Theres a Strong Correlation Between Having a Sophisticated Research Infrastructure and Research Productivity
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Manish Parashar, professor
of electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers and the universitys lead
faculty member on the project, will direct the new institute.
There is a strong
correlation between having this level of sophisticated research infrastructure
and research productivity, Parashar said in a statement. It will enable
research at a scale we could not support at Rutgers before and allow students
and industry to have access to HPC to a much greater degree. And this
installation is the first step in creating a large-scale infrastructure at the
institute, so its a huge milestone.
Parashar is director of
Rutgers Center for Cloud and Autonomic
Computing and the Applied Software Systems Laboratory, and associate
director of the Center for Information Assurance. He was program director of
the National Science Foundations Office of Cyberinfrastructure, where he
managed an approximately $150 million research portfolio, from 2009 to 2011.
HPC is a real need because
large-scale data is now central to all sciences and engineering, Parashar
said. Science is changing dramatically, becoming very computation- and
data-intensive. Large-scale computing is now critical for scientists to address
research challenges in diverse fields, from biochemistry and genomics to
material sciences and climate modeling.
Margaret Brennan-Tonetta,
associate vice president for economic development, has been working with
Parashar to launch the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute.
We intend to develop a
premier center that sets a new standard for industry collaboration in
high-performance computing, Brennan-Tonetta said in a statement. The
institute will be engaging business and provide a valuable resource that goes
far beyond hardware and software, offering real expertise and assistance.
Industry will be able to come here with a problem involving data analysis, and
our experts will help them develop a solution.
IBM said two industrial
advisory panels for the RDI2 are being formed, one for large-scale
computation and data analytics in finance, and a second for the health care and
life sciences industries. The initial meetings of each are set for April.
Rutgers Office of the Vice
President for Research and Economic
Development promotes excellence in research at the university. Research is
fundamental to the universitys overall mission and enhances its education and
service missions. Rutgers increasingly is engaged in commercialization of
research through the transfer of new technologies to industry, contributing to
economic development in New Jersey and nationally. From the discovery of
streptomycinthe first cure for tuberculosisto the technology behind Ask.com,
Rutgers continues to make an impact in the commercial world, IBM officials
said.
