  {"id":105483,"date":"2019-10-29T14:45:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T00:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=105483"},"modified":"2019-10-29T14:45:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T00:45:33","slug":"hi-dsi-1m-nsf-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/29\/hi-dsi-1m-nsf-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"$1<abbr title=\"Million\">M<\/abbr> to <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> and collaborators to develop web-based research tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_105497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105497\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/uh-system-hdsi-grant-2.jpg\" alt=\"man teaching class\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/uh-system-hdsi-grant-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/uh-system-hdsi-grant-2-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/uh-system-hdsi-grant-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tapis Co-Principal Investigator Sean Cleveland of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> teaches a <abbr>HI-DSI<\/abbr> workshop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\">National Science Foundation<\/a> has awarded the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/datascience.hawaii.edu\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Data Science Institute<\/a> (<abbr>HI-DSI<\/abbr>) $1 million for the development of a web-based programming interface called Tapis, in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tacc.utexas.edu\/\">Texas Advanced Computing Center<\/a> (<abbr>TACC<\/abbr>) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/\">University of Texas at Austin<\/a>. The development of Tapis will provide scientists with important tools to gather data and conduct computationally intensive research.<\/p>\n<p>The framework, which will serve a diverse group of users, can help automate and streamline large workflows or pipelines of software applications and allow scientists easier, user-friendly access to computational resources.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Tapis powers research,&rdquo; said Co-Principal Investigator <strong>Gwen Jacobs<\/strong>, director of <abbr>HI-DSI<\/abbr> and cyberinfrastructure. &ldquo;This open-source platform creates a digital lab that allows scientists to access all of the tools they need\u2014storage, computational resources and applications\u2014all in one place. Tapis simplifies transferring and saving data and running computational resources across multiple platforms. This framework also creates automation and reproducibility by saving workflows that can be run again and again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration brings together expertise from <abbr>TACC<\/abbr> in high-performance computing and building distributed software systems and <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>\u2019s contribution of development, design and architecture of the Tapis system led by Co-Principal Investigator <strong>Sean Cleveland<\/strong>. In addition, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> brings access to important domain research related to climate, ocean, coral reefs, microbiome and population studies around health disparities that are unique to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tacc.utexas.edu\/latest-news\/-\/asset_publisher\/rTY3t77Cj5Zq\/content\/tapis-computing-platform-weaves-together-science-computing-tools\">Texas Advanced Computing Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105498\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/uh-system-hdsi-grant-1.jpg\" alt=\"man pointing at screen\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/uh-system-hdsi-grant-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/uh-system-hdsi-grant-1-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/uh-system-hdsi-grant-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tapis Principal Investigator Joe Stubbs of <abbr>TACC<\/abbr> teaches a <abbr>HI-DSI<\/abbr> workshop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Data Science Institute (<abbr>HI-DSI<\/abbr>) and its collaborators $1 million to develop a web-based research tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1176,947],"class_list":["post-105483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-data-science","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105483"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105527,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105483\/revisions\/105527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}