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- NCSA Software Database First Step to Alliance RIB
- To better address the needs of the NCSA user community, the list of software
available at the center is now offered using a database. The served information is updated
and more complete. This is a first step to an Alliance-wide software repository.
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- New NCSA HPC Index
- If you occasionally have trouble finding some needed information in the
Scientific Computing space on the NCSA website, help is now available! The NCSA HPC
index page gives you an alphabetical view on the HPC-oriented information and
resources. New NCSA consultant Scott Koranda created this resource drawing on his
experiences traversing the SCD pages.
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- NCSA's Plans for Mass Storage
- NCSA can move files around at 40 megabytes per second.
Only three percent of files stored for more than one year are ever retrieved. What
do these numbers tell NCSA's high-performance data management team about
the mass storage needs for the future?
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- AHPCC
Supercluster Los Lobos Unveiled
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The Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC), one of the
Alliance's primary partners in providing advanced computational
services, will take delivery of an Alliance-funded, 512-processor Linux
supercluster within the next month -- a
move that will give this nationwide partnership the largest open production
Linux supercluster aimed at the research community.
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- NLANR Electronic Newsletter
- The Network Anaylsis Times, also known as NA Times,
is a new publication from the National Laboratory for Advanced Network Research.
PI Hans-Werner Braun says in his welcome that NA Times is intended
to communicate NLANR's work, encourage use of their data, and foster collaboration.
This document is delivered in PDF format.
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Three-Year No-Cost Extension of vBNS
- NSF and MCI WorldCom recently agreed to a three-year, no-cost extension
that will keep the very high performance Backbone Network System (vBNS)
operating until at least 2003. The network connects 94 U.S. universities to other
research institutions at speeds up to 2.4 gigabits per second.
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Alliance Adopts PKI for Security
- This press release provides additional information about the Alliance's use
of the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) reported in the February
issue of data link.
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Conferences and Workshops & Training Events-
Globus Training via the Alliance Access Grid
- This two-day workshop, to be held May 3-4, will introduce the concept of
Grid computing and the Globus Toolkit, a software toolkit for supporting Grid applications.
Included are a high-level overview for executives, directors, scientific leads, and program managers;
an introductory tutorial explaining the capabilities and services provided by the Globus Toolkit;
and a full-day, detailed tutorial for software developers.
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PNNL Announces Molecular Science Software Suite Tutorial
- A June 2000 two-day workshop presents NWChem and Ecce, part of the
Molecular Science Software Suite (MS3). MS3 is a comprehensive, integrated
set of tools for understanding complex chemical systems
at the molecular level. MS3 has three components: the
Extensible Computational Chemistry Environment (Ecce), the Northwest Computational
Chemistry Software (NWChem), and Parallel Software Development Tools (ParSoft).
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- UVa-Applied Metacomputing
Workshop on Using Legion
- A hands-on two-day lab for running applications under Legion,
an object-based metasystems software project, will be held at
the University of Virginia in mid-May. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own
code with them to the sessions.
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Fifth NLANR/Internet2 Techs Workshop
- Building on the success of the previous four NLANR/Internet2 workshops
is the fifth workshop to be held in Minneapolis-St. Paul in mid-May.
Topics will include multicast, video conferencing, optical and wireless networking,
voice over IP, optimizing high speed links, tools and performance measurement, and
network-based applications. Case studies, infrastructure updates, and the latest from
Gigapops and campuses round out the agenda.
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- International Forum "Women in
Engineering and Science"
- A conference aimed at spreading the knowledge of best practices in industry, education,
and government to create a diversified, well-trained and multicultural workforce -- one with
significant women in engineering roles -- will be held in Germany in June.
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- Workshop on Scalable
Web Services
- With the growth of the web comes a strain on web-based services
such as metacomputing resources and domain name competition. Technologies such
as agents, metacomputing systems, distributed caching systems, and enhanced
scheduling methodologies are all advancing to meet the information
distribution needs of a wired world. The First International
Workshop on Scalable Web Services in August will bring together the researchers and
practitioners working on theoretical and experimental research in this area.
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- ACM/SIGARCH's International Conference
on Supercomputing
- ACM/SIGARCH's international conference series provides a technical forum for
engineers and scientists to exchange ideas and research results relating to high-performance,
distributed, and supercomputing systems. ICS 2000 focuses on high-performance and parallel computing
systems viewed from the perspectives of applications, software, and architectures. The April registration
deadline is fast approaching!
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