CLOUDS Lab team takes out international prize

News — By Greta Harrison on June 8, 2011 5:10 pm

A team from the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering’s CLOUDS Lab has taken out the IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge prize for a new cloud computing platform.

The team, featuring researchers from the CLOUDS lab as well as the Astrophysics Group from the School of Physics, was awarded the prize at the recent Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing Conference in California.

The team, Suraj Pandey, Letizia Sammut, Andrew Melatos and Rajkumar Buyya, worked to develop a cloud computing platform for a LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) data-analysis experiment.

LIGO is one of the world’s largest physics projects, aiming to detect Einstein’s gravitational waves. Gravitational Waves are ripples thought to occur in the fabric of space-time that result from interstellar collisions, explosions, or movement of large and extremely dense objects such as neutron stars. Melbourne is a partner in a US-led proposal to build LIGO Australia, one of three networked LIGO detectors, by 2015.

The team developed a cloud platform for the data analysis, which would use over 400 computing nodes managed via a web portal.

Congratulations to our researchers!

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