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Meet Rutgers' Radical Supercomputing Guru
Rutgers University professor Shantenu Jha and his Rutgers Advanced Distributed Cyberinfrastructure and Applications Laboratory team operate at the crossroads of computing and science; their work has benefited research in the molecular sciences, polar scie
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Rutgers University professor Shantenu Jha and the Rutgers Advanced Distributed Cyberinfrastructure and Applications Laboratory (RADICAL) team say they work at the intersection of computing and science, and their research has benefited a wide range of fields.
"High-performance computing [HPC] is making the impossible problems possible and making the barely possible routine," Jha says.
The RADICAL team notes it has made major advances in the design and implementation of distributed computing, and it conducts research on cyberinfrastructure, middleware, and software for science and engineering.
This summer, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $19.4-million grant to create the Molecular Sciences Software Institute, composed of researchers from eight universities, including Rutgers, and led by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. NSF says the institute aims to develop software that will boost the understanding of molecules and chemical processes, which will improve the health of citizens and grow the national economy.
Jha also is part of the European Union CompBioMed project, which uses HPC for personalized medicine.
Despite the far-reaching impact of Jha's work, he says it is not his ultimate goal. "What I'm most interested in, where I see the next 10 years of my life, is taking high-performance computing into the domain of medicine," Jha says.
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