Speaker: Carrie Rampp – Vice President and CIO, Franklin & Marshall College

Abstract:
Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) is building and deploying a campus cluster resource to better meet the needs of our researchers and their students who need greater access to high performance compute resources to support intensive data analysis and computation. This project provides much needed local compute nodes for F&M’s researchers and students while also contributing to the growing fabric of shared computing clusters across the country. This project contributes these new resources to the Open Science Grid (OSG) which is a national, distributed computing partnership that allows participants to share their resources with other researchers to maximize the impact these investments have on scientific research and discovery.