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Research Technology Fellowships
The CUNY Graduate Center currently supports three Technology Fellowship recipients, who assist with the operation, management and design of the grid and with specialized applications. The Technology Fellows also serve as technical liaisons between the Graduate Center and grid users at the various sites. Research groups may recommend their doctoral students for these fellowships. Two technology fellowships will become available in September 2006. Contact Dr. Florian Lengyel (mailto:flengyel@gc.cuny.edu), Assistant Director for Research Computing or Dr. Steve Brier (mailto:sbrier@gc.cuny.edu), Vice president for Information Technology and External Programs for further information.
The Technology Fellowship is for a two-year period for $22,775 per year; the allocation per semester is 15 hours of work per week for 15 weeks (225 hours/semester for two semesters a year); the summer months are not covered.
The primary responsibility is system administration of the Linux computational clusters here at the Graduate Center. These connect via VPN to two other clusters, one at the City College of New York, and one at the College of Staten Island. There are now three LAMP web sites (LAMP is an acronym for Linux Apache MySQL PHP/PERL/Python) on one server that need occasional maintenance; a new server with additional sites will be added.
This is from a description of the project from a year ago:
LINUX systems administration experience (Red Hat preferred). General UNIX system administration is OK. This refers to account management, process monitoring, system optimization, familiarity with the usual LINUX/UNIX script languages and their commands (e.g., bash, awk...), disk utilities (fdisk, druid, etc), backup procedures (familiarity with Amanda would be nice), various network protocols (TCP/IP, http, ftp, NFS, NIS), Linux/Windows integration (Samba), some experience troubleshooting system failures, and so on. Programming experience is preferred, specifically in Java (for grid related applications), though other languages such as C, C++ are ok. Familiarity with or interest in learning about web services related XML,e.g., WSDL. Familiarity with or interest in learning about distributed resource management systems, such as the Sun Grid Engine. Familiarity with or interest in learning about libraries for distributed computing and mathematical programming, such as MPI
Apple's grid computing and storage technologiGes
When: Monday, May 9th, 2005 at 2 PM Where: BMW Building, Room 614, 555 West 57th St.
Bill Pangborn, Director of Instructional Technology Support Services at John Jay College, CUNY, invites CUNY faculty and technology staff to an in-depth presentation on Apple's grid computing and storage technologies.
A recent executive briefing at Apple's corporate office for CUNY representatives sparked an interest in Apple's offerings related to grid computing. In conversations with members of the CIS faculty and technology staff, a decided interest was expressed, but also a healthy dose of skepticism. In response, Apple is flying in their lead architect for the Mount Sinai Medical Center 80 server cluster to answer any and all questions.
If you would like to attend, please send Bill Pangborn (mailto:bpangburn@jjay.cuny.edu) an acknowledgment email at bpangburn@jjay.cuny.edu Also, as the room is sizable, feel free to invite up to five additional staff or faculty members. Please confirm the total number to attend.
On May 2nd 2005, research computing upgraded its former web site, which ran under Windows Internet Information Server to the current Linux (http://www.linux.org) LAMP (http://www.onlamp.com) web site, implemented with the MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net) open source software used in the famous wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org).
On May 18th 2004, Dr. Stephen Wheat, Principal Scientist of Intel's High Performance Computing Program Office, gave a talk entitled, "Intel Building Blocks for High Performance Computing." We were fortunate to have Dr. Wheat inform us about their state-of-the-art processor designs, and the very significant performance gains we could realize with the next generation of Itanium processors. According to the sign-in sheet, there were eleven attendees, including the heads of two CUNY computational research groups: Professor Katherine St. John, of Lehman College, who uses the clusters at CCNY and the Graduate Center for research in computational biology, and Professor Joseph Dannenberg, an eminent quantum chemist and an author of the Gaussian computational chemistry program in use here on the research and instructional clusters. We also saw our friends John Leong from Queens College and Michael Ziselman from the College of Staten Island. At future cluster users events, we hope to see numbers more representative the full range of interest and involvement in research computing at CUNY!
MAY 18, 2004/1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Room 6495) Intel Building Blocks for High Performance Computing The Department of Information Resources wishes to invite the CUNY research computing community to a talk by Dr. Stephen Wheat, a Principal Scientist in Intel's High Performance Computing Program Office. Organized by: James Haggard, Tawana Spellen and Florian Lengyel. For questions and to confirm, please email Florian Lengyel at flengyel@gc.cuny.edu.For more information see: http://inside.gc.cuny.edu/Announcements/Intel_051814.htm
