News

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.

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.