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2003 Media Coverage
- Dr. Russ Miller was Director of CCR during this period.
- Dr. Russ Miller co-Founded the New York State/Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics (and Life Sciences) in 2001.
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December 31: The Buffalo News mentions
CCR in Prospectus, its annual business forecast magazine. The article
"UB stepping into role as economic development engine"
describes CCR's participation in the business community.
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December 8: GridToday describes
how CCR participated in Grid2003 at the recent Supercomputing 2003 conference
in the article "Grid2003
Features UB Supercomputing Center"
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December 1: Russ Miller contributed an article to the
InfoTech Niagara monthly newsletter about
Grid Computing (pages 2 & 3).
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November 23:
In the
article "UB is linking its supercomputer to a grid"
in the Buffalo News,
Dr. Russ Miller
describes the efforts he directs in grid-based research, including CCR's
participation
in a computational grid that harnesses resources from numerous institutions
in order to benefit research and scholarship that requires resources larger
than those available at individual institutions.
The article also mentions Miller's participation in a conference during
which he discussed Grid Computing with world leaders in the area.
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November 20: CCR is mentioned for its part in the WNY biotech initiative
in the Buffalo News article
"In its infancy, biotech sector is stirring up excitement"
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November 18: An
article at Supercomputing
Online talks about how the Center for Computational Research will be a
major participant this week in Grid2003,
one of the largest public displays of an international computational grid
running numerous applications across dozens of sites involving thousands of
processors. This was also covered on local Buffalo channel 7 news and on
various computing and news websites including:
Grid Today, NextINet.org and
UB's Reporter magazine.
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September 12: An
article in the
Buffalo News mentions that CCR Director Dr. Russ Miller is highlighted in a new Dell
poster that mentions that CCR is one of the most powerful academic supercomputing centers in the country.
The poster features a large photo of Miller and some of the more than
2,000 Dell PowerEdge computer servers installed at CCR through Miller's
leadership. The Dell servers helped make UB one of the most powerful
academic supercomputing centers in the country. Miller mentions in the
article that "It's certainly embarrassing having my face up there," but added
that the posters bode well for the partnership UB has crafted with Dell.
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August 15: In the
Business First special insert Building a New Economy, CCR is
featured in two articles. "Creating a Supportive Environment is Key to Growing
a Biotech Economy for Buffalo Niagara" describes the interdisciplinary approach
to research utilized at UB and CCR. The many ways CCR's resources are being
used to benefit the Western New York business community are described in the
article "Super-computing Center is Meeting University, Community Research
Needs."
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August 1: Russ Miller talks about testing
64-bit Linux in the InfoWorld article
"Computational clusters today, server rooms tomorrow."
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July 11:
UB Edition on WBFO 88.7
talks about the conclusion of the CCR high school summer
workshop.
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July 10: The Buffalo News describes CCR's fifth
high school summer workshop, the first devoted to bioinformatics,
which follows the first 2 successful summer workshops on computational
chemistry and the next two successful workshops on visualization. The
article lists the schools that the students are drawn from and gives an
outline of the summer experience.
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July 3: UB's
The Reporter makes mention of SGI's $190,000 virtual reality equipment
donation to CCR.
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July 3: CCR hosts it's
5th annual high school summer workshop. This year the focus was on
bioinformatics.
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June 4-5: Russ Miller presented a
talk entitiled "Enabling Collaborative Science Through Grid Technology"
at the Executive IT Life Science Forum in Boston, MA.
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April 16:
Russ Miller is showcased in the "Someone You Should Know" column of the Amherst
Bee. Not only do they describe Russ's listing on HPCWire's "Top People to Watch
List" but also his participation in local basketball. "Miller is President of
the Amherst Youth Basketball League" and "a key figure in the Western New York
Warriors, a traveling basketball team."
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April 14: The Spectrum article
"Verizon Gives $50,000 to Build 'Next Generation Scientists'"
reports on a pilot program that CCR is working on to help three local high
schools learn about high-performance computing.
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April 11: Two CCR staff members are mentioned in this week's Tech.First
supplement of the Business First
magazine. Russ Miller's listing on the HPCWire's top people to watch list gets
listed in the "Tech People on the Move" column. CCR database administrator
Steve Gallo was chosen by infoTech
Niagara
for their BETA award - "Digital Don."
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April 9: The Spectrum article
"UB's Miller Makes HPCWire's Watch List"
describes the CCR director's background and provides a history of
high-performance computing at UB.
The article states that Dr. Russ Miller, director of the Center for Computational Research at UB,
was recently listed on HPCwire magazine's "2003 Watch List for HPC",
the computing magazine's list of the most interesting and influential people in the field of supercomputing.
HPCwire, which stands for High Powered Computing Wire, compiled the list based on the criteria of people whom they believed were the "most interesting and colorful people ... in (high powered computing) to keep an eye on," according to the HPCwire Web site.
The article goes on to point out that Miller did not take sole credit for
the recognition. He stated that
"through all the efforts of our staff to establish a first-rate computing
center, the world has taken note."
Miller has a long history in the field of supercomputing, which he has used to direct the mission of the CCR.
He said his passion for computing started in high school and continued into his college years at SUNY Binghamton, which he described as a wonderful
environment with dedicated and inspirational faculty.
The article goes on to discuss Miller's leadership role in the 1980s with
the Graduate Group in Scientific Computing, his research expertise in
parallel and high-performance computing, and some of the funding that he
was instrumental in bringing to Buffalo in order to establish the
Center for Computational Research in 1998.
He also discussed issues related to making sure the public and our elected
officials are aware of the capabilities and research efforts that exist
in Buffalo.
Miller said that over $100 million in funding has come to the university,
which is critical in that funds are necessary to support research, including
equipment, students, and faculty.
Despite the recent recognition, Miller said he remains focused on the center's goals.
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April 8: The
Inside UB column in the Buffalo News
discusses CCR's role in
helping teachers and students from three local schools build small
computing clusters.
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April 3:The UB Reporter
article
"Director of CCR Cited by Top Web Publication HPCWire"
describes why Russ Miller was listed on HPCWire's Top People and Organizations
to Watch list.
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March 28:
An article in the Buffalo News mentions
that Dr. Russ Miller is listed on HPCWire's list of Top People and Organizations to Watch in high performance computing.
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March 21: Russ Miller is listed on
HPCWire's list of
Top People and Organizations to Watch
in high performance computing.
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March 7: Another article in The
Spectrum, "CCR: A
Key Player in the Region" describes to students what CCR is and how UB
students are involved in CCR projects.
The article states that the Center for Computational Research is the
eighth largest supercomputing center in the world and that through the
Center for Computational Research, students can earn a graduate certificate in computational science, or take courses in high-performance computing.
The CCR also extends instructional seminars in distinct areas of high-end computing.
The article goes on to state that CCR has welcomed many note-worthy people,
such as Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Charles Schumer, for tours, and has also
been working on significant projects, such as the model for a new Peace Bridge, and innovative medical technologies.
Ini fact, while these high-tech computers and equipment may seem unattainable for UB students, some students have contributed signficantly to these projects.
Dr. Russ Miller stated
that approximately 90 percent of the users of the computational systems in CCR
are students. He also stated that there are more than 40 active research
projects currently utilizing CCR resources.
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February 28: An article in
The Spectrum
(UB's undergraduate student newspaper) describes several of the 3D research
projects CCR is working on; including the Peace Bridge visualization and
preoperative medical imaging for Buffalo Women and Children's Hospital.
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February 18: UB
Research article describes how CCR will be beta-testing the new Itanium
processor, the next-generation Intel chip. SGI has selected CCR to determine
how well the processors work in clustered environments.
- January 26: An article in the
Buffalo News is accompanied by a
picture of
Dr. Russ Miller next
to CCR's new tiled display wall. The article discusses economic development
in Western New York based on the foundation that CCR provided in establishing
the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.
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January 24: The article "Dell Throws Weight Behind Clusters," featured
in several locations, (CNet.com
and BusinessWeek),
mentions the Dell clusters running at CCR.
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January 22: UB's undergraduate student newspaper,
The Spectrum, showcased the CCR access grid on its front page. The
article "A High Tech
Alternative to Traditional Meetings"
describes the expected uses of the access grid and tiled-display wall.
The article states that according to CCR Director Russ Miller, the Access Grid is a system of
cameras and microphones that capture the natural activity of a
meeting or lecture. Miller said that "it's very close to being in the same room with people across the country."
Views of other AG nodes across the globe are projected on a 12-foot screen and can be arranged to fit the needs of the user, said Miller.
Miller said a major advantage of using an AG node, as opposed to regular videoconferencing, is that the AG node utilizes a high-speed Internet2 connection.
The AG node has already been put to use. Miller said that recently, a CCR staff member wanted to attend a training seminar in Hawaii, something the AG node made possible.
According to Miller, there are currently 150 AG node sites around the world, but the number is rapidly growing.
Miller informed the Spectrum that CCR installed the AG node in November, along with another high-end technological device called a tiled display grid, an 88-square foot screen that can display 15.7 million pixels, rendering the screen 20 times sharper than a regular computer monitor.
Applications of the tiled display grid include visualizations of human anatomy and the structure of molecules.
In addition, Miller pointed out that these systems can be used to display
projects like the Peace Bridge options for the public and to display and
evaluate traffic patterns when considering construction projects.
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January 16: In an
opinion piece about President William Griener printed in the
Buffalo News, CCR's Peace Bridge simulations and high ranking among
the world's supercomputers are mentioned.
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January 14: In the article
"A Work in Progress" in the Buffalo
News
about UB President Greiner's retirement announcement, the development of CCR is
mentioned as one of the positive projects Greiner has worked on in his 13 years
as President of the University.
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January 14: University at Buffalo SEAS (School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences) Fall 2002 News mentions CCR several times:
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NYSCEDII and CCR Host Volcanic Simulation Workshop - volcanologists &
computational scientists discussed using supercomputers for simulations
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CCR Receives $2M NSF Grant to Launch a "Transparent" Virtual Community -
Funding will go to improve the SnB software to create appropriate collaborative
and data-mining environments for a virtual community of researchers.
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The Dean's Council Visits UB - Russ Miller outlined the university's
bioinformatics initiative and took the council on a tour of CCR
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January 13: The Scientist
reports of the recently awarded $2 million to improve the SnB software in the
article "Accelerating X-Ray Crystallography."
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January 12: The
Buffalo News prints a
picture of Russ Miller and Jeff Tilson in the Access Grid room on the
front page of the Business Section.
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