The NCSA CSM Digest Saturday, December 2, 2000 Volume 1, Number 10 EDITOR David O'Neal oneal@ncsa.uiuc.edu IN THIS ISSUE News Briefs ................. AIAA Launches Evolution of Flight Campaign NSF Centers Activate Abilene Network Links SC2000 Recognizes HPC Contributions NCSA Reports on Intel Itanium Performance Events ...................... ACP 2000 Automotive Composites and Plastics ICSSD 2000 Structural Stability and Dynamics ASD 2000 Advances in Structural Dynamics AIAA 39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting SAE RAM Symposium Training .................... ACTC Applications on the IBM SP2 (NAVO) Data Mining Applications Workshop (UCLA) Multilevel Parallel Programming (ASC) VGRID Workshop (WPAFB) Advanced Impact Simulation using LS-DYNA (ARL) ExprLib Workshop (ASC) Recent Group Publications ... H. Hilton and C. Beldica, R. Hinrichsen Employment Opportunities .... Research Scientist - Aberdeen, Maryland Graduate Assistant - Champaign, Illinois NEWS BRIEFS The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics launches Evolution of Flight campaign to commemorate centennial of flight. http://www.flight100.org/index.cfm The National Science Foundation's supercomputing centers activate high-speed links to the Abilene backbone network. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Briefs/00Briefs/001130.Abilene.html Outstanding achievements in the field of high performance computing receive recognition at the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2000 Conference. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Headlines/00Headlines/001116.SC2000.html NCSA researchers report on Intel Itanium processor performance for a collection of four applications. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Headlines/00Headlines/001108.Itanium.html EVENTS ACP 2000, Automotive Composites and Plastics, Ford Motor Company, Essex, United Kingdom, December 5-6, 2000. http://www.instmat.co.uk/conf-evt/confernc/c017/c017.htm ICSSD 2000, International Conference on Structural Stability and Dynamics, Taipei, Taiwan, December 7-9, 2000. http://cemail2.ce.ntu.edu.tw/~icssd/ ASD 2000, International Conference on Advances in Structural Dynamics, Hong Kong, December 13-15, 2000. http://www.cse.polyu.edu.hk/~activi/asd2000.htm AIAA 39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, Nevada, January 8-11, 2001. http://www.aiaa.org/calendar/ASM01cfp.html SAE Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 22-25, 2001. http://www.sae.org/calendar/ram01/index.htm For a more complete listing of upcoming conferences, symposia and workshops, visit our Events Calendar. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/dsc/conferences.html TRAINING ACTC Applications for the IBM SP2, NAVO MSRC, Building 1103, Room 236, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, December 5-7, 2000. http://www.navo.hpc.mil/cgi-bin/pet/Scheds/Classes/102.cgi High-performance Network Applications Workshop on the Development and Application of Data Mining Technology, UCLA Department of Design, Los Angeles, California, December 8, 2000. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Events/001010.NLANR.html Multilevel Parallel Programming, ASC MSRC, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, December 12-13, 2000. http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/pgm26_12Dec00.htm VGRID Workshop, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, December 12-14, 2000. http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/cfd25_12dec00.htm Advanced Impact Simulation Using LS-DYNA, ARL MSRC, Room 119, HEAT Center, Aberdeen, Maryland, January 24-26, 2001. http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/training/CSM08.html ExprLib Workshop, ASC MSRC, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, February 6-8, 2000. http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/pgm28_6feb00.htm For more complete listings of training and workshop offerings, visit our Training Schedules and Distance Learning page. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/courses/ RECENT GROUP PUBLICATIONS C. BELDICA and H. HILTON, Nonlinear viscoelastic damping, piezo- electric control and probability of failure of lightweight plates subjected to aerodynamic noise, Submitted to the 7th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustic Conference, Maastricht, Netherlands, May 28-30, 2001. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/dsc/AIAA-CEAS01-abs.pdf R. HINRICHSEN, Problems in Aircraft Survivability, NCSA Access Magazine Feature Story by Karen Green, November 7, 2000. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/CoverStories/aircraft/ For a more complete listing of articles by NCSA CSM staff, visit our Publications page. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/publications/ EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is currently seeking qualified candidates for the position of Computational Structural Mechanics On-Site Lead at the Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center in Aberdeen, Maryland. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SRC/7298-0000.html The NCSA External Programs Division has an immediate need for a graduate student assistant with C++ and Fortran programming skills. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/open_position.html For a complete listing of current employment opportunities at NCSA, visit the NCSA Human Resources pages. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SRC/HRmain.html SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Reader comments mailto:csmncsa@ncsa.uiuc.edu Our website http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/ NCSA CSM Digest archives http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/archives/digest/ Subscribe to the NCSA CSM Digest. 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