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The Alliance and Intel-based Systems-
Alliance at SC2000 in Dallas
- If you are attending SC2000, please stop by the Alliance booth! The Alliance's
research exhibit will include a 16-processor cluster
of four four-processor Intel® Itanium-based machines
Another feature of this year's exhibit is a scalable tiled wall
powered by 1 GHz Pentium® III processor-based workstations. The tiled wall
uses six projectors to show images with a resolution of 3,000 x 1,500 pixels.
We hope to see you there!
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- Results From
Pilot Efforts with Intel® on Itanium™-Based Clusters
- NCSA, at the Intel® eXCHANGE event last month,
showed how two scientific codes perform on an Itanium-based computer cluster.
Dan Reed, NCSA and Alliance director, commented that the center "believe(s) Intel's
64-bit architecture is the future of computing."
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- InteleXCHANGE
Featured NCSA
- NCSA showcased Intel's® new Itanium™ architecture as a high-performance
computing platform at eXCHANGE. The NCSA booth featured demonstrations of two codes
that have already achieved top performance on the new architecture.
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Other News and Websites- March NRAC To Consider Requests on TSC1
- Potential users of the NSF-funded terascale system (TCS1) should read the
recently announced information about allocations on that system. Now is the time
to plan and prepare your proposal for the March NRAC meeting.
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- Provide Feedback to NLANR Clearinghouse Developers
- Developers of the NLANR Advanced Applications Database (AAD)
are soliciting comments and suggestions about the database from
users. If you have not yet used the Clearinghouse, take a look at this
resource. Then give the development team your feedback.
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- NCSA Announces Power Outage in November
- Because of expansion of the NCSA Advanced Computation Building that houses the
high-performance systems, 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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- Alliance Metadata Standards Working Group
- The Alliance Metadata Standards Working Group focuses on developing metadata
interoperability standards for use with scientific data collections on the Grid. This website explains
current initiatives, provides a recent white paper, and gives you hyperlinks to a related information
page.
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- Library/Metadata Resource to Add to Your Hotlist
- Ariadne, an online magazine, is published every three months by UKOLN, the
UK Office for Library and Information Networking. The current issue is packed with information about
digital library initiatives, metadata, search engines, and tools. Among the September 2000 authors is
NLANR's George Brett, who has an article about the Klearinghouse project.
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- Grid Forum Updates and Newsletter
- Information about the recent Grid Forum meeting in Massachusetts is now
posted on the GF website. If you want to receive email information about upcoming
events -- such as the GF BOF at SC2000 -- add you name to one of the working group
mail lists.
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- BU Celebrates Center
for Computational Science Anniversary
- Alliance partner Boston University is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its Center
for Computational Science. Alliance and NCSA Director Dan Reed and Alliance Strategic Advisor
Larry Smarr are among the speakers.
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Conferences and Workshops & Training Events- SIAM's First Conference on Data Mining
- A a forum for presenting recent results in data mining usch as applications,
algorithms, software, and systems, this first SIAM international conference on data mining
will be held in Chicago in early April 2001.
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- Parallel Computing Explained
- This two-day workshop, to be held on the University of Illinois campus,
introduces parallel computing concepts and the mechanics of parallelizing and running codes
on NCSA's Origin2000 system.
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