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HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
The High Performance Computing (HPC) service has been highly successful
in advancing research in academic departments across campus. OIT provides support for The Center for Scientific Computation by managing the ManeFrame infrastructure. The configuration of a new ten gigabit uplink to the Internet has made it easier to share with fellow researchers and collaborators the knowledge derived from the ManeFrame’s computational research findings. Other HPC achievements this year include collaborations with Fermilab in conjunction with the SMU Department of Physics along with an ATLAS pilot project allowing researchers worldwide to take advantage of ManeFrame’s
capabilities.
CORE DATA PROJECT
The Center on Research and Evaluation (CORE) conducts research and evaluations on education programs, practices, and policies designed to strengthen families and communities. CORE and OIT have partnered together to significantly reduce time that has traditionally been
spent standardizing data from Dallas Independent School District. Automating a manual process, and placing the data into a common data warehouse format allows researchers to focus on what matters instead of rote tasks. What once took weeks of valuable researcher time, will be reduced to hours, thus enabling more productive research.
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HPC equipment refreshment
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KEY DELIVERABLES FOR 2016
Grant management improvements
(PARTNERSHIP WITH
RESEARCH AND GRANT ADMINISTRATION)