News for and about the Internet2 community

["Timothy Bowen" <>]

CLEMSON, SC - A national conference on cyberinfrastructure (CI) comes to 
Clemson.

CI Days at Clemson University will take place May 19-21 at the Madren 
Conference Center and will bring Clemson faculty, staff and students together 
with national experts to raise awareness about cyberinfrastructure and spark 
collaboration across disciplines. Nearly 340 attendees are registered and 
include Clemson faculty, graduate students and IT staff as well as colleagues 
from over a dozen other SC universities and research centers. 

"This important meeting will help faculty understand how recent improvements 
in our capabilities for high performance computing can impact and support 
scholarship, teaching, research and outreach across the disciplines," said 
Clemson President James F. Barker.

CI Days is part of a national forum designed to explore innovative ways to 
integrate information technology into teaching, research and outreach 
programs. The Clemson conference is co-sponsored by several Clemson 
University mission VPs and a number of key corporate partners including Dell, 
Apple, SUN and Cisco. The effort also is supported by a national 
collaboration of computing and networking agencies including: 
* Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
* National Science Foundation (NSF)
* Department of Energy (DOE)
* Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)
* National LambdaRail (NLR)
* EDUCAUSE
* Internet2
* TeraGrid
* Open Science Grid (OSG)
* Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) 
* International Research Network Connections (IRNC)
Mark Lundstrom will deliver the keynote address "Adventures in 
Cyberinfrastructure: Observations of an Accidental Tourist" at 9:45 a.m. on 
Tuesday, May 20. Lundstrom is the Scifres Distinguished Professor of 
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and Director of the 
National Science Foundation's Network for Computational Nanotechnology. 

"This is a unique opportunity for our faculty, graduate students and IT staff 
to share needs, ideas and projects with national and regional providers of CI 
resources and services to build working alliances that meet our educational 
needs and promote our collective missions," said James Bottum, vice provost 
and chief information officer at Clemson. 

Visit http://cidays.clemson.edu for:
            
* A live online feed to the conference sessions; 
* A link to conference photos;
* More information on cyberinfrastructure and this conference; and
* A schedule of events.

Information on the national CI Days effort is available at www.cidays.org.

CONTACTS: 
Jim Bottum, (864) 656-8100 
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Barbara Weaver, (864) 650-8238
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WRITER:         
Tim Bowen (864) 656-2800 or (864) 650-3370
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