December, 2008
UMass Dartmouth Launches "World Class. Within Reach." Campaign
UMass Dartmouth launched its first-ever coordinated ad campaign in November, reaching out to high school students and their parents with a message suited to our difficult economic times. Entitled "World Class. Within Reach.", the campaign emphasizes what 40,000 alumini and 9,000 students already recognize -- UMass Dartmouth is a dynamic institution, located in a beautiful region of Massachusetts, that provides high quality educational opportunties at an accessable price. Check out the ads.
In tandem with the ad campaign, the university also unveiled tools to more directly connect potential students and their parents to the campus, including faculty "Nano Lectures," brief talks by our world class faculty and staff; and the UMD Blog.
Physics Professor Gaurav Khanna and Principal Investigator Chris Poulin have created a step-by-step guide to building a home-brewed supercomputer that can reduce the cost of university and general computing research.
Found at www.ps3cluster.org, the resource fully illustrates how to create a fully functioning and high performance supercomputer with the Sony Playstation 3. The method, supported by the National Science Foundation, is aimed at reducing the cost of scientfic research. Typically, scientists rent supercomputer time by the hour. A single simulation can cost more than 5,000 hours at $1 per hour on the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid computing infrastructure.
"For the same cost, you can build your own supercomputer and it works just as well if not better," Khanna said. "Plus, you can use it over and over again, indefinitely." The cost for his initial Playstation grid was $4,000. More.
Campus Tests Warning System
UMass Dartmouth has installed a 1200-watt public address and warning system, the latest in a series of measures to enhance the safety of campus students, staff, faculty and neighbors through the use of technology.
This follows last spring's installation of the myAlert system, which delivers text messages and emails to students, faculty and staff in the event of a major emergency. This system is similar in design to public warning systems currently in use at Assumption College, Holy Cross and the Naval Academy. More
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