Information Sciences Institute

According to Mike Zyda, USC, which has emerged in recent years as a major academic center both for study of games and training of game creators, is an ideal place for this effort.

The three-part experiment now taking place will use about 100,000 entities, employing 128-node Linux cluster supercomputers.

ISI has completed StreamAdd benchmarking, which measures memory bandwidth, on a single Godiva chip running as part of the Long’s Peak system.

Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan will investigate the ARPAnet and Internet design histories by exploring the Postel Center Archives.

ISI’s Mary Hall has been working on a DARPA-funded effort to improve “processor in memory” or PIM chips for more than four years.

ISI scientists have partnered with the “Wholesalers to the Hungry” program to create an instant, individualized menu and recipe planner to help low-income seniors and families.

HeraclesMaps can instantly solve life-and-death tactical questions.

Ronald Ohlander was one of five standout performers in Engineering honored at the annual awards luncheon.

Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute has been developing his automated house-building process, called “Contour Crafting,” for more than a year.

The NetShield library will be supported by special virtual private networks (VPN), built on top of the Globus security infrastructure developed at ISI jointly with the Argonne National Laboratory.