data link for October 2002

Stories for October 2002

Update on NCSA's mass storage system: NCSA has begun a long road of mass storage system upgrades this year that are scheduled to continue into the next calendar year, creating an impressive data storage and data management infrustructure.
SvPablo Tool Available at NCSA: SvPablo, a graphical source code browser for performance tuning and visualization, is now available on all major NCSA systems: IA-64/IA-32 Linux clusters and Origin2000. SvPablo represents the third generation of performance analysis tools developed by the Pablo research group at the Department of Computer Science, UIUC. It enables users to instrument sequential or parallel applications, written in C or Fortran, and then capture performance data during application execution. The performance information comprises counts, durations and, optionally, values from hardware performance counters obtained via the PAPI interface. After execution, users can browse the collected data with a GUI that is easy to use and provides a hierarchy of color-coded performance displays, including a high-level routine profile and source code scroll-boxes. SvPablo Version 5.1 is installed on the NCSA IA-32/IA-64 Linux clusters at /usr/apps/tools. For more information, users can contact consult@ncsa.uiuc.edu or the Pablo group directly.
Papers sought for special issue of IEEE Internet Computing: Grid Computing is the theme for the July/August 2003 special issue of IEEE Internet Computing. Guest editors are Fred Douglis of IBM and Ian Foster of University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory. Submissions are due December 1 and will be peer reviewed.
Papers invited for special issue of IJHPCA: Grid Computing: Infrastructure and Applications is the theme for the Fall 2003 special issue of International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. Guest editor is D. W. Walker of Cardiff University, UK. Submitted papers are due December 15.
AGDP is looking for willing hands: The Access Grid Documentation Project, the primary source for AG user documentation for roughly 16 months, has helped lots of people install and use AG nodes. Documents are created by and for the AG community, and that may include you. AGDP is always looking for more people to get involved in such ways as writing documents, testing step-by-step instructions, and helping with document format conversion.
AG 2.0 under development: Access Grid users and developers discussed Access Grid 2.0 this week at a series of meetings over the grid. Topics included AG 2.0 architecture, virtual venues, workspace docking, node management, network services, and Voyager multimedia server. The meetings provided a forum for questions, concerns, and feedback on the architecture and design.

Conferences and Workshops & Training Events

October 8 seminar on data mining software over the AG: On October 8 from 1 to 3 CT, Michael Welge of NCSA's Automated Learning Group, will speak on "D2K Software for Data Mining in Computing." D2K's visual programming environment offers the next generation in workspace architecture for creating data analysis applications in any area. The NCSA Seminar Series over the Access Grid presents information about high-performance computing tools and applications developed by Alliance partners and NCSA.
Early registration for SC2002 ends October 11: SC2002: From Terabytes to Insights will be held in Baltimore November 16-22. The advance program is now available on the website. Early registration ends October 11; registrations received between October 12 and 25 will be charged at the higher late/onsite registration rate. Exhibitor registration closes October 18.
Advance registration for Grid2002 ends October 11: GRID 2002, the 3rd International Workshop on Grid Computing, will be held in Baltimore on November 18 in conjunction with SC2002. Its focus will be grid applications. All papers selected for this workshop are peer reviewed and will be published by Springer Verlag in a separate proceedings, Grid Computing.
You can still register online for GGF6: Global Grid Forum 6, October 14-17 in Chicago, will focus exclusively on working groups and research group documentation sessions. A tour of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago will include informal presentations and demonstrations over Starlight^SM.
Online registration for Internet2 meeting ends October 21: The Fall 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting, hosted by the University of Southern California, will be October 27-30 in Los Angeles. The preliminary program is available online.
October 29, 30, 31 workshop over the AG: Ian Brooks will present a three-day workshop on high-speed computing to access NCSA HPC software and hardware on October 29-30, from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm, and October 31, from 9:00 am until 12:00 noon. The workshop will be held at NCSA in room E102A and delivered to remote sites via the Access Grid. The event will use the NCSA venues server. Technical information and downloads can be found on the scheduler. Day 1: http://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/meetingdetails.asp?MID=463&Date=10/29/2002.
Papers due this month for CCGrid2003: The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2003) will be May 12-15 in Tokyo, Japan. Papers are due October 30.
Early abstracts and proposals due end of month for SIGGRAPH: Several SIGGRAPH 2003 programs (Computer Animation Festival, Courses, Educators Program, Emerging Technologies, and Web Graphics) are reviewing early abstracts or proposals to provide feedback before submitters write a detailed proposal. All early submissions are due October 31. The conference will be next July in San Diego.
Register by November 8 for HDF-EOS Workshop VI: The NASA HDF and HDF-EOS Workshop VI will be December 4-5 in San Francisco.The workshop will include tutorials, tool demonstrations and training, and discussion of standards. Registration ends November 8; the preliminary agenda is available now.
Register now for Euroweb 2002: Euroweb 2002 Conference—The Web and the Grid: From e-science to e-business—will be December 17 and 18 at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK. Registrations are being accepted now.
Register online for HiPC 2002: HiPC 2002: the 9th International Conference on High Performance Computing will be December 18-21 in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India. HiPC 2002 will emphasize the design and analysis of high performance computing and networking systems and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. The conference registration fee includes participation in one of the five workshops on December 18. On December 16-19, HPC Asia 2002 will also be co-located with HiPC.