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Virginia Tech Advanced Research Computing expands Owl supercomputing cluster to accelerate research , article
“The new resources are intended to help researchers spend less time waiting for computing capacity and more time advancing their work,” said Alberto Cano, associate vice president for research computing.
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Aziz Traore takes it apart , article
What do broken radios, cars, cancer studies, and research development have in common? Aziz Traore ’09, Ph.D. ’14 built a bio-inspired career on those foundations.
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Research seeks better understanding of pollen movement from ground to sky , article
In a new study, researchers established an accurate methodology for tracking, measuring, and forecasting pollen dispersal of genetically engineered switchgrass at both the ground and atmospheric levels.