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>> Jessica Kissinger: My name is Jessica Kissinger,
I'm an associate professor in the department of genetics
and a member of The Center For of Tropical
and Emerging Global Diseases,
and the Institute of Bioinformatics.
I am an infectious disease researcher,
and in particular I am an evolutionary genomicist.
And by this I mean I study the genomes of parasitic organisms,
pathogenic organisms that make humans sick.
The amount of data available for these pathogens is significant.
There have been large quantities of data
that have been generated.
Quantities of data that are so large
that they cannot be analyzed in a desktop computer,
but instead require hundreds of parallel processing computers
that wouldn't fit in my office, but instead are located
in the Research Computing Center.
The Research Computing Center has been alive for a number
of years and supports the research of a number
of researchers like myself to be able
to conduct extensive studies that would not be possible
with individual computers in our individual laboratories.
Funding and finding a sustainable mechanism
for support facilities on campus
like the Research Computing Center requires planning.
In this case, compact planning.
Many of you are aware that the University
of Georgia was recently tied
for twentieth among state universities,
and that doesn't happen by accidents.
It requires a plan to achieve your goals
and of particular interest to reachers in my group and those
that require extensive computational resources.
There's a compact plan for funding and sustainability
for research computing in particular,
to fund the Research Computing Center.
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