USC Team Wins SCALE Challenge Using FutureGrid Resources

In the Fifth IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2012) at CCGrid 2012, an international panel of researchers judged the USC team's demonstration "Adaptive Energy Forecasting and Information Diffusion for Smart Power Grids" the winning scalable application, and awarded it first prize. The application performed scalable machine-learned analytics on FutureGrid's Sierra Hadoop cluster, and adaptive stream processing of energy data on a private Eucalyptus cluster at USC for the live demo.

The Scale Challenge focused on end-to-end problem solving using concepts, technologies, and architectures (including clusters, grids, and clouds) that facilitate scaling. Participants in the challenge were expected to identify significant, current real-world problems where scalable computing techniques can be effectively used; and to design, implement, evaluate, and demonstrate solutions to these problems.

Funded by the National Science Foundation and Indiana University, FutureGrid is an experimental testbed for Clouds, Grids, and HPC, providing a capability that makes it possible for researchers to tackle complex research challenges in computer science related to the use and security of grids and clouds.

For more about the Scale Challenge, see the IEEE SCALE 2012 page.

For more information about FutureGrid, see http://futuregrid.org .