MSU now has a local XSEDE Campus Champion. Pol Llovet, Associate Director of Cyberinfrastructure for the RCG is the Campus Champion for MSU. In this position, Pol will help researchers gain access to world-class national XSEDE resources. He is extremely excited to be learning the nuts and bolts of how these services work.

The MSU campus will benefit by having direct access to the XSEDE resources and input to its staff, resource allocations awarded for their use, and assistance in using those resources.  The Campus Champion will perform the following services for the research community on campus:

• Source of local, regional and national high-performance computing and cyberinfrastructure information on your campus,
• Source of information regarding XSEDE resources and services that will benefit research and education on your campus,
• Source of start-up accounts on your campus to quickly get researchers and educators using their allocations of time on XSEDE resources, and
• Conduit for the campus high-performance computing needs, requirements and challenges, with direct access to XSEDE staff.