Great Plains Network Consortium

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Great Plains Network Consortium

• Greg Monaco, Ph.D.
• Director for Research

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Member States

• Arkansas
• Kansas
• Nebraska
• Oklahoma
• Missouri
• North Dakota
• South Dakota

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GPN Vision

• Enhance competitiveness and economic benefit by
  providing leadership in advanced high performance
  applications and network technologies to enable
  the Great Plains region to lead in innovative
  learning/educational environments and
  collaborative research.

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Regional Strengths

• Excellent faculty and institutions
• History of working together cooperatively
• Large scale issues which stretch our thinking

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Regional Challenges

• No central, regional guidance bottom-up efforts
• National initiatives
• TeraGrid
• National LambdaRail (NLR)
• Making contacts and staying connected
• Easier to walk across campus

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GPN brings

• History of successful collaborations
• Technology
• Leveraging assets
• Facilitation of initiatives where domain science
  and computer science come together

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This Meeting

• To leverage common interests for mutual gain.
• 845 Ralph Davis
• 9AM Pat Brezonik, NSF
• 1015 Informal Presentations from Group
• Noon Lunch/Ken Nelson, DASC
• 1245 PM QA with Pat
• 2PM Regional Planning
• 4PM - Adjourn

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Thanks to

• Ed Martinko
• Ralph Davis
• Ken Bishop