R. Lynn Rardin, Ph.D.

Manager of Scientific Computing Facilities

Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center

Brandeis University


As the computer manager for the Rosenstiel Center at Brandeis University, I administer most of the computers that reside in the Center's research laboratories, offices and facilities areas. These machines range from relatively simple desktop PCs and Macs to nodes in a high performance computing cluster and run a wide range of operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Irix and even Tru64 UNIX and OpenVMS. My duties include planning and implementing computing strategies for the Center and its research labs, purchasing and installing hardware, assisting Brandeis LTS in the management of the Center's extensive network, maintaining widely-used software packages, administering user accounts and training users.