e-Link Cost Savings Available to GPN Members
Three Oklahoma universities have been the recipient of cost savings through e-Link. Universities with a qualified medical program are eligible for e-Link cost savings. Michael Wallace UAMS is the contact…
GPN Joins Arkansas for It’s Annual ARE-ON Conference
Mickey Slimp, GPN Executive Director, recently attended ARE-ON’s annual conference. Here is a rundown of the speakers. (This was taken from ARE-ON’s LinkedIn page. Please visit it to see the…
InCommon Interview with UW-Madison CIO Lois Brooks
There are other benefits to InCommon besides secure single sign on. See what Lois says about them here.
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…