Executive View
At Purdue University, the Community Cluster Program is changing the way high-performance computers are built and maintained. By pooling their resources and contributing nodes to a centralized facility, faculty and researchers have access to much greater computing power that’s maintained for them by central computing staff. And they are invited to join about 300 people who roll up their sleeves and help construct a supercomputer in a single day’s “barn raising” event. Campus Technology asked VP of IT/CIO Gerry McCartney how it all works… More
Worth Noting
Two companies--one with clicker technology and the other with lecture capture software--are teaming up for the development of classroom technologies. MoreA Nebraska university has moved to fiber optic audio and video equipment as part of a high-definition upgrade in its athletics production facilities. MoreBretford debuted a new flat-panel lectern at the InfoComm 2010 convention happening this week in Las Vegas. MoreAt the InfoComm 2010 convention this week in Las Vegas, Sonic Foundry debuted updates to its Media site lecture capture system, including new recorder hardware and updated Mediasite software. MoreOpen-source middleware maker WSO2 has launched an open source cloud platform that should be of interest to enterprise Java developers. Called Stratos, it's a fully hosted application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for building and deploying apps and services "with instant provisioning of enterprise servers, including the portal, enterprise service bus (ESB) and application server." More
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