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Delaware
Center for Scientific and Applied Computation (DeSAC)
To
build this capacity at Delaware State University and in the communities
of South Delaware, the Delmarva Peninsula and the North-East
Corridor, DSU plans to establish the Delaware Center for Scientific
and Applied Computation (DeSAC). The major goals of DeSAC are
to
- Provide
efficient service to biomedical researches at DSU, within
Delaware and nationwide
- Help
DSU students in the sciences and applied math / computer science
to better prepare for graduate studies in the fields related
to computational biology, bioinformatics, computational physics
/ chemistry and numerical mathematics
- Enhance
and strengthen graduate student research at DSU
- Support
efforts of DSU towards establishing PhD programs in areas of
importance to the social and economic development of Delaware,
with special emphasis on the natural sciences and agriculture
- Boost
collaboration between DSU and the industrial community in related
research / development fields
- Develop
a community of scholars with talent and expertise that will
garner regional and national recognition
- Become
a natural seed and basis for activities on developing a proposed
research incubator at DSU.
The
Delaware BRIN has provided the necessary support structure to
establish a biotechnology program at DSU and equip it with the
essential computing facility that provides students with access
to state-of-the-art technology and software in bioinformatics.
Dr. Marwan Rasamny and Dr. Dragoljub Pokrajac, both in the DSU
Computer and Information Sciences Department, have played
a major role in the realization of the bioinformatics core during
the Delaware BRIN project. Dr. Rasamny was closely involved in
designing the network and purchasing the computers and server
that supports bioinformatics. Dr. Pokrajac has played an instrumental
role in developing, implementing, and offering the bioinformatics
curriculum to support the biotechnology program at DSU.
The
biotechnology-training laboratory at DSU presently houses the
bioinformatics equipment purchased through funding from the Delaware
BRIN that includes a SunFire V880 server with two 750 MHz SPARC
processors, 4 GB of memory and 216 GB of disk storage, a 1000
hardware raid disk array with 145 GB of disk storage expandable
to over a terabyte of disk storage; 6 SunBlade X3Delite with
500 MHz UltraSPARC – IIe processors and SunPCi co-processor
card and 18” TFT displays; and 4Dell Precision workstations
with 1.5 GHz Xeon processors and 400 MHz front side bus, nVidia
Quadro2 EX graphics card, 512 MB of memory and a 40 GB internal
drive.
DESAC for Research and Bioinformatics |
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Jaiwant Mulik, Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science Department
Delaware State University
305D Science Center North
1200 N Dupont Hwy, Dover,
DE 19901
Phone: 302-857-7910
Fax: 302-857-6552
Email: jmulik@desu.edu
Ph.D., Computer Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2004
M.S., Computer Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2000
B.E., Computer Engineering, Mumbai University, India, 1998 |
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Dragoljub Pokrajac, Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science Department
Delaware State University
305D Science Center North
1200 N Dupont Hwy., Dover, DE
19901
Phone: 302-857-7053
Fax: 302-857-6552
Email: dpokraja@desu.edu
Ph.D., Computer Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2002
M.S., Telecommunication systems, University of Nis, Serbia, 1997
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia, 1993 |
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Marwan Rasamny, Chairperson
Computer and Information Science Department
Delaware State University
305D Science Center North
1200 N. Dupont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901
Phone: 302-857-7896
Fax: 302-857-6552
rasamny@desu.edu
Ph.D., Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT,
1999
M.S., Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1992
B.S., Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics, Pace University,
Pleasantville, NY, 1990 |
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