Assessing Our Research & High-Performance Computing Needs

We are excited to announce that we have partnered with the consulting firm BerryDunn to help us assess our research and high-performance computing needs at UNCW. As our research capabilities continue to grow, academic programs expand, and the frontiers of knowledge advance, the institution's needs are also changing.

For example, UNCW has launched two Ph.D. programs in the last three years. Our growth in human health, engineering, and cybersecurity requires us to think critically about the research computing needs of our faculty and students as an R2 institution. 

Working Together to Define UNCW's Research Computing Strategy

To help advance the design of a research and high-performance computing strategy, we will engage faculty, students, and research support staff in two targeted ways:

• We will distribute a survey across campus to capture the technology and support resources necessary to sustain an effective research computing function.
• We will conduct focus groups with stakeholders to further understand the research computing needs at UNCW.

We are working with campus leadership to identify the appropriate stakeholders for focus groups and will communicate with those in the coming weeks.  

Your participation in the survey and focus groups will be critical in shaping our research and high-performance computing strategy. We thank you in advance for your attention to this important initiative. 

The assessment of research computing needs is a collaborative effort by Information Technology Services, the Office of Research and Innovation, the Center for Marine Science and the College of Science and Engineering. Our goal is to have input and feedback from all of campus. The assessment is scheduled to run through June. 

If you have questions about the assessment, please contact Sharyne Miller or Stuart Borrett.

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