Blog

Fast Forward: Rajagopal’s Award-Winning Research Capitalizes on Private Cloud Resources

Groundbreaking research takes time. Research computing resources at Syracuse University help speed up the clock.

Nandhini Rajagopal is a biomedical and chemical engineering doctoral student in Professor Shikha Nangia’s lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Last month, Rajagopal won the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Computing Group Research Excellence Award, which recognizes outstanding computational chemistry research conducted by graduate students.

Nandhini Rajagopal

For her research, Rajagopal takes advantage of the University’s Academic Virtual Hosting Environment and the Crush virtualized research cloud. Crush provides access to dedicated, customized compute nodes for high-performance and high-throughput computing. It is used in tandem with the AVHE, which houses the data and work scheduling infrastructure.

We recently spoke with Rajagopal about how these resources advance and accelerate her research. Continue Reading

ITS Around the World: London

By: Lee Badman, ITS information technology architect

Almost a decade ago, Information Technology Services (ITS) modernized the networking environment at Faraday House, Syracuse University’s campus in London. Continue Reading

Good Game: Weiling Wang Wins CyberStart Competition

Three months ago, more than 80 students gathered for the CyberStart launch party. Among those attendees was College of Engineering and Computer Science graduate student Weiling Wang, who enjoyed some pizza while cranking through the online cybersecurity challenges. More than 119,000 points later, Wang is the CyberStart champion at Syracuse University. Continue Reading

Sentinels Stand Tall in National Cyber League

While the Syracuse Orange are well-known for their athletic prowess, there’s a new team on campus making noise in cybersecurity competitions. The Sentinels, a team of student-employees from the ITS Security Operations Center (SOC), recently participated in the National Cyber League Spring 2020 Team Game and finished 33rd out of more than 900 competitors. Continue Reading