RENCI/TUCASI/TRLN Discussion Series

The Renaissance Computing Institute (www.renci.org) is collaborating with the Triangle Research Libraries Network and three Triangle Universities to research how to best meet the evolving data storage and processing needs of faculty at Duke, NCSU and UNC-CH. We are currently in the planning process to establish and deploy a nationally significant, large-scale, high performance data storage system to meet the needs of researchers at the Triangle campuses and address economic development opportunities. The effort will address a range of research issues from the management and transfer of large-scale datasets to enable researchers to explore and pursue new ways to do research, to managing diverse data collections and data bases including issues associated with long-term preservation and support.

To help the North Carolina Triangle research community prepare for this large-scale data resource and inform its design, RENCI organized a bi-weekly series of presentations and discussions in 2006.

Renci calendar of events

2006 Meetings and proceedings:

• July 27th: Kevin Gildea (IBM), "Large-scale dataset solutions: the IBM perspective" (http://www.renci.org/news/multimedia.php) Powerpoint
• August 10th: Jane Greenberg (UNC-SILS), "Metadata for Digital Resource Repositories: Architectures, Applications, and Issues." (http://www.renci.org/news/multimedia.php)
• August 24th: Michael Kimble (Dell), "Large-scale dataset solutions: the Dell perspective" (http://www.renci.org/news/multimedia.php)
• September 7: David S. Lalush, (UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering), "Challenges in Crossing Boundaries of Traditional Academic and Research Infrastructure" (http://www.renci.org/news/multimedia.php) Powerpoint
• September 21: James Porto (UNC, Dept of Health Policy), "Data support for Disaster Management" Powerpoint
• October 5: Robert P. Behringer (Duke, Physics/Computer Science/Engineering), "Physics in the sandbox: granular material analysis with large data sets" Powerpoint
• October 19: Tyler Kendall (Duke/NCSU, Linguistics Lab), "The North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project: Empowering the Sociolinguistic Archive through Digitization and Web-based Tool Development"
• October 26: Panel on Bioinformatics and Genomics -- speakers Dahlia Nielsen (NCSU, Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics Research Center), Saianand Balu (UNC, Comprehensive Cancer Center), Simon Gregory (Duke)
• November 2: Jorge Piedrahita (NCSU, Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research at the College of Veterinary Medicine), Title TBA Cancelled.
• November 16: Barbara Entwisle (UNC, Prof Sociology and Director of Carolina Population Center), "Large datasets at the Carolina Population Center"
• November 30: Capstone event; conclusions about presentations.