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IRHPIT is an educational collaboration between LANL and Carnegie Mellon University.

The IRHPIT assists LANL in recruiting new employees in the Information Science area. The institute also provide retention and revitilization activities for existing LANL staff including teaching classes and seminars. Additionally the IRHPIT promotes joint LANL/CMU collaborations which revitize LANL staff. The institute concentrates on joint collaboration that will lead to external joint funding opportunities.

The IRHPIT collaboration focuses on:

• Reliable Computing including dealing with failure and software engineering
• Data Intensive Computing