International Projects & Partners

Hosting Institutions

• University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• University of Edinburgh, UK
• National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba, Japan
• Universidade Federal Fluminense Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Project Matsu in Namibia
• Beijing Institute for Genomics, China (past participant)

The OSDC PIRE program partners with several international research institutions to provide qualified graduate students and early career scientists a unique learning experience abroad with experts in data intensive science and computing. Read about ongoing research projects at our international partner institutions here. For more information about past projects, you can also read about past students and their summer research projects.

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

PIRE researchers are hosted by Paola Grosso, Cees de Laat, and Miroslav Zivkovic at the Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• [2015] OSDC Research Projects 
  • Service workflow comparison in the OSDC
  • On demand network adaptation for large data transfers
  • Deep learning for image classification
• [2014] OSDC Research Projects 
  • OSDC and data interoperability (OSDC to OSDC, ENVRI to OSDC)
  • OSDC and SDN
  • OSDC and Big Data Issues (Network-level control of BigData application performance, Streaming issues of BigData applications, Data retention Policies)
• [2013] Developing a Phonebook for OSDC data 

University of Edinburgh, UK

PIRE researchers are hosted by Malcolm Atkinson’s Data Intensive Research Group at the School of Informatics, Edinburgh University, UK.

• [2015] OSDC Research Projects 
  • Monitoring data-intensive workflows with dispel4py
  • Exploiting the VarPy library (for volcanic and rock physics data) with dispel4py
  • Exploring astrophysics data and models with dispel4py
  • Implementing asynchronous communications in dispel4py
• [2014] Exploration of iRODS as a data-management and archival store running on OSDC infrastructure 
• [2014] DISPEL for OSDC
• [2014] mrBox: Making MapReduce computations transparent for scientists

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba, Japan

PIRE researchers are hosted by Isao Kojima, Jason Haga, Kyoungsook Kim, and Steven Lynden at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.

• [2015] OSDC Research Projects 
  • Visual Social Media Mining
  • Multi-scale Functionality for HYDRA Visualization Interface
  • Analysis of Linked Open Data to support Distributed Query Processing
• [2014] GEO Grid- Development of sustainable infrastructure and applications for disaster responses 
• [2014] Analysis of Linked Data to support live query processing
• [2014] Big Data Analysis for Geo spatial data
• [2014] Lavatube-Development of a geo spatial workflow services with a science application
• [2014] Predicting the click-through rate of ads given the query and user information
• [2013] Entertainment Computing: Big Data Analysis for Books and Lyrics

Universidade Federal Fluminense Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

PIRE researchers are hosted by Esteban Walter Gonzalez Clua in the Computer Science Institute, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.

• [2015] UFF projects for 2015
  • Dominoes - an interactive exploratory tool for relationships among project artifacts
  • Game flux analysis with provenance
• [2014] UFF projects for 2014
• [2013] Accelerating Biodiversity Science with Hybrid Computing
• [2013] Gravitational N-body simulation algorithms

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

PIRE researchers are hosted by Tereza Cristina M. B. Carvalho, Karen Langona, and Fernando Redigolo at the Electronic Computing Center of the University of São Paulo (CCE-USP), Laboratory of Computer Architecture and Networks (LARC) in Brazil.

• [2015] Using SDN for Security and Optimization
• [2014] Analyzing Big Data Applications over ESNet’s Science DMZ Model
• [2013] Real-time Big Data Analysis 

Project Matsu in Namibia

These PIRE fellows are students who are already working closely with NASA scientists and other earth science researchers throughout their current graduate studies to help monitoring and forecasting of floods in the Namibia and surrounding regions.

• [2015] Hydrological modeling in Namibia
• [2013, 2014] Predicting Flash Flooding in Namibia

Beijing Institute for Genomics, China (past participant)

PIRE researchers are hosted by Chung-I Wu at the Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

• [2013] A pipeline for Genome Variations Analysis