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Student Open House |
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October 27, 2008 - Research Computing held an Open House especially targeted
toward students, seeking to gauge interest in forming a student-oriented group
to learn and work on research computing projects. Hosted in the Wallace Library's
Idea Factory venue, Research Computing staff gave brief presentations on Research
Computing activities in high performance computing, computing research, and
collaboration technologies.
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Gurcharan Khanna, Director of Research Computing, gave an overview of the group's
vision, mission, and goals, and encouraged students to contribute both ideas and
work in support of Research Computing.
Paul Mezzanini, Senior Systems Engineer for Research, gave a powerpoint overview
of Research Computing resources, including clusters and grids and his vision for the future.
Ryan Lewis, student
application specialist, discussed application specific issues and solutions for computational
research problems.
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| Matt Leszczenski, Collaboration Technologist, explains the operation of the Access Grid system being deployed to support collaboration at RIT.
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