Current NSI Research

In addition to the research conducted by our affiliates, NSI is involved in investigating several topics related to High-Perfomance Computing (HPC) and High-Speed networking.

• Using high-speed network interconnects for distributed sharing of large data sets.
• Collaborate with Altair to better manage the Xeon PHI coprocessor support with PBS/Pro.
• Preliminary research to provide improved Intel Xeon PHI coprocessor support for bioinformatic processing.

Current and future use of the UNLV National Supercomputing Institute's resources (non-exhaustive)

1. Transposon Silencing in Human Somatic Cells
— Mira Han, Life Sciences, Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine (NIPM)
2. Planet Formation in Binary Star Systems
— Rebecca Martin, Physics and Astronomy
3. Satellite Formation and Migration Around Giant Planets
— Rebecca Martin, Physics and Astronomy
4. Asteroid Collisions on Terrestrial Planets
— Rebecca Martin, Physics and Astronomy
5. Monte Carlo Simulation of the Feasibility of Image-Guided Radiation Therapy
— Hui Wang, Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences
6. Multiple Modelity Medical Imaging (such as spectral CT, SPECT/CT imaging)
— Hui Wang, Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences
7. Dose Monitoring in Particle Radiation Therapy
— Hui Wang, Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences
8. High Resolution Quantum Control of Chemical Reactions, Funding agency: Department of Defense, Amount:$371,543, period:09/01/12-02/28/18
— Balakrishnan Naduvalath, Chemistry and Biochemistry
9. Accurate Methods for Ultracold Reactions with Product Quantum State Resolution (07/01/15 - 06/30/18)
— Balakrishnan Naduvalath,Chemistry and Biochemistry
10. Pending Grants:
1. Non-adiabatic Effects in Ultracold Chemistry, Funding Agency: NSF, Amount:$281,817, duration:07/01/18-06/30/21
2. Molecular Ro-vibrational Collision Rates for Infrared Modeling of Warm Interstellar Gas from Full-dimensional Quantum Calculations, Funding Agency: NASA, Amount:$100,131, duration:02/01/18-01/31/20
3. Controlled Chemistry with Ultracold Molecules, Funding agency: Department of Defense, Amount:$59,505, Duration:10/01/17-06/30/18
4. Collaborative Research: Towards Complete Hydrogen Chloride Rovibrational Chemistry and Excitation in UV Irradiated Astrophysical Environments, Funding Agency: NSF, Amount:$54,999, Duration:11/01/18-10/31/21
— Balakrishnan Naduvalath, Chemistry and Biochemistry
11. Quantum Dynamics of Few-Body Systems
— Bernard Zygelman, Physics and Astronomy
12. The Signaling Network Underlying the Responses of Rice Cells to Stress Hormone Abscisic Acid and Growth Hormone Gibberellins
— Jeffery Shen, Life Sciences
13. A Real-Time Emergency Response System for First Responders
— Darrell Pepper, Mechanical Engineering
14. KIVA hp-FEM with LES Modeling with Conjugate Heat Transfer
— Darrell Pepper, Mechanical Engineering
15. NOAA - AMS - Weather Simulation Using WRF
— Darrell Pepper, Mechanical Engineering
16. A Population Genetics Model for Cancer Gene Detection
— Amei Amei, Mathematical Sciences
17. Bayesian Variable Selection for Ordinal Categorical Response Data, not funded
— Amei Amei, Mathematical Sciences
18. Genome Mapping of Sea Cucumber
— Sidkazem (Kazem) Taghva, Computer Science
19. Computational Studies of Radiation-MHD Disk Winds
— Daniel Proga, Physics and Astronomy
20. Exoplanet Formation and Dynamical Evolution
— Jason Steffen, Physics and Astronomy
21. Adaptive Designs for Cancer and Neuroscience Clinical Trials
— Guogen Shan, Community Health-Environmental Occupational Health
22. Using Deep Learning for Complex Relationship on Genome and Phenome
— Justin Zhan, Computer Science
23. Genetic Studies of Schizophrenia, funded by NIH/NIMH
— Xiangning (Sam) Chen, Psychology
24. Genetic Studies of Nicotine Dependence, funded by NIH/NIDA
— Xiangning (Sam) Chen, Psychology
25. Nevada COBRE of Personalized Medicine
— Xiangning (Sam) Chen, Psychology
26. UNLV EPSCoR, pending from NSF
— Xiangning (Sam) Chen, Psychology
27. Two pilot projects from UNLV and CTR-IN
— Xiangning (Sam) Chen, Psychology
28. Spectroscopy of Carbon Chains and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
— Eunja Kim, Physics and Astronomy Research
29. Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine (NIPM) - Key Support of NIH COBRE Application
1. Algorithms for subtyping Alzheimer’s Disease - (Ruvo Center collaboration) -
2. Genetic Relationship Between Schizophrenia and Autoimmune Disorders
3. A Pilot Study to Develop Personalized Reference Values of Bone Mineral Density
4. Neurodegeneration and Translational Neuroscience (Lou Ruvo Center collaboration)
5. National Institutes of Health (NIAID) A Novel High-Throughput Functional Screen Based Upon Chimeric Minimotif Decoys, Principal Investigator  R21AI116411
6. National Institutes of Health (NIAID) HIV Toolbox, An Interactive, Visual, and Customizable HIV Protein Ontology, Principal Investigator  R56AI109156 2 Govenor's Office of Economic Development, Knowledge Fund Institute For Quantitative Health Sciences at the University of Nevada Las Vegas Co-Investigator Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine
7. National Institutes of Health (NIGMS) THE C-TERMINOME, Principal Investigator  R15GM107983
8. Minimotif Miner 4: a million peptide minimotifs and counting. Lyon KF, Cai X, Young RJ, Mamun AA, Rajasekaran S, Schiller MR. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Nov 11. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1085. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 29140456
— Martin Schiller, Office of Research and Economic Development
30. Deep Adaptive Canonical Correlation Analysis for fMRI Activation
— Zhengshi Yang, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
31. Mixing and Assimilation of Reuse Effluent
— David James, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction
32. Asthma and Childhood Obesity: Strategies to Reduce Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction
— Dharini Bhammar, Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences
33. Computational Fluid Dynamics, not funded
— Monika Neda, Mathematical Sciences
34. Computational Screening of Prebiotics formation from simple Amino Acids
— Qiang Zhu, Physics and Astronomy
35. Developing automated tool for grain boundary structure search and analysis;
— Qiang Zhu, Physics and Astronomy
36. RGAP: The heritable transcriptome and alcoholism (R24 AA013162 from NIAAA/NIH)
— Laura Saba, Pharmacology at UC Denver
37. NIDA Core “Center of Excellence” in Omics, Systems Genetics, and the Addictome (P30 DA044223 from NIDA/NIH)
— Laura Saba, Pharmacology at UC Denver