2007

The Trusted Social Networking & Virtual Community was launched to enable staff, students and alumni to connect, discover, extend, manage and leverage their personal networks with identity and trust in an online space underscored by geographic and social boundaries, connecting students with life beyond graduation. The University introduced the first multi-core server cluster with a total of 336 processor cores, doubling its HPC capability to an aggregated computing power of 1.99 Teraflops for researchers. The first Windows-based HPC cluster was introduced to provide staff with relentless parallel computing resources right from their desktop PC. The University implemented the Data Management Policy and Data Use Policy to address the management of Corporate Data as a valuable asset of the University through effective stewardship, ensuring reliable and accessible shared access, appropriate use and understanding by all staff. NUS President Prof Shih Choon Fong and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore's CEO, Mr Chan Yeng Kit graced the official opening of NUS IT Disaster Recovery Centre on 25 July 2007. This $4.7 million NUS data centre is a first for Singapore's higher education sector, serving the University and protecting its vast information flow among the entire NUS community. The University commissioned a Research Repository System to enable capturing of research related achievements, outputs, and collaborative materials of Faculties, Research Institutes and Centres. This system serves as a central repository with a single source of truth for management decision making. NUSGroups was launched to make information dissemination to targeted audience easy. It empowers every individual at NUS the capability to decide what information to receive through subscription-based approach anytime when needed. NUS WebVPN was enhanced to make remote access simple & easy when at home or abroad using public terminals in airport lounges, hotels, cyber cafe or at conference venues through a Web browser, eliminating the need to install a client software. NUS and China-based computer maker Lenovo jointly opened a $150,000 ThinkLab in May 2007 at the Computer Centre. Equipped with 108 Lenovo ThinkCentre A60 desktops powered by AMD processors, and using Lenovo�s innovative and award winning ThinkVantage Technologies, the aim is to increase system uptime with easy maintenance and self-help features.