Feature Story for May
Environmental Hydrodynamic Modeling of Chicago Waterways
NCSA's Performance Engineering and Computational Methods (PECM) group is assisting researchers at the University of Illinois in parallelizing a code that will simulate the flow of the entire Chicago River system -- all 156 miles.
News Stories for May
NCSA Adds Dell Blade Cluster to Cyber-Resources
Lincoln, a new cluster consisting of 450 Dell PowerEdge 1855 blade servers, will serve strategic campus and state initiatives and will be used by NCSA's private sector partners. Lincoln's peak performance will approach 6 teraflops (6 trillion calculations per second), bringing NCSA's total compute power to nearly 50 teraflops. Lincoln is expected to be upgraded in coming months.
TRECC Accelerator Workshop Set for May 15
Please register for the 2005-2006 TRECC Accelerator Awards Workshop, which will showcase the research of recipients of the 2005-2006 TRECC Accelerator Project Awards. The workshop will provide a valuable opportunity to connect and interact with these researchers, as well as to learn more about the program itself and its future opportunities. Awardees for 2006-2007 will also be announced. The workshop will take place May 15 from 9:00-2:30. Lunch will be provided.
Network neutrality debate revived in Congress
While a substantial Net-neutrality amendment was voted down last week in the U.S. House of Representatives, network neutrality is gaining bipartisan support both within Congress and the public sphere. Legislation is currently being drafted in the Senate that would prohibit the creation of a tiered Internet.
Software Releases
NMI-R9
New for this release is NMI-EDIT’s End-to-END Diagnostic Discovery (EDDY) Toolkit that supports integrated analysis and diagnosis of distributed, layered and interdependent components and systems, as well as the first production release of the Signet Privilege Management System. Updated components for NMI-R9 include the Grouper Group Management Toolkit and an additional ten tools, software packages, practice documents, and schema that support institutional and federated identity management environments. Included also is OGCE Version 2.0, which provides a toolkit for building science-portal gateways. Newly incorporated collaboration tools provide calendar scheduling, document sharing and chat functions, all based on Sakai™. Also supported are the Globus® Toolkit 4.0.1 services of credential acquisition, PURSe Grid account management, and Storage Brokering. The OGCE portlet software and plugin modules are now also integrated with the GridSphere 2.1 portal container and include GridPort information and file management, which may be deployed as separate "science gateway" services.
Globus Toolkit 4.0.2
New binaries available for download at the Globus website include the GRAM adapters for PBS, LSF, and Condor.
HDF5 1.8.0 Alpha 1
The 1.8.0 release represents a major update in the HDF5 library and utilities. Many new capabilities have been added, along with improved performance. Details on these capabilities may be found at the website. (Note: This alpha release is made available for users who are interested in trying out new features in the HDF5 1.8.0 release. However, it does not include all of the functions that will be in the final 1.8.0 release, and some features (function names, behavior) may change before the final 1.8.0 release.)
Access Grid Toolkit 3.0
Release highlights include Jabber client integration, integrated meeting schedule viewer, improved venue navigation, updates and improvements to VenueClient, integrated per-Venue Multicast Beacon client, integrated beacon matrix, new bridging facility, added RAT and VIC capabilities, and added features for Windows users.
Conferences, Workshops, and Training Events
Submission for HiPC Extended Through May 12
The submission website for the 13th Annual International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2006) has been extended through May 12. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high-performance computing, which will also be published as proceedings by Springer-Verlag. HiPC 2006 will take place December 18-21 in Bangalore, India.
Make TeraGrid '06 Hotel Reservations by May 11
TeraGrid '06 will be held June 12-13 in Indianapolis, IN. The deadline for hotel reservations is May 11; advance conference registration ends May 26.
Register for June CUNY Linux Clusters Workshop by May 19
The next Linux Clusters Institute Workshop will take place June 27-30 at the City University of New York Graduate Center in New York City. As always, space is limited, so apply early.
Register Online for ISC2006 by May 27
Advance online registration for the 2006 International Supercomputer Conference, to be held June 27-30 in Dresden, Germany, is now open. Please note that registration fees are reduced for those who register before May 27.
Registration Open for 2006 NCSI Summer Workshops; New Fees Instituted
Online registration is now available for the 2006 slate of summer workshops offered by The National Computational Science Institute. Workshop topics will focus on computational science education in a variety of fields, as well as interdisciplinary computational science education. Workshops will run if 12 people register prior to the specified notification date. Registration will remain open until the workshop is full or until 21 days prior to the workshop, which ever occurs first. See the website for the full list of workshops and important deadlines. Because of planned NSF funding decreases, this year participants will be asked to pay a registration fee of $150.
Register for the SDSC Computing Institute by May 25
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will host its 11th Annual SDSC Computing Institute, July 17-21, 2006. SDSC has a nationally known reputation for providing researchers with a solid introduction to the benefits of high-end computing. The Computing Institute will provide researchers with an introduction to the concepts and tools available in established and new technologies for the creation, manipulation dissemination and analysis of large data sets. These lectures and hands-on laboratory sessions led by experts from the SDSC's staff as well as other institutions will introduce researchers to technology that can help them reach their goals faster and more efficiently. The deadline for submitting applications is May 25; more details are available at the website.
Submit Papers for eScience 2006 by June 15
The e-Science 2006 conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC) and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest research and product/tool developments, and highlight related activities from around the world. The conference will be held December 4-6 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; the deadline for submitting papers is June 15. See the website for guidelines.
Nominations Open for SC06 Seymour Cray, Sidney Fernbach Awards
Nominations may be submitted until July 31 for the SC06-sponsored Seymour Cray and Sidney Fernbach Awards. The Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award recognizes innovative contributions to high performance computing systems that best exemplify the creative spirit of Seymour Cray. The Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award honors innovative uses of high performance computing in problem solving. SC06 will take place November 11-17 in Tampa, FL. More information is available at the website.
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