The NCSA CSM Digest Monday, March 5, 2001 Volume 2, Number 1 EDITOR David O'Neal oneal@ncsa.uiuc.edu IN THIS ISSUE News Briefs ................. Alliance to Host Linux Conference A Change in Leadership at SDSC NCSA CSM Group Posts Selected Success Stories First Anniversary Issue of the NCSA CSM Digest Events ...................... SIAM 10th Parallel Processing Conference BETECH 2001: Boundary Element Technology NanoSpace 2001: Interdisciplinary Frontiers 4th Int'l Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems Portals Exposed 2001: The Truth Uncovered 26th Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Symposium 42nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures Conference Training .................... MPI Tips and Tricks, NAVO Paradyn/Condor Week, University of Wisconsin Dynamic Fracture Mechanics, ARL Introduction to SPEEDES, ERDC Parallel Programming with MPI, NCSA Computer Aided Parallelization Tools, ASC Introduction to MATLAB, ASC Recent Group Publications ... G. Thiagarajan and V. Aravamuthan H. H. Hilton, H. Krier, and J. J. Murphy Employment Opportunities .... Graduate Assistant, Champaign, Illinois NEWS BRIEFS National Computational Science Alliance to host "Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution" conference. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Headlines/01Headlines/010213.LinuxConf.html Sid Karin, founding director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, to assume new role as Senior Strategic Advisor to the SDSC director. http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Headlines/01Headlines/010227.SDSC.html A collection of selected DoD PET success stories was recently posted by the NCSA CSM Group. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/projects/success_stories/index.html NCSA CSM Group publishes the first anniversary issue of the CSM Digest. An index of archived publications is available. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/archives/digest/ EVENTS 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/ Fourth International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, March 19-21, 2001. http://www.cr.org/ Portals Exposed 2001: The Truth Uncovered, Hotel Intercontinental, Miami, Florida, March 21-23, 2001. http://www.capv.com/portals2001/ 26th Annual Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium, Dayton, Ohio, March 30, 2001. http://www.ase.uc.edu/~aiaa/01symp/c4a.html 42nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Seattle, Washington, April 16-19, 2001. http://www.aiaa.org/calendar/index4.cfm?id=44 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 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 Paradyn/Condor Week, University of Wisconsin, Pyle Center, Vandeberg Auditorium, 702 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin, March 12-14, 2001. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/paradyn/ParadynCondorWeek-2001-Agenda.html Dynamic Fracture Mechanics, ARL MSRC, Room 119, HEAT Center, Aberdeen, Maryland, March 14-15, 2001. http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/training/CSM10.html Introduction to the Synchronous Parallel Environment for Emulation and Discrete-Event Simulation (SPEEDES) System, ERDC MSRC, Building 8000, Room 1055, Vicksburg, Mississippi, March 22, 2001. http://www.wes.hpc.mil/training/schedule/course_info/speedes-1-01.htm Parallel Programming with MPI, NCSA, Room 102 South Research Park, 1901 South First Street, Champaign, Illinois, March 28-29, 2001. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Training/mpiag/mpi.ann.html 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 Introduction to MATLAB, ASC MSRC, Room 105, Building 676, Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 4-5, 2001. http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/sip05_4Apr01.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 G. THIAGARAJAN and V. ARAVAMUTHAN, Parallelization strategies for element- by-element PCG solver using HDF for unstructured FE applications on Linux clusters, accepted for publication in the Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2001. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/publications/2001/GT_jcompce.pdf H. H. HILTON, H. KRIER, and J. J. MURPHY, Analytical and computational simulations of experimental determinations by sound waves and by pressure and displacement measurements of linear viscoelastic responses of live solid propellants, accepted for presentation at the 50th JANNAF Propulsion Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 11-13, 2001. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/EP/CSM/publications/2001/JANNAF.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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