Howard University and CAHPC to Apply Data Fusion to Making Supercomputing Applications Easy to Use

Center for Applied High Performance Computing (CAHPC) applying Distributed Intelligence Visualization and Organization (DIVO) and data fusion to making supercomputing applications easier to use.

(PRWEB) May 28, 2005 -- Mohamed Chouikha, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Applied High Performance Computing (CAHPC) and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Howard University, announced today that the CAHPC has been selected for funding by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The research and implementation work described in the winning proposal, Data Fusion Platform for Improved Information Analysis and Decision-Making", will be carried out by Chouikha with CAHPC members Rajni Goel, Ph.D. of Howards Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department and Jim Humphries, of QuaTeams, Inc. Their collaborative efforts represent a major contribution to the groups innovative DIVO" project.

DIVO, aka Distributed Intelligence Visualization and Organization, is a multidisciplinary project that is creating advanced high performance and data intensive computing technologies that are used to build end to end user applications that are extremely powerful, yet interactive and highly intuitive and easy to use for the user.

The DIVO software toolkit is a set of scalable, processing, visualization and analytical libraries and application specific modules. Decision-support applications built with DIVO can make use of state-of-the-art high performance computing capability, expert systems, signal processing, and a highly intuitive user interface. DIVO is already being applied to Intrusion Detection Systems and cancer detection and diagnosis. Intelligence Analysis and Dissemination has been a target application for the group since the project started.

The DIVO concept came from the CAHPC Deputy Director and QuaTeams CEO and Chief Scientist, Jim Humphries. According to Humphries, The idea is to address important problems that are computational or data intensive in nature as an end to end user system, and then to stubbornly refuse to accept the notion that a more powerful parallel or Grid application has to be difficult to use. Think of the digital video recorder, TIVO. TIVO is much more powerful than a VCR and functionally much easier to use."

About CAHPC
The CAHPC is an applications-focused University/Industry collaboration founded jointly by Howard University, the premier Historically Black University (HBCU) located in Washington DC, and QuaTeams, Inc, a HubZone-certified small business based across from the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. The mission of the center is to advance the state of the art in real applications of High Performance Computing by fostering Ethnically Diverse, Multi-disciplinary collaborations between Research, Education, and Industry. The main focus areas are Homeland Security and Defense, Bio-informatics and Bio-engineering, and Education and Training.

About QuaTeams
QuaTeams, Inc. is a customer-intimate firm that specializes in the end-to-end research, design, development, and support of very high-end applications and websites. QuaTeams has developed total systems solutions for customers including the Department of Defense, Raytheon, Titan Corporation, National Geographic, Sony BMG, and others.

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