{"id":76,"date":"2014-07-10T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aciref.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/?p=76"},"modified":"2014-07-10T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:06:18","slug":"city-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aciref.chpc.utah.edu\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"City planning and cluster computing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\u201cIf you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people\u00a0who give you their food give you their heart.\u201d – Cesar Chavez<\/p>\n

Could better city planning actually improve community cohesiveness, economic output,\u00a0and quality of life? That\u2019s the belief of Steven Farber, a geography professor at the\u00a0University of Utah whose research focuses on identifying the characteristics of a region\u00a0that contribute to the frequency and quality of social interactions. With computer\u00a0modeling, Farber and his colleagues modeled 80 hypothetical areas, each with 1 million\u00a0people living and working in them. Each area had a unique allocation of residential and\u00a0work sites and commuting flow. The team identified all possible scenarios of movement\u00a0from work to home and determined the potential for a person to meet up with another\u00a0person after work. This research could help in the planning and construction of urban\u00a0environments that maximize opportunities for interaction and thereby foster greater\u00a0social benefits encourage community cohesiveness.<\/p>\n

Professor Farber worked with ACI-REF Wim Cardoen to adapt his Matlab code to an\u00a0MPI\/C++ code to make use of CHPC cluster resources. This allowed him to do\u00a0computations which were taking months on a desktop to be completed in minutes.<\/p>\n

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Image by Tijs Neutens, Steven Farber, Matthias Delafontaine, Kobe Bossauw
in the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 41 (2013) 318-331.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Image by Tijs Neutens, Steven Farber, Matthias Delafontaine, Kobe Bossauw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people\u00a0who give you their food give you their heart.\u201d – Cesar Chavez Could better city planning actually improve community cohesiveness, economic output,\u00a0and quality of life? That\u2019s the belief of Steven Farber, a geography professor at the\u00a0University of Utah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[21,31,35],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impact","category-social-sciences","tag-hpc","tag-research-stories","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aciref.chpc.utah.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aciref.chpc.utah.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aciref.chpc.utah.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aciref.chpc.utah.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aciref.chpc.utah.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aciref.chpc.utah.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aciref.chpc.utah.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aciref.chpc.utah.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aciref.chpc.utah.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}