Over the last few weeks, faculty have received information about a number of opportunities to engage with IT professionals and their fellow faculty members in preparation for the fall semester. We also recognize that faculty have plenty of email in their inboxes. With this in mind, we have compiled a brief overview to help faculty members decide which training and consultation opportunities are right for them. Continue Reading
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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.
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
Advisory: Extortion Email Scam
Over the past week, many University community members have received scam email commonly referred to as “sextortion.” Continue Reading