CSCE News
Star of Arkansas
We are pleased to announce that the Star of Arkansas is ranked 339 as one of the fastest supercomputers in the world! The Star of Arkansas has a sustained performance of 10.75Teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) and joins only 33 other academic institutions in the United States on this list. Excluding national labs there are roughly 24 entries on this list from academic institutions in the United States.
CSCE News Item 2469
The Star of Arkansas was made available for general production use on Wednesday, May 21, 2008.Star is approximately eight times more capable than our first supercomputer, Red Diamond. Up to 93% of the available compute nodes are being utilized by applications from computational researchers from the University of Arkansas and jobs are waiting for resources. Jobs have been submitted by users from four different departments from two colleges on campus. The amount of computing accomplished on the Star of Arkansas during its first five days of production operation exceeds the amount of computing that can be accomplished on Red Diamond during an entire month!
CSCE News Item 2468
Acxiom Corporation informed the Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department today that they will provide $40K continuation funding in 2008-2009 for two projects started in June 2007. Drs. Wingning Li and Craig Thompson and graduate research assistants Reid Phillips, Wesley Deneke, and Joshua Eno staff the projects. Acxiom is a leader in customer data integration. They use grids of thousands of PCs to process huge data sets for their customers. Each task is specified as a workflow that can take hundreds of files as input and can process the inputs to organize, improve, and augment data quality. The two projects contribute as follows:
NSF Award
Dr. Susan Gauch was recently awarded a $14,580 travel grant from the National Science Foundation. This award will support travel for six students currently enrolled in Ph.D. programs in the USA to present their accepted papers and posters and to attend the Doctoral Consortium at next year's Adaptive Hypermedia Conference. AH2008, http://www.ah2008.org/, will be held in Hannover, Germany, July 28 – August 3, 2008.
Computer Science Receives ABET Accreditation
The BS in Computer Science has received accreditation from ABET's Computer Accreditation Commission.
New Department Head of Computer Science and Computer Engineering Named
Dr. Susan Gauch has accepted the position of Department Head,
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