| UCoMS Advisory Committee Meeting | 2010-04-30 |
A UCoMS Advisory Committee meeting took place on April 30, 2010 in the UL, Lafayette campus, with 5 committee members in presence. Team members from all three institutions provided
a comprehensive presentation on research progress and achievement. The UCoMS team received candidid comments and valuable guidance on the research direction and focus going forward.
One UCoMS overall poster plus eight topic posters were displayed for the commitee members to review and to interact with contributing team members, and they can be downloaded
here.
| Supercomputing 2009 Exhibition | 2009-11-16 |
For five consecutive years, UCoMS had a research exhibit booth during the most attended computing and communication forum, called Supercomputing (SC).
Held in Portland, Oregon during Nov. 16 to 19, SC '09 had more research booths, which drew high traffic.
The UCoMS booth showcased the progress and prototype of research components fully, hosted by 6 research participants. Success at such an event was attributed to teamwork and dedication.
See sample photos taken during SC '09 here.
| NSF Research Award | 2009-08-01 |
UCoMS investigator, Nian-Feng Tzeng, received a 3-year research grant of $364,000 for investigation into adaptive checkpointing on wireless Grids,
with the goal of turning a typical wireless mesh network (WMN) into a computing platform that complements and expands the wired Grid to which the WMN is connected.
Key technical challenges in establishing such productive wireless Grids are to be addressed in this project, as can be found here.
| DoE EPSCoR Program Review | 2009-07-20 |
A good representation by UCoMS in the 2009 DoE Program Review meeting during July 20-23 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory was evidenced by having one extended abstract
and two poster abstracts included in the meeting Proceedings.
An invited presentation was also given by Dr. Michael Khonsari with Louisiana Board of Regents, as UCoMS Project Director, on July 22.
| UCoMS Advisory Committee Meeting | 2009-01-22 |
UCoMS team met with its Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on January 22, 2009 in the Louisiana Board of Regents' office building
to present its recent progress and achievement.
With 5 committee members in presence, this meeting was very productive and informative in providing UCoMS team members with timing and valuable comments and guidance
for the research direction and focus going forward.
Two TAC members were new to this project, and they offered especially constructive and candid technical criticism from their standpoints as National Academic Engineering members.
A TAC report was prepared and released to the research team for helpful information.
| Supercomputing 2008 Exhibit | 2008-11-17 |
UCoMS had a research exhibit booth (of 20' by 10') during SC '08 from Nov. 17 to 20
to showcase its progress and prototype. Those some 10,000 attendees presented substantial traffic to the UCoMS booth,
which was hosted successfully by 8 senior students. Success at such an event was attributed to teamwork and dedication.
Sample photos taken during the exhibit can be seen here.
| NSF Research Award | 2008-08-07 |
A research grant on information network with delay-endurable RFID support was awarded to UCoMS team members,
Hongyi Wu and Nian-Feng Tzeng. The 3-year grant of $366,000 intends to expand the RFID gear application for wireless network construction,
relevant to the design and implementation of wireless and sensor networks essential for the UCoMS project.
More information about this awarded research is here.
| DOE EPSCoR Program Review | 2008-07-22 |
The UCoMS research cluster presented 3 posters during 2008 DoE EPSCoR State/National Lab Program Review,
July 22-24, in Oak Ridge National Lab.
Totally, 7 cluster members attended the meeting, with 2 from Louisiana BoR, 4 from UL Lafayett,
and 1 from Southern University, Baton Rouge. Sample photos of the event are shown here.
| NSF Grant Received | 2008-07-21 |
An MRI (major research infrastructure) grant of $500,000 was awarded by NSF to UCoMS research team members,
Magdy Bayoumi and Hongyi Wu with University of Louisiana, for acquiring a wireless nanonetworks integration and emulation system.
This 3-year grant helps to establish an ultra wideband radio frequency integrated circuits design flow for RF nodes.
Details can be found here.
| UCoMS Research Cluster Meeting | 2008-05-01 |
Recent UCoMS research cluster meeting took place at University of Louisiana campus on May 1, 2008,
with informative presentations by key investigators on accomplishments and progress made since project Phase II started in August 2007.
It allowed participants to iron out collaborative issues related to end-to-end system integration.
| Techsouth Exhibit | 2008-04-08 |
UCoMS participated in TechSouth 2008 during April 8-9, 2008,
held in Lafayette, Louisiana, being one of some 50 booths showcased. Research
prototyping on end-to-end well site monitoring and surveillance was demonstrated,
attracting diverse audience. Collaborative opportunities resulted
from this exhibit. See sample photos.
| DOE Reverse Site Visit | 2007-10-29 |
UCoMS research project team was invited to have a reverse site visit at DoE Germantown on October 29, 2007,
presenting research progress and key outcomes. Eleven (11) project investigators made the productive visit, attended by three DoE evaluation committee members
(Dr. Walter Polansky, Dr. Kristin Bennett, and Dr. Robert Lindsay), who provided constructive comments and objective critics on project activities for improvement and expansion.
Some photos during the visit are included here.
| Visit Preparation Meeting | 2007-10-17 |
A preparation meeting for the DoE reverse site visit was held at Louisiana Board of Regents on October 17, 2007,
with investigatos from all three instituions participating, to finalize the format and contents for use during the site visit (see photos).
| UCoMS Advisory Committee Meeting | 2007-10-02 |
Annual Advisory Committee meeting of the UCoMS research project was held at Louisiana Board of Regents on October 2, 2007,
with four committee members participating. Candid and timely suggestions and guidance were made by the members to help
shape up the project scope and focuses during Phase II, outlined in a committee report forwarded to all team members for information.
| UCoMS Research Cluster Meeting | 2007-09-07 |
UCoMS research cluster meeting took place at Louisiana Board of Regents on September 7, 2007,
providing an opportunity for new investigators in Phase II of the project to get acquainted with all team members
and also for dealing with reviewers' comments on our project renewal proposal. It was a very informative and productive meeting.
| DOE EPSCoR Review Workshop | 2007-07-23 |
Five UCoMS research investigators from three Louisiana participting institutions plus two Louisiana BoR representatives attended
2007 DOE EPSCoR State/National Laboratory Program Review Workshop during July 23-25, 2007,
held in Golden, Colorado. Four posters showcasing UCoMS research accomplishments were demonstrated successfully,
drawing considerable attention and prompting several collaborative opportunities. See sample photos about poster visitors,
including Dr. Kristin Bennett, DOE EPSCoR Program Manager.
| Techsouth Exhibit | 2007-05-08 |
UCoMS participated in TechSouth 2007 during May 8-9, 2007,
held in Lafayette, Louisiana, being one of some 90 booths showcased. Research
results and Unified portal design for this project were demonstrated,
attracting diverse audience. Contacts and collaborative opportunities resulted
from the exhibit. See sample photos.
| Conference Participation | 2007-04-01 |
UCoMS team members actively participated in 2007 Digital
Energy Conference, sponsored by Societyt of Petroleum Engineers, during April
11-12, including two poster presentations on the high performance computing
track. In addition, team members also showcased their research results in
National Technical Conference and Exhibition, American Association of Drilling
Engineers (AADE) in Houston during April 10-12. Specifically, the poster on
"Observation and Modeling of Torsional Vibration Regimes" by Richard Duff
received the third place award at AADE 2007.
| 2nd Advisory Committee Meeting | 2006-12-12 |
The second UCoMS Advisory Committee meeting took place on
December 12, 2006 at the Board of Regents, State of Louisiana. Many valuable
suggestions for project activities and focuses were made by committee members,
who also provided timely guidance for the future directon and scope of this
project.
| UCoMS Research Cluster Meeting | 2006-12-4 |
An informative and educated UCoMS research cluster meeting
was held on December 4 in the Foundation meeting room of UL, Lafayette,
attended by project participants from all three involved institutions. Hongyi
Wu delivered progress report on sensors and wireless mesh networks (report
PDF), and Zhou Lei plus LSU PE investigators reported research progress
on Grid computing and PE applications (report
PDF). Additionally, Paul Darby summarized UL's research progress on
Grid computing (report
PDF) and Adam Lewis described research prototypes and a wireless mesh
network testbed (presentation slides
PDF).
| Dr. Seidel Received Sidney Fernbach Award | 2006-11-15 |
UCoMS Co-PI, Dr. Ed Seidel, received the prestigious 2006
Sidney Fernbach Award during IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC|06) in Tampa,
Florida on November 15, 2006 for his "outstanding contributions to the
development of software for HPC and Grid computing to enable the collaborative
numerical investigation of complex problems in physics; in particular, modeling
black hole collisions." Congratulations, Ed.!
See photos of the award presentation.
See photos of the award presentation.
| Exhibit Booth at SC|06 | 2006-11-13 |
UCoMS put up an exhibit booth at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing
(SC|06) during November 13-16, 2006 to showcase research outcomes and
demonstrate prototypes, including mobile Grid development and the use of a Grid
tool to manage and control wireless sensor networks. The booth drew
considerable visitors and gave wide publicity to the research community and
National Labs' participants, initiating several possible collaborative
opportunities. Photos of this successful exhibit can be found
here.
| Dr. Bayoumi Elected as Vice President of CAS | 2006-11-01 |
UCoMS Co-PI, Dr. Magdy Bayoumi, was elected as Vice
President - Conferences, of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society, in
charge of more than 60 technical conferences, symposia, and workshops during
2006 and 2007. Information about the IEEE CAS Society is
here. Congratulations, Magdy!
| Sensor Programming Contest at SUBR | 2006-10-1 |
Extremely high interest and enthusiasm were generated during
recent sensor programming contest sponsored by UCoMS and held in the CS
Department of the Southern University, Baton Rouge (SUBR), campus from October
1 to November 3, 2006. Open to all SUBR undergraduates and graduates, this
contest motivated lots of interactions and discussion among SUBR students, with
more than 10 students formally signing up. See
details of this event. An award ceremony took place on November 9 at
the CS Department of SUBR allowing the top two contest winners to present their
work to their peer students, with more than 25 SUBR students and faculty
members attending the ceremony. See ceremony
photos.
| Drs. Seidel and Allen Funded | 2006-08-01 |
UCoMS Co-PIs, Drs. Ed Seidel and Gabrielle Allen, are Co-PIs
of a project newly funded via MRI of NSF, entitled "Development of PetaShare: A
Distributed Data Archival, Analysis and Visualization System for Data Intensive
Collaborative Research," $957,678, from August 2006 to July 2010. See award
details.
| Zhou Lei Funded | 2006-08-01 |
Zhou Lei is Co-PI of a project on "Testing and Modeling of
Blast Response of Functionality Graded Composite Armor," funded with $300,000
by US Department of Defense, from August 2006 to August 2009.
| Dr. Bayoumi Funded | 2006-06-01 |
UCoMS Co-PI, Dr. Magdy Bayoumi, is PI of an NSF-funded
project on "CRI: MEMS Integration Infrastructure," $298,848, from June 2006 to
May 2008. See award
details.
| UCoMS Research Cluster Meeting | 2006-05-31 |
A productive UCoMS research cluster meeting took place on
May 31 in the Alumni House of UL, Lafayette, attended by more than 30 project
participants. Progress reports were delivered by Hongyi Wu (report
PDF), Zhou Lei plus LSU PE investigators (report
PDF), and UL PE participants (report
PDF). In addition, exhibits were set up to showcase research prototypes
and testbeds, and they were demonstrated by Adam Lewis (presentation slides
PDF) and Promita Chakraborty (presentation slides
PDF).
| UCoMS Exhibit at TechSouth 2006 | 2006-04-26 |
The successful UCoMS exhibit at
TechSouth 2006 (April 26-28, 2006) includes a wireless mesh network and
a wireless data acquisition system. The former delivers video streams over
wireless routes among mobile users running the NetMeeting application, whereas
the latter realizes wireless transmission of sensor readings to a data
collector, serving as the basis of a wireless sensor data acquisition system
under development together with TETRA
Production Testing Services (our industrial partner) and supported
technically by NuFlo
Measurement Systems. The exhibit has drawn considerable interest from
different petroleum production and service companies, yielding a few
collaborative opportunities in pursuit. For photos of the UCoMS exhibit, click
here.
| Zhou Lei Funded | 2006-01-01 |
Zhou Lei serves as PI of projects on "Multiphase Engineering
Simulations Leveraging Grid Computing," "Enabling Mote Carlo," and
"Collaborative Grid for Mechanical Engineering," funded with $59,000 by CCT GDP
from January 2006 to June 2007.
| Dr. Allen Awarded | 2006-01-01 |
UCoMS Co-PI, Dr. Gabrielle Allen, leads a project on
"DDDAS-TRP: DynaCode: A General DDDAS Framework with Coast and Environment
Modeling Applications," which has been awarded with $220,000 by National
Science Foundation for the duaration from January 2006 to December 2006. Award
details can be found
here.
| Dr. Bayoumi Awarded | 2005-08-01 |
Dr. Maddy Bayoumi et al. received an NSF grant of
$46,940, working on a project entitled "A Framework for Automated Scene
Surveillance: Algorithms, Architecture, and Prototyping," from August 2005 to
December 2007.
| Dr. Perkins Received NSF CAREER Award | 2005-01-01 |
Dr. Dmitri Perkins has received prestigious
2005 CAREER award from NSF. This five-year award of $400,000 enables
him to investigate into the design and implementation of large-scale ad hoc
networking systems able to support heterogeneous traffic types involves various
factors that interact in a complex manner.
| Drs. Tzeng and Wu Received Grant | 2005-06-01 |
Drs. Nian-Feng Tzeng and Hongyi Wu received a research grant
from the Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund, under the Industrial Ties
Research Subprogram, in June 2005. This 3-year project of $150,000 aims to
develop approaches for improving wireless data communications under high
congestion.
| First Advisory Committee Meeting | 2005-11-29 |
The first Advisory Committee meeting of the UCoMS project
took place on November 29, 2005 at the Board of Regents, State of Louisiana.
Committee members provded extremely helpful suggestions and valuable guidance
for the project. Report documents presented by project participants during the
meeting included:
Project Overview and Achievement Summary,
Wireless and Sensor Networks,
Grid Computing, and
Applications.
| Drs. Lei and White Granted Funding | 2005-11-1 |
UCoMS investigators, Drs. Zhou Lei and Chris White, were
granted with 30,000 SUs under TeraGrid DAC, sponsored by the National Science
Foundation.
| UCoMS Exhibit at SC|05 | 2005-11-1 |
UCoMS project was demonstrated on Supercomputing 2005 in
November at Seattle, Washington. UCoMS researcher Santiago Pena received a
travel award to attend the conference, working as a student volunteer.
| UCoMS Researchers Awarded | 2005-06-27 |
UCoMS researcher Dayong Huang was awarded scholarship to
attend Global Grid Forum 14, held in Chicago, June 27-30, 2005. In addition,
UCoMS researchers Archit Kulshrestha and Xin Li were awarded scholarship to
attend a summer school for grid computing at South Padre Island, Texas, during
July 11-15, 2005.
| 2005 DOE/NSF EPSCoR Conference Participation | 2005-06-14 |
Participation by UCoMS in the
2005 DOE/NSF EPSCoR Conference, June 14-16, 2005, was very active and
well received. Dr. Michael Khonsari served as an
EPSCoR State panelist. In addition, Dr. Dmitri Perkins and Paul Darby
both delivered poster articles in the conference, while Dr. John Smith attended
the conference.
| Technical Meeting Attendance | 2005-05-15 |
UCoMS researchers participated in the NSF-funed technical
meeting, Grid Compuing and
Advanced Networking Technologies for E-Science, May 15-21, 2005.
Specifically, Santiago Pena was awarded a scholarship to attend the meeting,
while Gabrielle Allen delivered two talks on "Grid Introduction and
Fundamentals Review" and "Grid Security and Basic Access", respectively.
| UCoMS Exhibit at TechSouth 2005 | 2005-04-19 |
The UCoMS exhibit at
TechSouth 2005 (April 19-20, 2005) was a huge success, generating
significant interest among participants. The TechSouth IT Summit and Expo
offers a unique networking and educational opportunity for participants to
learn about the latest technology breakthroughs.
The UCoMS exhibit demonstrated a wireless testbed comprising a network of wireless sensors, antennas, and receivers to collect environmental parameters, which are routed to a central processing facility. For photos of the UCoMS exhibit, click here.
The UCoMS exhibit demonstrated a wireless testbed comprising a network of wireless sensors, antennas, and receivers to collect environmental parameters, which are routed to a central processing facility. For photos of the UCoMS exhibit, click here.
| Drs. Bayoumi and Allen Spoke in LONI Forum | 2004-09-02 |
Dr. Bayoumi and Dr. Allen spoke in the LONI Forum on
September 2, 2004, addressing research topics related to UCoMS. Wireless
equipment was exhibited in the Forum, as illustrated in the following photos.
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| UCoMS Project Featured in August 2004 Louisiana EPSCoR Newsletter | 2004-08-01 |
UCoMS project featured in the August 2004 EPSCoR Newsletter.
Here is a PDF copy of the Newsletter.