SDSU is chosen as a site for nation-wide outreach efforts in computational science

With the opening of a new Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering, SDSU moves to the forefront of research, education and outreach efforts aimed at better preparing today’s students to effectively use the computer technologies of the future. The Center is supported by a five-year NSF grant, CSU’s Chancellor’s Office, and SDSU Academic Affairs. It is a part of the National Partnership for Advanced Computing Infrastructure (NPACI), an association of 39 universities and research centers across the country with the mandate to create and maintain a national metacomputing environment. This partnership is led by Sid Karin of UCSD with the San Diego Supercomputer Center as leading edge site.

Today when collaborative, interdisciplinary research with sophisticated computing tools becomes an everyday reality in growing numbers of fields, the Center will facilitate the transition of state-of-the-art methods and technologies from leading research centers to the classroom. Led by Kris Stewart, the Center staff will work with CSU and SDSU faculty to incorporate NPACI tools into their undergraduate curricula. These include tools for high-performance and data-intensive computing, collaborative web-based research environments, digital libraries and geographic information systems, visualization and animation.

The Open House for the new Center is 10/10/97, at 3pm (Library Annex, Rm. 73). Please come join us in celebrating this beginning where you can view online demonstrations from the NPACI Applications Thrust areas of Molecular Science, Neuroscience, Earth Systems Science and Engineering.