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- NLANR Clearinghouse Survey Available
- Developers of the NLANR Advanced Applications Database (AAD)
are soliciting comments and suggestions about the database from
users. If you have not yet uesd the Clearinghouse, take a look at this comprehensive
resource. Then give the development team your feedback.
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- PITAC Report on Open
Source Software
- The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)
transmitted to the President in mid-September an open source development model
that PITAC members believe "represents
a viable strategy for producing high quality software through a mixture of public, private,
and academic partnerships."
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- MPI Course Availability Announced
- In two recent surveys, Alliance users said they were interested in receiving web-based
training on MPI. A multi-institutional training team recently completed their work on a
comprehensive online course on the message passing interface, which makes distributed
computing possible. The Web-CT environment is ideal for students because it provides
many online learning tools that make taking the course easy.
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- NCSA Announces Power Outage in November
- Because of expansion of the NCSA Advanced Computation Building, NCSA
must shut off power to that building in late-November. Read about the specifics and
more details on the construction.
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- PACI and Alliance Resources Increase
- Read about two new computational
resources available through the Alliance and see if you are taking advantage of
the various systems that NSF is sponsoring.
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- Higher Education PKI Activity Groups
- CREN, EDUCAUSE and Internet2 are working together on the development of PKI (public
key infrastructure) for the higher education community. Their website provides
information about the activtity groups' efforts in the policy and technical areas.
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- HDF Inspector Released
- Space Research Software's free HDF data tool lets you
examine and verify the contents of Hierarchical Data Format (HDF, HDF-EOS and HDF5) files.
Data can be readily explored in a tree-like interface or in a grid window. Windows OS only.
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- HDF Newsletter #55
- The NCSA HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) Group recently announced the posting of
newsletter #55 that provides the details of the newest releaseof HDF5 Java products and
revisions to the HDF5 XML DTD. The newsletter provides all the information you need,
including acronym expansion.
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Conferences and Workshops & Training Events- Alliance Announces PetSC training
- Join your colleagues for a PETSc training course being offered this month over the
Access Grid. The workshop will be held on October 17 and 18. Registration
closes soon so register today for the site closest to you.
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- Megaconference II
- It takes place on Halloween and says it is the world's "first
totally online conference on the use of teleconferencing in research and
high education." To participate, you need good Internet connectivity
and good H.323 video conferencing equipment. If you are attending the Fall2000
Internet2 Member Meeting, you can take part in the auditorium!
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- CCGrid2001 Call for Papers
- If you didn't get "down under" for the Olympics, you now have another opportunity to
visit Australia. CCGrid2001, which bills itself as a symposium on cluster computing and
the grid, will be held in Brisbane in May 2001. The current call for papers closes in
early November.
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