EDUCAUSE | High-Performance Computing and Grid Computing

An Interview with Greg Jackson

mpasiewicz — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:03:08 -0500

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.

An Interview with OCLC's Thomas Hickey

mpasiewicz — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:02:00 -0500

In this 23 minute recording, OCLC's Thomas Hickey was kind enough to join me via Skype to talk about open source software, grid computing, AJAX and a range other topics related to the work of OCLC Research.

An Interview with Rice's Charles Henry

mpasiewicz — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:12:00 -0600

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

An Interview with Microsoft's Tony Hey

mpasiewicz — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:44:00 -0600

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