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Computing pioneer, renowned computer scientist, and former CACR Director Paul Messina has been presented with the distinguished Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion at Indiana University. “Paul Messina, Indiana University salutes you. Throughout your distinguished career, your work helped lay the foundation for grid and cloud computing, and helped bring parallel computing technology to the forefront of scientific computing,” said IU President Michael McRobbie.

“Paul established the effective use of high-performance computing at Caltech, and was instrumental in showing the broader research community its potential for advancing science at the national scale. His legacy lives on at CACR to this day, for which we are grateful, and we salute his accomplishments” said Mark Stalzer, CACR’s current director.

(Read more at http://www.isgtw.org/spotlight/computing-pioneer-honored-big-red-ii-dedication)