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An Online User Interface for
Tracking Stock Portfolios

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Related Research

The following courses may be helpful in my project because I anticipate storing stock data in individual accounts and creating a variety of historical charts in the user interface:

  • SI440 at the United States Naval Academy ("Database Organization")
  • CS393 at the United States Military Academy ("Database Systems")
  • CS462 at the University of Virginia ("Database Systems")
  • CS4604 at Virginia Polytechnical Institute ("Introduction to Database Management Systems")

    Additionally, Nick may desire to use such a database in testing the performance of the various models studied in his project.

    Supercomputer Applications

    The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), a National Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering at the University of California–San Diego, documents practical applications of supercomputers in a variety of fields.

    Accelerating the Development of Drugs: Supercomputing allowed researchers at the University of California–San Diego to propose a method to develop drugs faster. Instead of viewing target receptor proteins as stationary objects, the motions of the proteins can be sampled by supercomputers. This method "does not require the synthesis and purification of proteins" and is not "limited by the sizes of molecules," according to Professor J. Andrew McCammon, facilitating creation of a ligand (a molecule that binds to the desired protein to inhibit or enhance the protein's activity as appropriate) in a more cost-effective manner than the current procedure.

    Explaining the Slow Pace of Star Formation: The prodigious quantities of ultraviolet radiation emited in the Milky Way inhibits the formation of stars, according to researcher at the University of California–San Diego, whose studies are published in the 20 November 2002 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters. One effect of this abundance of energy is the "galactic turbulence," said Professor Michael L. Norman.

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