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Introduction to special issue on āRecent computing paradigms, network protocols, and applicationsā
This special issue of Innovations in Systems and Software
Engineering: A NASA Journal is devoted to selected contributions
from the 3rd International Conference on Advanced
Computing, Networking and Informatics (ICACNI-2015),
organized by School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University,
Odisha, India, during 23ā25 June, 2015. The conference
commenced with a keynote by Prof. Nikhil R. Pal (Fellow
IEEE, Vice President for Publications IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society (2015ā2016), Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata, India) on āA Fuzzy Rule-Based Approach to Single
Frame Super Resolutionā. Apart from three regular tracks on
advanced computing, networking, and informatics, the conference
hosted three invited special sessions. While a total
of 558 articles across different tracks of the conference were
received, 132 articles are finally selected for presentation
and publication by Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
series of Springer as Volume 43 and 44. The conference
showcased a technical talk by Prof. Nabendu Chaki (Senior
Member IEEE, Calcutta University, India) on āEvolution
from Web-based Applications to Cloud Services: A Case
Study with Remote Healthcareā. The conference identified
some wonderful works and has given away eight awards in
different categories
Teaching Data Science
We describe an introductory data science course, entitled Introduction to
Data Science, offered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The
course introduced general programming concepts by using the Python programming
language with an emphasis on data preparation, processing, and presentation.
The course had no prerequisites, and students were not expected to have any
programming experience. This introductory course was designed to cover a wide
range of topics, from the nature of data, to storage, to visualization, to
probability and statistical analysis, to cloud and high performance computing,
without becoming overly focused on any one subject. We conclude this article
with a discussion of lessons learned and our plans to develop new data science
courses.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, International Conference on Computational
Science (ICCS 2016
GPU cards as a low cost solution for efficient and fast classification of high dimensional gene expression datasets
The days when bioinformatics tools will be so reliable to become a standard aid in routine clinical diagnostics are getting very close. However, it is important to remember that the more complex and advanced bioinformatics tools become, the more performances are required by the computing platforms. Unfortunately, the cost of High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms is still prohibitive for both public and private medical practices. Therefore, to promote and facilitate the use of bioinformatics tools it is important to identify low-cost parallel computing solutions. This paper presents a successful experience in using the parallel processing capabilities of Graphical Processing Units (GPU) to speed up classification of gene expression profiles. Results show that using open source CUDA programming libraries allows to obtain a significant increase in performances and therefore to shorten the gap between advanced bioinformatics tools and real medical practic
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