UTSA is part of $6.6 million grant to build advanced computi
Source: Alpha Doggs
The National Science Foundation is funding a partnership between the University of Texas at San Antonio and other universities that will work with open cloud technology to develop advanced computing systems for scientists and engineers. The participating universities, along with other scientific institutions, will share $6.6 million grant money.
UTSA's Cloud and Big Data Laboratory will participate in the project known as Jetstream ― which will be based at Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute and the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center. The researchers will be tasked with creating virtual machines with advanced computing capabilities on a remote resource, similar to what is found on a laboratory workstation or home computer.
"The cloud is at the earliest stage of adoption, and the phenomenon is going to change the shape of the industry, as well as our lives," said Paul Rad, director of the Cloud and Big Data Laboratory in the UTSA Department of Computer Science. "As a leading cloud university in collaboration with industry leaders such as Rackspace, Mellanox, Seagate, Servergy and others, we are very excited to be working closely (with our partners) to build a SuperCloud like Jetstream."
Other institutions sharing in the grant funding include the University of Chicago, the University of Arizona, John's Hopkins University, Cornell University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, the University of Hawaii, the University of North Carolina Odum Institute, the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the National Center for Genome Analysis Support.
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