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Chautauqua 2000 Events Emphasize the Power of the Gridreleased May 16, 2000
Contact CHAMPAIGN, IL — Alliance Chautauquas—technology road shows hosted by the National Computational Science Alliance—are back, and this year they will showcase the power of computational grids to link people and technologies in ways that change how we communicate, conduct research, and do business. Two Chautauqua conferences are scheduled this summer, the first June 13-15 at OSC in Columbus, OH, and the second Aug. 1-3 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. An important component of this year's events will be remote participation by researchers, educators, and others who will link to the conferences through nodes of the Access Grid. At least nine remote sites plan to participate in the Chautauqua meetings remotely through Access Grid nodes. These sites are the Alliance Center for Collaboration, Education, Science and Software (ACCESS) in Arlington, VA, Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago, Atlanta University Center, Boston University, the Maui High Performance Computing Center, the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Urbana-Champaign, IL, the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. The Access Grid refers to the technology that links people in virtual spaces—such as teamwork sessions, remote training, and distance education classes. The Access Grid is a component of the PACI Grid, an experimental system that links high-speed hardware and cutting-edge applications into an efficient, persistent infrastructure. "The Alliance Chautauqua 2000 meetings follow the success we had last year, when we used these events to introduce the Access Grid as an environment for distributed meetings," said Alliance Director Dan Reed. "This year we will have participants from even more remote sites, spanning the country from Boston to Maui. What they will see and learn about are the advances the Alliance has made in Grid technologies and new applications of advanced technologies." The Chautauquas are part of the Alliance's comprehensive plan to deploy sites as Grid access points and will introduce a wider group of researchers and educators to Grid technologies. Each Chautauqua will feature interactive demonstrations and seminars, conducted from Alliance partner sites live over the Grid. While this type of interactive participation is currently available through high-priced, proprietary telecommunications technologies, the Chautauquas will showcase emerging technologies that are beginning to offer readily accessible and affordable alternatives. While still experimental, five or 10 years down the road the Grid is expected to be the norm, driving future scientific research and technology development. Speakers and topics featured at this year's Chautauquas include:
The OSC Chautauqua is being presented in partnership with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), a consortium of 12 research universities, including the 11 members of the Big Ten Athletic Conference and the University of Chicago. The University of Kansas Chautauqua will be done in partnership with EPSCoR, an NSF program to stimulate research in states that have traditionally received few research dollars. In addition, researchers from regional universities and colleges, the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), a consortium of 41 universities in 13 southeastern states, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), a consortium of 32 colleges in the United States and one Canadian institution, and minority serving institutions throughout the country will be invited to join in these meetings. For details on the Chautauquas, including registration information, visit the Alliance Chautauqua website at http://alliance.ncsa.uiuc.edu/chautauqua/.
The National Computational Science Alliance is a
partnership to prototype an advanced computational infrastructure for the
21st century and includes more than 50 academic, government and industry
research partners from across the United States. The Alliance is one of
two partnerships funded by the National Science Foundation's Partnerships
for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program, and receives
cost-sharing at partner institutions. NSF also supports the National
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), led by the
San Diego Supercomputer Center.
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is
the leading edge site for
the National Computational Science Alliance. NCSA is a leader in the development
and deployment of cutting-edge high-performance computing, networking, and
information technologies. The National Science Foundation, the state of Illinois,
the University of Illinois, industrial partners, and other federal agencies fund
NCSA.
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