High-Performance Computing and Cyberinfrastructure

This 27 minute recording provides coverage of an interview with the University of Chicago's CIO, Greg Jackson.  Listen in as Marilu Goodyear hosts a discussion about patents, cyberinfrastructure and the propsects for a merger between Internet2 and NLR.

In this 18 minute recording, Bill Hogue sits down with MIT's Patrick Dreher for a discussion about research computing, cyberinfrastructure, and open content.

See also:

• A Baseline Study on IT Engagement in Research
• The Net@EDU Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group

This 48 minute recording provides coverage of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session entitled Centralize Research Computing to Drive Innovation, Really.

In this 33 minute recording, we'll hear from Jim Bottum, Purdue's VP of Information Technology.  We'll get his toughts on research computing, municipal networks, Purdue's new Cyber Center, their e-stadium activities and close with a few thoughts on BoilerCast.


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 17 minute recording, I sit down with, Charles Henry, Vice Provost & University Librarian at Rice University.  Among other things, we'll talk about  SHOAH and the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences.


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 21 minute recording, I sit down with Tony Hey, Microsoft's VP for Technical Computing.

Let's listen in as he compares e-science research in the US and UK, talks about the prospects of multicore computing, shares his thoughts on the NSF's cyberinfrastructure report, and sheds some light on the challenges of working with very large, high throughput datasets ... the raw materials of research. 

He also briefly touches on the UK's Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII) and as well as their Digital Curation Centre  ... an attempt to bring scientists, computer scientists and librarians together to to tackle issues involvingcuration and preservation of massive amounts of data. 

More on Tony Hey
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/tonyhey/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/may05/05-17HeyPR.mspx
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2005b.fall/plenary.html

Sorry, I couldn't help but think of REM when Tony began to talk about multicore chips
It's the end of Moore's Law as we know it -- and I feel fine ...  ;)

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org