We had our December 2013 – IT Research Connection meeting this past week.  We had a good group of various community experts in attendance.  Topics we discussed included

1. The new Pilot MatLab system where researchers can connect some virtual desktop systems to test this as alernative method of accesing MatLab without a static IP restrictions.
2. System Support is Piloting a new VCloud system where IT experts can test a virtual server that is running in the computer center to see if this can assist them without running a server in research labs.
3. Networking between East and West campus and the speed to handle large data sets that are being discussed by various new research groups.
4. Link to RDP Access change. http://it.cc.stonybrook.edu/newsletters/security_11272013.html