Lecture to focus on big data requirements for national, campus levels

Monday, April 29, 2013

Dr. Richard L. Moore — deputy director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego — will speak at the University of Georgia on Friday, May 3, from 3-4 p.m.

Moore’s topic is “BIG DATA Infrastructure: From National Resources to Campus Requirements.” The event will be held at Conner Hall, room 104.

The scientific challenges and opportunities of the big data era drive the infrastructure requirements at both the national scale and the campus level. This talk will describe some of the data initiatives at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, both as a National Science Foundation (NSF) center focusing on data-intensive computing, as well as a key player in the UCSD campus' Research Cyberinfrastructure (RCI) program to develop shared cyberinfrastructure for campus researchers.

The talk includes the results from a recently-completed campus survey on emerging campus-level storage and data requirements, as well as experiences and recommendations from a set of curation pilot projects, where staff from the University Library worked alongside six research teams for about18 months to curate scientists' research data.

Moore is the deputy director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the project manager for the campus Research Cyberinfrastructure program at the University of California San Diego.

He joined the SDSC in 2002 and has been the principal investigator for a number of SDSC's NSF-funded national resources, such as DataStar, TeraGrid, BlueGene and Trestles. In addition, he currently leads the UCSD Research CyberInfrastructure program to develop a comprehensive set of services to support researchers across the university.

Moore obtained his bachelor's degree in mathematics and astronomy from the University of Michigan, completed his doctorate in astronomy from the University of Arizona, and held a postdoctoral position at the California Institute of Technology.

The event at UGA is sponsored by the Department of Computer Science, the Office of Vice President for Information Technology, the Office of Vice President for Research, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Management Information Systems.