{"446671":{"#nid":"446671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Advances Toward New HPC Building with Research on Tap","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is quickly advancing toward realization of a new \u201cHigh Performance Computing Building\u201d in Tech Square and has awarded three grants totaling $450,000 to research teams that include College of Computing faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe grants are intended to help define how research could expand into new areas with community partners, and possibly be housed in the new collaborative space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApproved by the Board of Regents in May, the new HPC Building will be a 695,000-square-foot, mixed-use complex next to the Scheller College of Business on Spring Street in Midtown Atlanta. The primary goal is to bring academia and industry together to share ideas, data and development of real-world solutions for commercialization. Georgia Tech would occupy about half of the office and data center space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing plays a part in three of six grants awarded from the Executive Vice President of Research Office under the Georgia Tech Innovation in Data Engineering and Science (IDEAS) program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe grants can be used to:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eexplore open issues in data science and engineering and what Georgia Tech needs to do to lead in that area\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Edetermine the impact of solving these problems\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eidentify potential community partners and collaborators, and\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eadvise building design plans to support such research space.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe grants do not imply or guarantee space in the new building, but help define the infrastructure (such as physical areas or staffing) needed to meet those research goals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAwardees in the College of Computing are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEdmond Chow\u003C\/strong\u003E (CSE) with Nagi Gebraeel (ISYE), Ahmed Shabbir (ISYE), Daniel Campbell (GTRI), and Andrew Howard (GTRI) for \u201cDevelopment of Scalable Analytics Platform Prototype for the Power Generation Industry.\u201d\u0026nbsp; Funding is for $300,000 over two years, with matching funds of $300,000 from GE Corporation.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECo-leads James M. Rehg\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(IC) and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJimeng Sun\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CSE) for \u0022Computational Health: Integrated Big Data Analytics for Improving Health Outcomes.\u0022 Additional participating faculty include\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Braunstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(IC), Gari Clifford (Emory BMI), Gregory C. Gibson (BIO), Omer Inan (ECE), Dongmei (May) Wang (BME), and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERichard Vuduc\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CSE).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBeth Mynatt\u003C\/strong\u003E (IC) for \u201cAnalytics for Transforming Health and Healthcare\u201d with Rahul Basole (IPaT), Julie Swann and Nicoleta Serban (ISyE), May Wang (BME), Kevin Maher (CHOA\/Emory), Myung Choi and Leanne West (GTRI), and Margaret Dahl (EI2).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESun says his team wants to ingite an emerging market sector around a scalable and open-source \u0022health prediction engine\u0022 that analyzes big data to guide risk, treatment and prevention. Chow and colleagues want to research large-scale distributed computer hardware that can collect actionable information from thousands of sensors in an energy field. Mynatt\u0027s team aims \u0022to create a transformative, industry-focused enterprise in Georgia Tech health analytics to create, assess and deploy learning health systems,\u0022 she says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022IDEAS is all about growing extramural sponsored research and attracting partners to locate with us on campus or nearby,\u0022 said Steve Cross, executive vice president for research.\u0026nbsp;\u0022I think those are both\u0026nbsp;pretty good ideas.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe building is scheduled to break ground in 2016 and open in 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is quickly advancing toward realization of a new \u201cHigh Performance Computing Building\u201d in Tech Square and has awarded three grants totaling $600,000 to College of Computing faculty that will help define how researchers could work with communi"}],"uid":"28124","created_gmt":"2015-09-10 16:00:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:33","author":"Tyler Sharp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"376811":{"id":"376811","type":"image","title":"HPC","body":null,"created":"1449246205","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:25","changed":"1475894344","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:04","alt":"HPC","file":{"fid":"75169","name":"hpc.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hpc.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hpc.png","mime":"image\/png","size":74925,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hpc.png?itok=zyPbZMW8"}}},"media_ids":["376811"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"141021","name":"High Performance Computing Center; HPC; Scheller College of Business; Steve Cross; Edmond Chow; Beth Mynatt"},{"id":"141031","name":"Richard Vuduc; Mark Braunstein; Jimeng Sun; James Rehg;"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tlabouff@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETara La Bouff\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENews and Media Relations Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.7253\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}