Research & Academic Computing Indiana University Statewide IT Conference 11 September 2003 Indianapolis IN

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Important Operational Activities 02/03 Expansion of statistical software at IUPUI Continuation of SPSS Enterprise License Agreement Broad dissemination of information about IU’s advanced IT facilities Revamped Unix System Support Group’s Systems Administration Ed/Cert Class

Important Operational Activities, Con’t Refresh of our Sun shared memory environment – focus on large memory and data-intensive applications Will be valuable to many CS, CIS, an d Informatics researchers Photo: Tyagan Miller. May be reused by IU for noncommercial purposes. To license for commercial use, contact the photographer

Forging new frontiers with IU Scientists: Life Sciences Centralized Life Sciences Data Service creates new possibilities for research at IU IU as an IBM Life Sciences Institute of Innovation

Forging new frontiers with IU Scientists: IU supercomputers improve medicine Experimental code created for Gamma Knife to improve cancer treatment Several innovative applications developed in collaboration with IU faculty

Forging new frontiers with IU Scientists: New achievements in Grid computing AVIDD – 1 TFLOPS achieved! 50 th place on Top500 list TeraGrid participation – building the nation’s cyberinfrastructure

Forging new frontiers with Academic and Industrial partners IP-grid: Indiana and Purdue Universities join the TeraGrid, to participate in the construction of the nation’s cyberinfrastructure Continued engagement with vendor partners (especially IBM and Sun) Photo: Tyagan Miller. May be reused by IU for noncommercial purposes. To license for commercial use, contact the photographer

RAC enhances the Indiana Economy 7 inventions disclosed since of these are open source software (commercialization permitted) John-E-Box design licensed to a central Indiana firm for commercial production!