About SeWHiP
Started in August 2006, SeWHiP is currently an informal collaboration of faculty and staff at several Southeast Wisconsin academic institutions including: BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Marquette University, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee School of Engineering and the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. The mission of SeWHiP is to foster support for inter-institutional high-performance computing (HPC) resources, such as network infrastructure, cluster computing, grid technology, shared data resources, and most importantly increased expertise.
In our vision for SeWHiP, several institutions across Southeast Wisconsin work together to share expertise, research and computing interests, data and information, and computational resources to advance the individual missions of each institution and its employees (see Figure 1 below). From our combined experiences, Southeast Wisconsin will be poised to build larger collaborations across the state (e.g., University of Wisconsin - Madison), nationally (e.g., Pacific Northwest National Labs), and with major scientific grids such as TeraGrid, Open Science Grid, caBIG and CVRG.
Figure 1. A vision for SeWHiP.
Aside from supporting the research needs of the institutions, we envision that SeWHiP will ultimately increase the technical knowledge base in Southeast Wisconsin by training current and new generations to utilize computation to its fullest potential. We hope that SeWHiP will lead to new scientific discoveries, improved engineering practices, novel creative endeavors and more.