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Indiana University’s
Information Technology
Accomplishments
Timeline
4/8/2008
Accomplishments 1956 – 1995
Notable events (RT unless noted) Grants and awards Year
Marshall Wrubel named first Director of Research 1955
Computing Center
Stanley Hagstrom, Franklin Prosser, Stephen 1963
Young FASTRAN (FAST FORTRAN II) for IBM
709
CDC key research resource at IUB; IBM key 1970s-mid
research resource at IUPUI 1980s
IU key site for porting BMDP to CDC NOS 1970s
DEC grant for equipment purchase 1980s
($10M)
Hondo Late 1980s-
mid 1990s
Unix Workstation Support Group created 1988
Center for Innovative Computer Applications 1989
established
Stat/Math established 1991
Scalar Technology Array of Risc Research Systems 1991
LETRS service established (DLP&UITS) 1992
SoM Library Variations Project 1993
LETRS facility established (DLP&UITS) 1994
DIDO Image Bank goes online (DLP) 1994
Victorian Women Writers Project begins (DLP) I-Way - HPC Challenge award (Gannon) 1995
Accomplishments 1996 – 2001 4/8/2008
Notable events (RT unless noted) Grants and awards Year
IBM SUR - SP2 (RT), Variations SUR grant 1996
(DLP)
Variations first goes online (DLP) SCAAMP 1996
IUB CAVE (RT), IUPUI Immersadesk. vBNS ($394K) 1997
First RAC staff @ IUPUI
Digital Library Program launched in its
current form (IU Libraries, UITS, OVPIT, SoI)
First SC display 1997
IU Information Technology Strategic Plan Industrial Mold filling HPC Challenge award 1998
(Bramley et al), Digital Library IBM SUR
grant (DLP)
Hoagy Carmichael Collection (IMLS) (DLP) 1998
Pervasive Technology Labs ($30M), Letopis' 1999
Zhurnal' nykh Statei - Russian Periodical
index (Dept. of Ed.) (DLP)
SPSS ELA Variations2 ($3,132,596) (DLP) 2000
Research Indiana Display at SC2000 (RT), Wright INGEN ($105M; $6.7 to IT), US Steel Gary 2000
American Fiction joint CIC project begins (DLP) Works Photo Collection (LSTA) (DLP)
John-E-Box invented (Huffman^2, Wernert) Charles Cushman Photo Collection (IMLS) 2001
(DLP)
HPSS Distributed movers developed and 2001
implemented
Accomplishments 2001 – 2005
4/8/2008
Notable events (RT unless noted) Grants and awards Year
First university-owned 1 TFLOPS AVIDD ($1.8M) 2001
supercomputer
SAS Site License 2001
Film Literature Index Online (NEH) (DLP) 2002
Ist distributed cluster > 1 TFLOPS Linpack TeraGrid ETF ($1,517,430) (RT), Stone, 2003
EVIA Digital Archive Development Phase
(Mellon) (DLP)
Global Arthropod Evolution - HPC 2003
Challenge Award (Stewart et al)
Hess, Digital Library of the Commons 2003
(Mellon) (DLP)
Newman, The "Chymistry" of Isaac Newton 2003
(NSF) (DLP)
IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana 2004
(IMLS) (DLP), Digital Libraries Education
Program (IMLS) (DLP)
ICTC!!!!! Digital Audio Archives Project (IMLS, JHU 2004
subcontract) (DLP)
Variations2 goes online for IU students and faculty TeraGrid RP ($3,416,693) (RT), IN 2005
(DLP) Harmony (DLP), Variations3 (IMLS) (DLP)
IUScholarWorks institutional repository goes Gould, CAMVA (Dept. of Ed.) (DLP) 2005
online (DLP)
4/8/2008
Accomplishments 2005 – present
Notable events (RT unless noted) Grants and awards Year
METACyt ($53M; 6.25 to IT), Stone, EVIA 2005
Digital Archive (Mellon) (DLP)
Data Capacitor ($1,720,000) (RT), Indiana 2005
Authors and their Books (LSTA) (DLP)
Reed, Sound Directions R&D Phase (NEH) 2005
(DLP)
Big Red - 20 TFLOPS, 23rd on Top500, All in a day’s work Bandwidth Challenge 2006
fastest academic supercomputer in western Honorable Mention (Simms et al.),
hemisphere (RT), Fedora-based IU digital library Sakaibrary (Mellon) (DLP)
object repository goes into production (DLP)
BARCO VR Theatre Stone, EVIA Digital Archive 2006
Implementation Phase (Mellon) (DLP)
Life Sciences Strat Plan 2006
PolarGrid ($1,964,049), DLF Aquifer 2007
American Social History Online (IMLS, DLF
subcontract) (DLP)
Building a Bridge Bandwidth Challenge 2007
award (Simms et al), Reed, Sound
Directions Preservation Phase (NEH) (DLP)
IUScholarWorks e-journal hosting pilot (DLP) 2008
