News
June 2008: Dr. Taufer invited to speak at
Dr. Taufer presents the Docking@Home project at the CRA-W/CDC Systems Research Mentoring Workshop on June 16-18 at the University of Delaware. More about the workshop here.
May 2008: New NSF grant awarded
Our group has been awarded with a new NSF grant that for 4 years will allow us to study mathematical models for RNA. This is collaborative research with Drs. Lueng and Johnson at the Unversity of Texas at El Paso.
May 2008: Trilce and Dr. Taufer at Computing Frontiers'08
Trilce and Dr. Taufer attended Computing Frontiers
2008. Trilce presented our paper "A Distributed Evolutionary Method to
Design Scheduling Policies for Volunteer Computing". The paper is join
research with Dr. Fuentes at the University of Texas at El Paso.
April 2008: GCL at MASPLAS 2008
Our group presented our research work at MASPLAS 2008 in Princeton on April 26.
 Trilce, Dr. Taufer, Arun and Abel at MASPLAS 2008. |
Arun Rajendran joint our group from the University of Southern Mississippi. Arun will work as a post-doc on the D@H project. Welcome Arun!
April 2008: Graduate School Travel Scholearship for Abel
Abel Licon was awarded with a UDel Gradute School Travel Scholarship
of $300 to attend IPDPS in Miami, Florida. The department will match
the award with $300. Congratulations Abel!
March 2008: Alumni Enrichment Award for Trilce
Trilce Estrada was awarded with the Alumni Enrichment Award of $2000 from the
UD Alumni Association Board of Directors to attend the ACM International Conference
on Computing Frontiers 2008. Congratulations Trilce!
March 2008: GCL awarded with two CRA Distributed Mentor Project Awards for undergraduate summer research
In summer our group will host Brenda Medina and David Mireles, two undergraduate
students from the University of Texas at El Paso, for 10 weeks to work on research
projects that target biological applications and their efficient migration to distributed systems.
The project is supported by CRA and NSF.
February 2008: Paper accepted at the ACM Computing Frontiers 2008 Conference
The paper "A Distributed Evolutionary Method to Design Scheduling Policies for
Volunteer Computing" by Trilce Estrada, Olac Fuentes, and Michela Taufer has been
accepted at the ACM Computing Frontiers 2008. Trilce and Dr. Taufer
will attend the workshop in May in Ischia, Italy.
January 2008: Schedule of SIG-SYS seminar now avilable
The SIG-SYS seminar starts on Feb 13 and takes place every Wed at
12:20 in Smith Hall, room 102A. The tentative schedule is now available here. Contact
Dr. Taufer if you want to present your work in our seminar.
January 2008: Paper accepted at HiCOMB'08 workshop
The paper "On the Effectiveness of Rebuilding RNA Secondary Structures
from Sequence Chunks" by Michela Taufer, Thamar Solorio, Abel Licon,
David Mireles, and Ming-Ying Leung has been accepted at the Seventh
IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Computational Biology
(HiCOMB'08). Abel and Dr. Taufer will attend the workshop in April.
January 2008: Dr. Taufer at the 20th CSU Biothechnology Symposium
Dr. Taufer has been invited to give a talk at the
20th Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium at the Oakland Marriott City Center in California. The talk,
titled "Computational Multi-scale Modeling in Protein-ligand Docking",
was part of a special session on "Interfacing Computer Science & Biotechnology".
Click here for the schedule of the symposium
and Dr. Taufer's abstract.
December 2007: Visit our photo gallery of SC'07
This year's SuperComputing conference in Reno, Nevada has been very
successful. For the first year we have been sharing an exhibition
booth with several faculty at the CIS dept. and Dr. Gao's group at the
ECE dept. The University of Delaware had many interesting posters to
show and a screen with short presentations on our work. Many people
(incl. funding officers from many funding agencies) came by the booth
and were very impressed with our work. Visit our photo
gallery of our booth at SC'07. See you all again at SC'08 in
Austin, TX.
 Trilce (right) at SC'07. |
December 2007: Abel Licon graduation
Abel graduated at the Unviersity of Texas at El Paso. He will join us at UDel in January.
 Happy Abel! |
November 2007: The GCLab at SC'07
Michela Taufer and Tricle Estrada will attend SC'07 and will be at the
University of Delaware booth, number 3315. Visit us for more
information about our research!
September 2007: Poster at SC'07
Our poster "Performance Analysis of Volunteer Computing Traces" has
been accepted at SC'07. Authors are: Trilce Estrada and Michela Taufer
(GCLab) and Kevin Reed (IBM).
July 15, 2007: David Mireles awarded a Google HSF Scholarship.
July 1, 2007: GCLab moves to University of Delaware
The Global Computing Lab will move to the University of Delaware in Fall
2007.
June 29, 2007: Paper accepted at Tapia 2007
The paper "Evaluation of IEEE 754 Floating-Point Arithmetic Compliance Across
a Wide Range of Heterogeneous Computers" by G. Lopez, M. Taufer, and
P.J. Teller has been accepted at the 2007 Richard Tapia Celebration of
Diversity in Computing Conference that takes place in October, in Orlando,
Florida. This is the first paper of Memo. Congratulations Memo!
May 31, 2007: New positions for Richard Zamudio and Memo Lopez
Memo Lopez has accepted a position at Ximis (El Paso, Texas) and Richard
Zamudio has accepted a position at Rockwell Collins (Iowa). Congratulations
Memo and Richard!
May 5, 2007: David Mirales awarded with UIUC summer fellowship
David Mireles (UG student in the Global Computing Lab under the supervision of
Thamar Solorio and Michela Taufer) has been awarded by the prestigious
fellowship for the 2007 Data Sciences Summer Institute (DSSI) at the
Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis (MIAS) Research Group of the
University of Illinois at Urbana , Department of Computer Science. David will
spend two months at the the University of Illinois at Urbana and will be
Undergraduate Research Fellows supported by a monthly stipends.
April 19, 2007: Richard Zamudio's Thesis awarded
Richard's Master Thesis entitled "TOPAZ: A FIREFOX PROTOCOL EXTENSION FOR GRIDFTP" has been
selected as "Outstanding Thesis in the Department of Computer Science".
April 10-12, 2007: MultiScale Modeling (MSM) Consortium meeting at NIH Drs. Taufer and Teller (UTEP) as well as Dr. Armen (TSRI) will present our project, DAPLDS, and the docking@home portal at the MSM Consortium meeting at NIH.
March 26-30, 2007: GCLab memebers at IPDPS 2007
Dr. Taufer, Richard Zamudio, and Abel Licon attend IPDPS 2007 in Long Beatch,
California. We will present papers on our research at HiCOMB'07, HPGC'07, and PCGrid'07.
March 15, 2007: David Mireles selected as a 2007-2008 Microsoft Technical
Scholarship recipient
David Mireles, one of our undergraduate students in the GCLab group, has
been selected as a 2007-2008 Microsoft Technical Scholarship recipient. David
will received finical support for his tuition and will participate to a
12-week internship at Microsoft this summer. Congratulations David!
December 21, 2006: Paper accepted at the Workshop on High Performance Grid
Computing (HPGC 2007)
Our paper "Topaz: Extending Firefox to Accommodate the GridFTP Protocol" has
been accepted at the Workshop on High Performance Grid Computing (HPGC 2006).
December 18, 2006: Paper accepted at the Workshop on Large-Scale and
Volatile Desktop Grids (PCGrid 2007)
Our paper "Moving Volunteer Computing towards Knowledge-Constructed,
Dynamically-Adaptive Modeling and Scheduling" has been accepted at the
Workshop on Large-Scale and Volatile Desktop Grids (PCGrid 2007).
December 17, 2006: Paper accepted at the International Workshop on Principles
of Advanced and Distributed Simulation 2007
Our paper "SimBA: a Discrete Event Simulator for Performance Prediction of Volunteer
Computing Projects" has been accepted at the International Workshop on Principles
of Advanced and Distributed Simulation 2007.
November 28, 2006: Master's thesis talk today
Richard Zamudio is discussing his Master's thesis today at 3PM in room CS
221. The title of Richard's thesis is: "TOPAZ: A FIREFOX PROTOCOL EXTENSION FOR
GRIDFTP".
November 13, 2006: GCLab is at SC'06
Visit us at SC'06. We are presenting our research at the GCLab at the
exhibitor booth #451. We are sharing the booth with the University of New
Mexico. We are looking forward to meeting you at SC'06!
November 7, 2006: Applications for NSF-SHiPPER scholarships now open
Applications for Spring 2007 now being accepted! Download the application
form for a Spring 2007 SHiPPER scholarship here. Please
read the eligibility requirements before to apply at the SHiPPER web page.
October 30, 2006: New Portal for the WG 5 - Multiscale Modeling
Consortium
New portal for the Working Group 5, working group part of
the MSM Consortium, now available
here. The goal of the working group is to discuss aspects related to
high-performance computing, computational issues, and algorithms that are
common to our different projects funded within the Multiscale Modeling
Initiative. In October
the working group hosted Kelly Gaither (TACC) in their monthly phone meeting
to discuss about visualization and data analysis tools on TeraGrid.
October 13, 2006: Paper on Topaz published on the eletronic journal of IBM,
DevelopWork
Richland, Daniel and I have just published an article on the electronic
journal of IBM, DevelopWork. The title of the article is: "Integrate GridFTP
into Firefox/ - Build grid protocols into Mozilla-based tools". This is joint
work with Karan Bhatia and Brent Stearn at SDSC. The article can be read at:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/grid/library/gr-firefoxftp/ and presents
a link to the Global Computing lab at UTEP.
Congratulations to Daniel and Richard for this second great achievement in one
week! (M. Taufer)
October 10, 2006: Paper accepted to the 2nd International Workshop on Grid Computing Environments (GCE 2006)
Great news for our group! The paper "Extending Grid Protocols onto the Desktop
using the Mozilla Framework" has been accepted to the 2nd International
Workshop on Grid Computing Environments (GCE 2006), in conjunction with SC
2006. Congratulations to Richard and Daniel who are authors of the paper
together with me, Karan Bhatia (SDSC), and Brent Stearn (SDSC).
This is the first paper for both Richard and Daniel who have done great team
work!!! (M. Taufer)
September 28, 2006: GCLab students selected to participatein SC2006 Student
Volunteer Program
Richard Zamudio, David Flores, Karina Escapita,
Daniel Catarino, and Abel Licon have been selected to
participate in the SC2006 Student Volunteer Program. SC06, the premier
international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage
and analysis, takes place in November 2006 in Tampa. More than 10,000
participants are expected to attend this event. Our students will assist with
the administration of the conference together with other students from
universities all over the country and will receive in exchange, free
conference registration, housing for out-of-town volunteers and most
meals. Besides serving as volunteer students at SC06, Karina, Daniel, Abel,
David and Richard will attend interesting talks and help Dr. Teller, Andre, and I
with the UTEP booth that for the third year presents the research in high
performance computing at UTEP in the exposition area of the
conference. (Michela Taufer)
September 19, 2006: Dr. Taufer received NSF grant award
Dr. Teller and Dr. Taufer have been awarded with an NSF grant. The title of
the grant is: SHiPPER: Spreading High-Performance computing
Participation in undergraduate Education and Research. The grant aims to
create and consolidate a community of UG and graduate students who will
pursue advanced degrees in fields that combine expertise in
high-performance computing and other scientific and engineering
disciplines.
September
19, 2006: Paper accepted at FHPCN 2006
Trilce, Abel, and Dr. Taufer have a paper accepted to the 1st Frontier on High
Performance Computing and Networking Workshop (FHPCN 2006) (in conjunction
with ISPA 2006, December 2006, Sorrento, Italy). The title of the paper
is: CompPknots: a Framework for Parallel Prediction and Comparison of
RNA Secondary Structures with Pseudoknots. This is the first paper for
Abel!!!
September 1, 2006: Paper accepted at eScience 2006
The paper: "The Effectiveness of Threshold-based Scheduling Policies." was
accepted for publications at the eScience 2006 conference. Authores of the
paper are: T. Estrada, D.A. Flores, M. Taufer, P.J. Teller, A. Kerstens, and
D.P. Anderson
September 1, 2006: Poster accepted at SC 2006
The poster "SimBA: a Discrete Event Simulator for Performance Prediction of Volunteer
Computing Projects " was accepted for presentation at the SC 2006
conference. Authors of the poster are: D.A. Flores, T. Estrada, M. Taufer,
P.J. Teller, and A. Kerstens
August 31, 2006: Richard Zamudio wins AGEP scholarship
August 19, 2006: Dr Taufer invited to give a talk at the 19th Rocky
Mountain Regional Meeting of The American Chemical Society.
Dr. Taufer has been invited to present her work on protein structure
prediction using volunteer computing at the 19th Rocky Mountain Regional
Meeting of The American Chemical Society that will take place in October 15-18
2006 in Tucson, AZ. The title of Dr. Taufer's presentation is: Predictor@Home:
A Protein Structure Prediction Supercomputer Based on Volunteer Computing.
August 12, 2006: Topaz 1.0 Beta
Join us to test our new version of Topaz, the GridFTP protocol extentions
for Firefox browser. To download Topaz click here.
July 12, 2006: Daniel Catarino awarded a Google HSF Scholarship.
July 10, 2006: Trilce Estrada awarded Conacyt fellowship.
July 10, 2006: Adrian Garcia selected to participate in the High Performance Computing in Action Summer Institute at the University of Hawaii.
April 19, 2006: College Young Investigator Award to Dr. Taufer
At the annual President's Proposal Writing Reception, Dr. Taufer receives the College of Engineering Young Investigator Award.
April 20, 2006: ARP grant awarded to Dr. Taufer
Dr. Taufer's work on RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Using a Grid of Heterogeneous Computers receives ARP funding.
December 22, 2005: Paper accepted at PMEO-PDS 2006
The paper "A Systematic Multi-step Methodology for Performance Analysis of
Communication Traces of Distributed Applications based on Hierarchical
Clustering." by G. Aguilera, P.J. Teller, M. Taufer, and F. Wolf has been
accepted to appear in the Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on
Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed
Systems (PMEO-PDS 2006), in conjunction with IPDPS 2006, April 2006, Rhodes
Island, Greece.
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