By Jon Swartz

OpenAI announced the debut Tuesday of Atlas, its first web browser, as the ChatGPT maker escalates competition with rival Google.

2025 Distinguished Alumni Awards Emcee

David Bader

David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and founder of the Department of Data Science and inaugural Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to this, he served as founding Professor and Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Bader is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, and SIAM; a recipient of the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award; and the 2022 Innovation Hall of Fame inductee of the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering.

By Britney Ngugen

‘Nvidia isn’t just selling hardware anymore,’ one expert says. The company is increasingly moving to be an equity partner with other AI companies.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday that the company plans to deploy 10 gigawatts of power to support OpenAI.

By Jon Swartz

NVIDIA Corp. said Thursday it will invest $5 billion in Intel Corp. and partner with the struggling chipmaker, a move that ties the industry’s dominant player to one of its long-time rivals. The companies said they will collaborate on custom data centers that power artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, as well as products for personal computers.

By Megan Crouse

Nvidia will invest $5 billion in its competitor Intel to further intertwine Nvidia’s AI-boosting chips and Intel’s x86 architecture and CPUs. The companies will work together on several generations of data center and PC infrastructure, both companies announced on Thursday.

On Tuesday, September 9th, the ECE Department held its annual Fall Awards Ceremony and Reception. Awards were presented to students, staff and faculty by ECE Chair Sennur Ulukus. The following awards were presented:

By John P. Mello Jr.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new web-based tool that it says will beef up cybersecurity practices throughout the software procurement lifecycle.

By Ian Krietzberg

For all the feverish excitement surrounding today’s release of GPT-5, the latest and most advanced OpenAI model seems to represent more of an incremental update than a paradigm-shifting breakthrough. At a press briefing, C.E.O. Sam Altman called GPT-5 a “major upgrade” that serves as a “significant step along the path to A.G.I.,” or artificial general intelligence, an entirely hypothetical technology. At another point he referred to it as “very A.G.I.-like.” Obviously, we’re not quite there—and it’s not clear that we ever will be.

Written by: Evan Koblentz

New research from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Yale University, intended to help identify obscure patterns in overwhelmingly large and convoluted data, is producing novel side effects that advance the state of very old and very new technology.

The High Performance Computing (HPC) market is distinguished by the close collaboration among scientific researchers, end users, and technology vendors, all working in concert to advance the field. Our Legends are the pioneering researchers, visionary inventors, and influential executives who have translated innovative concepts into both technological breakthroughs and commercial successes.

By John P. Mello Jr.

Without much fanfare, Meta has been quietly enhancing the capabilities of its WhatsApp messaging software, which could transform it into a super app.

David A. Bader, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania Alpha ‘90

David was inducted into the Mimms Museum of Technology & Art Hall of Fame and received the Heatherington Award for Technological Innovation. A distinguished professor at NJIT, he revolutionized computing by designing the first commodity-based supercomputer, which established Linux-based systems and his work led to creating the first Linux supercomputer for open scientific use.

A Night of Innovation, Recognition, and Transformation

The Computer Museum of America has entered a bold new era, officially rebranding as the Mimms Museum of Technology and Art. To announce this came with BYTE25, the museum’s signature fundraiser, which celebrated innovation and legacy, with a Hall of Fame induction, a new exhibit reveal, and a night of technology-driven experiences.

New Jersey Institute of Technology served up a full day of fanfare as its advanced degree graduates walked across the stage in the Bloom Wellness and Events Center in three commencement ceremonies. The 2025 master’s and doctoral class exemplifies the institution’s commitment to research and scholarship across a diverse range of disciplines.

Distinguished Professors David Bader and Guiling “Grace” Wang, along with Professors Cristian Borcea and Vincent Oria in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), served on Governor Phil Murphy’s AI Task Force. Comprised of industry leaders, academic experts, consumer advocates and government innovators, the group worked to establish programs, trainings and tools that will advance New Jersey’s leadership in AI.

Q&A with David Bader, Distinguished Professor, Data Science

AI and Society

A conversation with Evan Koblentz and David Bader

Q: A lot of people who are information workers are afraid that AI will make their careers obsolete. Technological progress can’t be stopped, so how should people adapt?

By John P. Mello Jr.

A multinational study on the state of artificial intelligence in secondary and higher education released Tuesday found that students are more concerned about the impact of the technology on their learning than academic administrators and educators.

By Jon Swartz

DeepSeek has raised the bar yet again in the artificial intelligence (AI) race.

The Chinese startup this week released a major upgrade to its V3 large language model (LLM) in its escalating jousting with American rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. The new model, DeepSeek-V3-0324, has 685 billion parameters, compared with the original V3 model’s 671 billion, offering “significant improvements” in reasoning and coding, the company said. The new model was made available through the Hugging Face platform.

Big News! On March 12th, Oliver successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “On the Design of a Framework for Large-Scale Exploratory Graph Analytics” at New Jersey Institue of Technology Ying Wu College of Computing.

ROSWELL, GA.- During its BYTE fundraiser last evening, Computer Museum of America revealed an exciting announcement – moving forward, it will operate under a new name: Mimms Museum of Technology and Art. The rebrand marks an exciting new chapter for one of the area’s most popular attractions, reflecting its history, evolution and future. As the nonprofit museum celebrates five years of operation and prepares for expansion in 2026 – including the highly anticipated launch of its iNSPIRE: Fifty Years of Innovation at Apple exhibit – the timing of its transformation is setting the stage for a bold and dynamic future.

Revolutionized the computing industry through groundbreaking innovations that democratized High-Performance Computing. Designed the first commodity-based supercomputer and prototyped a system using off-the-shelf components and a novel high-speed interconnection network, leading to “RoadRunner,” the first Linux supercomputer for open use by the national science and engineering community. Made seminal contributions to parallel computing software and pioneered general-purpose computing on accelerators. Led the team whose work was by used IBM in the first pre-assembled and configured Linux server clusters for business. Made significant research contributions in the field of novel parallel graph algorithms. Founded and chaired the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech.

By Jon Stojan

AI is in a rapidly moving modern-day arms race as companies worldwide try to create powerful, practical, and accessible generative AI models. Competitors are generally grouped into two categories: proprietary AI models developed by tech giants with a host of resources and open-source startups with significantly less funding. Can open-source AI truly challenge big tech? How can businesses ensure security and ethical practices when data is open to so many people?

Written by: Evan Koblentz

A competition to compare the brains of male vs. female fruit flies led New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers and two high school students to a second-place finish in the latest edition of the FlyWire Data Challenge, but more importantly the team learned new lessons about using artificial intelligence for setting up research with supercomputers.

Meet our 2025 Hall of Fame Inductees! ✨

We’re thrilled to announce that three trailblazing leaders in technology will be honored at BYTE25 on March 6. These pioneers have shaped the tech industry and their legacy continues to inspire.

By Julia Shapero and Miranda Nazzaro

The rise in popularity of a high-performing and cheaply built Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model has shaken the confidence of investors, while raising larger questions about the future of American-made AI and upping the stakes of Washington’s tech rivalry with Beijing.

By Mark Sullivan

Trump’s ‘Stargate Project’ reveal had little to do with reality

“Stargate” sounds like a movie, and where Donald Trump is concerned it is indeed mainly a performance.

by Rosalie Chan

Since President Donald Trump took office Monday, he’s quickly made moves on advancing AI.

For the 87th year, Sigma Xi presents its panel of Distinguished Lecturers as an opportunity for chapters to host visits from outstanding individuals who are at the leading edge of science. These experts have agreed to visit chapters and share their insights and excitement on the topics detailed below.

Distinguished Professors David Bader and Guiling “Grace” Wang and Professors Cristian Borcea and Vincent Oria in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) served as part of Governor Phil Murphy’s AI Task Force for the state of New Jersey, a team comprised of industry leaders, academic experts, consumer advocates, and government innovators tasked with establishing programs, trainings and tools that advance the state’s leadership in AI.

David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and founder of the Department of Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing and Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to this, he served as founding Professor and Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology. Bader is an elected Board Member of the Computing Research Association (CRA). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, and SIAM; a recipient of the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award; and the 2022 Innovation Hall of Fame inductee of the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering. The Computer History Museum recognizes Bader for developing the first Linux-based supercomputer which became the predominant architecture for all major supercomputers in the world. Bader followed the Grateful Dead during their heyday, immersing himself in the counterculture movement. As a member of the Legion of the Sufficiently Twisted (LOST), an offshoot of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, he embarked on wild adventures that shaped his unique perspective on life. Alongside John Perry Barlow, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and an early internet pioneer, Bader experienced memorable escapades that bridged the worlds of technology, music, and freedom of expression.

In this installment of New Jersey Business Magazine’s continuing Business Roundtable Series, conducted in conjunction with the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, we present a discussion on cybersecurity. Five experts in the field discuss today’s common digital threats, the growing dangers of AI coupled with supercomputing, and why employees are still the best of line defense against cyberattacks. It is a frank discussion with experts who are passionate about protecting their organizations from faceless foes who lurk in the digital underworld.

An NJIT computational research team made impressive strides at the Princeton FlyWire Codex Data Challenge. Teams were tasked to solve a highly complex problem: analyzing the intricate network of neurons in the brain of a Drosophila melanogaster — commonly known as the fruit fly. Teams had to treat this neural network as a massive, interconnected graph and work to determine the best possible ordering of neurons. The goal was to maximize the efficiency of the brain’s neural pathways, creating an optimal flow of information within this tiny but surprisingly complex system.

Written by: Evan Koblentz

Expert panelists took a measured tone about the trends, challenges and ethics of artificial intelligence, at a campus forum organized by NJIT’s Institute for Data Science this month.

On Tuesday, October 8th, the ECE Department held its annual Fall Awards Ceremony and Reception. Awards were presented to students, staff and faculty by ECE Chair Sennur Ulukus. The following awards were presented:

Submitted by Martha Mather

The Kansas State University chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, presents a distinguished lecture by David Bader on Tuesday, Oct. 8. In his distinguished lectureship, Bader will share his views on “Solving Global Grand Challenges with High Performance Data Analytics” in the Wildcat Chamber at the K-State Student Union. All are encouraged to attend. You do not need to be a member.

CNN correspondent Ivan Rodriguez video story on Hurricane Helene damage threatens global tech supply chain. Expert commentary from David Bader.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is launching a new, $10+ million initiative that will significantly advance the university’s strength in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and position NJIT to become a leader in both AI research and application in higher education. This augments already significant existing academic and research activity in AI and related programs. In 2023 alone, NJIT research related to AI totaled nearly $60 million. This new effort will leverage the university’s extensive expertise in machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics, with the goal of becoming a major player in AI innovation.

Written by: Evan Koblentz

Three distinct problems in data science — trend identification in graphs, the quantitative study of scientific literature and evaluation of single-cell genomics — will all be addressed by new research in large-scale network analytics, jointly led by Distinguished Professor David Bader at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Professor Joseph Jaja has announced his retirement from the ECE Department after more than 40 years of service. Jaja joined the ECE faculty in 1983 as an Associate Professor in computer engineering. Prior to joining UMD, he served on the faculty of Penn State University. He earned a BS in Mathematics from the American University of Beirut in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1977. He holds joint appointments with ECE and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).

Welcome to our podcast series, where we delve into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Hosted by ZINFI CEO and Founder Sugata Sanyal and sponsored by Databank, this series features distinguished speakers like Dr. David A. Bader, who share their insights on cutting-edge technologies and their impact on various industries.

Since 1937, Sigma Xi has presented its Distinguished Lecturers. This program is an opportunity for chapters to host visits from outstanding individuals who are at the leading edge of science. Lecturers communicate their insights and excitement to a broad range of scholars and to the community at large. Each year, thousands of Sigma Xi members, students, and the public have an opportunity to hear exceptional talks and to ask questions of experts.

By Alan Friedman

This morning, the U.S. woke up to the news that a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake had hit Taiwan, the strongest earthquake in the region over the last 25 years. After worrying about the human toll of this tragedy and how expensive and time-consuming it will be to rebuild, the next thought many had was whether the world’s leading contract chip foundry, TSMC, suffered serious damage and what the effect might be to its top customers such as Apple, MediaTek, AMD, and Qualcomm.

The Chapel team is excited to announce the release of Chapel version 2.0. After years of hard work and continuous improvements, Chapel shines as an enjoyable and productive programming language for distributed and parallel computing.

Chapel Language Blog

By Daniel Fedorin

Today, the Chapel team is excited to announce the release of Chapel version 2.0. After years of hard work and continuous improvements, Chapel shines as an enjoyable and productive programming language for distributed and parallel computing. People with diverse application goals are leveraging Chapel to quickly develop fast and scalable software, including physical simulations, massive data and graph analytics, portions of machine learning pipelines, and more. The 2.0 release brings stability guarantees to Chapel’s battle-tested features, making it possible to write performant and elegant code for laptops, GPU workstations, and supercomputers with confidence and convenience.

By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications

CRA members have elected four new individuals to its Board of Directors: David Bader (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Bruce Hendrickson (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), Fatma Ozcan (Google), and Manuel Pérez-Quiñones (University of North Carolina at Charlotte).

Are you interested in #datascience and #graph #analytics? Join the NSDC and Dr. David Bader (NJIT) for a fascinating look into Open-Source Frameworks for Interactive Massive-Scale Graph Analytics!

Watch on the NEBDHub YT channel: bit.ly/NEastYT

Written by: Michael Giorgio

Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and the department of Computer Science are proud to count Fulbright Scholar Fernando Vera Buschmann as a member of its Ph.D. candidate team of researchers, one of a growing number of Fulbright award recipients who have chosen NJIT as an incubator for their professional goals and objectives. He came to NJIT from Osorno, a small town in Patagonia, far south of Santiago, Chile, with a background in physics and pedagogy having obtained his M.Sc. at the University of Chile.

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Let’s be real — once the New Year approaches, we’re all about looking into personal development. Of course, this extends to online courses to sharpen a rusty skill or gain a new one.

By: Chris Kudialis

Imagine a university lecture hall of 200 students in which a single professor gives every student a personalized lesson plan based entirely on individual strengths and learning style: a unique syllabus tailored to each student that offers the absolute best possible chance for them to succeed in the class.

For the 86th year, Sigma Xi presents its panel of Distinguished Lecturers as an opportunity for chapters to host visits from outstanding individuals who are at the leading edge of science. These vistors communicate their insights and excitement on a broad range of topics.

Cybersecurity professionals will not only have to discover malicious events at the time of occurrence, but also proactively implement preventative measures before an attack. For these professionals, the significant challenge will be protecting against new behaviors and methods that they are not yet familiar with.

To date, the financial services industry has been a pioneer in quantum technology, owing to its plethora of computationally hard use cases and the potential for significant impact from quantum solutions. Daily operations at financial firms such as banks, insurance companies, and hedge funds require solving well-defined computational problems on underlying data that is constantly changing. If quantum computers can perform the same calculations faster or with better accuracy than existing solutions, these customers stand to reap significant benefit.

The 32nd HPC Connection Workshop will be held during SC23 in Denver, Co. on Nov 15, 2023. World renown experts and scholars will exchange on the latest artificial intelligence, supercomputing technologies, and applications. Topics include progress on the newest developments in AI and supercomputing applications, and recent optimization strategies for large-scale parallel computing.

The first supercomputer using the Linux operating system, consumer, off-the shelf parts, and a high-speed, low-latency interconnection network, was developed by David A. Bader while at the University of New Mexico. From this successful prototype design, Bader led the development of “RoadRunner”, the first Linux supercomputer for open use by the national science and engineering community via the National Science Foundation’s National Technology Grid. RoadRunner was put into production use in April 1999. Within a decade this design became the predominant architecture for all major supercomputers in the world.

Written by: Evan Koblentz

Artificial intelligence experts from ADP, Amazon and Maersk highlighted this year’s NJIT Data Science Summit, hosted by the university’s Institute for Data Science.

The ECE Department recently held its annual Fall ‘Welcome Back’ Awards Ceremony and Reception on Wednesday, September 20th. ECE Chair Sennur Ulukus presented student, staff and faculty awards. Here is a list of this year’s departmental awards:

New York City - In an Albany Board meeting in early August that looked remarkably like the Board meeting in the hit film “Barbie” and seemed as out of step with the times, the New York State Board of Elections ended the guarantee that voters in New York can vote with pen and paper, something they’ve come to rely on for over ten years.

Dr. David A. Bader, Distinguished Professor and Director of NJIT’s Institute for Data Science discusses the future of artificial intelligence and how this technology will impact the workforce, democracy, and our everyday lives.

Memorandum

Date: April 25, 2023
From: Atam P Dhawan, Senior Vice Provost for Research
RE: Announcement: NJIT FY2024 Faculty Seed Grant Award Winners

The faculty and student success are the strategic priorities in the NJIT Strategic Plan. Increasing external funding with collaborative synergy and partnerships for basic, applied and translational research is one of the strategic objectives to enable enhanced faculty and student success and professional development. The purpose of the NJIT Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) initiative is to promote collaborative research in the core and interdisciplinary areas by providing seed funding to obtain preliminary results for developing future grant proposals for submission to external funding agencies. The FSG initiative specifically seeks seed funding proposals from faculty to launch new initiatives in core, collaborative and interdisciplinary emerging areas aligned with NJIT strategic tactics to develop critical research mass. It is expected that the FSG funds will be used to promote on-campus collaborative seed research with faculty and students.

Class of ‘90

We also heard from David Bader, who not only remains involved with Lehigh as a member of the advisory board of Lehigh’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, but also serves as the inaugural director of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Institute for Data Science. This past year, he received one of computing’s highest honors, the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award for inventing commodity-based supercomputing that can be traced back to his Lehigh days. David graduated with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Lehigh and now lives in Manhattan.

ST PAUL, Minn., March 13, 2023 — The HPC User Forum has published an updated agenda spotlighting an impressive list of featured speakers for its upcoming meeting, April 18-19, 2023, in Princeton, New Jersey.

By Victoria Giardina

Much like the best password protector services out there, investing in antivirus software isn’t as expensive as you would think — and it provides a safety net for your online data.

Written by: Michael Giorgio

Accenture, a leader in information consulting services, is collaborating with NJIT’s Institute for Data Science, led by Distinguished Prof. David Bader, to develop methods to mitigate risks arising in the use of open-source components in the software supply chain.

Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturers 2023–2024

For the 85th year, Sigma Xi presents its panel of Distinguished Lecturers as an opportunity for chapters to host visits from outstanding individuals who are at the leading edge of science. These visitors communicate their insights and excitement on a broad range of topics.

Discover a world of artificial intelligence all around us, listening, seeing, hearing and soon it could overtake us! The Rise of A.I takes you deep inside the experts and creators behind artificial intelligence of our generation.

Within the clark school’s Innovation Hall of Fame (IHOF), David Bader (Ph.D. ’96)— the hall’s 2022 inductee— joins a distinguished community of inventors who use their knowledge, perseverance, innovation, and ingenuity to change the world. Bader “democratized” supercomputing by designing the first Linux Supercomputer RoadRunner for open use by the national science and engineering community from a prototype he built in 1998 using commodity off-the-shelf parts. His computer was first used in April 1999; the top 500 supercomputers operating in the world today have roots in Bader’s early work. In a Q&A, Engineering at Maryland asks Bader about his path to IHOF:

National Eagle Scout Association (NESA)

Eagle Scout David Bader received one of the highest awards in computing for inventing commodity-based supercomputing.

By Alex Woodie

Universities looking for resources to build their data science curriculums and degree programs have a new resource at their disposal in the form of the Academic Data Science Alliance. Founded just prior to the pandemic, the ADSA survived COVID and now it’s working to foster a community of data science leaders at universities across North America and Europe.

Written by: Evan Koblentz

New kinds of unconventional computer hardware, along with new ways of considering software responsibility, are both necessary if the next wave of data science will do anything more useful for the world than increase corporate profits.

This week on the Data Futurology podcast, we have the special privilege to host Dr. David A. Bader, a Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the inaugural director of the Institute for Data Science there.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering recently held its annual Fall ‘Welcome Back’ Luncheon and Awards Ceremony, where student, staff and faculty were recognized for their accomplishments.

What’s in this podcast?

In this episode, Jason talks to David Bader, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology about large scale analytics.

By Jeremy Kepner, David A. Bader, Tim Davis, Roger Pearce, and Michael M. Wolf

Many factors inspire interest in networks and graphs. The Internet is just as important to modern-day civilization as land, sea, air, and space; it connects billions of humans and is heading towards trillions of devices. Deep neural networks (DNNs)—which are also graphs—are key to artificial intelligence, and biological networks underpin life on Earth. In addition, graph algorithms have served as a foundation of computer science since its inception [3]. One can represent and operate on graphs in many different ways. A particularly attractive approach exploits the well-known duality between a graph as a collection of vertices and edges and its representation as a sparse adjacency matrix.

On 13 September 2022, Prof. Joseph JaJa, interim chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Maryland, presented the inagural 2022 David A. Bader Award.

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WASHINGTON — The US supercomputer Frontier topped the global supercomputing speed test earlier this year. However, there are reports that at least two Chinese supercomputers have surpassed their American counterparts in speed, but refused to participate in the world competition. Some analysts say that China does not want to disclose the details of its supercomputing system to the public, perhaps because it is afraid that it will be sanctioned by the United States. In addition, whether Chinese supercomputers use TSMC chips has also become a matter of concern to the industry.

By John Russell

It is perhaps not surprising that the big cloud providers – a poor term really – have jumped into quantum computing. Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google, and their like have steadily transformed into major technology developers, no doubt in service of their large cloud services offerings. The same is true internationally. You may not know, for example, that China’s cloud giants – Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent – also all have significant quantum development initiatives.

Written by: Michael Giorgio

Joseph Patchett, a third year M.S. in Computer Science student, thrives on individuality. Whether pursuing his NJIT graduate degree as one of the few online students to actually visit campus or choosing the unprecedented option of completing his degree with a research thesis, he welcomes challenges on the road less taken.

Why did you decide to pursue a career in computer engineering, and specifically in parallel computing?

David A. Bader, Distinguished Professor and founder of the Department of Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing and Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology, recently established the David A. Bader Endowed Graduate Student Program Support Fund in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park.

In 1992, alumnus David Bader (Ph.D. ‘96) arrived at the University of Maryland to both pursue his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and explore his interest in the potential of parallel computing. While he landed a prestigious NASA Fellowship that supported his research, a top-notch faculty advisor in Professor Joseph JaJa, and an office suite in the newly opened A.V. Williams building on campus, Bader felt something was missing from his student experience.

Written by: Evan Koblentz

NJIT hosted the ninth New Jersey Big Data Alliance Symposium, bringing together nearly 200 experts from academia, government and industry to share ideas about the present state and future trends of their field.

By Victoria Giardina

With online data, you have to be extremely careful about how you go about saving it. From sensitive files to a string of letters and numbers we call passwords, it can begin to seem like a full-time job managing it all.

By Sascha Brodsky, Fact checked by Jerri Ledford

Key Takeaways

• Diamonds could one day be used to store vast amounts of information.
• Researchers are trying to use the strange effects of quantum mechanics to hold information.
• However, experts say don’t expect a quantum hard drive in your PC anytime soon.

Diamonds may be the key to storing vast quantities of data.

Innovating: If your company isn’t doing it, it probably will not be around for very long. We all get that. The question is: Who is doing it best?

That’s what we set out to tackle in our second annual ROI Influencers: Technology list.

By Victoria Giardina

Much like the best password protector services out there, investing in antivirus software isn’t as expensive as you would think — and it provides a safety net for your online data.

By Victoria Giardina

We’ve all been there. The stress-inducing race to insert every password combination we’ve conjured in the recent months, only to have to click “forgot my password.”

by Adrianna Pavlica

NEW YORK. Ukrainas vice premiärminister bad den amerikanska entreprenören och miljardären Elon Musk om hjälp – några timmar senare var satellitnätverket Starlink tillgängligt för landets invånare.

Tack vare Starlink kommer ukrainare att kunna använda internet, även om kablar med ”vanligt” internet slås ut.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has reaffirmed its status among the nation’s most elite and productive research institutions by once again achieving an R1 status — the highest designation — by the Carnegie Classification.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) alumnus David Bader (Ph.D. ’96) as one of 71 internationally selected members named 2021 ACM Fellows for their wide-ranging and fundamental contributions that run the spectrum of the computing field.

Electrical and computer engineering alum David Bader ’90 ’91G has been named a Fellow of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery.

The ACM this week announced NJIT Distinguished Professor David Bader in its new class of Fellows. Bader received the honor along with 70 peers in the computing industry, representing just 1 percent of Association for Computing Machinery membership.

A White House government-industry summit today addresses open-source software security. The US officially makes its second attribution of the week to a nation-state: it calls out Iran as the operator of the MuddyWater threat group. Israel arrests five on charges related to spying for Iran (they’re thought to have been recruited through catphishing). Citizen Lab finds Pegasus in Salvadoran phones. Ukraine arrests a ransomware gang. Thomas Etheridge from CrowdStrike on the importance of threat hunting for zero days. Our guest is Dr. David Bader of New Jersey Institute of Technology discussing the challenges of securing massive-scale analytics. And ransomware hits US state and local governments.

At its December 10, 2021 Research Forum, the New Jersey Big Data Alliance presented a wide range of resources, collaborations, and funding opportunities available at the state and federal levels to the over 100 attendees who assembled virtually.

Dear NJIT Community Members,

As we prepare to depart campus and begin our winter break, I would like to express my most sincere thanks for the manner in which students, faculty, staff, and others worked together and sacrificed for one another to ensure a safe and successful Fall 2021 semester.

Written by: Michael Giorgio

Four professors across the globe are collaborating to solve real-world problems in cybersecurity, health, and various areas of social science through a project called Streaming Graph Algorithms under the new Institute for Future Technologies, a partnership between New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Ben-Gurion of the Negev University (BGU).

David Bader
Ph.D. 1996 Electrical and Computer Engineering

David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and founder of the Department of Data Science and inaugural Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to this, he served as founding Professor and Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Bader is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, and SIAM, and a recipient of the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award. He advises the White House, most recently on the National Strategic Computing Initiative and Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem. Bader is a leading expert in solving global grand challenges in science, engineering, computing, and data science. His interests are at the intersection of high-performance computing and real-world applications, including cybersecurity, massive-scale analytics, and computational genomics. Dr. Bader is Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing and previously served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. In 2021, ROI-NJ recognized Bader on its inaugural list of technology influencers, and in 2012, Bader was the inaugural recipient of University of Maryland’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award. In 1998, Bader built the first Linux supercomputer that led to a highperformance computing (HPC) revolution.

Written by: Evan Koblentz

E-commerce sites, military planners and streaming media providers all want to analyze multiple sources of live data as quickly as possible, a holy grail of data science which is about to become possible through new software called StreamWare, from researchers at Harvard University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California.

New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Institute for Data Science is holding a virtual seminar with presenter Gordon Bell, Ph.D., Microsoft Emeritus Researcher, titled “Exascale: More than I ever imagined.”

Written by: Evan Koblentz

Members of NJIT’s new Center for Artificial Intelligence Research will look to expand knowledge of the theory, data and applications of their field, which director Grace Wang said is quickly evolving from experimental to practical status.

The award recognizes contributions in the application of high-performance computers using innovative approaches. Dr. Bader, a Distinguished Professor and Founder of the Department of Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, was cited for the development of Linux-based massively parallel production computers and for pioneering contributions to scalable discrete parallel algorithms for real-world applications.

By Karim Salem

On Sept. 22, NJIT had the opportunity to bring new and challenging ideas grouped with experience and advice from a wide set of professionals and students alike during its seventh TEDx event. Organized by Michael Ehrlich and team, TEDxNJIT was hosted virtually with the theme of “Resurgence,” meant to address the impact of the post-COVID world. The theme was highlighted by experts in various fields who shared some technological advancements and words of wisdom.

The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) has named David Bader as the recipient of the 2021 Sidney Fernbach Award. Bader is a distinguished professor and founder of the Department of Data Science, and inaugural Director of the Institute for Data Science, at New Jersey Institute of Technology….

Speakers at TEDxNJIT 2021 will explain how technology impacts everything from knee-replacement surgery and the monitoring of traumatic brain injuries to how we’ll live in the wake of the global pandemic.

Written by: Tracey Regan

In conjunction with the 2021 Summer Research Symposium, NJIT launched a campus chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), an organization founded in 2010 to recognize and promote academic technology and innovation and to encourage its translation into devices and services that benefit society.

David A. Bader (University of Maryland, College Park, 1995) was recently selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

The Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, Summer 2021, Volume 99, Number 2, Page 7.

David A. Bader, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania Alpha ‘90

has been elected Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is a distinguished professor in the department of computer science and inaugural Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, and SIAM, and advises the White House, most recently on the National Strategic Computing Initiative.

David A. Bader, Distinguished Professor and Director of Institute for Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Supercomputing technology has indelibly changed how we approach complex issues in our world, from weather forecasting and climate modeling to protecting of the security of our nation from cyberattacks. All of the world’s most capable supercomputers now run on Linux, and with the 30th anniversary of the creation of Linux fast approaching this summer, it’s an important moment to consider how the US can strengthen its advanced cyberinfrastructure and invest in the next generation of supercomputers.

Citation: “For service as General Co-Chair for the 2021 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS).”

By Tiffany Hudson

WASHINGTON (NewsNation Now) — After a series of high-profile ransomware attacks, President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to strengthen the United States’ cyber defense practices.

By Tiffany Hudson

Determining our first-ever ROI Influencers: Technology list was a process that followed our traditional format: We spoke to approximately a dozen New Jersey tech leaders (all of whom are on the list) to get their takes on various categories.

Written by: Evan Koblentz

Ordinary people could soon have greater ability to analyze massive amounts of information, based on new algorithms and software tools being designed at NJIT, intended to simplify access to a programming interface from data scientists at the Department of Defense.

Abstract:

Data science aims to solve grand global challenges such as: detecting and preventing disease in human populations; revealing community structure in large social networks; protecting our elections from cyber-threats, and improving the resilience of the electric power grid. Unlike traditional applications in computational science and engineering, solving these social problems at scale often raises new challenges because of the sparsity and lack of locality in the data, the need for research on scalable algorithms and architectures, and development of frameworks for solving these real-world problems on high performance computers, and for improved models that capture the noise and bias inherent in the torrential data streams. In this talk, David Bader, New Jersey Institute of Technology, will discuss the opportunities and challenges in massive data science for applications in social sciences, physical sciences, and engineering.

Jan. 25, 2021 — The Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM) at the University of Warsaw invites enthusiasts of Data Science, HPC and all people interested in challenging topics in Computer and Computational Science to the ICM Seminar in Computer and Computational Science that will be held on Friday, January 29, 4 pm CET. The event is free.

Discover a world of artificial intelligence all around us, listening, seeing, hearing and soon it could overtake us! The Rise of A.I takes you deep inside the experts and creators behind artificial intelligence of our generation.

By Jeff Pillets, NJ Spotlight News

New Jersey officials estimate that replacing the state’s aged fleet of voting machines could cost between $60 million and $80 million.

David Bader, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing and Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Written by: Dean Mudgett

Responding to the surge in demand for technical skills in data science, NJIT plans to launch in fall 2021 a new Bachelor of Science in Data Science undergraduate degree, co-managed by the Ying Wu College of Computing Department of Computer Science and College of Science and Liberal Arts Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Dear Robin,

[next] registration is open for members. Do not miss big name speakers such as Tony Fadell, Sebastian Thrun, George Church and others. We’ll also explore cutting-edge topics such as socio-political-techno responses to the pandemic, autonomy and privacy, the chemistry of quantum computing, wastewater as a forensic tool and so much more! We kick off with a virtual field trip to the New Jersey Institute of Technology this Tuesday, October 27.

Written by: Evan Koblentz

About two dozen experts on data science are giving seminars to the NJIT community this semester and next, with many of them excited to participate virtually from far away with the students and faculty here in New Jersey .

Seed Fund Announcement

The Northeast Big Data Hub is delighted to announce our Seed Fund program this month. The Seed Fund is designed to promote collaboration and support the cross-pollination of tools, data, and ideas across disciplines and sectors including academia, industry, government, and communities. Funding provided through this program is intended to support the northeast region and align with the Major Goals and Focus Areas of the Northeast Big Data Hub.

By Nicole Hemsoth

We are featuring an in-depth interview with Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka, director of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan and professor of computer science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Matsuoka has been involved in the design of so many different supercomputers it is hard to keep track of them all, but the most important one is the Fugaku supercomputer at RIKEN has just won the Triple Crown in supercomputing, with the top performance on the HPL, HPCG, and HPL-AI benchmarks, or the Grand Slam if you count the Graph500 test as well. Like its K supercomputer predecessor, it is an all-CPU system with fat vector engines and a torus interconnect, and we expect it be around for a long time like K. But will Fugaku be the last of its kind? We ask that and many more questions.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) announced last summer that the University would establish a new Institute of Data Science, focusing on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and development in all areas of digital data. To head up this endeavor, Dr. David Bader joined NJIT as a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for Data Science. Previously serving as the Professor and Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Bader has become a leading expert in solving global grand challenges in science, engineering, computing, and data science.

Dear Northeast Hub Community,

As new program activities launch under our second phase of NSF funding, we are delighted to welcome new community members to our leadership team who will help guide the Hub forward, and to thank those whose service has helped us reach this point. Following a search made by our project team last month, we are pleased to welcome John Goodhue of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, Carsten Eickhoff of Brown University, and Laura Dietz of the University of New Hampshire to our Steering Committee. The Steering Committee plays an active role in advancing the mission of the Hub and broadly represents the interests of Hub stakeholders, and our new members bring a wealth of experience to their roles. Learn more about their backgrounds at our leadership page, and please join us in welcoming them to the team.

Written by: Prerna Dar

Whether promising young scholars, researchers with years of experience or seasoned instructors, each year, individuals from around the world join the faculty of Ying Wu College of Computing. In the 2019-2020 academic year, the college welcomed 12 new faculty members, continuing a strategic effort to broaden its impact in research and teaching.

David Bader, director of NJIT’s Institute for Data Science, works on computing initiatives that will help people make sense of large, diverse and evolving streams of data from news reports, distributed sensors and lab test equipment, among other sources connected to worldwide networks.

Experts in artificial intelligence from the Ying Wu College of Computing will highlight how their work solves real-world problems at a prestigious meeting in New York next week.

The professors — Chaoran Cheng, Jing Li, Zhi Wei and Pan Xu — will share their session stages with researchers from IBM, Facebook, Yahoo and other prominent organizations for audiences at the 34th annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

NJIT@JerseyCity is located at 101 Hudson Street on the Jersey City waterfront and, in addition to an ultra-modern learning environment, also provides an expansive view of the iconic Manhattan skyline.

Our featured community member this week is Dr. David Bader, Distinguished Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Without doing too much ego-boosting, we can just say David is a graph-addict for a long time before it was a ‘thing’. Alongside his role as a professor, he’s a fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, and SIAM, advises the White House, and the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). David has also co-authored over 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

By Evan Koblentz

Data science has reached a point where techniques such as deep learning can beat humans at recognizing objects, although experts are still figuring out how to make explainable predictions from massive data, NJIT distinguished professor David Bader said.

David Bader

Distinguished Professor and Director of NJIT’s Institute for Data Science

What is NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science?

The growing abundance and variety of data we amass gives us unprecedented opportunities to improve lives in multifold arenas - manufacturing, health care, financial management, data protection, food safety and traffic navigation are just a few. The Institute for Data Science (IDS) will focus NJIT’s multidisciplinary research and workforce skills training on developing technology leaders who will solve global challenges involving data and high-performance computing (HPC). Within the Institute, collaboration among our existing research centers in big data, medical informatics and cybersecurity and our new centers in data analytics and artificial intelligence will generate data-driven technologies to achieve our goals.

By Rob Matheson, MIT News Office

Using a supercomputing system, MIT researchers have developed a model that captures what web traffic looks like around the world on a given day, which can be used as a measurement tool for internet research and many other applications.

Defined by the practice of aggregating power in an effort to achieve greater performance, high-performance computing (HPC) is increasingly becoming more diverse. Now, this market, which is expected to reach $59.65 billion by 2025, is setting its sights on new applications including the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) for deep learning, cloud computing, and more.

By Oliver Peckham

In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details. Check in each month for an updated list and you may even come across someone you know, or better yet, yourself!

By Oliver Peckham

In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details. Check in each month for an updated list and you may even come across someone you know, or better yet, yourself!

By Oliver Peckham

In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details. Check in each month for an updated list and you may even come across someone you know, or better yet, yourself!

David Bader

The New Jersey Institute of Technology has announced that it will establish a new Institute for Data Science, directed by Distinguished Professor David Bader. Bader recently joined NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing from Georgia Tech, where he was chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering within the College of Computing. Bader was recognized as one of HPCwire’s People to Watch in 2014.

Former CRA Board Member David Bader will direct the new institute for data science at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The institute will focus on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and development in all areas pertinent to digital data. It will bring existing research centers in big data, medical informatics and cybersecurity together with new research centers in data analytics and artificial intelligence, cutting across all NJIT colleges and schools, and conduct both basic and applied research.

By Emily Bader

New Jersey Institute of Technology is creating a center that will conduct basic and applied research focusing on interdisciplinary research and development for all areas pertaining to digital data.

The Institute of Data Science, unveiled July 9, will be led by David Bader, a distinguished professor at NJIT.

Researchers from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) will present seven papers at the 33rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2019) in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, May 20-24.

(Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA. 8 April 2019) After five years, Professor David Bader has decided not to seek another term as the chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) and is returning to faculty and his research.

“It’s all about music,” said Gil Weinberg, the founding director of the College of Design’s Center for Music Technology (GTCMT), School of Music professor, and School of Interactive Computing adjunct professor.

HiPC Special Award presented to David Bader, Member, HiPC Perennials Club

Viktor Prasanna
HiPC Steering Chair

at the 25th Anniversary of High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics

NVIDIA today announced a GPU-acceleration platform for data science and machine learning, with broad adoption from industry leaders, that enables even the largest companies to analyze massive amounts of data and make accurate business predictions at unprecedented speed.

By Sebastian Moss

In 1999, Sony was ascendant. Its video gaming business was its most profitable division, the PlayStation 2 was the world’s most successful console, and hopes were high that the successor would prove even more popular.

In April 2018, the ECE department at Lehigh University celebrated a huge milestone- the 125th Anniversary of the department! Alumni, students, guest and faculty members all showed their support in our one day celebration. Many thanks to our key note speakers who took time out of their day to talk to our department about the “Future Directions of ECE”, “Electrical Engineering: Future in Industry & Areas”, and “How can we Improve ECE at Lehigh”. Our Keynote Speakers included: David Bader (Professor & Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology), Michael Reffle (Infinera Corporation) and Philip Wong (Professor at Standford University). Our Panel Speakers included: Aref Chowdhury (CTO of Optics at Nokia), Jeff Karper (Manager, Power Systems Engineering at Lockheed Martin-Rotary & Mission Systems), Sean Anderson (Principal Engineering with MACOM Technology Solutions), Thomas Charisoulis and Eileen Mazzochette.

Today PASC18 announced that this year’s Public Lecture will be held by David Bader from Georgia Tech. Dr. Bader will speak on Massive-Scale Analytics Applied to Real-World Problems.

“Emerging real-world graph problems include: detecting and preventing disease in human populations; revealing community structure in large social networks; and improving the resilience of the electric power grid. Unlike traditional applications in computational science and engineering, solving these social problems at scale often raises new challenges because of the sparsity and lack of locality in the data, the need for research on scalable algorithms and development of frameworks for solving these real-world problems on high performance computers, and for improved models that capture the noise and bias inherent in the torrential data streams. This talk will discuss the opportunities and challenges in massive data-intensive computing for applications in social sciences, physical sciences, and engineering.”

As 2017 drew to a close, several faculty and alumni from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) traveled across the globe to attended two conferences in India – The 24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC2017), held in Jaipur, and the IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Science (ICMLDS2017) in Greater Noida.

Recently, David Bader visited India to give a keynote talk at IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Science at Bennett University, Greater Noida. David A. Bader is Professor and Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the IEEE and AAAS and served on the White House’s National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) panel. He was in conversation with Prof. Deepak Garg, Chair, of Computer Science Engineering at Bennett University.

By Victor Rogers

Debbie Dorsey wants to live to be 110 years old. Her great-grandfather lived to the age of 95. Her grandmother lived to be 99. And, her 85-year-old mother still lives on her own.

The Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE) of Bennett University organised its first International Conference on Machine learning and Data Science, at the University campus, in Greater Noida. Touted as the biggest conference in this space, the conference will further boost India’s crucial leap in embracing the AI revolution. The conference witnessed an overwhelming response from organizations, researchers and academicians. There were thought provoking deliberations on the new wave of technologies and their impact in the world of big data, machine learning and AI. The two-day conference was organised by CSE in association with IEEE Computer Society.

By Gordana Goudie, Tara La Bouff, Jacqueline Nemeth, and Mike Terrazas

A secure internet and its applications are now essential to almost every aspect of our daily lives. Yet connected technology has opened the door for criminals and foreign governments to launch cyberattacks with increasing scale and impact.

Dear Dr. Bader,

I would like to thank you for your service as a member of the NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI) from 2014 thru 2017. As you are aware, NSF has assumed a leadership role in the development and support of a comprehesive cyberinfrastructure essential to 21st century advances in science and engineering research and education. This can only occur with contributions such as yours. Your contribution as a member of the ACCI has provided valuable perspective and advice on the Foundation’s plans and strategic directions for cyberinfrastructure as well as important contact with the science and engineering community and other stakeholders impacted by our cyberinfrastructure portfolio.

Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Science and Engineering finalized a $662,525 contract for a one-year Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) grant. CSE Senior Research Scientist Jason Riedy leads the project titled, Evaluating Memory-Centric Architectures for High Performance Data Analysis, while working alongside CSE Chair David Bader and School of Computer Science Professor Tom Conte.

By Karthika Swamy Cohen

Where is computational science and engineering (CSE) headed? What new “grand challenges” will stimulate progress? How will the field benefit from machine learning and scientific computing? How will it drive new application areas like computational biology and medicine, computational geoscience, and materials science? What opportunities and challenges may we encounter in extending CSE to new subjects such as social network analysis, cybersecurity and the social sciences?

A number of faculty and students represented the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Computing this week in Barcelona, Spain, presenting five research papers at the 2017 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2017).

by George Leopold

Artificial intelligence researchers are leveraging an emerging divide-and-conquer computing approach called “dynamic programming” to greatly accelerate the process of solving problems ranging from genomic analysis to cyber security.

Dear Dr. Bader,

Thank you for your willingness to extend your service as a memmber of the Advsiory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). As you know, the ACCI is operationally managed by the Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) and advises NSF on program management, overall program balance, and other aspects of program performance to develop and support state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure that enables significant advances in all fields of science and engineering supported by the agency.

Congratulations to the following faculty who have been selected for IBM Faculty awards granted in 2016.

Big Data / Analytics

Bader, David, Georgia Institute of Technology, Optimizing Graph Analytics for Cognitive Computing

The eleventh Graph500 list was released today at the Supercomputing 2015 conference (SC’15), with Japan’s K-Computer maintaining its top spot for the second consecutive time.

Fujitsu, IBM and China’s National University of Defense Technology dominated the top 10, with the BlueGene/Q architecture holding eight of the top 10 positions. Other notable entries are:

Four doctoral students comprising two research projects in the School of Computational Science & Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology are finalists for “Best Student Research Paper” at Supercomputing ’15, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.

Surviving Cyberspace

When we think of cybersecurity, we often think of the outsider trying to hack into our computer systems. But, another challenge is how we identify and defend against an insider, oftentimes a lone wolf, who knows our procedures and safety precautions.

As data intensive science emerges, the need for high performance computing (HPC) to converge capacity and capabilities with Big Data becomes more apparent and urgent. Capacity requirements have stemmed from science data processing and the creation of large scale data products (e.g., earth observations, Large Hadron Collider, square-kilometer array antenna) and simulation model output (e.g., flight mission plans, weather and climate models).

The White House National Strategic Computing Initiative Workshop Proceedings is a summary of the workshop held at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in McLean, Virginia on October 20-21, 2015. The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program National Coordination Office (NCO) has edited and released this report in support of the White House National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI).

Regents’ Professor Karsten Schwan, a prolific researcher and faculty leader in the School of Computer Science, passed away Sept. 28, following a battle with cancer.

by David Bader, IEEE Computer Society member, and Chair, School of Computational Science & Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

Companies and governments increasingly rely on ‘big data’ to operate efficiently and competitively. Analytics and security must keep pace. What research underpins the latest big data-enabled advances?

Two highly anticipated lists of the world’s fastest supercomputers were released this week, and Georgia Tech’s David Bader was behind one of them.

To reach our goals, we have assembled a Top R&D Team with several of the world’s most renowned scientists in the fields of software engineering, high-performance computing, algorithm design, and hardware systems.

David Bader, professor and chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech, delivered the keynote address during the recent “International Opportunities in Cloud Computing & Big Data” conference. Bader, executive director of High Performance Computing, explains why graph analysis is crucial for big data.

David A. Bader, Chair of the School - Computational Science and Engineering & Executive Director - HPC, Georgia Institute of Technology

With the last decade’s rapid advances in computational power and the resulting explosion of available data, two major areas of computational application—business and scientific research—are now converging. And this digitally fluid world of data science and application is providing remarkable value for industry.

Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series

The computer science departments at Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have joined forces to create the Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series. The series, which began in the 1995-1996 academic year, has been made possible with a number of grants from the U.S. Army Research Office, rotated between the departments.

By Jim Burress

Office parks, like this one in DeKalb County, are one place data storage centers are housed. Chances are you’d never know it, though. Companies prefer to keep their data center locations top-secret. Office parks, like this one in DeKalb County, are one place data storage centers are housed. Chances are you’d never know it, though. Companies prefer to keep their data center locations top-secret.

By Rick Robinson

Today, petabytes of digital information are generated daily by such sources as social media, Internet activity, surveillance sensors, and advanced research instruments. The results are often referred to as “big data” – accumulations so huge that highly sophisticated computer techniques are required to identify useful information hidden within.

ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) and IEEE Computer Society have named Harshitha Menon of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (UIUC) and Alexander Breuer of Technische Universität München (TUM) as recipients of 2014 ACM/IEEE Computer Society George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships. Menon and Breuer will each receive a $5,000 honorarium, plus travel and registration to receive the award at SC14 during the awards ceremony in November.

Researchers Georgia Tech are helping Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) to develop an energy efficient computer that can last 75 times longer than the present day computers.

The computer is being developed as part of an initiative called Power Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT), which is still in the elementary stages.

Georgia Tech is putting forth a dominating presence at one of the premier parallel computation symposia this week in Phoenix as it sends 30 of its professors and researchers to present nine papers, two of which earned “best paper” honors.

University of Maryland Electrical and Computer Engineering alumnus David Bader (Ph.D., ’96) was recently promoted to Chair of Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). He will assume his role beginning July 2014.

Georgia Tech’s College of Computing has selected David A. Bader ‘90 ‘91G, a renowned leader in high-performance computing, to chair its School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). A professor in the School of CSE and executive director of its High-Performance Computing Lab, Bader will assume his new role in July 2014.

By Verne Kopytoff

Google’s executives have long dreamed of solving one of the technology industry’s biggest riddles. How do you predict what people want — hockey scores or new Ugg boots, for example — before they even ask for it? Reading user’s minds, or at least seeming to, would make Google’s products that much faster and more convenient. It could also help the company fend off rivals.

HPCwire, the leader in world-class journalism covering high performance computing (HPC), announced its ‘HPCwire People to Watch 2014’ list today. The annual list is comprised of an elite group of some of the brightest minds in HPC. The annual selections are made following an extensive review process by the HPCwire editorial and executive staff along with guidance from industry analysts and luminaries across the HPC community.

The College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, one of only two major universities to house its computing program within a college of its own, today announced that David A. Bader, professor and executive director of High Performance Computing, has been selected as one of HPCWire’s “People to Watch” in 2014.

Until now the niche area of supercomputing was available only to those in national research laboratories or leading research universities.

It’s around 9:30 a.m. on a Thursday, and David Bader is explaining how trick-or-treating is connected to graph theory.

DAVID ALAN GRIER
2013 President
George Washington University
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street NW- Suite 401
Washington, DC 20052 USA

G. P. “Bud” Peterson
President
Georgia Institute of Technology

Thomas M. Conte, first vice president for Publications and professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been voted IEEE Computer Society 2014 president-elect.

by Doug Black

In this video from the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, David Bader from Georgia Tech and Tamara Kolda from Sandia discuss the significance of Big Data and the importance of mathematical modeling to make sense of and interpret all that data in various fields from social networks and epidemiology to climatology.

New Editors-in-Chief

David Bader, a professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems starting in 2014.

Join HPCwire Editor Nicole Hemsoth and Dr. David Bader from Georgia Tech as they take center stage on opening night at Atlanta’s first Big Data Kick Off Week, filmed in front of a live audience. Nicole and David look at the evolution of HPC, today’s big data challenges, discuss real world solutions, and reveal their predictions. Exactly what does the future holds for HPC?

By Joshua E. Keating

Government-funded trolls. Decoy documents. Software that identifies you by how you type. Those are just a few of the methods the Pentagon has pursued in order to find the next Edward Snowden before he leaks. The small problem, military-backed researchers tell Foreign Policy, is that every spot-the-leaker solution creates almost as many headaches as it’s supposed to resolve.

By Nicole Hemsoth

Outside of the main attractions, including the keynote sessions, vendor showdowns, Think Tank panels, BoFs, and tutorial elements, the International Supercomputing Conference has balanced its five-day agenda with some striking panels, discussions and topic areas that are worthy of some attention.

Georgia Tech’s leadership in education and research came through clearly at the 27th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS2013) in Cambridge, MA the week of May 19-24, 2013. IPDPS accepted only 22% of submissions, and Georgia Tech’s Schools of Computational Science and Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering participated in nine of the total 108 papers and one of the 23 PhD posters. Four of the associated and well-known workshops contained Georgia Tech research. One graduating student presented his thesis research at the IPDPS PhD forum. In addition, David A. Bader was recognized as the recipient of this year’s IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) Outstanding Service Award.

Georgia Institute of Technology’s David A. Bader discusses his upcoming ISC’13 session, Better Understanding Brains, Genomes & Life Using HPC Systems

Supercomputing at ISC has traditionally focused on problems in areas such as the simulation space for physical phenomena. Manufacturing, weather simulations and molecular dynamics have all been popular topics, but an emerging trend is the examination of how we use high-end computing to solve some of the most important problems that affect the human condition.

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) presents the 2013 TCPP Outstanding Service Award to Dr. David A. Bader

There are four new additions to the CRA Board of Directors. David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, is the new IEEE-CS Representative. Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, and P. Takis Metaxas, Wellesley College, replace members who resigned, and their terms end June 30, 2014. Henry Kautz, University of Rochester, is the new AAAI representative.

Did You Know

Lehigh alumni are engaged in high performance computing and data analytics in a variety of ways. Here are a few examples:

David A. Bader

‘90, ‘92G is executive director of high performance computing at Georgia Tech, conducting research at the intersection of high performance computing, computational biology and genomics, and social network analysis.

Emcien Corp., a leading provider of pattern-based analytics solutions, announced today the addition of internationally renowned High-Performance Computing luminary Dr. David A. Bader to the Emcien Advisory Board, thereby lending his expertise to Emcien’s next generation of solutions designed for massive-scale analytics in real time in multiple sectors, including government, financial services, healthcare, medical research, and insurance. Dr. Bader is a recognized leader in designing large-scale parallel algorithms for data-intensive problems, such as social network analysis, as well as for his decades-long research and innovation in dataintensive computing.

Emcien Corp., a leading provider of pattern-based analytics solutions, announced today the addition of internationally renowned High-Performance Computing luminary Dr. David A. Bader to the Emcien Advisory Board, thereby lending his expertise to Emcien’s next generation of solutions designed for massive-scale analytics in real time in multiple sectors, including government, financial services, healthcare, medical research, and insurance. Dr. Bader is a recognized leader in designing large-scale parallel algorithms for data-intensive problems, such as social network analysis, as well as for his decades-long research and innovation in dataintensive computing.

By Joab Jackson

The Graph 500 ranking of the most powerful supercomputers at handling Big Data workloads has been introduced to complement the Top500 HPC list.

So while a new Cray supercomputer took first place on the Top500, it was another machine, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Sequoia, that proved to be the most adept at processing data intensive workloads on the Graph 500.

Georgia Tech has received $561,130 for the first phase of a negotiated three-phase $2.9 million cooperative agreement contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) to create the algorithmic framework for supercomputing systems that require much less energy than traditional high-speed machines, enabling devices in the field to perform calculations that currently require room-sized supercomputers.

Georgia Tech has received $561,130 for the first phase of a negotiated three-phase $2.9 million cooperative agreement contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) to create the algorithmic framework for supercomputing systems that require much less energy than traditional high-speed machines, enabling devices in the field to perform calculations that currently require room-sized supercomputers.

Georgia Tech researchers say they have developed an algorithm that quickly determines betweenness centrality for streaming graphs.

They say the algorithm also can identify influencers as information changes within a network. “Our algorithm stores the graph’s prior centrality data and only does the bare minimal computations affected by the inserted edges,” says Georgia Tech professor David Bader. In some situations, Bader says the software can compute betweenness centrality more than 100 times faster than conventional methods.

At an airport, many people are essential for planes to take off. Gate staffs, refueling crews, flight attendants and pilots are in constant communication with each other as they perform required tasks. But it’s the air traffic controller who talks with every plane, coordinating departures and runways. Communication must run through her in order for an airport to run smoothly and safely.

At an airport, many people are essential for planes to take off. Gate staffs, refueling crews, flight attendants and pilots are in constant communication with each other as they perform required tasks. But it’s the air traffic controller who talks with every plane, coordinating departures and runways. Communication must run through her in order for an airport to run smoothly and safely.

It’s not easy turning the Mayberry Police Department into the team from CSI, or turning an idea for a new type of social network analysis into something like Klout on steroids, but those types of transformations are becoming ever more realistic. The world’s universities and research institutions are hard at work figuring out ways to make the mountains of social data generated every day more useful and, hopefully, make us realize there’s more to social data than just figuring out whose digital voice is the loudest. Aspiring heirs to the Klout throne, for example, might look to a project called Stinger now under development at Georgia Institute of Technology. Stinger, which stands for Spatio-Temporal Interaction Networks and Graphs Extensible Representation, is a graph-processing engine that project lead David Bader says is bigger, faster, and more flexible than anything currently in use for analyzing social media connections. You provide a shared-memory computing system, and it provides an open-source tool that can help detect relationships between billions of people, places, and things as those relationships change over time—even in real time. Someone using Facebook (FB) data, for example, might write an algorithm where people or pages would be the vertices and actions (likes, shares, wall posts, etc.) would be the graph’s edges. One relatively easy application, Bader explains, would be to analyze how activity around particular people is increasing, decreasing, or changing, therefore indicating changes in their importance or the growth of new communities. Writing an algorithm to perform that kind of analysis isn’t really the problem, though—it’s writing one that can scale into the billions of vertices and edges and still perform quickly enough to be useful. An algorithm that generates one false positive in a million isn’t so bad when you’re dealing with tens of thousands of items, Bader says, but it gets to be a big problem when you’re talking about billions of items against which it’s running. There are dozens of open-source graph databasesavailable, including popular offerings such as Neo4j andInfiniteGraph. But, Bader says, “our lab focuses on algorithms that run fast on massive data sets and that are more accurate than what is traditionally done in social media.” Bader’s team recently presented a paper detailing a social media algorithm running atop Stinger that ran 100 times faster than some previous approaches because the system stores the graph’s previous state and performs only the minimal amount of processing necessary as new edges are inserted. This is in contrast to traditional approaches that reprocess the entire graph every time there’s a change. That being said, Georgia Tech isn’t alone in analyzing massive amounts of social data with graph databases.Google’s (GOOG) Pregel had already scaled to billions of vertices and edges as of 2009, and Facebook is currently analyzing more than a billion edges using Apache Giraph(an open-source, Hadoop-based Pregel implementation). But those cases—both companies are loaded with smart engineers, data scientists, and powerful infrastructure—just underscore the importance of what researchers like Bader are building and releasing as open source.

By Derrick Harris

It’s not easy turning the Mayberry Police Department into the team from CSI, or turning an idea for a new type of social network analysis into something like Klout on steroids, but those types of transformations are becoming ever more realistic. The world’s universities and research institutions are hard at work figuring out ways to make the mountains of social data generated every day more useful and, hopefully, make us realize there’s more to social data than just figuring out whose digital voice is the loudest.

By John Pavlus

Computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have devised a framework for running large-scale computations for tasks such as social network or Web search analysis efficiently on a single personal computer.

AGENDA

1:30-2:00 coffee

2:00-3:00 Ed Seidel’s talk title “Computing and Data Challenges for Multi-Messenger Astronomy”

3:00-3:15 Bread for bagels

3:15-4:00 Panel Discussion “Big Data and the National Data Service”

Panelists: Gab Allen, David Bader, Ed Seidel, John Wise and Srinivas Aluru

By Noah Shachtman

Pentagon-funded researchers have come up with a new plan for busting leakers: Spot them by how they search, and then entice the secret-spillers with decoy documents that will give them away.

Supercomputing performance is getting a new measurement with the Graph500 executive committee’s announcement of specifications for a more representative way to rate the large-scale data analytics at the heart of high-performance computing.

Supercomputing performance is getting a new measurement with the Graph500 executive committee’s announcement of specifications for a more representative way to rate the large-scale data analytics at the heart of high-performance computing.

By John Markoff, June 25, 2012

The 26th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) took place May 21-25, 2012, in Shanghai, China. Georgia Tech’s participation in the technical program included 23 faculty and students presenting six accepted papers, eight workshops, two Ph.D. Forum research posters, as well as roles in the sessions and invited panel talks. IPDPS, which drew more than 600 participants this year, is an international forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel computation. In addition to technical sessions of submitted paper presentations, the meeting offers workshops, tutorials, and commercial presentations & exhibits.

Georgia Institute of Technology will be recognized as one the 50 charter members of the HPC500, an exclusive community of High-Performance Computing user organizations at the vanguard of their areas of specialization, during the International Supercomputing conference, ISC'12, in Hamburg, Germany, June 17-21.

The IEEE Computer Society will honor 14 prominent technologists at its annual awards dinner in Seattle, including the inventor of MATLAB, two dedicated computer science educators, a parallel programming languages expert, and innovators in the fields of data mining, distributed computing, database theory, computer standards, and other technologies.

The IEEE Computer Society will honor 14 prominent technologists at its annual awards dinner in Seattle, including the inventor of MATLAB, two dedicated computer science educators, a parallel programming languages expert, and innovators in the fields of data mining, distributed computing, database theory, computer standards, and other technologies.

On the program of this year’s SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing in Scientific Computing, held February 15-17 in Savannah, Georgia, was the awarding of two prizes: the SIAG/SC Career Prize, to Rob Schreiber of the Exascale Computing Lab at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and the SIAG/SC Junior Scientist Prize, to Torsten Hoefler of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Created in 2009 by the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing, the prizes were presented by the inaugural (2010) recipients, Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Kamesh Madduri (Pennsylvania State University), along with SIAG/SC chair David Bader of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Professor David A. Bader, executive director of High-Performance Computing, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology As part of an award from the US National Science Foundation, we are undertaking a project to accelerate computational discoveries at the petascale. The project is a collaboration between three research groups – myself, Professor Jijun Tang at the University of South Carolina and Stephen Schaeffer, a Professor at Penn State – and our focus is on trying to understand the evolutionary histories of multi chromosome organisms. The outcome will prove very useful for the pharmaceutical industry in terms of developing drug targets and understanding the evolutionary process of plants; particularly useful for determining their medicinal properties.

Project CHASM, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of its Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program announced in 2010, is focusing UHPC architecture designs on achieving scalable capability on defense application requirements.

Dear David,

On behalf of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, I am honored to announce that you have been selected as a recipient of the Inaugural ECE Distinguished Alumni Award. We are pleased to inform you that you were nominated by ECE faculty member, Joseph JaJa, who shared your accomplishments and impressive contributions to the field, which exemplify this award. This prestigious award will be presented annually to alumni that have provided leadership and meritorious contributions in the broad field of engineering. We are delighted to have someone of your stature as both an alumnus of our department and a 2012 Distinguished Alumni honoree.

Can diseases in human populations be detected and prevented? How many currents can one electrical power grid handle? Who detects the community structure of large social networks?

HPCwire, the most widely recognized and accessed news and information site covering the ecosystem of High Performance Computing (HPC) announced today that it has published the HPCwire 2012 ‘People to Watch’ list. The annual list is comprised of an elite group of community leaders selected from academia, government, business, and industry who’s work is believed will impact and influence the future of High Performance Computing in 2012 and beyond.

The SIAG Election results are in!

New officers for the following activity groups have been elected. Their term of service will be from January 1, 2012—December 31, 2013.

SIAG/SC ‐ Supercomputing

Chair: David Bader
Vice Chair: Mary Beth Hribar
Secretary: Fatima Abu Salem
Program Director: Ali Pinar

The Pentagon will soon be prying through the personal correspondence and computer files of US military personnel, thanks to a $9-million program that will put soldiers’ private emails under Uncle Sam’s microscope. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has awarded the grant to five institutions led by Georgia Tech to help develop a system of spying on solderis’ Internet and computer habits, a multi-million dollar investment that they say will serve as a preemptive measure to make sure “insider threats” can’t materialize in the military.

By Trent Nouveau

The Pentagon is kicking of a new initiative to monitor military emails in an attempt to detect insider threats.

Backed by DARPA, the project seeks to create “a suite of algorithms [capable of] detecting multiple types of insider threats by analyzing massive amounts of data – including email, text messages and file transfers – for unusual activity.”

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named four Georgia Tech professors as 2011 Fellows. AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society, and the election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

If you don’t have anything nice to say, then definitely don’t say it, type it or text it over a military network.

Georgia Tech leveraged its strengths in high performance computing Nov 12-18 at the SC11 conference in Seattle, with a strong showing in the technical program and through faculty members building on current research partnerships and collaborations.

When a soldier in good mental health becomes homicidal or a government employee abuses access privileges to share classified information, we often wonder why no one saw it coming. When looking through the evidence after the fact, a trail often exists that, had it been noticed, could have possibly provided enough time to intervene and prevent an incident.

By Kevin McCaney

Researchers backed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are developing a system than could scan up to 250 million text messages, e-mail messages and file transfers a day in search of anomalies that could help identify insider threats or employees who might be about to “break bad.”

By Claire Shefchik

A new project from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and George Institute of Technology will begin scanning e-mails, text messages and file transfers to pick up on what it calls “insider threats,” the university announced earlier this month.

By John Brandon, Fox News

Cherie Anderson runs a travel company in southern California, and she’s convinced the federal government is reading her emails. But she’s all right with that.

David Bader, Full Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Executive Director for High Performance Computing

Dr. Bader is a lead scientist in the DARPA Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from The University of Maryland, and his research is supported through highly competitive research awards, primarily from NSF, NIH, DARPA, and DOE.

By Robert Lemos, Contributing Editor

The hunt for technology to identify malicious insiders took off in 2011 with the research arm of the Pentagon, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), offering up millions of dollars in grants to fund research.

At insideHPC, we are pleased to announce that David Bader is our latest Rock Star of HPC.

“While HPC tends to focus on compute-intensive problems, Big Data challenges require novel architectures for data-intensive computing. My group has been the first to parallelize and implement large-scale graph theoretic algorithms, which are quite a challenge because of the irregular memory accesses, little computation to overlap with these memory references, and fine grain synchronization. In the past several years, our research has enabled social scientists to analyze some of the largest social networks, detecting communities, finding the proverbial “needle in the haystack”, and “connecting the dots” by identifying central actors hidden in these networks. As you know, data and social media are now torrential streams of information that may provide valuable information to make decisions related to business intelligence, market analysis, and social trends.” - David A. Bader

“We never saw it coming.” Those words often fall from the lips of victims or witnesses to incidents when a person takes the law into their own hands.

However, when doing the forensics in the case, a trail often exists that if anyone noticed, it could have possibly provided enough time to intervene and prevent an incident.

Researchers at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Army Research Office, and Georgia Tech are developing new approaches for identifying insider threats before a data breach occurs.

When a soldier in good mental health becomes homicidal or a government employee abuses access privileges to share classified information, we often wonder why no one saw it coming. When looking through the evidence after the fact, a trail often exists that, had it been noticed, could have possibly provided enough time to intervene and prevent an incident.

This is to certify that David A. Bader was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this fourth day of November 2011 in testimony whereof the President and the Chief Executive Officer have hereunto set their hands and the seal of the Association.

By Ellyne Phneah

Innovations around computing are increasingly designed to imitate the human brain but the day artificial intelligence becomes “smarter” than human intelligence is a “long time” away, said experts.

By Carlo Alaimo

The Georgia Institute of Technology inaugurated its School of Computational Science and Engineering at a convocation in February. The result of an initiative that began in 2005, the new school is located within the College of Computing, where it joins the School of Computer Science and the School of Interactive Computing. Georgia Tech is one of the rare institutions to have a separate department of CSE with its own faculty.

Back in 2009, Josh Anderson didn’t know much about biology. But he knew that a summer undergraduate research assistantship working on something called “RNA folding” had to be better than the job his mother had lined up for him. Prashant Gaurav recalls that in 2009 he was thinking about applying to graduate school in computer science—not about the base pairings of a nasty RNA virus like Hepatitis C.

As a new era centered on human health dawns around the world, the life sciences — accelerated by the tremendous bloom of genomics — are poised to open new horizons. And, in this relatively new, interdisciplinary branch of biology called genomics, computing plays a critical role, particularly in such areas as genome assembly, analysis and interpretation.

25th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium

May 16-20, 2011

David Bader

25th Year Planning Chair

With Grateful Appreication for Efforts on Behalf of IPDPS 2011

Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 4, 2011

Professor David Bader (CompSci & Eng) received the IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core Member award during the IEEE Computer Society’s Executive Board Meeting in Long Beach, Calif., Feb. 2.

Nine supercomputers have been tested, validated and ranked by the new “Graph500” challenge, first introduced this week by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories. The list of submitters and the order of their finish was released Nov. 17 at the supercomputing conference SC10 meeting in New Orleans.

The road to exascale computing is a long one, but the Georgia Institute of Technology, a leader in high-performance computing (HPC) research and education, continues to win new awards and attract new talent to drive technology innovation. From algorithms to architectures and applications, Georgia Tech’s researchers are collaborating with top companies, national labs and defense organizations to solve the complex challenges of tomorrow’s supercomputing systems. Ongoing projects and new research initiatives spanning several Georgia Tech disciplines directly addressing core HPC issues such as sustainability, reliability and massive data computation will be on display November 13-19, 2010 at SC10 in New Orleans, LA.

The road to exascale computing is a long one, but the Georgia Institute of Technology, a leader in high-performance computing (HPC) research and education, continues to win new awards and attract new talent to drive technology innovation. From algorithms to architectures and applications, Georgia Tech’s researchers are collaborating with top companies, national labs and defense organizations to solve the complex challenges of tomorrow’s supercomputing systems. Ongoing projects and new research initiatives spanning several Georgia Tech disciplines directly addressing core HPC issues such as sustainability, reliability and massive data computation will be on display November 13-19, 2010 at SC10 in New Orleans, LA.

Imagine that one of the world’s most powerful high performance computers could be packed into a single rack just 24 inches wide and powered by a fraction of the electricity consumed by comparable current machines. That would allow an unprecedented amount of computing power to be installed on aircraft, carried onto the battlefield for commanders - and made available to researchers everywhere.

Imagine that one of the world’s most powerful high performance computers could be packed into a single rack just 24 inches wide and powered by a fraction of the electricity consumed by comparable current machines. That would allow an unprecedented amount of computing power to be installed on aircraft, carried onto the battlefield for commanders – and made available to researchers everywhere.

In supercomputing these days, it’s usually the big science applications (astrophysics, climate simulations, earthquake predictions and so on) that seem to garner the most attention. But a new area is quickly emerging onto the HPC scene under the general category of informatics or data-intensive computing. To be sure, informatics is not new at all, but its significance to the HPC realm is growing, mainly due to emerging application areas like cybersecurity, bioinformatics, and social networking.

By Christopher Mims

Determining the most influential users of Twitter is probably not what the creators of the Cray XMT supercomputer had in mind when they designed their machine. But when you’re packing this much computational heat, you go where the hard problems are. Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the social Web have become the modern-day equivalent of the water cooler, albeit with an automatic transcriptionist present. And processing all the data that conversation generates turns out to be a very hard problem.

NVIDIA announced today that they have officially named Georgia Institute of Technology a CUDA Center of Excellence. Jeff Vetter, joint professor of the Georgia Tech College of Computing and Group Leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will serve as principal investigator for the center.

NVIDIA today announced the addition of new research and educational centers dedicated to leveraging the immense processing power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to address today’s most challenging computing issues.

NVIDIA today recognized Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) as a CUDA Center of Excellence. One of the world’s premier engineering and science universities, Georgia Tech is engaged in a wide number of research, development and educational activities which leverage GPU Computing.

Advanced computing is the backbone of the Department of Defense and of critical strategic importance to our nation’s defense. All DoD sensors, platforms and missions depend heavily on computer systems. To meet the escalating demands for greater processing performance, it is imperative that future computer system designs be developed to support new generations of advanced DoD systems and enable new computing application code. Targeting this crucial need, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has initiated the Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program to create an innovative, revolutionary new generation of computing systems that overcomes the limitations of current evolutionary approach.

‘Life Sciences’ is becoming a strategic discipline at the frontier between Molecular Biology and Computer Science, impacting medicine, biotechnology, as well as society. ‘Life Sciences’, the leading edge research is one of the most challenging supercomputer application for the future. At ISC’10 we will organize a special session about ‘Life Sciences’, to fulfill the growing interest from the public and the scientific world.

IEEE Computer Society

Meritorious Service Award

Presented to

David A. Bader

For service as General Chair for the 2010 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)

by Rick Smith

Georgia Institute of Technology has launched the Georgia Tech Institute for Data and High Performance Computing (IDH) in recognition of the need to advance and coordinate institute research and education activities in this area, both in its application to key areas of science and engineering as well as in the advancement of the technology itself.

Today the Georgia Institute of Technology Office of the Provost announced the formation of the Georgia Tech Institute for Data and High Performance Computing (IDH) in recognition of the need to advance and coordinate institute research and education activities in this area. High performance computing (HPC) continues to grow as a strategically important area for Georgia Tech, both in its application to key areas of science and engineering as well as in the advancement of the technology itself.

Today the Georgia Institute of Technology Office of the Provost announced the formation of the Georgia Tech Institute for Data and High Performance Computing (IDH) in recognition of the need to advance and coordinate institute research and education activities in this area. High performance computing (HPC) continues to grow as a strategically important area for Georgia Tech, both in its application to key areas of science and engineering as well as in the advancement of the technology itself.

The 25th International Supercomputing Conference – ISC'10 – the leading HPC event in 2010, introduces four new special sessions to address some of the biggest challenges in science, industry and technology today. The sessions on HPC Computational Life Sciences, New Markets, Networking and Energy form the first part of the ISC'10 conference special sessions.

By John Brandon

High-performance computing (HPC) has almost always required a supercomputer – one of those room-size monoliths you find at government research labs and universities. And while those systems aren’t going away, some of the applications traditionally handled by the biggest of Big Iron are heading to the desktop.

By Therese Poletti, Columnist

Entrepreneur Ijad Madisch initially wanted to be a virologist and studied how to stop certain viruses in their path.

Now, the 29-year-old scientist, technologist and medical doctor is learning the positive aspects of possibly having a “viral” product on the Internet.

IEEE Certifies that David Albert Bader has been elevated to the grade of Fellow for contributions to parallel algorithms for combinatorial problems and computational biology

New SIAG officers -

The following individuals will begin two-year terms, starting January 1, 2010:

The SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing (SIAC/SC) -

• Cindy Phillips, Chair
• Boyanna Norris, Vice Chair
• David Bader, Program Director
• Rich Vuduc, Secretary

David Alan Grier, IEEE Computer Soceity’s Vice President, Publications, presents David Bader with the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board 2010 “Sherriff” Award.

By Miriam Boon, iSGTW

We’ve known for several years now that chimpanzees share 96 percent of our DNA. Our technology tells us how closely humans and chimps are related. But it doesn’t tell us how we’re related. We need new technology for that.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of only six U.S. universities to have five of its faculty members elevated to the rank of IEEE Fellow, the most at any academic institution in the United States. The five Georgia Tech faculty members promoted to IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2010, are David A. Bader, Ian T. Ferguson, Richard A. Hartlein, David C. Keezer, and Emmanouil M. Tentzeris.

By KI MAE HEUSSNER

Guess what’s on the U.S. Air Force’s wish list this holiday season.

Sony’s popular PlayStation 3 gaming console. Thousands of them.

The Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., recently issued a request for proposal indicating its intention to purchase 2,200 PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles.

Seventy IEEE Computer Society members will be elevated to IEEE Fellow grade in 2010. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession.

The IEEE Board of Directors elevated 309 members to Fellow status. Computer Society members recommended for Fellow status in 2010 include:

By Timothy Prickett Morgan

The Hybrid Multicore Consortium is on a mission that perhaps all of computing - on the desktop and in the data center - will one day embark on: making hybrid computing architectures as easy to program and use as monolithic platforms have been.

The National Science Foundation has funded three research teams under a four-year $1 million project to help ensure that certain bioinformatics tools are compatible with upcoming petascale computers.