Analyzing a Trillion documents on Jaguar Researchers in the Applied Software Engineering Group (ASER) are developing petascale text analysis techniques to analyze 1 trillion documents using ORNL's Jaguar Supercomputer Full story
Piranha: Agent-Based Textual Analysis ORNL's Piranha solves the challenge most users face: finding a effective way to sift through large volumes of data and provide accurate and relevant information. With Piranha, we have pioneered a distributed agent-based approach to text analysis. Piranha is faster than conventional software and provides the capability to cluster textual information quickly due to the scalability of the agent architecture. The Piranha approach allows discovery of new insight and analysis of new problem domains.
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Finding the child predators Researchers in the Applied Software Engineering Group (ASER) are working with various state and national law enforcement agencies to analyze the estimated 300,000 computers in the US sharing known child pornography. Our goal is to help find the worst of the worst child predators.
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Advanced Analysis of Neutron Scattering Data Researchers in the Applied Software Engineering Group (ASER) are working with neutron scientists to fully analyze the 4-D space resulting from an experimental run at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)
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How do Open Source software communities develop? Researchers in the Applied Software Engineering Group (ASER) are analyzing how communities form to develop software. Using swarm intelligence, files shared among software developers can be used to determine who are the leaders of the projects, how mature a project is, and what projects will likely succeed.
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Learning from medical images and reports Researchers in the Applied Software Engineering Group (ASER) are using multi-modal learning approaches in collaborations with the University of Chicago, and the University of Tennessee to provide better analysis and understand of medical images and reports
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GPUs show a 30-fold performance improvement in text analysis Researchers in the Applied Software Engineering Group (ASER) are working with neutron scientists to fully analyze the 4-D space resulting from an experimental run at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)
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Piloting Cyber System to find sophisticated attacks Researchers in the Applied Software Engineering Group (ASER) are working with Lockheed Martin to detect sophisticated cyber attacks with the Oak Ridge Cyber Analytics (ORCA) system. ORCA is currently running at Lockheed Martin on live systems with roughly 3 TB of data per day
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Making the Invisible Visible
A byproduct of our society's continued technological advances is increasingly complex data which quickly overload analysts when explored with conventional visual techniques. We are tackling the challenges of representing today's data by developing new visual analytics techniques that harness the high bandwidth human visual channel. In general, visual analytics combines the strengths of humans with those of machines to help make seemingly invisible nuggets of knowledge in complicated data sets, visible through inferential interfaces.
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