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1998 Media Coverage
- Dr. Russ Miller was Director of CCR during this period.
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November-December, 1998:
Dr. Russ Miller, Director of the Center
for Computational Research, presented an
overview of the Center to the Chairs of the Faculty of Arts and
Science, David Mark, Director of the National Center for Geographic Information
and Analysis (NCGIA), John Wright, Dean of the Medical School, Louis Goldberg,
Dean of the Dental School, Thomas Szyperski, Head of Structural Biology, and
the IT Steering Committee, chaired by Voldemar Innus.
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November 24, 1998: The Center for
Computational Research begins to activate its supercomputers and
evaluate machines with production code.
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November 16, 1998: The Center for
Computational Research takes delivery of its second supercomputer, a 14
processor IBM SP.
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November 6, 1998: The Center for
Computational Research takes delivery of its first supercomputer, a 64
processor SGI Origin 2000.
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October 22, 1998:
Dr. Russ Miller, Director of the Center
for Computational Research, presented an overview of CCR to the Dean's
Council (SEAS Advisory Council).
- October 2, 1998: Article in Science (currently unavailable).
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September 30, 1998: NSF awarded a
$300K Multiple Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant to Drs. Russ Miller, Tom Furlani, Jiali Gao, Philip Coppens, and Harry King. The funds are used to seed the
Center for Computational Research.
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September 28, 1998: IBM awarded a
$1.2M Shared University Research (SUR) Grant to the
Center for Computational Research, based primarily on the computational efforts
in molecular structure determination that is headed by
Dr. Russ Miller as
part of the Shake-and-Bake research team.
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August 3, 1998: Provost Thomas
E. Headrick issued an annoucement regarding the establishment of the
Center for Computational Research. He also appointed
Russ Miller as Director of the Center.
This committment follows recommendations put forth by the Ad-Hoc Task Group on High Performance Computing, established by Vice
Provost Sean Sullivan.
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