21 Jul
2014
21 Jul
'14
3:23 p.m.
Dear Bob,
It is funny as I was just encouraging our group members to use XSEDE. We
are having a meeting with RC this Thursday to discuss computing. I think it
would be great if you could come in and talk to us. (Us is a royal "us" as
I will be away for 3 weeks). I can meet you after that.
I copy my group members, and specifically Suleyman Er, who is my local
XSEDE appointee. Our cluster usage in Oddyssey is quite subscribed recently
and people are going to start using XSEDE more.
I am glad we have you on campus to help the group members with issues on
XSEDE.
Martin Blood-Forsythe will e-mail you the location and details of the
meeting
Alan
Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University | 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu | http://about.me/aspuru
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Bob Freeman <robertfreeman(a)g.harvard.edu>
wrote:
Alan,
I'm writing as a courtesy to introduce myself as the Harvard University
(main campus) Campus Champion for XSEDE. As XSEDE Campus Champion, I'll be
helping individuals transition to XSEDE resources should our local
resources not be sufficient for your work.
I joined the RC team under James Cuff in May as the HPC Research and
Education facilitator. This is a special, 2 yr position funded by the NSF
at six universities in the US to help promote HPC (cluster) usage. Our
anticipated goals are to enable research groups to analyze their data
faster, present sooner at conferences, and be more competitive for grants;
and departments will be able to recruit and retain talent by having a
world-class compute facility with support staff that can speak both
technical and research vernacular. Prior to this position I worked for over
10 years with Marc Kirschner in Systems Biology at HMS doing both
informatics and bench research.
The other reason for writing is to see how you are progressing with your
current allocation. Are things going well? Are you or your research group
encountering any issues? Is there any feedback that I can pass along to the
XSEDE leadership?
I welcome your thoughts and further conversation. And am happy to meet
with you to discuss your research goals and how I can help you make the
most of your HPC resources.
Thanks,
Bob
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Bob Freeman, Ph.D.
HPC Consultant
XSEDE Campus Champion
FAS Research Computing
Harvard University
38 Oxford Street, Rm 105
Cambridge, MA 02138
617/495.8824, vox
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