Research Resource Discovery

What is this?
The 4CeeD uploader is a light weight web tool used to upload scientific data files and metadata descriptors to a local repository.

Why use this? 
The 4CeeD uploader and curator replace outdated and inefficient methodologies used in many laboratories for data capture and storage.

How can the 4CeeD Uploader help me?

• Data gets stored to local cloud storage.
• Support for automating repetitive tasks.
• Use templates for reliable user defined meta data entry.

How can the 4CeeD Curator help me?

• All accessible data can be downloaded with its data-model hierarchy preserved.
• Extractors pull descriptive metadata out of files and instrument logs for analysis and discovery.
• Get reliable calibration data and how to reference it.
• Share your data and use powerful free-text and faceted search for comparisons.
• Broad set of customizable access control rules.

CAEML's vision is to enable fast, accurate design and verification of microelectronic circuits and systems by creating machine learning algorithms to derive models used for electronic design automation. The center aims to speed up the design and verification of microelectronic circuits and systems, reducing development cost and time-to-market for manufacturers of microelectronic products, especially integrated circuits.

As an NVIDIA Center of Excellence, Illinois is recognized as a primary collaborator with NVIDIA, and has received research funding and equipment to expand that working relationship. Recent NVIDIA support has included 32 QuadroPlex Model 4 systems, each outfitted with 64 graphics processing units (GPUs). These systems have been incorporated into a 16-node CUDA cluster, which is managed by NCSA as a key component of Illinois's parallel computing facilities.

IACAT's Center for Extreme Scale Computing is leading the way with projects focused on parallel programming for petascale applications, multi-core and many-core technologies for scientific computing, and multiscale simulation in science and engineering. These projects combine Illinois' expertise in computer science and engineering and applied mathematics with that of computational scientists and engineers seeking to use petascale computers to advance science and engineering.

Multi-media library of management and leadership materials curated for academic leaders, and is updated regularly with new resources. It can be used on a ‚"just in time" basis ("I need to know now!") or as a platform for personal study and reflection. Support and develop Higher academic leadership. Presents material in a variety of media : videos, own research pointers, five minute refreshers in a meeting.

The Timely and Trustworthy Curating and Coordinating Data Framework (T2C2) project aims to dramatically reduce the materials-to-device process, which can currently span 20 years. Through the DIBBs program, funded by the National Science Foundation CISE Directorate and their Advanced Cyber-Infrastructure Division (ACI), T2C2 will develop a new framework and system that focuses on the potential of capturing, curating, correlating and coordinating materials-to-devices digital data in a real-time and trusted manner before fully archiving and publishing the data for wide access and sharing. The software developed in this project is useful throughout the materials science and device fabrication fields, by automatically collecting, archiving, and providing collected information on all phases of materials and device fabrication development.

Introduction to 4CeeD

The project develops the Timely and Trusted Curation and Coordination (T2C2) Data Framework, consisting of two data blocks:

1)The  4CeeD Curator, providing real-time acquisition and curation of digital data from selected materials-making / characterization and device-fabrication instruments in the collaborative research units at the university, the Material Research Lab (MRL) and the Micro-and-Nanotechnology Lab (MNTL) , and
2) The 4CeeD Coordinator, where collected data are filtered, correlations among data and dependency relations are identified, and the results are connected to other data processing capabilities. The goal of the T2C2 framework is to enable reduction of the development time and cost of materials-making /characterization to device-making processes.

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Through open-source software licenses and training programs, the project impacts material science, device fabrication and other fields within the university, and other interdisciplinary research institutions and their materials design and manufacturing processes. Through courses, tutorials, workshops, and outreach, the project develops interdisciplinary scientists, teaches the next generation of students, and informs broader audiences about the potential of timely and trusted data collection, curation, spatio-temporal analytics, and correlations between material-making/characterization and device-fabrication processes.

The University of Illinois OpenSPARC Center is dedicated to computer architecture, compilation, and security research on the highly-parallel UltraSPARC Chip Multi-threaded (CMT) processor from Sun Microsystems. The Center leverages the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 designs - available from OpenSPARC.net—to provide a first-class experimental infrastructure to their researchers. The Center also emphasizes education on CMT processors.