Global Grid Computing at NYU: The Human Proteome Folding Project

By Richard Bonneau

Grid computing can mean different things to different people. For the purposes of this article, we'll define grid computing as the use of the collective processing resources of a network of loosely coupled computers to solve large-scale computational problems....

High Energy Physics & High Performance Technology Coming Together at NYU

By Jimmy Kyriannis & Allen Mincer

The High Energy Physics Group in the NYU College of Arts and Science's Physics Department has recently joined the ATLAS experiment at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, located in Geneva...

High Performance & Optical Networks

By Jimmy Kyriannis

NYU's commitment to academic research has placed increasing demands on NYU-NET, the campus network, to facilitate high-speed access to a variety of resources, including: rich volumes of data sets, high performance compute grids, national laboratories and external research institutions, partner universities, and...

Unlocking Antiquity Using GIS Technology

By Jaime Martinez, Jordan Schuler, Chris Harrison & Stacey Kuznetzov

Aphrodisias, Turkey is an ancient city of major Greek and Roman period archaeological importance. The city lies in Turkey's central southwestern Maeander River basin, a fertile valley 100 miles southeast of...

Podcasting for Academia

By Joshua Young

A podcast is an audio and/or video program that can be loaded directly onto a computer or digital audio player (such as an iPod). Typically, listeners subscribe to podcasts through providers' websites and podcast directories (virtual libraries), such as iTunes....

NYU's Digital Studio

By Richard Malenitza & Jennifer Vinopal

The Digital Studio is a new collaborative facility of the Libraries and Information Technology Services. It is the gateway for NYU faculty to digital services supporting scholarship and teaching....

The Faculty Digital Archive at NYU

By Gary Shawver, Heather Stewart & Jennifer Vinopal

In this period of rapid technological change, research and communication systems are being transformed and, with them, the process of creating scholarly content. This process is increasingly collaborative, producing new knowledge in dynamic, mobile, and open environments....

e-Books & Digital Images for Teaching & Research

By Tom McNulty

For decades, researchers have had access to an ever-growing body of digitized periodical literature (newspapers, magazines, and journals) and reference works. Articles in these publications generally have one thing in common: they are short....

Instant Messaging @ Bobst Library

By Scott Collard & Kara Whatley

Instant Messaging, or IM, is one of many online communication methods available today. Unlike email or message boards, however, it allows people to communicate with each other synchronously....

Three Dimensional Printing at the Advanced Media Studio

By Alexander Gibbons

As computers become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, the technology that enables them to communicate back to the world becomes ever more advanced. Computer monitors and printers, typical output devices, are limited in their utility and...

Managing NYU's Digital Image Collections

By Gregory Schnese

University art departments are undergoing radical changes as digital media gains popularity, raising questions about how best to store and manage growing digital collections. At NYU, we have selected Luna Insight as a promising solution....

The Benefits of Blade Servers & Virtualization

By Sherif Samaan

The System Administration Services (SAS) group within ITS' Communications & Computing Services has, in recent years, been faced with the challenge of managing a burgeoning server farm in a finite amount of space, while also striving to meet the explosive growth in demand for new applications and services...

Help Protect Your Email with SSL

Excerpted from ITS Website

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol that helps ensure the privacy of documents transmitted over the Internet, including email messages. Once activated, SSL encrypts your incoming messages, ensuring that passwords and other private information can not be...

ITS News for the NYU Community

By Keith Allison, Robert Brill & Amit Snyderman

A redesigned version of NYUHome will be released early in the Spring 2007 semester. Exciting new features will include: A redesigned login screen and seven deluxe new style themes...