressively helped me navigate my MATLAB analysis from my laptop…
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Big data and astronomy
Automation offers big solution to big data in astronomy
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Whole genome alignment
Whole genome alignment is crucial to a large number of important applications in genomics, and is particularly important to our work on convergent evolution in birds. The current state of the art software for whole genome alignment is progressiveCactus, developed by the same group that built the UCSC genome browser. Getting this software to work…
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Training and debugging
We are very appreciative of the help offered by CHPC staff and facilities. Specifically, we receive a lot of help with respect to the software training, program debugging, and computational resources. Because of the help we have received, we are more familiar with how to perform calculations and get useful information using CHPC computational packages…
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Evaluating post-Katrina rebuilding grants
Using high throughput computing to evaluate post-Katrina rebuilding grants
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City planning and cluster computing
“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.” – Cesar Chavez Could better city planning actually improve community cohesiveness, economic output, and quality of life? That’s the belief of Steven Farber, a geography professor at the University of Utah…
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Patterns of a Political Cartoonist
This visualization, generated on Clemson University’s Palmetto Cluster, is based on data collected for a study of 8,422 political cartoons by Herbert Lawrence Block (known as Herblock), published in the Washington Post between 1946 and 1976. The investigators are developing innovative ways of visualizing the different levels of context and meaning embedded within and across…