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Date Venue Description
26-Apr-2012 Tech Lunch MGH Martinos Center: IS Infrastructure

Paul Raines, I.S. Manager of the MGH Martinos Center and Sam Mehl presented on the Center's I.S. infrastructure, current initiatives and challenges.
26-Apr-2012 Tech Lunch Intel Update & Roadmap

Intel presented on the Intel roadmap, gpu computing, compilers/parallel computing/multi-threading and Intel alternatives to Nvidia and Cuda/OpenCL.
29-Mar-2012 Tech Lunch Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Griffin Weber, Chief Technology Officer, Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School discussed The Harvard Catalyst Profiles, a social networking website for scientists.
29-Mar-2012 Tech Lunch Information Security Update

Jennings Aske, PHS Chief Information Security Officer gave security updates, discussed initiatives and took questions.
23-Feb-2012 Tech Lunch Bioinformatics Core - Harvard School of Public Health

Oliver Hofmann, Associate Director Bioinformatics Core - Harvard School of Public Health discussed the Core, its infrastructure and current projects.
23-Feb-2012 Tech Lunch BWH Research Intranet - Update

Alexandra Gallant, Web Coordinator - Biomedical Research Institute, BWH discussed the BWH Research Intranet, recent design changes and sought input.
23-Feb-2012 Tech Lunch MGH Research Intranet - Update

Gary Smith, Sr. Administrative Director - MGH Research discussed the MGH Research Intranet, recent design changes and sought input.
26-Jan-2012 Tech Lunch Partners Exchange Email Archiving Project

Brendan O'Neill, Corporate Manager of Partners TSO Services and Mindy Hynes, Senior Project Specialist presented on the Partners Exchange Email Archiving Project.
26-Jan-2012 Tech Lunch Research Computing Update

Diane Keogh, Corporate Director of Partners Research Computing discussed the recent Partners IS re-organization, the Research IT Steering Committee's combined training initiative and Enterprise...
01-Dec-2011 Tech Lunch Overview of the Broad Institute and its Initiatives

Martin Leach, Chief Information Officer, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard gave a general overview of IT and IT strategy at The Broad Institute.
01-Dec-2011 Tech Lunch Development of New Image-based Biomarkers

Raúl San José Estépar, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and a Research Associate at Brigham and Women's Hospital presented on the efforts carried out at the...
27-Oct-2011 Tech Lunch IT Audit & Compliance > Research

John Schwartz, Partners I.T. Audit Manager and Marcia Wong, Partners Senior I.T. Internal Auditor discussed compliance. PHS Internal Audit Services (IAS) is an independent group within Partners that...
27-Oct-2011 Tech Lunch Ruby on Rails at DFCI

Keith Morrison, DFCI Research Computing Programmer gave a high-level overview of Ruby and Rails, and talked about some of the benefits and drawbacks to using them for web application development. He...
30-Sep-2011 Tech Lunch Security Update

Jennings Aske, PHS Chief Information Security Officer gave updates on encryption, the Adaptive Authentication Project, and presented the Partners Portable Device Security Handbook for feedback.
29-Sep-2011 Tech Lunch Windows 2008 AD Upgrade

Mindy Hynes, Senior Project Specialist, Rob Woltag, Team Lead for TSO Projects and Brian Nelson, Server Engineer discussed the Partners Windows 2008 AD upgrade project.
30-Jun-2011 Tech Lunch DFCI Research Computing

Matt Temple, Director of DFCI Research Computing discussed the DFCI data center and recent infrastructure challenges. "Dana-Farber researchers have their own data center. We have a data-...
30-Jun-2011 Tech Lunch Desktop Backup 2.0

Neil Coplan, ERIS MGH Corporate Team Lead at MGH Continued the Research Computing Services update from the April Tech Lunch. Neil gave updates on Desktop Backup and Storage.
27-May-2011 Tech Lunch BWH Redline Sleep Lab: Research and Infrastructure.

Michael Reuschman, Senior IS Programmer/Analyst with the BWH Redline Sleep Lab presented on the lab's research and infrastructure.
27-May-2011 Tech Lunch HP Proliant | AMD OpteronTM Road Map & GPU Update

Fred Shubert, Senior Field Application Engineer for AMD presented the Opteron roadmap and provided a high-level overview of the upcoming Bulldozer architecture found in their newest Opterons which...
29-Apr-2011 Tech Lunch MGH Center for Systems Biology (CSB) Research CORE

Misha Pivovarov, Director of IT, MGH Center for Systems Biology (CSB) presented on the CSB Research Informatics Core.
29-Apr-2011 Tech Lunch Enterprise Research Infrastructure & Services (ERIS) - Service updates

Brent Richter, Director of Enterprise Research Infrastructure & Services (ERIS) and his team members present updates on services offered: high performance computing, electronic data capture,...
31-Mar-2011 Tech Lunch "Any Application Anywhere" - A New Partners IS Application Delivery Initiative

Demetri Papayannopoulos, Program Manager, IT Architecture presented on the new Partners I.S. application delivery initiative, "Any Application Anywhere". This Application Delivery...
31-Mar-2011 Tech Lunch Partners Technology Evaluation Initiative

Susan Stanton, Director Partners Technology Evaluation Initiative and Bill Henderson, Senior Technology Strategist presented a review of the Technology Evaluation Review Committee's activities...
24-Feb-2011 Tech Lunch Partners Technical Services Operations (TSO) Initiatives

John Grieco, Corporate Manager, TSO and Brendan O'Neill, Corporate Manager of TSO Strategy and Design presented on current and planned TSO initiatives of interest to research.
24-Feb-2011 Tech Lunch McAfee and SCCM management and options at Partners

Manuela Stoyanov, Corporate Manager, Partners Desktop Team discussed McAfee and SCCM management and options at Partners.
02-Dec-2010 Tech Lunch Information Security Update

Jennings Aske, Chief Information Security Officer - Corporate Director, IS gave updates on existing policies, the new social media policy and rogue AP scanning.
28-Oct-2010 Tech Lunch LDAP as a multi-environment authentication mechanism

Roman Hunt, Systems Manager, MGH-CBRC presented on using LDAP as a multi-environment authentication mechanism (spanning *NIX, Windows, and Mac OS X).
28-Oct-2010 Tech Lunch Partners I.S. Operations Team and Decision-making

Diane Keogh, Corporate Director, Research Computing presented on the Information Systems Operations team (ISOPS), their mandate and processes. Diane fielded questions about how ISOPS prioritizes and...
30-Sep-2010 Tech Lunch Partners Research Workstation Update

A HP Workstation Roadmap Update, including Desktop Workstations Z200, Z400, Z600 and Z800Systems complete with 2-D and 3-D Graphic capabilities. Also includes information on the two high powered...
30-Sep-2010 Tech Lunch Polyserve for SQL Server

This is a robust, clustered, shared implementation of SQL Server on top of the proven Polyserve cluster filesystem that provides for higher availability, and can be used for VLDB implementations...
24-Jun-2010 Tech Lunch Harvard Catalyst

Doug MacFadden from Harvard Catalyst Services presented on HCS's current collaborations and projects.
24-Jun-2010 Tech Lunch The Ergonomics Group

Bob Chipman from the Ergonomics Group discussed the custom configured and specially priced research servers, laptops and workstations as well as the new streamlined ordering process.
27-May-2010 Tech Lunch Intel Roadmap & Parallel Tools

Richard Greene from Intel discussed Intel processor and platform enhancements.
27-May-2010 Tech Lunch Partners Help Desk Overview

Partners Help Desk managers Carlo Severo & Chris Rizzo discussed the history and growth of the Help Desk, highlighted current initiatives and fielded questions and suggestions for additional...
15-Apr-2010 Tech Lunch Dr. Frank Baetke from HP presents on Cloud Computing & Software Environments in Europe & Asia

Dr. Baetke discussed academic and research cloud computing environments in Asia and Europe as well as software environments & future development tools for cloud computing.
25-Mar-2010 Tech Lunch SUN Oracle Presentation

Russ DiPietro and Sandrino Cueva contrast traditional storage architectures with emerging storage architectures, and challenges to IT and the business.
25-Mar-2010 Tech Lunch Software Asset Management at Partners

Todd Turner described his department's responsibilities with a focus on software purchasing.
01-Mar-2010 Partners IS Laptop Encryption at BWH

Partners is requiring laptops to be encrypted for multiple reasons.
25-Feb-2010 Tech Lunch REDCap (Research Electronic Database Capture)

Lynn Simpson, Partners EDC Specialist, presented on the open source REDcap survey and data collection tool.
25-Feb-2010 Tech Lunch Clinical Research Informatics: Challenges & Trends (StudyTrax)

John Putzke, ScienceTrax: Although the goal of nearly all-academic research is dissemination of results, little has been done to integrate electronic study management systems with the process of...
28-Jan-2010 Tech Lunch Enexity

Enexity is a new I.S. service offering for vendor remote access. Enexity is a meet-me type product (similar to GoToMyPC) providing vendors secure access to internal servers.
28-Jan-2010 Tech Lunch Internet Redundancy at Partners

Chuck Riley described the Internet redundancy infrastructure at Partners as well as future plans for expansion and additional redundancy.
28-Jan-2010 Tech Lunch Content Filtering > Web Security Appliance

Neil Buckley from Partners Information Security discussed the web security initiative underway at Partners.
07-Jan-2010 MGH Advisory Board Enterprise Research Infrastructure & Services (ERIS) Strategic Plan

Brent Richter, Corporate Manager for Enterprise Research Infrastructure & Services (ERIS), discusses the proposed road ahead for services and offerings.
10-Dec-2009 Tech Lunch Integrative Approaches to Genomic Data Analysis

One of the greatest challenges in basic, clinical and translational research is the integration of information across domains. The rapid pace of technology development requires the development of...
10-Dec-2009 Tech Lunch JBoss Technical Overview

New developments and offerings from JBoss.
29-Oct-2009 Tech Lunch Exchange at Partners: Present & Future

A discussion of Exchange at Partners: current configuration and status, current performance, capacity issues, and plans for Exchange 2010.
29-Oct-2009 Tech Lunch Load Balancing at Partners IS

An overview of the Partners content switch architecture in our DataCenters including overall architecture, services provided, current customers, examples and future plans.
24-Sep-2009 Tech Lunch PHS Information Security Program: A Standards-based Approach

Jennings Aske, the PHS Chief Information Officer, presents an overview of recent developments in information security law and regulation, upcoming security initiatives at PHS, and the long-term...
01-Jul-2009 Partners IS Partners Research Computing Overview

Partners Research Computing Corporate Director, Diane Keogh, gives an update on services and initiatives.
01-Jun-2009 Publication Managing and Analyzing Next-Generation Sequence Data

Centralized Bioinformatics Core Facilities provide shared resources for the computational and IT requirements of the investigators in their department or institution.
01-Jun-2009 Publication The Need for Centralization of Computational Biology Resources

Biomedical research is benefiting from the wealth of new data generated in the laboratory.
26-Mar-2009 Tech Lunch Pubget

Pubget provides full-text document access in bioscience research.
01-Jan-2009 Partners IS Cycles to Bytes: Cloud Computing and Virtualized Services

The Discovery Information Platform for Research.
11-Dec-2008 Tech Lunch High Performance Computing Cluster

A presentation on the Partners Research Computing high performance cluster.
30-Oct-2008 Tech Lunch Partners Research Computing Services

A presentation on the services offered by Partners Research Computing.
30-Oct-2008 Tech Lunch Active Directory with UNIX systems

Using Partners Active Directory with UNIX systems.
 

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