Opening Remarks Day Three

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Opening Remarks -- Day Three

• Charlie Bender
• Executive Director, OSC
• bender_at_osc.edu

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OSC has come a long way!
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OSC is...

• More than a decade old!
• Not the biggest, but the best computing
  resources (scalable) available to our users
• they learn
• they demonstrate
• they compete
• The largest state networks in the country
• New initiatives in the uses of computing,
  networking, and education
• And collaboration, collaboration,.

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How do we do it?
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A Collaborative Environment
OSC- OARnet
Video to the Desktop Support
Network
Storage Management
OSC-HPC
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Todays agenda

• CIC Research Success Stories
• The Gateway Project -- an OSC portal
• The Truth about Cluster
• Concluding Remarks