LinkSCEEM General User Meeting Roadshow at the American University in Cairo
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The BA organized on 18 March 2014 LinkSCEEM General User Meeting Roadshow at the American University in Cairo (AUC), held within the framework of the physics week, organized by the AUC Department of Physics.
The Event aimed at raising awareness to the use of the BA Supercomputer in scientific research, a high performance computing cluster suitable for specialized applications that require immense mathematical calculations; it operates at a rate of trillions of calculations per second giving optimum and accurate results. Participants were also introduced to the different facilities available for researchers at the BA such as Virtual Immersive Science and Technology Applications (VISTA), a walk-in virtual reality system which enables interactive work within three-dimensional computer-generated models and environments, and the Internet Archive, a complete snapshot of all webpages on every website since 1996 until today.
The Event comes in accordance with the BA continuous efforts to offer a broader scope for researchers in Egypt and the Arab region. The BA has organized and hosted a series of events at the BA, and several universities and research institutions.
LinkSCEEM-2 aims at establishing a high performance computing (HPC) eco-system in the Eastern Mediterranean region by interlinking and coordinating regional compute, storage and visualization resources to form an integrated e-infrastructure, with an initial emphasis in the fields of climate research, digital cultural heritage and synchrotron radiation applications.