Students at the University of Texas, San Antonio, the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and University of Arizona now have access to a friendly cloud environment created to provide computing and data analysis resources on demand—from their tablets, laptops or desktop computers.
The Jetstream system, which has received new funding from the National Science Foundation, has been used by more than 2,500 researchers and students across the nation.
The Jetstream cloud environment is particularly useful for minority-serving institutions, tribal colleges, and higher education institutions in states designated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as eligible for funding via the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research or EPSCoR.
On Thursday, January 31st, Research Technologies at Indiana University announced that it has received $1.3 million to fund operations for the Jetstream cloud system through 2020. Since 2014, Indiana University has received a total of $13.7 million to lead the Jetstream project.
Research Technologies helps to enhance productivity and discovery in research computing, and amplify the talents of local and national researchers. Research Technologies is a Pervasive Technology Institute center.
“This extension in operations represents a major win for national science and engineering communities,” said David Y. Hancock, director of advanced computing systems in Research Technologies and Jetstream principal investigator. “Jetstream has supported many long-term projects, and now researchers can focus on their science rather than have to worry about how or where to find the resources that they need.”
For Franco Pestilli, a professor in Indiana University’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Jetstream is crucial to his Brain-Life project.
In his lab, with its tagline “faster brain science discovery through better technology,” Pestilli employs cloud computing to help psychologists and neuroscientists understand the human brain and behavior. Research projects include work on Alzheimer’s disease, machine learning to advance brain science, and the mechanisms that support the human vision.
“We are now entering the era of big data neuroscience, and the core of Brain-Life runs on Jetstream,” Pestilli said.
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