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High-Performance Computing
High-Performance Happy
4/1/2007
Texas Tech’s Segran agrees. “We now have to make the case to administrators that while we may not realize an immediate fiscal benefit to this approach, it will lead to better research opportunities and better grants, and ultimately will help the university in its standing and reputation.” In fact, centralization can put real power behind such internal marketing, argue campus IT execs. “We have noticed that for universities in which the HPC unit doesn’t report to the CIO, there are CIOs who don’t have a sympathetic ear,” Segran says, adding, “IT management of HPC takes more than just an effort to educate the researchers; there has to be buy-in on both sides. For us, the relationships are there, and it’s getting better.”
But there’s even more to making central IT management work, according to Princeton’s Leydon. Farsightedness is crucial. “You have to understand the landscape and where the technology is going. Plus, you need to link research and instruction. These things are integral to making the right decisions.” And the “right” decisions are part and parcel of a CIO with vision. As Leydon puts it: “It’s simply not an accident that, in many universities, central computing is now taking a larger role in supporting research.”
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Charlene O’Hanlon specializes in technology reporting and is based in the New York area.
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