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[June 11, 2008] Microsoft News Press released the article about" Universities Choose Microsoft High-Performance Computing to Advance Innovative Research". It s cites several academic customers report ease of development and deployment in ventures ranging from biotechnology to urban modeling. The press cites our lab's research. More ...

"At the University of Iowa, CCS 2003 is being used for HPC efforts in medical research and specifically for improving digital medical imaging. The increased tomography image resolution generated from HPC is helping to improve digitalized diagnostic systems for cancer and other health issues. More information about HPC efforts at the University of Iowa is available at http://www.uiowa.edu/~mihpclab. "

[June 5, 2008] Dr.. Jun Ni gave a informal talk about cyber-enabled HPC for accelerating medical imaging & informatics research at NCSA Brown bag lunch meeting.

[June 2, 2008 ] Dr. Jun Ni received 2008 summer NCSA summer faculty fellowship, working on cyberinfrastructure.

[April, 4, 2008] Laurie Fajardo, M.D., professor and head of radiology in the University of Iowa's Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, received the Gold Medal Award from the Association of University Radiologists (AUR) at its annual meeting March 25-29 in Seattle. more ...

[Feb. 10, 2008] Microsoft interviewed Dr. Ni at IEEE/ACM Super-computing Conference (SC07). The interview video is on Microsoft Web site under "High Productivity Computing in Science and Education"Nov. 12, 2007

[Nov. 12, 2007] Dr. Jun Ni will give a feature talk at First Annual Microsoft High Performance Computing Summit, invited by Microsoft, at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC|07), Reno, NV. (clikc here for details)

[September 9, 2007] Dr. Jun Ni, as PI, received NSF research grant of $240,000 for three year research in parallel computing ofr modeling and simulation of nanocystalization/solidifcation

[July 10, 2007] Microsoft sponsored our Lab to configure our Intel granted HPC cluster to be one of few dual operated systems. This project is sponsored by Microsoft HPC division. X-ISS from Huston is responsible to conudct and implement technical installation. This project is initiated and collaborated by our lab and Microsoft.

[March 20, 2007] Dr. Brian Harmmond from Microsoft visited UI and MiHi Lab. He gave a presentation about Microsoft's HPC infrastructure and business solutions. Click here for details. Microsoft will work close with our lab projects related to HPC solutions to medical imaging and health science.

[Feb. 2, 2007] Professor Jia Lu, as the co-program chair, help to organize an ASME symposium on Medical Image/Biomechanics. The detail about the conference and call for papers can be find my here.

[Jan. 13, 2007] Microsoft HPC Team will help us develop a duel operated systems on the Intel contributed HPC system. Our lab's benchmarks will be demonstrated at IEEE/ACM SC07, in Reno, nevada.

[July 20, 2007] Welcome new members, Puja and Nedim. Puja is a CS Ph.D. student and she came from India. She has a strong background in database and programming. Nedim is a graduate student in UI business school. He came from Turkey. He has a strong background in management, information system, and programming as well.

[Aug. 10, 2007] Google will recruit our lab's members in the future..

[Dec. 20, 2006] Thanks to Intel Corp.'s Technology Initiatives Group! At IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC|06), Intel Corporation decided to grant to Dr. Jun Ni a high-end high performance computing system. The system has Intel's 48 nodes (96 processors), each of which has Intel's fast Xeon duel processors (3.4GHz), 4GB memory and 100GB and with 10G InfiniBand interconnection. The system costs about $500,000.00. It was developed by VXTech (http://www.vxtech.com/). The system will be used for perform high performance computing and medical imaging and data processing in medical image information systems The system was delivered by Intel on Dec.18, 2006. Thanks to the ITS's support, the system is physically located at ITS's Academic - Research Services (ATRS) HPC and Data center (EMRB 74)in UI Medical Research Center. In addition to the Intel's Technology Initiatives Group's hardware support, Intel and Dr. Jun Ni's research lab will collaborate couple research and education projects related to HPC-powered medical imaging, medical image informatics, and medical imaging Grids.

[Aug. 20, 2006] Congratulations to Jun Ni (PI), Hengyong Yu (co-PI), and Ge Wang (co-PI) who recently received $221,000 (2006-2007), NIH-R21 grant to conduct research on a large-scale parallel Katsevich algorithm for 3D CT image reconstruction and Grid-based image reconstruction using NSF TeraGrid facility.

[Aug. 20, 2006] Congratulations to Dr. Ge Wang, Lab co-director, who will be leaving for Virginia Tech. Ge was named as the Samuel Reynolds Pritchard Professor in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. The detailed news can be found here. Ge will continue play his important role in our medical imaging research as the Lab's honorable director.

[July 20, 2006] Welcome to our new members. Mr. Fan Yang, Meenal Vijay Kashikar, Professor Zhengge Huang, and Professor Joe Zhang.

[June 14, 2006] Fan is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer. He graduated with his BSE from the University of Iowa. He joined Professor Jack D. Scudder's research group Department of Physics & Astronomy, when he was a undergraduate student. He worked on the MR image reconstruction algorithm with Professor Daniel R. Thedens in Department of Radiology and Professor John P. Robinsonan in Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

[June 14, 2006] Meenal is a graduate student from the department of computer science. Before she joined our UI, she worked on many IT projects in India-based enterprises companies. Her experience in database development and Java programming will help our development in medical imaging research and applications.

[June 14, 2006] Professor Zhengge Huang is an Associate Professor in Zhejiang University. She is taking sabbatical leave and came here to continue her research work with us. She will join our research team as a research investigator. She has great experience in manage many research projects. Her involvement will make our team much stronger.

[June 14, 2006] Professor Joe Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has great experience in fluorescence-enhanced optical imaging and tomography for diagnostics of breast cancer. He is also an outstanding researcher in high performance computing enhanced medical imaging. he will work closely with Jun Ni to pursue large-scale, HPC enhanced research and to work on common NIH and NSF grant applications.

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