Presentations
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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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