You are invited to attend a half-day seminar focused on research computing to be held Tuesday, February 11, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., in room 233 of the Partnership III Building in the Central Florida Research Park. The event will encompass multiple aspects of advanced computing systems and high-performance networks and how they are changing the face of research, at UCF and around the world.
A leading innovator in cloud computing and former colleague of mine, Dr. Daniel A. Reed, Vice President for Research and Economic Development and University Chair in Computational Science and Bioinformatics and Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer engineering and Medicine at the University of Iowa, has accepted my invitation to present at this event. Dr. Reed has served as Microsoft's Corporate Vice President for Technology Policy and Extreme Computing, where he helped shape Microsoft's long-term vision for technology innovations in cloud computing and the company's associated policy engagement with governments and institutions around the world. We worked together at UNC Chapel Hill, where he was Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute and the Chancellor's Senior Advisor for Strategy and Innovation.
The seminar will also feature UCF professors Dr. Scott Hagen from Civil Engineering and Dr. Florencio Eloy Hernandez from Chemistry as well as Dr. Erik Deumens, Director for Research Computing in Information Technology at the University of Florida, David Pokorney, Chief Technical Officer of Florida LambdaRail, Dr. Penny Beile, Associate Director of Information Services and Scholarly Communications at the UCF Library, and Craig Finch, Post-Doctoral Research Associate at UCF's Institute for Simulation and Training.
Attendees will be given an overview of research computing at UCF, including a tour of the STOKES High Performance Computer Data Center and updates on Florida LambdaRail (FLR) and the Sunshine State Education and Research Computing Alliance (SSERCA). This event should be of high interest to our research faculty and students. For an agenda and more information visit http://www.ist.ucf.edu/researchcomputingday.html . There is no charge to attend however, you are asked to RSVP to Marybeth Thompson at Thompson@ist.ucf.edu, as space is limited.
