VIPRA

We gave a presentation on Project VIPRA in the NCSA Exhibit at SC ’15.

High Definition version available at Vimeo

Rachel Beard has been awarded a three-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Library of Medicine. Her sponsor is Matthew Scotch.

A paper on “Efficient Barrier Implementation on the POWER8 Processor” has been accepted at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) (2015). It is co-authored by Ashok Srinivasan and C.D. Sudheer of IBM Research. It relates to the issue of making computations efficient.

Ebola at 30,000 feet: FSU Researchers work to combat future outbreaks
InternetCoast News cites research conducted under project VIPRA. InternetCoast is a non-profit organization promoting economic growth in Florida through innovation and technology.

Senator Nelson (FL) lauded research conducted under project VIPRA and congratulated it on received funding from the National Science Foundation.

Blue Waters to help researchers tackle Ebola
Nation Center for Supercomputing Applications press release cites funding received by project VIPRA.

Ebola at 30,000 feet: Researchers work to combat future outbreaks
Florida State University press release on research conducted under project VIPRA.

Project VIPRA received Rapid Response Research grant funding in April 2015 from the National Science Foundation for Simulation-Based Policy Analysis For Reducing Ebola Transmission Risk in Air Travel.