{"id":57322,"date":"2012-07-06T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T20:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=57322"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:47:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:47:48","slug":"highlights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/whats-happening\/highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Computing Highlights & Visualization Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

An ever-increasing number of projects within the Boston University community rely on computation as an essential element of their research. The Research Computing Services (RCS) group has supported high-performance research computing and visualization at Boston University for over 30 years. Included on this page is a sampling of projects that have used the computational resources and consulting services supported by RCS as part of their work. In addition, many of the projects involve computer graphics and videos, ranging from simple plots to complex animations and these were often heavily assisted by RCS staff. These graphics were used for exploration and understanding of the work in progress, as well as for presentation.<\/p>\n

More recent projects are shown towards the top of the page. The date given for each project is the year the piece was added to this page.<\/p>\n

Research Computing Highlights<\/h2>\n

Reliance on Science in Patenting<\/a> (2019)
\nMatt Marx and Aaron Fuegi<\/p>\n

Neuroimaging of Language and Memory<\/a> (2018)
\nMatthias Heyne<\/p>\n

Individual Differences in Structural Learning and Memory Interference<\/a> (2018)
\nAllen E. Chang, Adam Johnson, Andrew S. Whiteman, and Chantal Stern<\/p>\n

Modelling HST Observations of the Martian Exosphere<\/a> (2013)
\nJohn Clarke, Dolon Bhattacharyya, and Jean L. Bertau<\/p>\n

Omphalitis Community Based Algorithm Validation Study (OCAVS)<\/a> (2013)
\nJulie Herlihy, Davidson Hamer, Katherine Semrau, Kojo Yeboah-Antwi, Arthur Mazimba, and Caroline Grogan<\/p>\n

Porting RESTMD in CHARMM to the Katana Cluster<\/a> (2013)
\nShanadeen Begay, Dr. Jae Gil Kim, Tom Keyes, and Yann Tambouret<\/p>\n

Triggering of El Ni\u00f1o Onset by Northern Hemisphere Sea-level Pressure Variations<\/a> (2012)
\nBruce T. Anderson, Renellys Perez, and Katia Oleinik<\/p>\n

The ATLAS Experiment at CERN<\/a> (2001-2023) Project moved in 2023 to UMass Dartmouth<\/i>
\nSteve Ahlen, Nafiun Awal, Clare Bernard, Kevin Black, John Butler, Robert Harrington, Michael Kruskal, Alex Long, Jeremy Love, Karishma Sekhon, James Shank, Zhen Yan, and Saul Youssef<\/p>\n

Visuospatial Perception and Navigation in Parkinson\u2019s Disease<\/a> (2012)
\nDaniel E. Young, Robert C. Wagenaar, Cheng-Chieh Lin, Ying-Hui Chou, and Elliot Saltzman<\/p>\n

Design & Development of Confocal Microscope for 2D\/3D Fluorescent Nanoparticles Tracking<\/a> (2011)
\nZhaolong Shen and Sean B. Andersson<\/div>\n

\"Turbulence\"
\nKinetic Farley-Buneman Turbulence<\/a> (2010)
\nM. Oppenheim, L. Dyrud, A. vom Endt, R. Putnam, R. Gasser, and E. Brisson<\/p>\n

\n

\"Melt\"
\n3-D Reconstruction of Melt Geometry from 2-D Electron-microscope Images<\/a> (2009)
\nGordana Garapic, Ulrich Faul, and Erik Brisson<\/p>\n

\n

\"Edgetone\"
\nEdgetone Simulation<\/a> (2009)
\nDouglas L. Sondak<\/p>\n

\n

\"Lattice
\nSimulation of Lattice Quantum-Chromodynamics and Other Lattice Models<\/a> (2009)
\nClaudio Rebbi, Adam Avakian, Ron Babich, Richard Brower, Mike Clark, James Osborn, and David Schaich<\/p>\n

\n

\"PetRBF\"
\nPetRBF – A Parallel O(N) Algorithm for Radial Basis Function Interpolation<\/a> (2009)
\nRio Yokota, Lorena A. Barba, and Matthew Knepley<\/p>\n

\n

\"Tomographic
\nTomographic Reconstruction of Forest Structure from a Ground-Based Lidar Instrument<\/a> (2008)
\nXiaoyuan Yang, Alan Strahler, and Erik Brisson<\/p>\n

\n

\"Fan
\nFan Acoustics<\/a> (2007)
\nSheryl M. Grace, Douglas L. Sondak, Daniel J. Dorney, Michaela Logue, and Michael J. Cannamela<\/p>\n

\n

\"anisotropy\"
\nExperimental Validation of the Influence of White Matter Anisotropy on EEG Forward Solution<\/a> (2007)
\nNitin B. Bangera, Donald L. Schomer, Steve Papavasiliou, Don Hagler, Nima Dehghani, Istvan Ulbert, Eric Halgren, and Anders M. Dale<\/p>\n

\n

\"Structural
\nStructural Hole Theory: The Relationship between Corporate Ties and Corporate Innovation<\/a> (2007)
\nErik Noyes<\/p>\n

\n

\"binaural\"
\nOptimal Space-Time Finite Difference Scheme for Binaural Room Impulse Response Calculation<\/a> (2006)
\nYusuke Naka, Assad A. Oberai, and Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham<\/p>\n

\n

\"baryon06\"
\nBaryon Structure in QCD<\/a> (2006)
\nR. Babich, J. Howard, C. Rebbi, F. Berruto, C. Hoelbling, N. Garron, L. Lellouch, and N. Shoresh<\/p>\n

\n

\"cism\"
\nThe Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling<\/a> (2005)
\nJeffrey Hughes, Director<\/p>\n

\n

\"earlabnew\"
\nEarLab: A Virtual Laboratory for Auditory Experimentation<\/a> (2005)
\nDavid Mountain, David Anderson, Glenn Bresnahan, Andrew Brughera, Socrates Deligeorges, Allyn Hubbard, David Lancia, and Viktor Vajda<\/p>\n

\n

\"vortex\"
\nVortex Shedding Simulation<\/a> (2005)
\nDouglas L. Sondak and Erik Brisson<\/p>\n

\n

\"qcd\"
\nLattice QCD<\/a> (2004)
\nR. Babich, J. Howard, C. Rebbi, C. Hoelbling, N. Garron, L. Lellouch, S. Necco, F. Berruto, and N. Shoresh<\/p>\n

\n

\"inducer\"
\nInteractive Streakline Rendering in a Rocket Engine Turbopump Inducer on a Tiled Display Wall<\/a> (2004)
\nDouglas L. Sondak, Erik Brisson, and Daniel J. Dorney<\/p>\n

\n

\"nasages\"
\nGeneral Equation Set Method for Compressible and Incompressible Turbomachinery Flows<\/a> (2004)
\nDouglas L. Sondak and Daniel J. Dorney<\/p>\n

\n

\"latticeqcd\"
\nLattice QCD<\/a> (2004)
\nR. Babich, J. Howard, C. Rebbi, N. Shoresh, C. Hoelbling, N. Garron, L. Lellouch, S. Necco, and F. Berruto<\/p>\n

\n

\"earlab\"
\nEarLab: A Virtual Laboratory for Auditory Experimentation 2003<\/a> (2004)
\nDavid Mountain, David Anderson, Glenn Bresnahan, Socrates Deligeorges, Andrew Howitt, Lan Hu, Lee Lichtenstein, Diana Ma and Viktor Vajda<\/p>\n

\n

\"ver\"
\nVibrational energy relaxation of tailored hemes in myoglobin following ligand photolysis supports energy funneling mechanism of heme cooling<\/a> (2004)
\nLintao Bu and John E. Straub<\/p>\n

\n

\"defribnew\"
\nA Patient-Specific Computational Analysis of Electrical Defibrillation<\/a> (2003)
\nDaniel Mocanu, Joachim Kettenbach, Michael O. Sweeney, Bruce H. KenKnight, Ron Kikinis and Solomon R. Eisenberg<\/p>\n

\n

\"excelectrons\"
\nQuantum Dynamics of Excess Electrons in Metal – Molten Salts Solutions<\/a> (2003)
\nDaniel Montemayor, Tomas Castonguay, David Coker, Serena Causo and Giovanni Ciccotti<\/p>\n

\n

\"turbineflow\"
\nInteractive Streakline Rendering in a Distributed Computing Environment<\/a> (2002)
\nDouglas L. Sondak, Erik Brisson and Daniel J. Dorney<\/p>\n

\n

\"spaceweather\"
\nCenter for Integrated Space Weather Modeling<\/a> (2002)
\nW. Jeffrey Hughes, Director<\/p>\n

\n

\"excited\"
\nExcited State Dynamics of Molecules in Liquids and Solids<\/a> (2002)
\nNing Yu, David Coker and Claudio Margulis<\/p>\n

\n

\"defrib\"
\nPatient Specific Modeling of Internal Defibrillation<\/a> (2000)
\nDaniel Mocanu, Joachim Kettenbach, Michael O. Sweeney and Solomon R. Eisenberg<\/p>\n

\n

\"turbine\"
\nSimulation of Coupled Unsteady Fluid Dynamics and Conduction Heat Transfer in a Turbine Stage<\/a> (2000)
\nDouglas L. Sondak and Daniel J. Dorney<\/p>\n

\n

\"meteor\"
\nSimulations and Analysis of Meteor Trail Plasma Dynamics in the Ionosphere<\/a> (2000)
\nL. P. Dyrud, M. M. Oppenheim, G. Vetoulis and A. F. vom Endt<\/p>\n

\n

\"epstornado\"
\nElectron Phase-Space Tornados: Observations in Space, Simulations, and Animations<\/a> (2000)
\nM. Oppenheim, D. L. Newman and M. V. Goldman<\/p>\n

\n

\"iodine\"
\nPhotodissociation Dynamics of I2\u00af in CO2 Clusters<\/a> (1998)
\nClaudio J. Margulis and David F. Coker<\/p>\n

\n

\"alz\"
\nApplications of statistical mechanics in the study of Alzheimer’s disease<\/a> (1998)
\nLuis Cruz<\/p>\n

\n

\"baryon\"
\nBaryon Number Violation<\/a> (1997)
\nClaudio Rebbi<\/p>\n

\n

\"instanton\"
\nInstantons and Monopoles are Locally Correlated with the Chiral Condensate<\/a> (1997)
\nS. Thurner, M.C. Feurstein and H. Markum<\/p>\n

\n

\"knots\"
\nVisualization of Cuts for Computing Magnetic Scalar Potentials in Multiply-connected Regions by the Finite Element Method<\/a> (1997)
\nP.W. Gross, P.R. Kotiuga, E. Brisson and G.J. Bresnahan<\/p>\n

\n

\"stretch\"
\nStretched Liquid Water: Finite Size Effects<\/a> (1997)
\nFrancis Starr and H. Eugene Stanley<\/p>\n

\n

\"photofrag\"
\nPhotofragmentation of I2\u00af\u00b7Ar17Clusters<\/a> (1997)
\nVictor S. Batista and Prof. David F. Coker<\/p>\n

\n

\"argon\"
\nModeling Molecular Photodissociation and Recombination in Liquids and Solids<\/a> (1996)
\nDavid F. Coker and Victor Batista<\/p>\n

\n

\"plasma\"
\nParticle-in-Cell Simulation of Two-Dimensional Drift Turbulence in a Pure Electron Plasma Column<\/a> (1996)
\nBruce M. Boghosian<\/p>\n

\n

\"cuau97\"
\nNucleation of a Modulated Phase in Ordering Alloys:Labyrinths or Columns?<\/a> (1996)
\nProfessors Nicholas Angelo Gross, Ken Elder and Bulbul Chakraborty<\/p>\n

\n

\"cameight97\"
\nCrystalline Computation<\/a> (1996)
\nNorman Margolus and Raissa D’Souza<\/p>\n

\n

\"quasar\"
\nRelativistic Hydrodynamic and Emission Simulations of Jets<\/a> (1996)
\nJose L. Gomez and Alan P. Marscher<\/p>\n

\n

\"droplet\"
\nGravitation Migration of a 3-D Droplet Along an Inclined Plane<\/a> (1996)
\nMark Ford and Ali Nadim<\/p>\n

\n

\"pivbl\"
\nSimulations of 3D Non-Periodic Structures of Pi-VBL and 2Pi-VBL in Magnetic Garnet<\/a> (1996)
\nMakhlouf Redjdal and Floyd Humphrey<\/p>\n

\n

\"water\"
\nQuantum Molecular Dynamics Studies of H2 Transport in Water<\/a> (1996)
\nH.S. Doris Mei and David F. Coker<\/p>\n

\n

\"nucleon\"
\nNon-linear Field Evolution in Nucleon Production Processes<\/a> (1996)
\nClaudio Rebbi and Robert Singleton<\/p>\n

\n

\"gustplate\"
\nAcoustic Field Visualization of Thin Airfoil in Nonuniform Subsonic Flow<\/a> (1996)
\nDr. Sheryl Grace and Brad Mahoney<\/p>\n

\n

\"vorticity\"
\nVorticity and Temperature in the Measurement Plane<\/a> (1996)
\nDr. Donald Wroblewski and William Arminger<\/p>\n

\n

\"ion\"
\nMolecular Dynamics Simulation of Ion Propagation through a Protein Ion Channel<\/a> (1996)
\nLjubomir T. Citkusev, Richard Brower and Charles DeLisi<\/p>\n

\n

\"terriers\"
\nTERRIERS Satellite Project<\/a> (1996)
\nDaniel Cotton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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