Welcome to the website for the Center for Ultra-scale
Computing and Information Security at
Northwestern University. The Center participants include
faculty and researchers from the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, the
Feinberg School of Medicine, and the Kellogg School of
Management.
CUCIS also has participants from various national
labs such as Argonne National Labatory (ANL), Sandia
National Laboratory (SNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory
(LANL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and
includes support from companies such as IBM, Intel, and Sun.
- 12/2012
- Congratulations to William Hendrix, Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary, Ankit Agrawal, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary, "Parallel Hierarchical Clustering on Shared Memory Platforms", has been accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings of 19th Annual International Conference on High Performance Computing, December 18-21, 2012 in Pune, India. - 11/2012
- *****November 14th, 2012 ***** VivaKi Inks Deal with The Echo System & Voxsup for Exclusive Access to Social Data & Buying Platform. Link to Announcement at Adotas.com , Link to Announcement at Yahoo!.
SuperComputing 2012 (SC '12), Salt Lake City, Utah
- Congratulations to Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary, Diana Palsetia, Ankit Agrawal, Wei-keng Liao, Fredrik Manne, and Alok Choudhary. "A New Scalable Parallel DBSCAN Algorithm Using the Disjoint-Set Data Structure" has been accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (Supercomputing, SC'12), November 10-16, 2012 in Salt Lake City, Utah. - 10/2012
- Congratulations to Yu Cheng, Kunpeng Zhang, Yusheng Xie, Ankit Agrawal, and Alok Choudhary, "On Active Learning in Hierarchical Classification" has been accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, October 29-November 2, 2012 in Maui, Hawaii.
Saba Sehrish presented "Big Data in HPC Applications and Programming Abstractions" at the Annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 3-6, 2012 in Baltimore, MD. (Presentation ) - 09/2012
Alok Choudhary gave a talk "Action-Based Connections: Big Data Analytics in Social Media", at a Social Media Week-Chicago event hosted by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism on Sept. 28th. Link to News Article on Northwestern's Kellogg web site , Link to presentation on YouTube.
Appearing in Northwestern Research Newsletter, September 2012
Alok Choudhary (left), electrical engineering and computer science, met with United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu at the 2012 Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Annual Conference, July 26. Choudhary gave the keynote address: "Discovering Knowledge from Massive Networks and Science Data - Next Frontier for HPC." - 08/2012
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '12), Beijing, China
Yu Cheng, Yves Xie, KDD 2012.
- Congratulations to Yu Cheng, Yusheng Xie, Kunpeng Zhang, Ankit Agrawal, Dan Honbo, Alok Choudhary, "CluChunk: Clustering Large Scale User-generated Content Incorporating Chunklet Information" is an accepted workshop paper at ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 12-16, 2012 in Beijing, China. (Poster )
- Congratulations to Yu Cheng, Yusheng Xie, Kunpeng Zhang, Ankit Agrawal, Dan Honbo, Alok Choudhary, "How Online Content is Received by Users in Social Media: A Case Study on Facebook.com Posts" is an accepted workshop paper at ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 12-16, 2012 in Beijing, China.
- Congratulations to Diana Palsetia, Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary, Kunpeng Zhang, Kathy Lee, Christopher Moran, Yves Xie, Daniel Honbo, Ankit Agrawal, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary, "User-Interest based Community Extraction in Social Networks" is an accepted workshop paper at ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 12-16, 2012 in Beijing, China. (Poster )
- Congratulations to Yusheng Xie, Yu Cheng, Daniel Honbo, Kunpeng Zhang, Ankit Agrawal, Alok Choudhary, "Crowdsourcing Recommendations From Social Sentiment" is an accepted workshop paper at ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 12-16, 2012 in Beijing, China.
- Congratulations to Yusheng Xie, Daniel Honbo, Kunpeng Zhang, Yu Cheng, Ankit Agrawal, Alok Choudhary, "VOXSUP: A Social Engagement Framework" is an accepted workshop paper at ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 12-16, 2012 in Beijing, China.(Poster )
- Kunpeng Zhang will be presenting "Sentiment Identification by Incorporating Syntactics, Semantics and Context Information", Kunpeng Zhang, Yu Cheng, Yusheng Xie, Ankit Agrawal, Alok Choudhary at Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), August 12-16, 2012 in Portland, Oregon. (Poster )
- 07/2012
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowhip Conference
Dr. Choudhary w/ Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu at the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowhip Conference, July 26th, 2012.
Dr. Choudhary's Keynote at the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowhip Conference, July 26th, 2012.
- Dr. Choudhary has been invited to give the keynote address at the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) conference, Arlington, VA. - 06/2012
- Graduates: Prabhat Kumar, PhD "High Performance Data Mining on Heterogeneous Platforms" Advisers: Alok Choudhary and Gokhan Memik.
Sanchit Misra, PhD "High Throughput Sequence Mapping for Next Generation DNA Sequencing" Adviser: Alok Choudhary.
- 05/2012
- Dr. Choudhary gave a keynote speech at the International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2012), Ottawa, Canada.
- Alok Choudhary, William Hendrix, Kathy Lee, Diana Palsetia and Wei-keng Liao, "Social media evolution of the Egyptian revolution" in the May 2012 edition of Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), pdf.
Bharath Pattabiraman, Stefan Umbreit, Wei-keng Liao, Frederic A. Rasio, Vassiliki Kalogera, Gokhan Memik, Alok Choudhary, "GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo Simulations of Dense Stellar System", in the proceedings of Innovative Parallel Computing, San Jose, CA, May 13-14 2012, pdf. - 04/2012
- Dr. Choudhary gave a presentation at the International Exascale Software Project, Kobe, Japan, (Agenda). - 03/2012
- Dr. Choudhary was quoted in the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Discovery Article,
"HPC must ramp up efficiency to deal with extreme-data flood", 03/2012, (Article).
- SDAV (Scalable Data Management, Analysis and Visualization) was formally announced March 29th as part of the Obama Administration's "Big Data Research and Development Initiative". Dr. Choudhary is a PI on the DOE SDAV initiative.
Related Links:
** HPC wire article
** Department of Energy announcement
** White House announcement
** UC Berkeley announcement
** DOE (Department of Energy) Scalable Data Management, Analysis and Visualization website
- Exciting News! White House Invitation.
Dr. Choudhary has received an invitation from the White House and will attend the Big Data Event on March 29th. The purpose of the Big Data Event is to address the challenges and opportunities relating to "Big Data". Specifically, the Big Data Event provides the opportunity to learn about several new federal efforts relating to big data and to provide a discussion forum where leaders from government, academia and industry can work together on this important challenge.
- Congratulations to Dr. Choudhary on the recognition of DOE (Department of Energy) supported research through the NSF (National Science Foundation) Expeditions program on climate science problems. The results of this research will be featured in an advertisement by North Carolina State University in the Chronicle of Higher Education and will be published as an article on the DOE (Department of Energy) website. Dr. Choudhary and Dr. Nagiza Samatova have been invited to present this work to the ASCAC (Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee) of the DOE. - 02/2012 - Congratulations to Arifa Nisar, Wei-Keng Liao and Alok Choudhary "Delegation-Based I/O Mechanism for High Performance Computing Systems" is published in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed systems, Vol. 23, No. 2, February 2012 (pdf).
- Congratulations to Bharath Pattabiraman, Stefan Umbreit, Wei-Keng Liao, Frederic Rasio, Vassiliki Kalogera, Gokhan Memik and Alok Choudhary for "A Parallel Monte Carlo Algorithm for Modeling Dense Stellar Systems on Hybrid Architectures" an accepted paper, presented at the 2012 Siam Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing in Savannah, GA. - 01/2012 - Congratulations to Daniel Honbo, Amit Pande, Ankit Agrawal, and Alok Choudhary "VLSIDC:Hardware Architecture for Pairwise Statistical Significance Estimation" won the Design Contest at the International Conference on Very Large-Scale Integration design (VLSI 2012) , Hyderabad, India.
- 12/2011 - Dr. Choudhary presented a keynote at the International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2011) , Bangalore, India. He will present "Discovering Knowledge from Massive Social Networks and Science Data - Next Frontier for HPC", (Keynote abstract)
- 12/2011 - Congratulations to CUCIS team members for 6 accepted papers @ ICDM '11, as follows:
- William Hendrix, Isaac Tetteh, Ankit Agrawal, Fredrick Semazzi, Wei-keng Liao, and Alok Choudhary,
Community Dynamics and Analysis of Decadal Trends in Climate Data, ICDM Climate. (presentation) (pdf).
- Ankit Agrawal and Alok Choudhary,
Identifying HotSpots in Lung Cancer Data Using Association Rule Mining, ICDM BioDM. (presentation) (pdf).
- Yu Cheng, Kunpeng Zhang, Yusheng Xie, Ankit Agrawal, Wei-keng Liao, and Alok Choudhary,
Learning to Group Web Text Incorporating Prior Information, OEDM (presentation) (pdf).
- Lalith Polepeddi, Ankit Agrawal, and Alok Choudhary,
Poll: A Citation-Text-Based System for Identifying High-Impact Contributions of an Article, ICDM DaMNet (pdf).
- Kunpeng Zhang, Yu Cheng, Yusheng Xie, Ankit Agrawal, Diana Palsetia, Kathy Lee, Wei-keng Liao, and Alok Choudhary,
SES: Sentiment Elicitation System for Social Media Data, ICDM-SENTIRE. (presentation) (pdf).
- Kathy Lee, Diana Palsetia, Mostofa Patwary, Ankit Agrawal, Alok Choudhary, and Ramanathan Narayanan,
Twitter Trending Topic Classification, OEDM (presentation) (pdf). - 08/2011 - Understanding Climate Change Workshop, University of Minnesota - Dr. Alok Choudhary presented "Developing Scalable and Power-Efficient Data Mining Kernels" .
- 08/2011 - ICEC, Liverpool, England - Kunpeng Zhang presented "Mining Millions of Reviews: A Technique to Rank Products Based on Importance of Reviews" (pdf), (presentation).
This paper was awarded Honourable Mention at the conference. - 07/2011 - CScADS Data workshop, Tahoe, CA - Saba Sehrish presented "Damsel: A Data Model Storage Library for Exascale Science" (presentation).
- 07/2011 - Data Intensive Computing, Staten Island, New York - Dr. Alok Choudhary presented "Discovering Knowledge from Massive Social and Science Network and Unstructured Data".
- 06/2011 - Graduates: Abhishek Das, PhD "Microarchitectural Approaches for Optimizing Power and Profitability in Multi-core Processors" Advisors: Alok Choudhary and Gokhan Memik.
Ramanathan Narayanan, PhD "Mining Text for Relationship Extraction and Sentiment Analysis" Adviser: Alok Choudhary.
- 06/2011 - Yves Xie receives Outstanding Senior Award in Computer Engineering
- 05/2011 - Expeditions Meetings at University of Minnesota
- 04/2011 - IPDPS Anchorage Alaska - William Hendrix presented "Sensitive and Specific Identification of Protein Complexes in 'Perturbed' Protein Interaction Networks from Noisy Pull-Down Data"
