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March Feature Stories- Quantum Computational Research First Project Selected for Strategic Applications Program (SAP)
- An investigation into the potential role of electron spin in the development of quantum devices has been selected as one of NCSA's Strategic Applications Program (SAP) projects. The project, "High Performance Algorithms for Scalable Spin-Qubit Circuits with Quantum Dots," seeks to understand what it takes to create new opportunities for making high-performance devices based on the manipulation of the electron spin to define a qubit in quantum dots for quantum information processing. A qubit is the basic unit of information in a quantum computer.
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- Visualizing the Enemy
- NCSA's Security Incident Fusion Tool (SIFT) research team leverages human visual cognitive abilities to process log data into knowledge for situational awareness of network security. Two security tools have been released this week: NVisionIP and VisFlowConnect, both of which are designed to give security engineers a visual overview of an entire network in order to help them determine when a network is under attack, what is being attacked, and what form the attack is taking. SIFT is a project of NCSA's National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research.
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News Stories for March- AAB Proposal Deadline April 5
- Proposals requesting 100,000-200,000 service units must be submitted to the Alliance Allocations Board by April 5, 2004. The allocations can be made on any of the NCSA systems and on the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center T3E and TCS1. An AAB award is for a period of one year. PIs will be notified of the success of their proposals by June 30.
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- NSF National Middleware Initiative Request for Proposals
- The National Science Foundation has begun a new NMI competition, with an RFP that stresses two focus areas: Middleware Integration and Deployment, and Middleware Development and Prototyping. Integration and Deployment projects will use existing NMI software or other middleware technologies to enable new ways of conducting research and education in specific fields of science or engineering. Development and Prototyping projects will seek new middleware capabilities to dramatically enhance productivity for researchers and educators, and in some cases create new modes of conducting research. Proposals are due on May 14, 2004.
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- Pittsburgh Scientists Measure Productivity in Petascale Supercomputing
- As part of a national effort to boost the power of supercomputers a thousand-fold by 2010, researchers at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and the University of Pittsburgh are developing a software tool, called SUMS, that will quantify and analyze programmer time in next-generation supercomputing. The work has been made possible by a $900,000 grant from IBM's PERCS program.
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- OSC Upgrades CRAY SV1ex
- The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) announced today an upgrade to its SV1ex vector supercomputer that will increase its processing capacity by 33 percent. With the addition of eight new processors, peak performance is now 64 Gigaflops (Gflops).
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- Apply for Argonne Internships by March 12
- Talented and highly motivated undergraduates or graduating seniors majoring in computer science, biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, or related fields should consider applying for a 10-week, on-site research project in Bioinformatics and Grid computing at Argonne National Laboratory in southwest suburban Chicago. Students will have access to thousands of computers at the advanced computational facilities at Argonne National Laboratory and the Illinois Bio-Grid. Although the deadline is March 12th, it is strongly recommended that applications be submitted ASAP.
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- LCI Workshop Offers "Life Sciences Using Linux and Linux Clusters" Session
- Life Sciences Using Linux and Linux Clusters" will be featured on Friday, April 16, 2004 at the next LCI Workshop. This special series of presentations will include demos and talks on rapidly growing Linux middleware and applications in the areas of bioinformatics and computational biochemistry. In addition, an exciting update on the state-of-the-art Linux supercluster projects at IBM Research, known as Blue Gene, will be demonstrated. A small prototype of this machine (1/128th of the final cluster) is already one of the Top 100 supercomputers. The workshop will be held April 12-16 at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. The deadline for registration is March 19.
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- Featured Grid Experts in Clusterworld
- ClusterWorld magazine has a monthly column called "On the Grid," featuring useful information about how to develop and deploy Grid software. PDFs of these articles will be posted three months after publication at the Grid Resource Integration Development and Support (GRIDS) website. Current articles provide overviews of the Globus Toolkit and the Grid and discuss grid security and credential management.
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- Highlights of the GlobusWORLD 2004 Conference
- GlobusWORLD 2004, the annual conference organized by the designers and developers of the GLOBUS toolkit, took place January 20-23 in San Francisco. A summary of the conference's highlights is available online, as well as presentation and supporting materials from the conference.
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- The Role of Linux in Grid Computing
- A discussion in Linux Journal of the advantages and drawbacks of making Linux the basis of grid computing, as opposed to Windows, J2EE, and other platforms and hosting environments. One point the author makes is that Globus, the basis of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA), and Linux have evolved from very similar open-source processes and therefore share an affinity: "Open standards and protocols lead to the building of services, and services are at the heart of the grid."
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Software Releases- NEESgrid 2.2
- NEESgrid 2.2, released March 1, 2004, contains updated DAQ, Matlab, and NEESpop distributions. An updated TPM distribution should be available soon. The NEESpop release features the addition of the NTCP C Client API, updated DataBrowser, Globus Toolkit, GSI-OpenSSH, NMDS, and NTCP packages, as well as a revised installation system which by default reduces install output and has more comprehensive error handling. It also includes fixes for those bugs discovered in the previous release. NEESgrid is a grid infrastructure which links earthquake researchers across the U.S. with leading-edge computing resources and research equipment, allowing collaborative teams (including remote participants) to plan, perform, and publish their experiments.
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- PyTables 0.8
- PyTables is a hierarchical database package designed to efficiently manage very large amounts of data. PyTables is built on top of the HDF5 library and the numarray package. It features an object-oriented interface which, combined with natural naming and C-code generated from Pyrex sources, makes it a fast, yet extremely easy-to-use tool for interactively saving and retrieving very large amounts of data. It also provides flexible indexed access on disk to anywhere in the data. New features include new object classes and class enhancements, Boolean support for all Leaf objects, support for more HDF5 standard filters and a new Filters class to handle them, new methods added to existing classes, and new utilities.
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- PBS/Maui Roll for Rocks 3.1.0
- PBS/Maui Roll for Rocks 3.1.0, released February 17, 2004, installs and configures a flexible batch queueing system and the Maui advanced job scheduler for use on Rocks 3.1.0 (Matterhorn). The functionality is the same as the PBS setup in Rocks version 3.0.0, but with newer software packages.Maui is upgraded to v3.2.6p6; OpenPBS is replaced by torque v1.0.1p4. Torque (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. Torque is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by NCSA, OSC, the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations.
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- TACC Releases GridPort 3 Beta
- The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin released Gridport 3 Beta on February 19. GridPort is a grid portal toolkit designed to aid in the development of science portals and applications on top of underlying distributed and grid computing infrastructure to facilitate computational science. GridPort 3 (GP3) aggregates core grid services in the interest of presenting a streamlined access to backend grid services.
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Conferences, Workshops, and Training Events- Access Grid Retreat June 9-11 in Toronto
- The 4th Access Grid™ (AG) Retreat will be held June 9-11 at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. The AG Retreats provide an interactive forum for Access Grid community—including developers, node operators, and users—to share recent experiences and research findings, to present ideas for future AG technical directions, and to train and educate AG newcomers. Call for participation opens March 5 and ends March 31. Registration and housing information will be posted by March 15, 2004. Special housing arrangements have been made by Ryerson University, available on a first-come, first-served basis. NOTE: Registration for this year's AG Retreat will be closed at 200 registrants.
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- Early-Bird Registration Deadline for HPCC '04 Conference March 8
- Advance registration is available for the 2004 High-Performance Computing and Communication Conference, "High-End Computing in the Wireless World," to be held March 30-April 1, 2004 at the Hyatt Regency Newport, Goat Island, RI. Government rates are available for accommodations.
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- Submit to the Grace Hopper 2004 Celebration of Women in Computing by March 15
- You are invited to submit proposals electronically for panels and new investigator papers by March 15, and proposals for the PhD forum, technical posters, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions by May 1, for the Grace Hopper 2004 Celebration of Women in Computing, which will take place October 6-9 in Chicago, IL.
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- Register for next Linux Clusters Institute Workshop by March 19
- The next LCI Workshop will take place April 12-16 at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. The deadline for registration is March 19. As always, space is limited; register ASAP.
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- Register Online for ClusterWorld '04 by March 31
- This year's ClusterWorld Conference and Expo will take place in San Jose, CA, April 5-8. Online registration ends March 31.
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- Enroll in TACC "Introduction to Parallel Computing" Seminar April 8-9
- An introductory seminar on parallel computing will be held at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, April 8-9. The seminar will cover developing parallel-programming skills in OpenMP and MPI, understanding performance aspects of the IBM & Intel architectures, using batch systems (LoadLeveler and LSF), optimizing code, and code debugging.
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- Register for CCGrid2004 by April 5
- The 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid will take place April 19-22 in Chicago, IL. Early bird registration closes April 5.
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- Register Soon for Peta-scalable Codes Workshop May 3-4
- The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be hosting a workshop titled "New Methods for Developing Peta-scalable Codes" May 3-4. Its goal is to introduce a number of such new approaches to practitioners of computational science and engineering who are committed to using petascale computers as they become available. Registration is limited; the sooner you sign up, the better.
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- Register for ISC2004 by May 7
- Early registration has opened for the International Supercomputing Conference, which will be held June 22-25 in Heidelberg, Germany. The deadline for early registration is May 7.
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- Participate in CCS2004
- The 11th ACM Conference on Computing, Communications, and Security will be held October 25-29 in Washington DC.
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