Communications of the ACM
$1.2M Project Speeds Research Data Processing
University of Western Ontario Computer Science Professor and SHARCNET Associate Director Mike Bauer (pictured) and Chemistry Professor Stewart McIntyre have been awarded $1.2 million to create a high-speed processing network to support research.
Credit: Government of Ontario
Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network has provided $1.2 million to researchers at the University of Western Ontario to develop a new high-speed network for handling huge amounts of research data from synchrotrons in Canada and the United States. When completed, Active Network for Information for Synchrotron Experiments (ANISE) will be capable of processing and providing feedback on data moving at rates of up to 10 terabytes per day.
Synchrotrons have largely been used to gather and store data until now, says Mike Bauer, director of Western's Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET). ANISE will allow for near real-time processing and enable users of synchrotrons to respond to experimental data within minutes. The project promises to improve the efficiency of labs, as their industrial and academic partners around the world would no longer have to wait days to analyze data.
Researchers from SHARCNET will work with Canadian Light Source, IBM Canada, and IBM Research on the project.
From University of Western Ontario
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