The NCSA CSM Digest Monday, February 5, 2001 Volume 1, Number 12 EDITOR David O'Neal oneal@ncsa.uiuc.edu IN THIS ISSUE News Briefs ................. New Technologies for Detecting Landmines Access Grid Goes International with SC Global NCSA Linux Cluster Draws Media Attention OSC Creates Strategic Agreement with KAI Software Improving the Durability Spacecraft Materials Events ...................... AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition SIAM 10th Parallel Processing Conference BETECH 2001: Boundary Element Technology NanoSpace 2001: Interdisciplinary Frontiers 26th Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Symposium Training .................... Introduction to CUBIT (ARL) ExprLib Workshop (ASC) Introduction to MATLAB (NAVO) Advanced MATLAB Programming Techniques (NAVO) Equations of State: Hydrocode Calculations (ASC) MPI Tips and Tricks (NAVO) Computer Aided Parallelization Tools Seminar (ASC) Recent Group Publications ... C. E. Beldica, H. H. Hilton, and C. Greffe C. E. Beldica, H. H. Hilton, and D. Kubair C. E. Beldica, H. H. Hilton, and R. L. Hinrichsen Employment Opportunities .... Graduate Assistant, Champaign, Illinois NEWS BRIEFS Alliance resources aid researchers at Northeastern University in their work to design new landmine detection technologies. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/CoverStories/landmine/ The first global technical conference using Grid technologies to be held as part of the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2001 Conference. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Headlines/01Headlines/010109.AccessGrid.html NCSA's recent announcement of plans to install two IBM Linux clusters generates wide range of media coverage. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Briefs/01Briefs/010130.ClusterHits.html Ohio Supercomputer Center announces a strategic affiliation with KAI Software to further expand its statewide software licensing program. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Headlines/01Headlines/010124.OSC.html Researchers at the City University of New York, Hunter College, improve the durability of spacecraft materials. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/CoverStories/LEO/ EVENTS AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Santa Barbara, California, February 11-15, 2001. http://www.space-flight.org/AAS_meetings/2001_winter/2001_winter.html Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society Annual Meeting and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 11-15, 2001. http://www.tms.org/Meetings/Annual-01/AnnMtg01Home.html 10th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computation, Portsmouth, Virginia, March 12-14, 2001. http://www.siam.org/meetings/pp01/ BETECH 2001, 14th International Conference on Boundary Element Technology, Orlando, Florida, March 12-14, 2001. http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2001/betech01/ NanoSpace 2001: Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers, Galveston, Texas, March 13-16, 2001. http://www.nanospace.systems.org/ 26th Annual Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium, Dayton, Ohio, March 30, 2001. http://www.ase.uc.edu/~aiaa/01symp/c4a.html 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 Introduction to CUBIT, ARL MSRC, Room 119, HEAT Center, Aberdeen, Maryland, February 6-7, 2001. http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/training/CSM09.html ExprLib Workshop, ASC MSRC, Room 105, Building 676, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, February 6-8, 2000. http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/pgm28_6feb00.htm Introduction to MATLAB and MATLAB Programming Techniques, NAVO MSRC, Room 236, Building 1103, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, February 6, 2001. http://www.navo.hpc.mil/cgi-bin/pet/Scheds/Classes/103.cgi Advanced MATLAB and MATLAB Programming Techniques, NAVO MSRC, Room 236, Building 1103, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, February 7-8, 2001. http://www.navo.hpc.mil/cgi-bin/pet/Scheds/Classes/104.cgi Equations of State: Modeling Techniques for Hydrocode Calculations, CSM Short Course, ASC MSRC, Room 105, Building 676, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, February 21-23, 2001. http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/csm11_21Feb00.htm MPI Tips and Tricks, NAVO MSRC, Room 236, Building 1103, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, March 6-8, 2001. http://www.navo.hpc.mil/cgi-bin/pet/Scheds/Classes/105.cgi Computer Aided Parallelization Tools (CAPTOOLS) Seminar, ASC MSRC, Room 105, Building 676, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 2-3, 2001. http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/pgm29_30Apr01.html 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. E. BELDICA, H. H. HILTON, and C. GREFFE, The relation of experimentally generated wave shapes to viscoelastic material characterizations, analytical and computational simulations, accepted for presentation at the 16th Annual Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites, Blacksburg, Virginia, September 9-12, 2001. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/publications/2001/ASC01-abs.pdf C. E. BELDICA, H. H. HILTON, and DHIRENDRA KUBAIR, Probabilities of failure and survival times for viscoelastic panel flutter, submitted to the 26th Annual Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium, Dayton, Ohio, March 30, 2001. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/publications/2001/AIAA_Dayton.01-abs.pdf C. E. BELDICA, H. H. HILTON, and R. L. HINRICHSEN, Viscoelastic damping and piezoelectric control of beam vibrations, probabilistic failures and survival times, analytical and massively parallel computations, submitted to the 6th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Dearborn, Michigan, August 1-4, 2001. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/publications/2001/USNCCM.01-abs.pdf 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 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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