j-Warrior: Juan Iglesias of UTB

It was my honor to sponsor Dr. Juan R. Iglesias, associate professor and chair of the Department of Computer and Information services at The University of Texas at Brownsville, for an IBM faculty award of 2010 for his involvement with computer science and research computing. The 2010 IBM Faculty Award was given to 55 recipients at 47 universities in 15 countries. The award promotes work opportunities, teaching and research innovation and collaboration between faculty-researchers.


The award was $40,000 and paid for a HPC visualization system located in the computer science laboratory on UTB campus.  

Dr. Iglesias and his colleague, Dr. Hansheng Lei, had earlier won a Major Research Instrumentation grant of $704,000 from NSF towards building Futuro, UTB's third-generation computing cluster. I was fortunate enough to be able to architect and led the IBM team to deliver the system on-site in the summer of 2010. The cluster went into operation early 2011 with a full-day user orientation and training.  We celebrated Dr Iglesias' award and the start of the system in February of 2011.


Link:

• Iglesias Receives IBM Faculty Award - UTB Press on 1/19/2011
• IBM Faculty Award

Update:

• 2012.05.05 - original post