Feature Stories for December
Granular Material and Collaboration: Things That Flow
Using NCSA's Cobalt, Youssef Hashash of the University of Illinois' Civil and Environmental Engineering Department is developing a simulation code to represent the flow of granular material-from pharmaceutical material to Martian soil, with the help of NCSA's Performance Engineering and Computational Methods (PECM) Group.
News Stories for December
NCSA to connect familes with loved ones in Iraq
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) will help local families connect with their loved ones who are serving at three locations in Iraq on Dec. 20 and 21. NCSA will host private, live 30-minute videoconferencing sessions in conjunction with the Freedom Calls Foundation, a non-profit organization that enables deployed soldiers to communicate with their families, free of charge. The three camps that are eligible to participate in the videoconferences are Camp Taji/Cooke, Camp Al Asad, and Camp Fallujah. If you would like to sign up for a videoconferencing session at NCSA, contact Nancy Komlanc, director of education and training for the Technology Research, Education, and Commercialization Center (TRECC), at 244-6572 or nkomlanc@ncsa.uiuc.edu by Sunday, Dec. 11. The sessions will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. All participants will receive confirmation of their session date and time. All sessions will be held at the NCSA Building at 1205 W. Clark, St., Urbana.
NSF Calls For Petascale Computing Proposals By February 10
The National Science Foundation has recently announced the program "High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Towards a Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering". This program will result in additional TeraGrid computational resources, integrated as outlined in the TeraGrid Primer. Details are available from the solicitation page. The deadline for proposals is February 10.
Three U.S.-U.K. Projects Link TeraGrid Sites with U.K. for Interactive Simulations in Real Time
Three research groups, with joint support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, linked the U.S. TeraGrid and the U.K. National Grid Service via transatlantic fiber and used supercomputing systems at multiple sites simultaneously during SC05 to carry out interactive simulations. The three groups, NEKTAR (led by George Karniadakis, Brown University), VORTONICS (led by Bruce Boghosian, Tufts University) and SPICE (led by Peter Coveney, University of London), grappled with challenging large-scale research problems that require grid computing to be solved.
European and American supercomputing infrastructures linked through common wide-area global file system
TeraGrid and DEISA, the corresponding European supercomputing grid infrastructure, have been linked, for the purposes of a technology demonstration, by a common, scalable, wide-area global file system spanning two continents. During the Supercomputing Conference SC05 at Seattle scientists from participating sites in the US, or from any of the DEISA sites in France, Germany or Italy, were able to transparently create or access collaborative data stored in the now linked grid-wide global file systems of TeraGrid and DEISA with one common file address space. More importantly, the same is true for applications which, executed at any of the participating sites, transparently access data in the common file address space. Featured applications for the demo included a protein structure prediction and a cosmological simulation carried out at SDSC and a gyrokinetic turbulence simulation and a cosmological simulation carried out at Garching Computing Centre of the Max Planck Society (RZG), Germany.
Software Releases
HDF5-1.6.5
Major new features include MD5 checksumming, support for Mpich2, and added support for several new platforms.
HDF Java Products 2.3
New features include support for HDF-SRB, support for compound datatypes containing 2D arrays (or greater), the ability to create display named datatypes in HDF5, improved ability to manipulate palette, and numerous bug fixes.
Conferences, Workshops, and Training Events
GridShib seminar set for Dec. 6
For the next installment in the Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series, NCSA staffers Tom Scavo and Von Welch will give a presentation on "GridShib: An Attribute-Based Authorization Framework" from 1 to 2:30 p.m. (Central) on Dec. 6. The seminar will be in Room 1030 of the NCSA Building and will also be available via the Access Grid.
ICCS 2006 Call For Papers
Paper submissions are invited for The International Conference on Computational Science 2006, to be held May 28-31, 2006, at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Papers must be submitted electronically by December 12, 2005.
LCI: Linux Revolution 2006 Call For Papers
The 7th International Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2006 is organized by the Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) for users and administrators of clusters for high-performance computing. The conference program committee is soliciting novel papers, practical tutorials, and insightful technical presentations on a broad range of topics related to systems integration, operation and support, end-user applications, tools, and experiences. The conference will be held May 1-4, 2006 at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. The deadline for paper submission is December 16, 2005.
Linux Cluster Institute to be held at UIUC
The Linux Cluster Institute Workshop will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 28-March 3, 2006. The deadline for registration is January 20, 2006. Space is limited, so the earlier you register, the better.
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