NYU Accra, the University’s sixth study abroad location and first in Africa, opened in Ghana’s capital city in 2005. The program was established as a place for students to learn firsthand about African culture while completing coursework that counts toward their degree.
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Launching Google Apps for Education
The Google Migration project kicked-off in January 2011 and was completed four months later, in May. The foundation for this success was a terrific team, and many good choices made along the way. Following are three key decisions that I believe made it possible for us to pull off such a large project in such a short timeframe.
Introducing NYU’s New Spatial Data Repository
The GIS services at the DSS support teaching, learning, and research with geospatial technology across the University. The Spatial Data Repository (SDR) is a welcome addition to the GIS services long provided by the Data Service Studio.
The NYU Open Education Pilot Publishes Its First Courses
The concept of sharing educational resources freely around the world, referred to as “open education” or “open courseware,” is now gaining mainstream acceptance both inside and outside of the academy and has been adopted by over 200 higher education institutions worldwide.
The New Everyday
The latest project from the MediaCommons network is The New Everyday. A website and an experiment in “middle-state publishing,” the New Everyday is a web publication “between a blog and a journal” where “middle state” describes the point between the initial idea and the final published format.
Introducing LibX
Recent years have seen a steady increase in the number of online tools intended to facilitate access to and organization of information. Libraries—including NYU—have been working hard to simplify the management of research and bibliographic data though software and web-based solutions; this article focuses on LibX.
Research Using the NYU HPC Service
NYU’s high performance computing systems are a vital resource for University research in the sciences and across the disciplinary spectrum. Here is just a sampling of recent research performed using NYU HPC resources.
High Performance Computing Made Easier
Using NYU’s High Performance Computing service released a new support wiki. This wiki offers expanded information about the resources of the NYU HPC service—information that will help researchers whether they are currently using the service, just getting started, or considering using high performance resources.
Moving a Data Center
A data center is a facility where an organization houses computer systems and servers, and the associated data storage, communications, and networking equipment. I thought back to the last data center move in which I was involved, about seven years earlier. Our task then was to move approximately 30 standalone servers and roughly 5TB of total disk storage.