Feedback on the Deep Learning event that ITS Research Computing held in September, including a recent survey of participants, demonstrates strong interest for another such event next year. Research Computing conceived of and co-sponsored the Deep Learning, Machine Learning and … Read more

Five members of the ITS Research Computing team attended an international supercomputing convention in Dallas in mid-November. Research Computing staffers Liam Greenwood, Fengping Hu, Tim McGuire, C.D. Poon and Mark Reed were among the record-breaking crowd of more than 13,000 … Read more

ITS Research Computing will host a Deep Learning, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Symposium in conjunction with SAS Institute and Nvidia on September 27-28, 2018. The conference will be held at the Executive Briefing Center on the SAS campus in … Read more

During fiscal year 2016-2017, ITS Research Computing procured and installed the new Dogwood computer cluster, decommissioned the Kure cluster and moved much work onto the Longleaf cluster. For details about these accomplishments and many more, please keep reading. Research Computing … Read more

As part of a new partnership between ITS and the School of Information and Library Science, ITS Research Computing has begun provisioning and managing the infrastructure of digital archive ibiblio. ITS Research Computing took on this work with ibiblio.org in … Read more

Meet the Service Owner: Liam Greenwood Title: IT Manager of Advanced Computing Infrastructure for ITS Research Computing After eight years of working for ITS Infrastructure & Operations, Greenwood left the division in January to take on a new role within … Read more

Research Computing has wrapped up four years of work on a nationwide cancer genome research effort in which the Information Technology Services unit hit its all-time high storage usage amount for a single project. From early June 2011 until January … Read more

What’s good for people can also be good for computers. Just as we humans sometimes break a big task into smaller, less burdensome components, Research Computing at Information Technology Services has designed a way to ease the stress on ITS’ … Read more

Mark Reed Title: Research Associate, ITS Research Computing Number of years with ITS: 11 Personal: Lives in Durham with his fiancé, Sandy. They have six grown children and three grandchildren. Education: Ph.D., masters and bachelor’s degrees in physics from UNC-Chapel … Read more

Customer Case Study As UNC-Chapel Hill’s Microbiome Core Facility increasingly collects more sequencing data information from microbiomes, it requires more support from ITS Research Computing for data analysis and processing. The Client The Microbiome Core Facility within the UNC-Chapel Hill … Read more

When we think about the human body playing host to many non-human cells, particularly bacteria and yeast, perhaps some people’s “ick” response is understandable. And yet –as anyone who has sought out and consumed bacteria-added yogurt can attest, some of … Read more

Shubin Liu, a Senior Computational Scientist with Information Technology Services’ Research Computing unit, has enthusiastically contributed for the past five years to the first phase of University-led research into advancing solar energy technologies for producing solar fuels. Research now in … Read more