Research
The CI recognizes that the applications of computation will have important impacts on the evolution of the discipline of computer science, and that the fabric of such interdisciplinary study is locked in a dynamic co-evolution enabling fundamental advances in both computer science and the application field.
ASC-FLASH Center
Don Lamb, PI
The aim of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes is to solve the long-standing problem of thermonuclear flashes on the surfaces of compact stars, such as neutron stars and white dwarfs, and the inte(i.e., Type Ia supernovae). [more]
GriPhyN and iVDGL
Ian Foster and Robert Gardner, PIs
The GriPhyN (Grid Physics Network) project brings together an outstanding team of information technology (IT) researchers and experimental physicists to provide the IT advances required to enable Petabytintensive science in the 21st century. [more]
GRIDS Center and CDIGS
Ian Foster, PI
Globus development began in 1996 as an effort to provide the scientific community with a set of tools and services for building distributed applications. Thanks to the recent NSF award for the Community Driven Improvement of Globus Software (CDIGS), developers from the University of Chicago (led by Ian Foster) and University of Southern California (led by Carl Kesselman) are able to continue contributing to Globus development. [more]
Social Informatics Data Grid
Rick Stevens, PI
Social Informatics Data SIDGrid will enable researchers to collect real-time multimodal behavior at multiple time scales. Multimedia data (voice, video, images, and text, numerical) will be stored in a distributed data warehouse that employs Web and Grid services to support data storage, access, exploration, annotation, integration, analysis, and mining of individual and combined data sets. [more]
National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource Center (NMPDR)
Rick Stevens, PI
Lead by Rick Stevens, PI, The National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource Center (NMPDR) goal is to support existing and newly developed techniques for comparative analysis to obtain a deeper understanding of the fundamental biology of a specific set of pathogenic organisms, and to promote efforts to counter the threats posed by these pathogens. [more]
TeraGrid
Ian Foster and Rick Stevens, PIs
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure, the TeraGrid integrates a widely distributed set of high-capability computational, data management, and visualization resources as a coherent work environment through advanced software, services, and high-bandwidth optical networks. [more]
Open Science Grid
Rob Gardner and Mike Wilde, PIs
The Open Science Grid (OSG), which initially began with joint efforts from the GriPhyN, Particle Physics Data Grid, and the iVDGL projects, is a production-scale, shared cyberinfrastructure built through a application-driven, multi-disciplinary science consortium. [more]
The Midwest Tier2 Center
Robert Gardner, PI
The CI and the Enrico Fermi Institute are teaming up to build a computing resource for analysis of the multi-Petabyte datasets that will be recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN LHC. The Midwest Tier2 Center (MWT2), led by UC, is a joint project with Indiana University to build a single, integrated facility for a community of “regional” physics working groups focusing on common analysis-object datasets that will be hosted by the facility. [more]
Chicago Biomedical Consortium
Jonathan Silverstein, Scientific Director
The mission of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC) is to stimulate collaboration among scientists at Northwestern University (Leader: Rick Morimoto), the University of Chicago (Leader and CI Associate Director: Jonathan Silverstein), and the University of Illinois at Chicago (Leader: Brenda Russell) that will transform research at the frontiers of biomedicine. [more]
Social Informatics
James Evans, PI
In his recent work on molecular biology, James Evans, a faculty member at the University of Chicago Department of Sociology, used natural-language-processing tools to summarize the scientific literature and to assess the ways in which collaboration shaped the productivity, persistence, novelty, sharing, and application- and commercial-orientation of research results. [more]
New Directions in Learning Theory
Partha Niyogi, PI
The goals of this project were to pursue new frameworks, algorithms, analyses, and applications of machine learning. In particular, we chose to focus on a class of problems that involved the interplay between current learning theory and integration, geometry, and dynamics. [more]
ACTS-Adjoint Compiler
Paul Hovland, PI
The Adjoint Compiler Technology & Standards (ACTS) project aims to provide scientists, engineers, academics, and students with techniques, tools, reference projects, and easily accessible expertise allowing for new approaches to investigating numerical models of real-world problems based on mathematically precise derivative information.[more]
