GPN Quantum Research Collaboration Workshop Held at America’s Underground Lab
A July Quantum Research Collaboration Workshop, held at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, was a landmark event for quantum research community in the Midwest. This…
GPN Annual Meeting, Part 2
The GPN Annual Meeting in Lincoln Nebraska featured a Precision agricultural track. Three tours were included: a radio station, research farm, and greenhouse. The official name of the greenhouse is…
GPN 2024 Annual Meeting, Part 1
In years past the GPN Annual Meeting has been in Kansas City. There were no deliberate themes in the programming. Occasionally one would emerge, but that was happenstance instead of…
OneNet Awarded CORE-MORe-OFFN to Network Rural Campuses
OneNet and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE) did it again! The NSF awarded them CORE-MORe-OFFN. This is the fifth award to expand the OneOklahoma Friction Free Network…
Ben Canlas named as University of Missouri CIO/VP IT
As the interim CIO of the University, Ben Canlas has served on the Executive Committee of GPN for the past year. With his permanent appointment by Mizzou, he also moves…
GP-ENGINE and the Great Plains Network (GPN) contribute computing power to the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
Grant Scott edited this article based on: Astronomers & Engineers Use a Grid of Computers at a National Scale to Study the Universe 300 Times Faster, https://public.nrao.edu/news/astronomers-study-the-universe-300-times-faster/ Compute nodes that…
University of Arkansas Medical System to House Final Node in NSF’s GP-ENGINE Project, Expanding Supercomputing Grid Across Midwest
In a significant stride towards advancing high-performance computing accessibility, the University of Arkansas Medical System (UAMS) in Little Rock has become the site for the final node installation in the…
Open Science Grid (OSG) Highlights GP-ARGO Project’s Role in Democratizing Science Research
This a repost from the OSG website. Acknowledgments for OSG at the bottom of article. By: Hannah Cheren As a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration, the Great Plains Augmented Regional Gateway…
A Day with NASA: A Journey to the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility
by Jieun Chang On a bright and clear morning of October 6, a team of academics from Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) embarked on an educational journey to the Columbia…
GPN Team to Tour NASA Balloon Facility on October 6, Join Us!
Through the assistance of the Hibbs Institute for Business and Economic Research, members of the Great Plains Network have been invited to tour the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine,…