Presidents III and IV
Live From Duke: It's YOU!
Stephen Toback, OIT; Scott Wells, Duke Media Services; James Todd, Office of News & Communications
From convocation to commencement, Duke's Office of News and Communication, together with Duke Media Services and the Office of Information Technology's Academic Services, is bringing the 'Duke Experience' live to audiences around the globe. Learn about the process, production and technologies behind successful webcasts such as the John Hope Franklin Life Celebration and the new online Office Hours series. Find out how you can help enable your customers to bring their message in real time to geographically diverse audiences around Durham, around the US or around the world. We will be discussing our partnerships with external resources such as Ustream.tv, as well as our very own DukeStream LIVE service.
The Nuts and Bolts of Organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Paul Kaufman, Global Health Institute
How can you get your web pages to rank high in the search engines for the key terms and phrases your audience is searching on? With the right organic SEO techniques, you can climb the search engine results pages and get your information in front of the people who need it. This session will dive into the basic web design tactics that can enhance your site's visibility in the search engines. A basic understanding of HTML is needed for this session.
Intro to the Scalable Computing Support Center
John Pormann, OIT, Scalable Computing Support Center
The Scalable Computing Support Center is a service and support center that connects Duke University researchers to hardware, software, educational, and personnel resources to enable novel computational science. We will discuss the role of the SCSC, the Duke Shared Cluster Resource, and other computational and training resources available on-campus.
Identity Management Systems Mark 2 & Oracle Id Mgr
Rob Carter, Shilen Patel, OIT
At the 2008 TechExpo, we presented some of the short-and long-term plans for changing our institutional identity management infrastructure. A year has passed, and a number of the plans we discussed last year have been implemented -- some new initiatives have been added to the roadmap, and others have been deprioritized in light of the changing environment.
Our presentation will focus on recent changes to the central IDM facility (the deployment of Oracles OIM product, replacing Novell's DirXML) and the new items on the IDMS roadmap, along with updates on other topics from last year's presentation, with an emphasis on how economic factors have affected and shaped the growth of our IDMS strategy.
General Purpose Graphics Processor Unit Computing and the Open Science Grid
Tom Milledge, OIT, Christopher Bizon, RENCI
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have increased in performance faster than CPUs, hitting over 1 TFLOPS last year (one trillion floating-point operations per second). These dramatic improvements in performance have led researchers to investigate using GPUs to do their "main" calculations, not just graphics calculations. We will discuss this "General Purpose GPU" (GPGPU) trend and show some initial results from a GPU-cluster installed at Duke this fall.