The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded an IU-led team $1.96 million to create a cyberinfrastructure that will help scientists better understand the current and future state of polar ice sheets. Under the leadership of Geoffrey C. Fox, director of Pervasive Technology Labs' Community Grids Lab and IU professor of informatics, the project team includes partners from Elizabeth City State University and the University of Kansas' Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets.

Read News Release. See also articles in Supercomputing Online, Grid Today, and HPC Wire

Other Recent News

7/22/08
Greg Travis from the Advanced Network Management Lab offers cell phone safety tips for parents and teens in the IU Health & Wellness: Back-to-School issue. Read the full story here.
4/8/08
IU Research Technologies announces expanded leadership, including members of Pervasive Technology Labs. Read the news release.
4/3/08
Joseph Cottam of the Open Systems Lab (OSL) recently received the first ever Microsoft award from the International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA) for his paper "Extended Assortivity and the Structure in the Open Source Development Community", co-authored with OSL director Andrew Lumsdaine. The award includes a $1,000 cash prize provided by a donation from Microsoft given to authors of outstanding papers that address social relations aspects of software development. Cottam and Lumsdaine introduce a set of tools they call "Developmetrics" to investigate community formation and product development in the open source software community. Read the paper.
2/6/08
Narada Brokering software developed by the Community Grids Lab is helping ecologists from South Carolina keep a watchful eye on our changing coastal environment, custom-managing their distributed sensor data for a large-scale environmental research project. Read the article in International Science Grid This Week.
11/16/07
A team led by Indiana University Information Technology Services and including members of the Pervasive Technology Labs, was awarded first place in an international competition for leading-edge, high-bandwidth computing applications. The award was presented Thursday at SC07, the world's largest international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, being held this week in Reno, Nevada. See News Release and related coverage in Inside Indiana Business and HPC Wire.
11/13/07
A group of undergraduate students from the IU School of Informatics competed on behalf of Indiana University in the SC07 Cluster Challenge. Andrew Lumsdaine, director of the Open Systems Lab served as faculty advisor for the team and the Open Systems Lab was a main sponsor of the team. See News Release and related coverage in Ars Technica, the Mac Observer, and HPC Wire.
11/8/07
Pervasive Technology Labs research and projects are among those highlighted at Indiana University's exhibit for the 2007 Supercomputing Conference in Reno, Nevada. See news release.
10/10/07
The Community Grids Lab received $1.69 million from the National Science Foundation to develop software for science gateways as part of their Open Grid Computing Environments project. See news release. See also articles in HPCWire , Grid Today , and Inside Indiana Business .
7/9/07
Pervasive Technology Labs COO Craig Stewart comments on IU’s Big Red supercomputer’s ranking in the TOP500 list, and its role in Indiana economic development. See news release. See also articles in HPCWire, Supercomputing Online, and The Bloomington Herald-Times.
7/9/07
David Ripley of the Advanced Network Management Lab tells students how to select a secure password for their technology accounts. See article in Living Well.
6/13/07
The IU Data Capacitor, developed by a team from University Information Technology Services, the IU School of Informatics, and Pervasive Technology Labs, achieves 977 MB/second across the TeraGrid network. See news release. See also related articles in HPC Wire, Grid Today and SC Online.

Pervasive Technology Labs founder and CEO, Michael A. McRobbie named president of IU

The Trustees of Indiana University on March 1 unanimously approved the appointment of Michael A. McRobbie as the 18th president of the 187-year-old institution with eight campuses and more than 97,000 students. McRobbie, formerly the interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at IU Bloomington, has been a senior administrator at IU for 10 years.

Named IU's first Vice President for Information Technology in 1997, McRobbie made visionary advances in IT, and built a foundation that galvanized and focused research into pressing questions across academe, and notably within the life sciences. McRobbie's vision has enabled IU's emergence as a research powerhouse, and contributes to shaping a bright economic future for the state of Indiana. The beneficiaries of McRobbie's vision include communities local and international -- education in Indiana, the state and its economy, the nation and its health, and the international exchange of ideas and development of community.

Read News Release. Read McRobbie's remarks. Read McRobbie's biography. View the slide show. View the archived news conference. See also: IUPUI Impact; Development experts cheer McRobbie appointment (IBJ) ; The Chronicle of Higher Education.

5/23/07
Indiana teens can network with the pros at the PTL Summer Technology Workshop. See news release.
4/23/07
Pervasive Technology Labs is a co-sponsor of student scholarships for Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing conference to be held in October, 2007. See article in Grid Today.
4/23/07
IU computer science students test robotic vehicle developed by IU School of Informatics and Danko Antolovic of the Advanced Network Management Lab. See news release. See also Inside Indiana Business.
4/20/07
Pervasive Technology Labs’ Seed Fund recipient, the Haelan Group makes the finalist list for Techpoint’s 2007 Mira Awards. See article in Inside Indiana Business.
4/12/07
David Ripley of the Advanced Network Management Lab offers advice on keeping your home wireless connection safe from intruders in April 2007 Living Well. See news release.
4/3/07
The Data Capacitor Team, comprised of individuals from University Information Technology Services, the IU School of Informatics, and the Pervasive Technology Labs has been nominated for Techpoint’s annual Mira Award. PTL researcher, Dr. Kay Connelly also received an individual nomination for the award, which honors outstanding contributions to technology in the state of Indiana. See "TechPoint Announces Mira Awards Nominations" in Inside Indiana Business.
3/9/07
A team from the IU School of Informatics and the University’s Pervasive Technology Labs has created the Bloomington Emergency Collaborative Information System, a research project in which bloggers monitor communication sources such as the Internet, television and two-way radio traffic, and then contact authorities. See news release.
1/5/07
Open Systems Lab researcher, Chris Mueller talks with the publication BioInform about Terra Soft’s life science supercomputer cluster and his work with IBM to develop a BlastP prototype. See article.

IU research team offers supercomputing-powered web services for drug researchers and scientists

More public data and lots of it. That's what researchers from Indiana University will give drug researchers and scientists with a new set of web services made possible through the Chemical Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Collaboratory (CICC), a partnership between the Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University, the IU School of Informatics, and the IUB Department of Chemistry. The group will be demonstrating the new web services for the first time at this week's annual Supercomputing (SC06) conference in Tampa, Florida .

( See news release. See also articles in HPC Wire and Supercomputing Online.)

12/19/06
Pervasive Technology Labs Seed Fund Recipient, the Haelan Group successfully acquired by Florida-based Care Guide Inc. See news release. See also a related article Haelan Purchase Complete in Inside Indiana Business, and these articles in the Indianapolis Star: Florida company will buy Haelan; Lifes sciences are king for IU incubator chief.
12/4/06
Indiana University powers high-performance distributed cyberinfrasctucture with Force10 Networks terascale E-Series. See news release.
12/4/06
“All in a Day's Work”: Indiana University team receives award in Supercomputing Conference Bandwidth Challenge. See news release . See also: IU Home Pages "Eschewing ‘networking heroes’ wins prize for IU team at ‘Bandwidth"; HPC Wire "IU Team Receives Award in Bandwidth Challenge".
11/22/06
This holiday season make sure your kids are safe and sensible online. See news release. See also, Living Well: "Engraved in cyberspace? Teens need to think before they post".
11/13/06
PTL COO and Associate Vice President for Research and Academic Computing, Craig Stewart discusses IU's $30 million Open Science Grid project in the Indiana Daily Student. See news release.
10/30/06
IU scientists want to take the jet-lag out of lab experiments. See news release.
10/17/06
Pervasive Technology Labs' Seed Fund recipient, the Healan Group named a finalist for IU Entrepreneurial Awards. See "Finalists Named For IU Entrepreneurial Awards" in Inside Indiana Business.
9/15/06
Pervasive Technology Labs researcher Kay Connelly is a co-chair of Bring IT On!, a workshop for computer science students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities designed to support the development of K-12 outreach programs. See news release.
9/1/06
Visualization and Interactive Spaces Lab's etx project highlighted in IEEE Computer Society article, "Interactive Tabletop Exhibits in Museums and Galleries". See the article (PDF).

Open-source software powers top US academic supercomputer

Indiana University’s supercomputer, Big Red, is the fastest supercomputer among all US academic institutions and the 23rd fastest supercomputer in the world, according to a list, released today, of the world's most powerful computer systems.

To achieve the greatest parallel processing efficiency, IU will be using the OpenMPI implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification. OpenMPI was created by an international consortium of several major research labs including the Open Systems Lab, part of Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University. OpenMPI provides especially advanced tools for taking advantage of and effectively utilizing a complex supercomputer cluster such as Big Red. See news release.

8/30/06
Researchers from the Community Grids Lab, along with partners at Jackson State University have released a report showing the potential benefits of distance education technologies for rural and minority-serving institutions. See news release. See also in Primeur.
8/22/06
Indiana University officials and other dignitaries will cut the ribbon and kick off the first production program on Big Red, the fastest academic supercomputer in the United States, at 11 a.m. on Tuesday (Aug. 22). See news release. See also "IU to Kick Off First Program For Its Supercomputer" in Inside Indiana Business.
8/16/06
Technology entrepreneur Scott Jones describes the impact of Pervasive Technology Labs CEO, Interim Provost of I.U. Bloomington, Michael A. McRobbies leadership on the University and the state. See the article.
7/6/06
Community Grids Lab Director, Geoffrey Fox discusses his role as Principle Investigator of the Minority Serving Institutions Cyberinfrastructure Institute at a recent five-day workshop held in San Diego. Read the article.
6/28/06
IU supercomputer—Big Red—joins the ranks of the world's fastest. See news release. Big Red will use a special software library created by the Open Systems Lab to achieve the greatest processing efficiency. See technical release.

Fullbright visit forges life sciences technology partnerships for Indiana University and international collaborators

The intersection of high performance computing and the life sciences was the focus of a recent visit to the Technische Universität Dresden made by Indiana University Associate Vice President for Research and Academic Computing Dr. Craig Stewart, who is also the chief operating officer of Pervasive Technology Labs. Stewart was hosted by the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) as part of a month-long visit funded by the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program. See news release.

6/13/06
Pervasive Technology Labs and School of Informatics researchers, Ashraf Khalil and Kay Connelly report on the results of their study on cell-phone user privacy preferences. See news release.
6/12/06
IU and Purdue Co-host Inaugural Conference of Nation's Most Advanced Computing Grid See news release.
5/19/2006
Pervasive Technology Labs CEO, Interim Provost of I.U. Bloomington, Michael A. McRobbie received Techpoint’s Trailblazer in Technology Award during the group's annual Mira Awards ceremony. See news release. See also Inside Indiana Business.
5/19/2006
Pervasive Technology Labs Capital Seed Fund recipient, The Haelan Group was nominated for Techpoint's 2006 Mira Awards. The annual awards recognize outstanding technology companies in the state of Indiana. See the complete list of Mira Award Nominees at http://www.techpoint.org/Mira/nominees.htm
5/12/2006
Advanced Network Management Lab researchers describe potential consequences for young people who post personal information on online "blogs" and social networking websites
In an interview recorded at a demonstration given to students and teachers attending the 2006 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair and aired on Indiana NPR stations, ANML's Edward Balas and Mark Meiss explained that employers now routinely use information found online to evaluate a job-seeker’s character. They warned that individuals can not easily "take back" information once it has been put on the Internet and they encouraged young people to think carefully about unintended consequences before posting personal information on websites. (Audio not available for rebroadcast or download.)
Science Education Gets Boost from Veolia
Tim Hewitt of Veolia Water Indianapolis (VWI) announced a $200,000 gift to the Visualization and Interactive Spaces Lab and IUPUI's Center for Earth and Environmental Science at a May 8 event held near the White River on the IUPUI campus. The VWI gift will be used to establish a science education program called Discovering the Science of the Environment.
5/8/2006
Veolia Water Indianapolis and PTL’s Visualization and Interactive Spaces Lab launch science education program to engage young people in science for the benefit of the environment and economic development in Indiana. See the news release. See also "Veolia Donates Money to Help Educate Tomorrow’s Scientists" at Inside Indiana Business.
5/8/2006
Researchers from Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University serve as judges and offer presentations and demonstrations to help educate young science students at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
See the news release
5/5/2006
Pervasive Technology Labs researcher Katie Moor Siek receives "Woman of the Year" Award from Women in Computing at IU.
See the news release
5/1/2006
I.U. School of Informatics has named Pervasive Technology Labs Science Director, and Professor of Computer Science Dennis Gannon as a recipient of their Hermes award, recognizing his leadership role in the School’s establishment.
See the news release
4/24/2006
Network Security Training Lets Higher Education "Good Guys" Become the "Bad Guys". ANML researchers have developed a hands-on training exercise that allows network and security professionals from colleges and universities to play the role of network intruder on a simulated "real-world" network.
See the news release
4/21/06
Pervasive Technology Labs Researcher and Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Kay Connelly is a featured presenter at global IT conference CHI2006.
See news release
Dr. Marlon Pierce
Named Assistant Director,
Community Grids Lab
"Marlon has an international reputation across computer science and several applications. His extensive experience in Grid computing makes him a valuable asset to the Community Grids Lab and I’m pleased to name him Assistant Director."
— Geoffrey Fox, Director, Community Grids Lab

( See Pierce bio)
3/14/06
Advanced Network Management Lab researcher Mark Meiss and faculty from the I.U. School of Informatics have developed a website to reveal censorship on international search engines.
See news release
3/13/06
Pervasive Technology Labs researcher Kay Connelly describes her research on cell-phone privacy in an interview for NPR's Morning Edition.
Read or hear story
2/17/06
I.U. School of Informatics has developed a tool to combat new hacker "hijack" methods - including one discovered by Pervasive Technology Labs&rsquot; researcher Mark Meiss.
See news release